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Less than four years old, the Turkish Tunnelling Society represents a sizeable membership, serves a burgeoning industry, and has an active programme of events. Alex Conacher speaks to its chairman, [...]

THE ANCIENT 'Silk Road' is perhaps the most famous trading route of all time running from China, through India, Pakistan and Iran into Europe. Over time this route grew to [...]

SITE PREPARATIONS are drawing to a close as the last of 21 worksites, Trianglen is handed over on 3 December 2012. Four TBMs from the newly partnered Seli-Kawasaki manufacturing IV [...]

History of 180 years old Strood and Higham tunnels in North Kent, England is presented. The restructuring project of these old tunnels is awarded to Parsons Brinckerhoff constructors by Network Rail. Different stages in the proposed project and the schedule of project which include three states from pant material delivery to completion of project are presented.

The tunnelling equipment and software introduced for tunnelling and drifting applications are mentioned.

The geographical aspects of Italy as the land of tunnels are investigated. Several tunnel projects built across the country in the months and years to come are explored.

Current NATM construction for the Santiago Metro, Chile, was reported in Part 1 of this article as costing some 40% less than NATM running tunnels constructed five years ago. In [...]

A forecast is presented on the tunneling market in Europe, which shows a good potential especially in Spain. A report is presented on the major tunnel constructions in Europe.

Construction industry officials believe microtunneling will rapidly gain popularity among North American companies in the near future. Microtunneling, a remote-controlled technology, is widely used in Japan and Europe but is relatively little known in the US. However, recent trends indicate that more construction projects will be employing the technique and that US microtunneling footage will reach 100,000 ft. in 1995.

Over the past few years tunnelling has really taken off in Australia although recently the focus has moved from Sydney to Brisbane. The recent 13th Tunnelling Conference held by the [...]

High lights of forth 'International Underground tunneling exhibition 2005' (IUT'05) conducted at Hagerbach near Sargans of Switzerland which include 4.5 km of galleries for research and development, seminars, trade shows and conferences that took place in the numerous underground meeting rooms are presented.

The 13.8km long Romeriksporten rail tunnel in Norway was completed after an arduous five-year construction period in 1999. However, actual drilling and blasting of the 102[m.sup.2] tunnel from five faces [...]

A forecast is presented on the future of tunneling constructions in Germany cased on the statistical data for urban, underground transit system and railway lines in the country.

Byline: Martin Forstenzer The skiing might be great, but when getting there isn't, people stay home. Utah takes a deep look at reducing traffic congestion. GLOBAL WARMING HEADS UP THE […]

A giant tunnel under the Thames to intercept sewage overflows at times of heavy rain would be the best way of protecting the river from pollution, the Thames Tideway Strategic [...]

The problems faced by commuters due to the construction of a tunnel in Vancouver are presented.