Author Archives: Thames Menteth

Arup has carried out front-end-engineering design (FEED) for technical tunnelling work on a major new Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) pipeline in the Netherlands.

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Van Elle has completed emergency piling work on a failed railway embankment near New Mills in High Peak, Derbyshire.

Instrumentation techniques were key to monitoring the settlement of an earthwork embankment built on soft ground on the Stephenson Street flood scheme in south Wales.

Herrenknecht’s Tunnel Enlargement System (TES) has been used to widen the profile of two ageing railway tunnels in Germany while trains continue to run.

A mine working that has been uncovered on the A30 link road project in Cornwall is likely to be connected to a 19th century tin mine and could be “deeper and longer” than it appears, a mining consultant has said.

Drilling contractors have been called upon to support more “full-scale fixes” on road and railway assets this year following one of the UK’s wettest winters on record.

Major works packages including for dam and project design, and underground technical services, have been awarded on Queensland’s Borumba pumped hydro project.

CGL used the observational method to design out piles and develop a new foundation solution in chalk ground conditions on a residential development in Brighton.

An industry consortium has successfully trialled a new digital assurance system that aims to improve the cost efficiency of tunnel installations.