British Tunnelling Society
The BTS is a dynamic group of tunnelling professionals sharing knowledge within the industry.
- Date
- 08 June 2023
- Time
This event has now ended
Overview
An overview through the subjects of road tunnels, looking at:
- The need
- Provision of assets and its facilities
- Maintenance, safe operation and emergency response
- Legislation and good practice.
This event should provide greater context for those just starting out in tunnelling who think it is all “muck, build, muck, build”.
Speaker
John Nicholas
National Highways
tunnel manager
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John Nicholas
John Nicholas is National Highways Tunnel Manager for Hindhead, Round Hill and Southwick Tunnels, the Asset Needs Manager for the Southeast, and the Operations strategic lead for Tunnels.
After leaving CSM, John enjoyed a number of roles in tunnelling, pipe-jacking and micro-tunnelling, up and down the East-coast of Ireland, to CTRL, with periods working on Railtrack’s Southern Region and with Tube Lines, finally settling for well over a decade into road tunnel management through a variety of roles with TfL, including Tunnel Operations & Maintenance Manager, Contract Manager (covering the Docklands Roads Tunnels) and Tunnel Manager (including Silvertown, for a while).
John is also a dad of boys, a school governor, an active committee member of the UK Road Tunnel Association, and has been an irregular attendee, but staunch supporter, of the BTS.
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