NCE Tunnelling Awards 2016 - Winner

Delighted to be the winner of NCE Tunnelling Awards 2016 under the category "Young Tunneller of the Year".  

This award are given to individuals (with less than 10 years of experience) who has developed experience in the tunnelling industry and has made a notable contribution between Jan '15 and Jul '16. 

Judging criteria was based on:

- Commitment to the tunnelling industry

- Contribution made by the individual to bring innovative ideas or initiatives or lead technically complex design/operations.

- Deliver beyond the client's expectation

Nomination was based on following items: 

- Design and construction support for shotcrete lined (NATM) mined tunnel in soft shallow overburden condition

- Publication in International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories 2016 (Singapore special issue)

- Contribution in ITACET and local Geotechnical society (GeoSS)

Highlights of the awards event is available below:

Featured in Geoconsult website: Link (link is dead)

Featured in ITACET foundation website: Link

Featured in Tunnel Talk: Link

Thanks to generous support by the tunnelling community worldwide for identifying and encouraging  the young engineers. Who would have imagined, an Indian guy, working for an Austrian firm for Singapore projects would win this honor in United Kingdom! :D

NCE Tunnelling Awards 2016 - Young Tunneller of the Year (Shortlisted)

New Civil Engineer (NCE) - the official magazine for members of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK chartered body that oversees the practice of civil engineering in the UK) is organizing Tunnelling Award for the seventh year in 2016. The awards are not only known to showcase the best in tunnelling expertise, most innovative techniques and challenging projects but also has established itself as a premier networking event for the global tunnelling community.

This year, I am delighted to be shortlisted under the category "Young Tunneller of the Year".

Thanks @ncedigital @TunnellingAwds & @ICE_engineers for the shortlisting me. #tunneller #itaym #tunnelling #geotech pic.twitter.com/hxa0MDpGdo

— G T, Senthil Nath (@gt_sn) August 22, 2016

List of all finalists could be accessed here.

The shortlist is based on the personal contribution made by the individual to lead major technically complex operations. Following attributes are considered for the shortlist:

• drive their team, project or business to technical or commercial success
• deliver beyond the client's expectation
• personal commitment to improving the tunnelling industry
• tangible differences made by the environment in which they operate

The shortlisting is done by an esteemed panel of 23 international judges appointed by NCE magazine. Full list of judges is available here. 

#ITAYM #YoungTunneller

Shortlisted for ITA Awards

I am very honoured to be shortlisted for the International Tunnelling Associations' ITA Awards (under the category "Young Tunneller of the Year"), in what is considered as the Oscars of the tunnelling industry. A total of 33 finalists (projects and engineers) are selected out of 98 entries from 25 countries in 9 categories. The complete list of finalists is available here. 

ITA Awards Trophy - Bronze bust of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Sculpted by Sebastien Langloÿs)

All the finalists for the category "Young tunneller of the year" are shown below (in alphabetical order). Link: https://awards.ita-aites.org/finalists/young-tunneller-of-the-year.html?tmpl=component

Join me for the two-day ceremony (with 8 high profile keynote lectures, finalists presentation and awards ceremony) at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

References:
[1] ITA Awards website and newsletter
[2] Tunnel-Online Info website
[3] Tunnel Talk newsletter
[4] Tunnel Builder newsstream
[5] Argentinian tunnelling society newsletter 

Featured in ITACET newsletter

June issue of ITACET newsletter has featured the abstract of my paper which was shortlisted by Geotechnical Society of Singapore (GeoSS) to be presented at the 8th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference in Kazakhstan (8AYGEC).

ITACET Newsletter - June edition

The title of the paper is "Mid-tunnel underground docking of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) in Singapore". The paper discusses a case study from Singapore in which, TBMs are docked midway in the tunnel to establish a safe working chamber for concluding construction works (including the TBM dismantling, internal concrete lining etc.) without the need for any intermediate TBM retrieval shaft. 

Picture illustrating docking without a retrieval shaft

Reference:
[1] Senthilnath, G.T., 2016. Mid-tunnel underground docking of tunnel boring machines in Singapore, In The 8th Asian Young Geotechnical Engineering Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, CRC Press/ Balkema Publishers (accepted, in press)

Keynote Presenter in Upcoming conference on Underground Space Engineering, Singapore

Trueventus is organizing the 3rd Annual conference on Underground Space Engineering in Singapore and I am invited as one of the Keynote presenters to present a talk on "Existing tunnel movements due to close proximity". Details of the conference are enclosed below. This post will be updated soon to include the summary of my presentation.

  

Breakthrough Magazine - Issue 2

This year during the World Tunnel Congress in San Francisco, ITAYM released the second issue of the Breakthrough Magazine. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend this WTC. The magazine could be accessed here.

Breakthrough Magazine - Issue 2

During WTC, there was also an election for ITAYM board members and three new board members (Doris Frank, Slovenia; Giuseppe Maria Gaspari, Italy; Joanne Sui, United Kingdom) were elected to replace the outgoing board members (Nichole Boultbee, Petr Salak and Emily Roguska). Jurij steps down as Chair and Sindre Log is elected as the new Chair for a tenure of two years.

ITAYM Board

Special Mention In Media (ITACET Newsletter)

I am happy to share with my readers that, this blog was mentioned in the ITACET Foundation's newsletter as "A blog of interest". Thanks for your support and continuous encouragement. I will continue to write and share useful and original content.

The newsletter could be accessed at http://www.itacet.org/Newsletter/NL_detail.php?no_nl=19

PDF Link

Special Mention in ITACET Newsletter - July 2014 

SMEC's Quarterly Magazine - Geotech & Tunnelling

SME SMEC Geotech & Tunnels

This quarter, SMEC has featured Geotech and Tunneling group highlighting some of the key projects delivered by SMEC. It also features a Q&A with SMEC's Geotech Chief Technical Principal, Dr. Jeff Hsi.

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