{"id":12915,"date":"2023-09-30T08:44:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T08:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2023-09-30T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T08:44:51","slug":"bts-october-2023-meeting-highway-401-409-rail-tunnel-project-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=12915","title":{"rendered":"BTS October 2023 Meeting &#8211; Highway 401 &#038; 409 Rail Tunnel Project, Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The date of holding October&#8217;s British Tunnelling Society is Thursday 19th October 2023 at 18:00 hrs and meeting is due to focus on the Highway 4012 &#038; 409 Rail Tunnel project in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Including a 188 m long and 11 m high rail tunnel, the Highway 401 &#038; 409 Rail Tunnel project locates in Toronto, Canada and passes beneath 21 lanes of traffic, with a low overburden. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Presenting an overview of the project, the design approaches and the construction, this presentation will be delivered jointly by Dr. Sauer &#038; Partners and STRABAG AG.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Speakers are:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thomas Schwind \u2013 Technical Director &#038; Partner, Dr. Sauer &#038; Partners<\/li>\n<li>Gerhard J. Urschitz P.E. \u2013 Head of Tunnelling &#038; Member of the Board STRABAG AG<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Angelos Gakis \u2013  Head of Geotechnics, Dr. Sauer &#038; Partners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an in-person lecture taking place at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) &#8211; One Great George Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA, whereas non-BTS members are welcome to attend the event<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tea &#038; coffee will be served from 17:30 hrs onwards<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also you can access to presentation in live-streamed online <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/qC4ZwbWpHqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The date of holding October&#8217;s British Tunnelling Society is Thursday 19th October 2023 at 18:00 hrs and meeting is due to focus on the Highway 4012 &#038; 409 Rail Tunnel project in Toronto. Including a 188 m long and 11 m high rail tunnel, the Highway 401 &#038; 409 Rail Tunnel project locates in Toronto, Canada and passes beneath 21 lanes of traffic, with a low overburden. Presenting an overview of the project, the design approaches and the construction, this presentation will be delivered jointly by Dr. Sauer &#038; Partners and STRABAG AG. Speakers are: Thomas Schwind \u2013 Technical Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,41],"tags":[3487,1657,3488,47,48],"class_list":["post-12915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-bts-october-2023","tag-events","tag-highway-401-409-rail-tunnel-project","tag-tunneling","tag-uk","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}