Tunnelling ’94: Papers presented at the seventh international symposium, ‘Tunnelling’94’ (1994)

By: Vidar Aarvold and I. L. Chudleigh and N. S. Webb and G. A. Featherstone and Manfred Bandmann and H. Ramisch and Uwe Beckmann and B. J. Cole and H. J. Lees and Walter Dietz and D. F. Fawcett and P. J. Chapman and D. A. Barratt and M. P. O’Reilly and John Temporal and Jon Baston-Pitt and F. J. Fredriksen and Roald Aabøe and G. J. Hasle and D. A. Hobson and D. C. Gilchrist and Sandor Jancsecz and Walter Steiner and J. P. Farrow and P. M. Claye and R. B. Warren and M. A. Ginary and R. Matthews and H. Kruizenga and C. R. Weeks and T. R. Winterton and Y. Leblais and L. Leblond and Yannis Malios and J. Y. Peron and P. Marcheselli and P. Catling and J. Scholey and A. D. Murray and Bruno Marrai and P. G. Davies and Guilherme Tibau and Erik Gutenwik and Maurício Santana and Pierre Jean Pellegri and R. J. Fowell and G. Richardson and M. J. Gollick and J. G. Beatty and R. J. Ganey and J. E. Killingsworth and L. J. Arthur and A. W. Darby and B. Rafoneke and Graham Daws and Dan MacDonald and Nicola Innaurato and Renato Mancini and Enrico Rondena and Attilio Zaninetti and A. W. Coutts and H. R. Davies and R. S. Curtis and A. P. Finch and R. P. Lovat and A. P. Deane and K. T. Burgess and M. C. Knights and M. A. Oswell and I. W. Farmer and B. W. Mak and Daniel Morfeldt and C. J. Martin and G. Pakes and Sigurdur Finnsson and H. A. Janzon and C. Laughton and Y. Abd Al-Jalil and R. Remington and H. P. Caspe and A. Y. Kim and L. J. Bergen and J. R. Araujo and Klaus Axhausen and J. E. Hellings and R. J. Mair and D. I. Harris and J. P. Love and D. Blakey and B. M. New and K. H. Bowers and P. P. Nelson and Richard Harpf and C. Kettle

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Synopsis: It is now more than twenty years since a proposal was first mooted to hold an international tunnelling symposium in Britain. At the time of the first symposium, held in London in 1976, the Channel Tunnel pro ject had just been shelved. Last weekend a charity walk was held in the finished tunnel, which will be open for business later in the year. Tunnels have figured prominently, and at times spectacularly, in the development of national and international links and it is hoped that such links gather pace in the future. It is particularly pleasing that Alastair Biggart of Storebrelt has agreed to deliver the twenty-sixth Sir Julius Wernher Memorial Lecture of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, entitled 'The changing face of tunnelling', at the start of this event. * Although almost every edition of the technical journals on tunnelling reports another £1 billion scheme somewhere in the world, it would be unfair of me to suggest that tunnelling is restricted to these prestigious schemes for major transport links. Much of the work that makes mod ern life possible receives hardly a mention outside the technical press and one suspects that society at large applies the 'out of sight, out of mind' attitude even more readily to underground construction than it does to other forms of engineering. Clearly, there is a contiiming need to improve the capacity and performance of our infrastructure, while hav ing a careful regard for the environment.