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Green, getting greener George Demetri on recent advances in tunnel sustainability, particularly in the use of aggregates and sprayed concrete linings.	Comment Article	25 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Mining for Oil Given the recent Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it might be time to look at other safer, more sustainable methods for extracting oil - such as tunnelling.	Comment Article	05 Aug 2010	0 Stars
Crossrail in the balance The UK has a new coalition government but will cuts needed to reduce the country's gargantuan budget deficit mean postponement for Crossrail?	Comment Article	03 Jun 2010	0 Stars
It's show time Major tunnelling conferences are being scheduled far too close to each other. Why is this happening?	Comment Article	29 Apr 2010	0 Stars
What, where, when, why and who? It's good to get feedback from readers, so I was heartened to hear from an eminent and well-known tunnelling author (see p10-11), responding to a point from the last roundtable.	Comment Article	25 Mar 2010	0 Stars
Short cut to nowhere	Comment Article	18 Feb 2010	0 Stars
New blood needed WT's roundtable event held in Hamburg in November threw up some interesting questions, one of which was how to attract young new recruits into the industry.	Comment Article	08 Feb 2010	0 Stars
Another year, another roundtable Many of you will recall that in January we ran the proceedings of the first World Tunnelling Industry Leaders’ Roundtable, which was held in Sargans, Switzerland, in September 2008. The publication proved a great success – popular with readers and participants alike. Indeed, given the positive feedback received, we have now established the Roundtable as an annual event	Comment Article	23 Dec 2009	0 Stars
More education please - CSM-style Three days at the Colorado School of Mines have impressed George Demetri.	Comment Article	14 Oct 2009	0 Stars
Tunnel Talkback: Not as mad as it sounds We have had an interesting mix of responses to our newly launched Tunnel Talkback feature on the WT website	Comment Article	18 Sep 2009	0 Stars
Idea, inspiration, reality	Comment Article	04 Jun 2009	0 Stars
A sprinkling of good sense Carly Lovejoy’s article in this issue concerns the recent fire and associated repair work to the Channel tunnel linking the UK and France.	Comment Article	30 Apr 2009	0 Stars
A source of inspiration ITA president Martin Knights thinks more needs to be done to attract more ‘civils’ graduates into tunnelling.	Comment Article	20 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Tunnelling as it is I have to start this month with something of an apology. I discovered only recently the History Channel’s 11-programme series on ‘Tunnellers’. I don’t subscribe to the History Channel, but that is no excuse. Hopefully many of you will have already caught some of it.	Comment Article	09 Apr 2009	0 Stars
Immersed in discussion You may notice that a substantial part of this magazine (pp21-31) is taken up by the World Tunnelling round table, held in Sargans, Switzerland on September 16.	Comment Article	12 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Message from the president Martin Knights, president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Association (ITA), reviews recent ITA activities and looks at what 2009 may hold for the sector	Magazine Article	12 Feb 2009	0 Stars
Archived Issue Online articles are not available for this issue. You may download the PDF version by clicking on the icon to the right.	Headline Article	27 Jan 2009	0 Stars
Keynes or Korea?	Comment Article	20 Jan 2009	0 Stars
Still in the dark	Comment Article	26 Nov 2008	0 Stars