Tunnel Construction & Piling 99, held at London Olympia September 8-10 brought together 89 exhibitors from the UK, Germany, Austria, Canada, the US and Japan.

In total, 1374 people attended over the three days, of whom 18% were from overseas.These International representatives came from 35 countries and included the Drainage Services Department, Hong Kong; the Hellenic Railway Organisation, Greece; the LTA, Singapore; the West Bengal State Electricity Board, India; Pacific Tunnelling Australia; Beico Beijing and Raito Tokyo.

Included for the first time in the symposium and exhibition were specialists in piling and deep foundations technology.

The next event is already scheduled to take place in September 2001 at the new ExCeL centre in London Docklands.