IMS specializes in the field of mechanised tunnelling, with Dr
McFeat-Smith being recognized by Lok Home, President of the Robbins Company, amongst
others as being ‘one of the world’s top three tunnelling engineer’s who
recognizes and understands the critical relationships between ground conditions and TBM
performance.’
The company has published the manual offered for sale in this
website entitled: ‘Mechanised Tunnelling for
Asia’. This is the first comprehensive book published on this
subject drawing from the companies’ extensive recent experiences including accounts
from 25-case histories with details all kinds of machines for soft ground, mixed faces and
hard rock tunnelling from microtunnel size to caverns.
A brief scan of our list of tunnel projects undertaken in the
last three years demonstrates our claim to be the world’s leading consultancy in this
field and our companies’ creed to continue to identify opportunities by means of cost
and programme savings for application of mechanised tunnelling techniques. In
addition to achieving an exceptionally high level of successful bids for machine
tunnellling contracts the company is credited with an unusually high level of successfully
completed TBM projects. We do this by making knowledgeable predictions of TBM
performance (and water inflows) based upon scientific methodology, empirical relationships
and constant feedback from site and our engineers are often engaged on site to help
Contractors monitor and achieve such performance.
This is also due to our ability at the time of tender to
distinguish between imagined risks for such works and real risks that can be catered for
by selection of the best methods of construction, including those required for close
ground control in urban areas. BACK TO TOP
‘Tunnelling machines for soft and mixed ground’
