WT July/August 2009
More gloom for UK construction
A significant deterioration in the prospects for UK construction has been seen over the past three months, according to the London-based Construction Products Association (CPA). Full story...Family presence ends at Lovat
Having purchased TBM-maker Lovat just over a year ago, Caterpillar announced recently that both Lovats – father and son – have voluntarily left the company. Full story...Daybreak at India's Banihal rail tunnel
India’s longest tunnel edged closer to completion following Indian Railways’ ‘daybreak’ operation last month. Full story...Jacobs sub wins Chinese rail-link contract
A subsidiary company of Jacobs Engineering Group has won a US$3 million contract to provide engineering services for the design and site investigation phase of the US$5 billion Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL). Full story...Golden short course ready for take-off at CSM
‘Breakthroughs in Tunnelling’ is a three-day short course (September 23-25 2009) to be held at the Colorado School of Mines, US. Full story...Comment
Tunnel Talkback: The underground option
Here at World Tunnelling, we aim to get more debate on the pressing issues of the day. To this end, we have set up a Tunnel Talkback page on the WT website, which is designed to allow readers to respond and engage with others on themes that will change from month to month. Full story...Global News
More gloom for UK construction
A significant deterioration in the prospects for UK construction has been seen over the past three months, according to the London-based Construction Products Association (CPA). Full story...
Family presence ends at Lovat
Having purchased TBM-maker Lovat just over a year ago, Caterpillar announced recently that both Lovats – father and son – have voluntarily left the company. Full story...Thessaloniki metro benefits from EIB loan
Thessaloniki, Greece, has seen its much-awaited metro system take a further step to fruition following the recent approval of a €250 million (US$353.6 million) European Investment Bank loan. Full story...NFM launches Kazan-bound TBM
NFM Technologies will transport a 5.89m diameter Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunnelling machine for use on the westward extension of Kazan’s Line 1 in the Russian Federation. Full story...Robbins TBM completes first leg of sewer tunnel
Good progress is reported on Melbourne’s Northern Sewerage Project, involving a series of deep sewer tunnels designed to reduce the city’s propensity for huge wastewater overflows. Full story...Thames Tideway boreholes sunk
Boreholes have been sunk into the river Thames to probe ground conditions that lie along the alignment of the proposed Thames Tunnel. Full story...Daybreak at India's Banihal rail tunnel
India’s longest tunnel edged closer to completion following Indian Railways’ ‘daybreak’ operation last month. Full story...Jacobs sub wins Chinese rail-link contract
A subsidiary company of Jacobs Engineering Group has won a US$3 million contract to provide engineering services for the design and site investigation phase of the US$5 billion Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL). Full story...Jacobs sub wins Chinese rail-link contract
A subsidiary company of Jacobs Engineering Group has won a US$3 million contract to provide engineering services for the design and site investigation phase of the US$5 billion Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL). Full story...Golden short course ready for take-off at CSM
‘Breakthroughs in Tunnelling’ is a three-day short course (September 23-25 2009) to be held at the Colorado School of Mines, US. Full story...Contract signed for Cairo metro 3
VINCI Construction Grands Projets has announced that it has recently signed a contract, as consortium leader, with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) for the civil engineering works package of Cairo’s metro Line 3. Full story...Herrenknecht breakthrough
Herrenknecht announced recently that one of its TBMs has broken through six months ahead of schedule on the Erstfield-Amsteg leg of the eastern tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel(GBT) project in Switzerland. Full story...Skanska wins Frisco rail extension work
Skanska USA Civil has won a contract to build the rail extension for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Full story...New president for UK body
A business development manager formerly with UK-based infrastructure services provider MorganEst has been appointed the new president of the UK’s Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT). Full story...Dhaka seeks Chinese aid for river tunnel
Bangladesh is seeking Chinese support for the construction of a tunnel running underneath the Karnaphuli river. Full story...Deadline extended for Prague 2010
The deadline for receipt of abstracts for the Underground Constructions Prague 2010 conference has been extended to September 15. Full story...Lovat makes headway
Seattle’s Brightwater Conveyance System (West tunnel construction) is making excellent progress, according to recent reports from the Jay Dee, Coluccio, Taisei JV. Full story...Features
Bibra forms key high-speed rail link
Drill and blast from both ends is driving Germany’s horseshoe-shaped, twin-tube Bibra tunnel as part of German and European high speed rail networks. Former World Tunnelling editor Lawrence Williams reports. Full story...
Invest in the future
Martin Knights has been president of the International Tunnelling Association (ITA/AITES) since 2007. A civil engineer by training, he has 37 years’ post graduate experience in international civil infrastructure, predominantly gained in tunnelling and underground space projects. UK-based, he sits on the board of directors of infrastructure specialist Jacobs Ltd. Full story...Health and safety underground
Martin Vogel of Suva digests the lessons learnt from the Alp Transit projects in Switzerland and proposes a pragmatic safety management system designed to ensure increased health and safety on tunnel projects. Full story...RETC hits a high in Vegas
World Tunnelling editor George Demetri ‘tunnelled’ down to Las Vegas, US, to attend RETC – one of the tunnelling industry’s most important events. Here he reports on what went down. Full story...Staffing in difficult times
A tunnel engineer for over 40 years, Barrie Willis has worked mainly on major international projects, including the UK’s twin Mersey tunnels, before taking up his post managing the tunnel department at Netherlands-based personnel supplier IPS Group. Full story...Uetliberg premieres new boring extender
S Maurhofer, overall project manager and director of the tunnelling division at Swiss-based Amberg Engineering, describes the excavation of the recently opened Uetliberg tunnel in Switzerland, which included the use of a tunnel boring extender. Full story...A ringside view
Steve Skelhorn and Laura McNally of Canadian contractor McNally Construction look at the evolution and design of segmental lining systems in a technical paper first presented at RETC in June. Full story...Site Search
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