Search Results: 'Siemens'

Veronika Petschen – Interview
03 August, 2022
SCAUT, the Swiss Centre of Applied Underground Technology, is pioneering new methods and uses for underground spaces. Veronika Petschen is its newly-appointed managing director. She spoke to Julian Champkin to explain her vision for SCAUT and for future uses of the ground beneath our feet

Sightline on sustainability
03 August, 2022
Alun Thomas, of All2plan Consulting, looks at ways sustainability could be achieved in tunnelling through innovation, such as permanent sprayed concrete linings (PSCL) and composite shell linings (CSL)

In the nick of time
22 January, 2018
To secure the potable water supply for Montreal, a new intake tunnel is being built with a fast-track design and construction schedule. Jean Habimana, regional tunnel practice lead - east region for Hatch, discusses the Atwater Conveyance Tunnel’s project delivery

In the nick of time
18 October, 2017
To secure the potable water supply for Montreal, a new intake tunnel is being built with a fast-track design and construction schedule. Jean Habimana, regional tunnel practice lead - east region for Hatc

Utility placement
30 January, 2017
Tunnels and Tunnelling takes a trip to Herrenknecht in Schwanau and meets Michael Lubberger, senior product manager for pipelines to find out more about developments in the utility placement range

Eastern promise
26 August, 2014
Previously driven by the oil and gas sector, tunnelling in the Middle East is enjoying a new boom as metro systems and new sewer networks are developed throughout the region. Bernadette Ballantyne reports

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

A Muddle or a Miracle?
25 September, 2013
The dawn of world metro construction broke less than a kilometre from Tunnels' London offices a century and a half ago. Historian James Chappelow starts from the beginning

LEDs leading lighting
11 August, 2010
Following a renovation that finished in June, the Vlake Tunnel is now the first in Europe to be fully lit with LEDs and the first to use LED linear lighting, Nicole Robinson reports.

The benevolent ‘big brother’
11 June, 2010
Means of monitoring what is going on in transport tunnels are rapidly becoming more sophisticated. Tunnel monitoring and control systems not only have to provide and interpret accurate information in a sometimes harsh environment, they have to prioritise this input and initiate the best actions for users’ safety and operational economy. Maurice Jones reviews some of the latest developments towards these ends.

Russian revival
09 May, 2002
Domestic crane manufacturers are slowly but steadily emerging from crisis as oil and gas companies drive an upturn in demand. Vladimir Shutov reports

Huguenot Tunnel ventilation control
01 November, 1999
A ventilation system that cannot cope with increasing traffic will render the tunnel unusable. P J Bullock, VKE Engineers, and D J Gray, South African National Roads Agency, describe the research initiated when it was confirmed that the natural airflow in the Huguenot Tunnel, combined with the increase in pollutants, affected the performance of the ventilation system. They are now implement-ing a new ventilation control strategy which takes into account external weather conditions.