Terminal 2, Dublin Airport.

Over the last few years Dublin Air­port has had a num­ber of mod­i­fi­ca­tions and exten­sions to Ter­mi­nal 1. The new Ter­mi­nal 2 with its esti­mat­ed cost of €395M is set to increase the pas­sen­ger han­dling capac­i­ty by 15 mil­lion peo­ple a year. It will...

Soil nailing

Soil nail­ing has become very pop­u­lar over the past two decades espe­cial­ly in embank­ment sta­bil­i­sa­tion works asso­ci­at­ed with motor­way widen­ing and rail­way embank­ment sta­bil­i­sa­tion. It is espe­cial­ly use­ful for sites with dif­fi­cult access as the...

Rotary Bored Piling

Rotary bored piles dif­fer from CFA piles in that a tem­po­rary cas­ing is installed to sup­port the bore from col­lapse in unsta­ble ground con­di­tions, for exam­ple in super­fi­cial soils. Where cas­ing lengths are short they can be insert­ed as a sin­gle plain...