- Date
- 21 April 2022
- Time
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Overview
The Harding Prize competition is named in honour of Sir Harold Harding, the founding Chairman of the BTS. The competition is open to young engineers aged 33 or under. Original paper submitted must address aspects of tunnelling which are considered of interest to the tunnelling industry, with the winning paper selected by a judging panel.
The following three finalists will present their paper(s):
Christopher Barrett (BAM Nuttall), The planning and construction of mainline tunnel B Connection Tunnel
Oliver Dzur (Skanska SK a.s), The concept of the escape route – escape shafts – for the Tunnel Visnove Slovakia
Zhengyao Mark AN (University of Cambridge), A numerical approach to estimate the rock pillar strength.
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