Search Results: 'International Tunnelling Association'

Eight winners announced for 2021 ITA Awards
06 December, 2021
The International Tunnelling Association (ITA) has announced the winners of the seventh edition of the ITA Tunnelling Awards.

Cross river rail to tackle Brisbane’s urban growth
29 November, 2021
Australia’s cities are engaged in some major underground rail projects. Sydney and Melbourne both have their metro schemes. Brisbane is host to another – and also to the Olympic Games. Julian Champkin reports

Asset management: Not somebody else’s problem
29 November, 2021
Martin Knights FREng and former ITA President discusses the importance of the intelligent care of ageing assets and gives details of a new initiative tasked with producing guidance on the management of tunnels

Registration opens for the seventh ITA Tunnelling Awards
05 November, 2021
Following the success of six ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards held in previous years, the International Tunnelling Association has announced that registration is now open for this year’s awards which will once again be held as an online event.

CSO capture for cleaner water
29 October, 2021
Jon Sickling, Tunnel Shafts Delivery Manager, Watercare Services, and Stefano Vittor, Construction Manager, Ghella-Abergeldie JV, outline details of New Zealand’s largest wastewater project – Auckland’s new Central Interceptor

Tunnelling fraternity mourns passing of Paul Marinos
12 October, 2021
Greece and the international tunnelling and geotechnical communities are mourning Prof Dr Paul Marinos who died on 10 October in Athens.

NATM through challenging fault zones
07 September, 2021
Ryo Kashiwagi of Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT) discusses the challenges from tunnelling the double-track Shinkansen railway which is close to an existing highway tunnel in an extremely soft fault crush zone

Testing time for FRS permanent sprayed concrete linings
12 August, 2021
Benoit de Rivaz of Bekaert outlines a few test methods used to evaluate the behaviour of fibre-reinforced shotcrete for permanent sprayed concrete linings and how their results can optimise design and construction processes

Getting the right fix
27 July, 2021
Panos Spyridis, engineer and professor of fastening and assembly technologies at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, clarifies various aspects of the design, specification and installation of fixings for tunnel projects

World Bank to use Emerald Book for underground works contracts
21 July, 2021
International engineering federation FIDIC has extended its licensing terms to allow the World Bank (WB) to use the Emerald Book (Conditions of Contract for Underground Works) for all WB-financed underground works contracts.

ITA prepares a 'Tunnelling Week' for September
01 July, 2021
To complement its Tunnelling Awards, ITA-AITES (the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association) has announced that it is organising a week dedicated to tunnelling and underground space knowledge transfer and debate.

Normet's revamped simulator supports new EFNARC training course
30 June, 2021
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Hagerbach test tunnel, Normet has introduced its ‘renewed’ spray-training simulator which it says employs the latest virtual reality (VR) technology to deliver safe, thorough and cost-efficient training wherever it is needed.

ITA makes final call for tunnelling awards
28 June, 2021
ITA-AITES (the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association) has made a last call for entries to the ITA Tunnelling Awards 2021 for which the deadline to register is 30 June 2021.

ITA launches its seventh tunnelling awards
19 May, 2021
ITA – the International Tunnelling Association – has launched the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards 2021. This follows the success of the first six instances of the awards held as in-person events in Switzerland, Singapore, France, China, USA, and last year as a highly successful digital event.

Band of brothers or distant cousins?
30 April, 2021
Martin Knights FREng, former ITA President, compares the functions and fortunes over the past 50-odd years of the British Tunnelling Society and the International Tunnelling Association

AI and Machine Learning
30 April, 2021
Best use of artificial intelligence in tunnels will need data strategies plus experienced oversight, writes Patrick Reynolds

Collaboration, communication and competence updated
25 March, 2021
The following article by Bob Ibell, founder and director of London Bridge Associates, is based on a past Harding Lecture and has been updated by the author in celebration of the BTS 50th Anniversary

Tales of tunnelling
23 March, 2021
The British Tunnelling Society was inaugurated exactly 50 years ago. Julian Champkin talked to its members about the society and its immense contribution to tunnelling

Athens to be the venue for WTC 2023
11 February, 2021
At an extraordinary meeting of the International Tunnelling Association (ITA) General Assembly yesterday, ITA member nations voted overwhelmingly in favour of Greece to host the WTC 2023 conference and General Assembly.

It’s business as usual for Robbins
09 February, 2021
Having only recently been formed by industry veteran Lok Home, Global TBM has now purchased all the assets of former TBM-maker The Robbins Company.