Industry Events News

The 44th ITA-AITES General Assembly and Wold Tunnel Congress (WTC) took place on April 21 – 26, 2018 in Dubai, UAE. The congress’ main theme this year was “How can underground spaces enable cities to develop sustainably and become resilient?”. 

Last week saw the 6th Annual BTSYM (British Tunnelling Society, Young Members) Conference, held at Pinsent Masons, London.

Dr. Sauer & Partners is proud to have been nominated by TfL at this year’s TfL Supplier Awards. The company has been recommended for the ‘Efficiencies and Innovations Award’ for its specialist tunnelling design work over a number of recent major TfL station upgrades in London.

We are delighted to have been shortlisted twice as finalists in both the New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Awards and the ITA Tunnelling Awards, both to be held toward the end of this year.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Sauer & Partners has won two awards with AECOM for its work on the LA City Trunk Line for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).

The beginning of June saw the return of the biennial Rapid Excavation and Tunnelling Conference (RETC), which took place for 2017 in the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA.

Friday 5th May, 2017 saw the return of the The British Tunnelling Society Annual Dinner held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street in London.

In April, Dr. Sauer & Partners‘ Senior Tunnel Engineers Dr. Panagiotis Spyridis and Dr. Ali Nasekhian attended EURO:TUN, the fourth International Conference on Computational Methods in Tunnelling and Subsurface Engineering which took place in Innsbruck, Austria.

Dr Sauer & Partners (DSP) is proud to present Mr. Omar Mohammed as the winner of the prestigious Harding Prize 2017. The Harding Prize recognises outstanding performance in the tunnelling industry by young engineers under 33 years of age.

Dr Sauer & Partners' Bethan Haig has been named as a finalist in the 2017 Women in Construction & Engineering Awards.