期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2021; 174 (2)
Lei Yue Mun quarantine camp was the first Covid-19 isolation facility built in Hong Kong. The camp's two sites provide 352 rooms built using innovativ......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2021; 174 (2)
The 540 m Tahya Misr Bridge over the Nile in Cairo, Egypt was completed in 2019. At 67.3 m wide, it is the widest cable-stayed crossing in the world. ......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2021; 174 (1)
A specialised emergency field hospital was constructed in record time in Wuhan, China shortly after the initial outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cov......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2020; 173 (1)
Subsea tunnels are highly complex, high-risk engineering projects. The causes and effects of risks are dynamic in nature and involve multiple stages, ......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2020; 173 (5)
The 4.5km long northern subsea tunnel section of the new Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link in Hong Kong had to overcome challenging ground conditions, not le......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2020; 173 (5)
The steep hilly terrain of Hong Kong is a significant constraint on surface development but offers great opportunities for underground rock caverns. W......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2020; 173 (3)
Beijing Daxing International, which officially opened in September 2019 after 5 years of construction, is the largest airport in China and has the wor......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2020; 173 (3)
An innovative chemical boundary engineering approach can produce ultra-high strength steel at much lower cost. Ran Ding, Zhigang Yang, Sybrand van der......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2018; 171 (1)
Yachihe Bridge in China is the longest steel-truss, cable-stayed bridge in the world and the tenth longest overall. Completed in 2016, its 800 m main ......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2018; 171 (2)
Due for completion in 2019, the 2.8 pound billion Raffles City development in Chongqing, China includes eight high-rise towers up to 348 m tall with a......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2018; 171 (2)
Prestressed concrete bridges with corrugated steel webs represent a relatively new type of composite structure. More than 40 such bridges have been bu......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2018; 171 (3)
Woven timber arch bridges date back over 1000 years in China but were only rediscovered in the 1980s. Combining 'beam-weaving' techniques with mortise......
期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS-CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2018; 171 (4)
Horizontal directional coring is an advanced ground investigation technique which can provide continuous core sampling along a non-linear trajectory, ......