WT April 2010
Halcrow wins ‘milestone’ Hong Kong tunnel job
UK-based infrastructure designer Halcrow has announced that it has won the detailed design for a ‘milestone’ tunnel project in Hong Kong. Full story...'Challenges for German tunnelling'
Tunnel construction in Germany will face major challenges in 2010, according to STUVA chairman and board member Edgar Schömig. Full story...Tunnel technology partnership to help Rio Tinto improve mine construction
Rio Tinto has teamed up with three tunnelling firms to help it develop equipment and systems for deep underground mining. Full story...Herrenknecht deal on Abu Dhabi plant
German TBM-specialist Herrenknecht has entered into a US$6.8 million joint venture (JV) agreement with Aabar Investments for the assembly and manufacture of tunnel boring machinery and equipment in the UAE. Full story...Bilfinger Cologne disaster investigation
Bilfinger Berger has said that no clear reasons have emerged as yet to explain the fatal collapse in March last year of Cologne’s historic archive. Full story...
Global News
Robbins duo given little cover on metro start
ROBBINS has launched two TBMs in Chongqing to excavate the city’s metro system. Full story...
Halcrow wins ‘milestone’ Hong Kong tunnel job
UK-based infrastructure designer Halcrow has announced that it has won the detailed design for a ‘milestone’ tunnel project in Hong Kong. Full story...Working on Mexico's Emisor Oriente entrance
Employees from Conagua, Mexico’s national water body, at work on the entrance to the Emisor Oriente drainage tunnel in Mexico City. Full story...New simulators bring realistic training for machine operators
Machine operators in the building and public sectors will be able to be trained on simulators developed by France-based Acreos. Full story...Acquisition expands Jacobs' global water solution abilities
US-based infrastructure specialist Jacobs has acquired Jordan, Jones and Goulding,(JJG), a 500-person professional services firm that is expected to significantly expand Jacobs' position in the North American water and wastewater market. Full story...Two new associates for Jacobs' East Coast offices
Two new faces have joined Jacobs Associates’ East Coast US offices. Full story...Ideas sought for Severn crossing
A UK ideas competition has been launched for designs for a third crossing across the River Severn in Avon, England. Full story...First Crossrail tunnel contract awarded
A joint venture comprising Costain and Skanska has been awarded a US$22.7 million contract by Crossrail. Full story...Morgan Est in contract win
UK-based infrastructure specialist Morgan Est has notched-up a US$6 million contract for the manufacture and supply of a total of 5,420 tapered trapezoidal tunnel rings for a major UK sewer project. Full story...Crossrail expressions of interest invited
Expressions of interest have been invited for the third and final running tunnel contract for Crossrail. Full story...Grand old man of PB Tom Kuesel passes away
Hailed widely as an authority on tunnel and bridge engineering, Thomas R Kuesel has died at the age of 83, having enjoyed a 43-year career with Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB). Full story...'Challenges for German tunnelling'
Tunnel construction in Germany will face major challenges in 2010, according to STUVA chairman and board member Edgar Schömig. Full story...Tunnel technology partnership to help Rio Tinto improve mine construction
Rio Tinto has teamed up with three tunnelling firms to help it develop equipment and systems for deep underground mining. Full story...Herrenknecht deal on Abu Dhabi plant
German TBM-specialist Herrenknecht has entered into a US$6.8 million joint venture (JV) agreement with Aabar Investments for the assembly and manufacture of tunnel boring machinery and equipment in the UAE. Full story...Bilfinger Cologne disaster investigation
Bilfinger Berger has said that no clear reasons have emerged as yet to explain the fatal collapse in March last year of Cologne’s historic archive. Full story...Features
More to the point
In a letter to World Tunnelling, US-based specialist underground construction writer Barbara Stack raises some interesting points related to the recent WT roundtable. Full story...
Bogong hydro scheme goes online
Paul Thomas and Jimmy Molea of McConnell Dowell highlight the tunnelling components of Australia’s largest hydropower project for 25 years Full story...A new station for Sao Paulo
Marco Aurélio A. Peixoto da Silva, Hugo Cássio Rocha and Francisco Ribeiro Neto on the design and construction of the Alto do Ipiranga station in Sao Paulo, Brazil Full story...Latin crossings
South America is seeing a tunnelling boom, including metro, road, stormwater, hydro and mining tunnels, writes Dean Brox Full story...Cooling the tube
Installing fans in old, deep ventilation shafts on London’s Underground is tricky when access is restricted, says Philip Walker of UK firm Fläkt Woods Full story...Doing the tunnel walk
With a long, wide-ranging career, New York-based engineer and practice leader David Caiden now has numerous major US tunnel projects on his hands Full story...Issue: WT April 2010
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