Forecasting tunnelling progress using AI
ABSTRACTTunnel boring is essential for many construction projects, yet it is challenging to accurately forecast productivity due to many influencing…
Project
-
-
Designing in Fire Safety Through Simulation
Fire safety is an integral part of tunnel ventilation design.The ventilation system design comes about through experienced practitioners applying their…
-
Fibre Optics for Measuring Temperature
INTRODUCTION Tunnel fires are a horror scenario, not only since the accidents in the Mont Blanc and Tauern tunnels in…
-
Boring for Silvertown
With only tight space available for construction work at either end of the Silvertown road tunnel, in London, the efforts…
-
BTS James Clark Medal Award: Andy Alder
Andy Alder, programme director of the Thames Tideway project in London, and Jacobs vice-president and head of major programmes (UK…
-
Smoke control in road tunnels
In the past 25 years, the standard for road tunnel ventilation has improved tremendously. The main design objective of tunnel…
-
Grey cast iron linings – new structural insights
The evaluation of the structural response of grey cast iron (GCI) tunnel linings poses significant challenges due to the presence…
-
Geopolymer concrete in tunnelling
INTRODUCTION What are geopolymer concretes and AACM? Geopolymer concretes are considered a subset of alkali activated cementitious materials (AACM) containing…
-
Waste disposal: engineering the key nuclear challenge
Nuclear technology has been part of our lives for over 60 years. It provides a substantial proportion of global low-carbon…
-
Formwork for Fehmarn
Immense precasting operations are to be performed in the giant factory-based offsite construction works, in Denmark, to construct what will…
