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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2025) 178 (1): 49–59.
Published: 03 February 2025
...-century biographer. 11 07 2024 12 10 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited: All rights reserved 2025 contracts & law geology history soils & ground conditions tunnels & tunnelling Chrimes (2023 : pp. 213–217) stated that Thomas Brassey was an outstanding public...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2022) 175 (4): 109–129.
Published: 22 December 2021
... by public works contractors, as was more normal at that time (Chrimes, 2019). ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2022 groundwater history tunnels & tunnelling The 2224 m long Kilsby Tunnel, constructed in the 1830s under the direction of Robert Stephenson, as part of the London...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2021) 174 (2): 68–80.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and industrial hubs. infrastructure planning municipal & public service engineering tunnels & tunnelling On the right bank of the River Hooghly and opposite to Calcutta, Howrah City remains one of the oldest industrial centres in India. Commerce and industry were brought to this part...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2019) 172 (2): 46–56.
Published: 01 May 2019
... & inspection railway systems tunnels & tunnelling Figure 1 Location of the Connaught Tunnel The Connaught Tunnel, designed by Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel, son of the founder of the eponymous firm of engineers, is located in London’s historical Docklands, UK, to the east of the city...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2014) 167 (4): 171–181.
Published: 30 May 2014
... connection between La Habana and Güines, in Cuba, the first Latin American railway, just a few months before the start of planning work in Mexico. Bridges Rail & bus stations Tunnels & tunnelling It is difficult to define the stages in the construction process exactly because, owing...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2012) 165 (4): 241–255.
Published: 01 November 2012
... machine (photograph: Nick Catford, 2008) mining & quarrying railway systems tunnels & tunnelling As a result of limitations imposed on access through mountainous areas, tunnels frequently become the only suitable option to permit road and railway routes passage in this terrain...
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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage (2010) 163 (4): 219–229.
Published: 01 November 2010
... be accessed from Old Passage near Aust. bridges history tunnels & tunnelling The Severn estuary in the UK is increasingly a focus of discussion, with the proposed barrage providing the latest debate. In the 1970s, rising oil prices focused attention on the use of tidal power...

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