British Tunnelling Society
Meetings Programme 2011
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Latest Meeting Calendar
| Date | Title | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Jan-11 | East Side Access Project, New York The $7.3bn East Side Access Project currently under construction in the heart of Manhattan by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Construction Company is the largest federally funded infrastructure project in the USA. This talk will also present an overview of the multitude of tunnelling methods being used, including the first use of slurry TBM's in New York to excavate the 50,000 linear feet of tunnel. For more details please Click Here |
Alan Paskoff - MTA Capital Construction Andy Thompson - Hatch Mott MacDonald |
| 17-Feb-11 | BTS / MinSouth Joint Event - The Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme The Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme is currently the largest tunnelling project in South Africa. The location is 400km south-west of Johannesburg and 80km north-east of Lesotho. There are over 12km of tunnels up to 9.4m diameter, 4 shafts (up to 20m dia x 190m deep), 2 large caverns, requiring substantial support. The geology is primarily a relatively weak sedimentary rock, with dolerite dykes and sills. For more details please Click Here |
John Sawyer - Engineering Manager, ESKOM Gerhard Keyter - Lead Design Engineer, BCJV |
| 17-Mar-11 | Green Park Step Free Access The works included an extension to the existing Ticket Hall incorporating a ramp from the adjacent Green Park directly into the station and the installation of two lift shafts. This presentation will discuss the development of the design and construction of the elliptical lift shaft and stub tunnel using SCL methods. The escalator jacking system and the instrumentation and monitoring employed will be discussed
. For more details please Click Here |
Fred Green - LU Brendan Reilly - TubeLines Dickie Dexter - J Gallagher Ltd Philip Wall - Capita Symonds |
| 14-Apr-11 | Harding Prize Competition. The Competition is open to all aged 33 or under at the end of 2010. Entrants submit an original paper relating to any aspect of tunnelling which they consider of interest to those in the tunnelling industry. For details of the lectures to be presented, please Click Here. |
Andreas Feiersinger; Spyridon Konstantis; and Robert Milner |
| 19-May-11 | BTS AGM + Limerick Immersed Tunnel BTS, Annual General Meeting, Followed by; The Limerick Tunnel will provide a new road crossing under the River Shannon The tunnel comprises five 100m long immersed tunnel elements, a cut and cover tunnel and approach ramps on each bank. Click here for more information. |
John Busby, Design Director, Capita Symonds; Mike McGuire, Project Director and John Hayden, Deputy Project Director, Direct Route (Construction JV) |
| 29-Jun-11 Note - Wednesday at Earls Court Exhibition Centre. Start 4:30pm |
High Speed Railway Tunnels in Spain With the opening of the new Levante line, the Spanish High Speed Railway network has become the longest in the world. HSR lines with their demanding alignments require the design and construction of an unusually high number of tunnels, some of which are amongst the longest and more important in the world. This presentation provides information of three good examples of the tunnels recently built in Spain: Guadarrama tunnel, Pajares tunnel and finally Atocha-ChamartÃn tunnel. For more details please Click Here. This is an evening BTS Presentation being held at the "BTS Underground Conference 2011" on 29th to 30th June 2011. It is a 2 day conference being held in the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. |
Jose Luis Arèvalo Segovia - División de Sistemas Ferroviarios |
| 15-Sep-11 | Crossrail Status update. Latest developments on this major London project. For further information click here |
Andy Mitchell - Programme Director, Crossrail Ltd (CRL) |
| 20-Oct-11 | BTS / BGA joint meeting: What do we want from a GBR? Geotechnical baseline reports or ground reference conditions are increasingly being used in tunnelling contracts in the UK to allocate ground risk and ensure compliance with current industry best practice and perhaps more critically, insurers recommendations. What do clients, designers and contractors expect from a GBR and how do they envisage the document will be used before, during and after construction? The aim of the meeting is to discuss the current status of the use of these documents and to learn from the practical experiences of others. Following short presentations, an active debate is envisaged and the audience will be encouraged to participate and share their own experiences. For further information click here |
Darren Page - OTB; Helen Scholes - GCG; and Roger Margerison - Morgan Sindall |
| 17-Nov-11 | Dulles Airport Rail Tunnel, Washington DC Dulles Transit Partners is responsible for designing and constructing Phase 1 of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project. An 11.6 mile extension of the existing Washington Metro to Dulles International Airport. A central feature of the project is the Tysons Tunnel. For further information, please click here |
Dominic Cerulli & Frank Jenkins - (Bechtel) Dulles Transit Partners, LLC And Vojtech Gall - Gall Zeidler Consultants |
| 15-Dec-11 | Cleaner Seas for Sussex For further information, click here |
Ben Green – Southern Water Programme Manager and Craig Reade Costain Project Manger |
- Tea and biscuits will be available at 5.30 PM
- Meetings will be held at the ICE unless otherwise stated
- Meetings will start at 6.00 PM & finish at 7.30 PM unless otherwise stated
- A licensed bar will be open after the meeting at the ICE
- A variety of foods will be served in the ICE Brasserie after each meeting.
- Advance booking not required.
This list may be subject to changes. Details of each meeting will be sent to members with their monthly copies of T&TI. Should you have any query please contact the BTS Administrator at the contact page.
