Search Results: 'Mott MacDonald'

Bay area breakthrough
12 December, 2013
Excavation of the entire 18,660ft New Irvington Tunnel is complete in San Francisco. On October 8 two crews of miners from the Southland/Tutor Perini JV met underground with a roadheader digging away at the last final feet of rock.

Crossrail in practice
10 October, 2013
As Crossrail, Europe’s largest civil engineering project, reaches the advanced point of construction, Simon Pugh, lead engineer in the route Control Centre for Crossrail presents to the BTS and Minsouth audience about how it is built and how it will be run

Under fire under work
13 March, 2013
The risk of fire in tunnels under construction can be reduced in several ways. At the November 2012 BTS meeting Barry O’Donoghue, Mott MacDonald site contract manager; Francois Pogu, Vinci's Lee Tunnel project director; Dave Bulbrook, London Fire Brigade group manager; and Donald Lamont of Hyperbaric & Tunnel Safety reviewed the Storbelt and A86 Socatop tunnel fires, protocol for working with fire brigade and current legislation required for contractors.

Hydro hurdle
14 January, 2013
Hydropower potential in India is a vast prize for tunnelling. Unlocking it is a different matter. Danny Richards of economic and market analysis company Timetric reports