{"id":18598,"date":"2025-02-03T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=18598"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:15:35","slug":"bts-february-2025-evening-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=18598","title":{"rendered":"BTS February 2025 Evening Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In partnership with MinSouth, the February 2025 British Tunnelling Society evening lecture is taking place on Thursday 13th Feb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Woodsmith Project<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speakers:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Jeff Hawman \u2013 Woodsmith Mine Manager, Anglo American<\/li>\n<li>Ashley Poulter \u2013 Deputy Project Director, STRABAG UK<\/li>\n<li>Tom Wootton \u2013 Construction Manager, STRABAG UK<\/li>\n<li>Callum Fryer \u2013 Construction Manager, STRABAG UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Including a 37-kilometre tunnel to transport Polyhalite from Whitby to Teesside via conveyor, the Woodsmith Project in North Yorkshire is a landmark Anglo-American mining development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) set a world record with a 25.8-kilometre single drive in 2023, currently it is surpassing 29 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This presentation will provide an overview of the TBM cutter head maintenance using timber heading techniques, showcasing STRABAG\u2019s engineering innovations, ongoing progress on 1,600-metre shafts at the mine site and how challenges have been addressed since the 2021 BTS presentation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Additionally, detail the innovative construction of two 380-metre shafts, through faulted geology and groundwater pressures,\u00a0 using the UK\u2019s first blind boring method at Lockwood Beck and Lady Cross, will be presented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note 1: This is an in-person lecture but will also be streamed live on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note 2: Tea &amp; coffee will be served from 17:30 hrs onwards<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note 3: Post-lecturedrinks and food will be served at the ICE bar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In case of any query please contact; The Secretary, BTS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tel: 020 7665 2238<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:bts@ice.org.uk\">bts@ice.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtunnelling.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In partnership with MinSouth, the February 2025 British Tunnelling Society evening lecture is taking place on Thursday 13th Feb. The Woodsmith Project Speakers: Jeff Hawman \u2013 Woodsmith Mine Manager, Anglo American Ashley Poulter \u2013 Deputy Project Director, STRABAG UK Tom Wootton \u2013 Construction Manager, STRABAG UK Callum Fryer \u2013 Construction Manager, STRABAG UK Including a 37-kilometre tunnel to transport Polyhalite from Whitby to Teesside via conveyor, the Woodsmith Project in North Yorkshire is a landmark Anglo-American mining development. While the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) set a world record with a 25.8-kilometre single drive in 2023, currently it is surpassing 29 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2630,4601,4600,47,48],"class_list":["post-18598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-british-tunnelling-society","tag-evening-lecture","tag-february-2025","tag-tunneling","tag-uk","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18600,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18598\/revisions\/18600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}