Search Results: 'Southern Water'

Drill and blast from the past
18 December, 2001
During its 21-year construction the 7.6km long Hoosac railway tunnel in the US triggered new techniques and innovations that revolutionised hard-rock tunnelling. Now, 125 years after it was opened, Dr Myles P O'Reilly charts these historic developments

The Manhattan Connection
02 December, 2001
With commuter numbers in Midtown Manhattan set to rise over the next 20 years, pressure is being put on the already crowded Long Island rail service. The $4.3bn East Side Access Project is the largest and most ambitious of its kind ever to be undertaken. Nasri Munfah, vice president and senior professional associate of Parsons Brinckerhoff, takes at look at the challenges to be faced

Resilience and renovation in the US
01 December, 2001
Tunnelling contractors in the US may be facing ever increasing pressures, but projects are still thick on the ground. Dr Gary S Brierley, president Brierley Associates, LLC, Hugh P Caspe, PE, national director of tunnel practice, HNTB, and Randall J Essex, PE, director of tunnelling, Hatch Mott MacDonald, take a look at how the industry is faring in the US

Reliability rules at Dolonne
06 November, 2001
Final design specification of the Dolonne Tunnel on Italy's Aosta-Mont Blanc motorway was prepared to the principles of the analysis of controlled deformation in rock and soils (ADECO-RS). Prof. Eng. Pietro Lunardi, Lunardi's Geoengineering Design Office and Dott. Eng. Giovana Cassani, Rocksoil SpA give an outline of the project.

High speed Alpine drives on track
06 November, 2001
The new AlpTransit rail scheme in Switzerland will link the high-speed networks of Germany and Italy through the Gotthard and Lötschberg Tunnels. Felix Amberg and Annette Ruckstuhl-Richter of Amberg Ingenieurbüro give an overview of current operations.

ATHENS METRO – the continuing story
02 November, 2001
Athens has recently opened its new metro system though one station remains to be finished. But major new extensions are already being let.

Learning from experience
01 October, 2001
Innovation and developments of Herrenknecht's well-known Mixshield face support system for bored tunnel construction are described by Dipl-Ing Karin Bäppler of Herrenknecht, along with latest, valuable experience gained from such projects as Grauholz, Westerschelde, Socatop and Zurich-Thalwil.

Breakthrough in the Badlands
21 September, 2001

Computer Aids Products
20 August, 2001

Scandinavian Smorgasbord
08 July, 2001
Martin Hunt reviews a variety of tunnelling projects currently under way in Scandinavia and assesses prospects for the area's booming underground construction sector

Vietnam on metro trail ...
08 July, 2001

Shotcrete suppliers
02 May, 2001
Some leading suppliers of shotcreting equipment and materials, and their recent product introductions, are reviewed here by the staff of 'T&T International'

Ancient route to the East revived
02 May, 2001
The Egnatia highway in Greece is the country's biggest ever construction project and one of Europe's most important. Adrian Greeman visited the project headquarters and several key sites.

Decade's pick of North American progress
01 March, 2001
At the BTS meeting on 16 November, Lee Abramson of US consultant Hatch Mott MacDonald reviewed tunnelling projects in North America over the past 10 years. He concentrated on schemes with unusual or unique characteristics, examining the progress made in underground works

Underground construction in Korea
01 March, 2001
Despite financial problems Korea is arguably one of the countries where the largest amounts of tunnelling and underground projects are being carried out. H S Chung of Hanyang University, and I M Lee of Korea University, both in Seoul, present a summary of current tunnelling projects, and introduce some of the challenging projects that have been encountered when designing and constructing tunnels.

Mission NOT impossible
01 March, 2001
A massive project to move water from China's flood prone south to the dry north might involve a 400km long tunnel. This is one of the many schemes by the government to modernise and develop the country. Han Moning, an expert in tunnelling technology – and a champion of the TBM – has been involved in the scheme since the 1960s, and spoke to Adrian Greeman.

Plans for Philippines hydropower tunnel
01 February, 2001

On track under Shenzhen
06 January, 2001
Some six cities in China are currently considering metro construction. Among them is Shenzhen city, close to Hong Kong, where extremely rapid social and economic development has highlighted the need for a modern urban transport system. Zhang Jiashin of the Shenzhen Metro Company takes a look at phase 1 of the planning, design, equipment and recent construction of the Shenzhen metro project and at the milestones ahead.

Supporting Leopold's legacy
05 January, 2001
Modern rail transport is meeting old at Antwerp and this has resulted in a complex and innovative engineering project, both on the surface and underground.