Search Results: 'Kawasaki'

Japanese and Dutch consolidate
01 December, 1999

Bangkok MRTA: Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line
10 November, 1999
Six EPB machines from Kawasaki and two from Herrenknecht are now boring running tunnels for the Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line in Bangkok. While the tunnel drives are generally in favourable ground conditions - stiff clay and dense sand - the EPB mode is usually being maintained to limit ground settlements. Dr Doug Maconochie, Senior Manager, Sverdrup Civil Inc., and Sutchavee Suwansawat, doctoral candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, report.

Exotic TBMs
16 September, 1999
The meeting of the BTS on May 20 took place in London at the ICE and was devoted to a paper by Yasunori Kondo of Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan.