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Amtrak crews have kicked off the first long-term track outage in support of the $1.6bn East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project (ERT ...
National Grid is inviting communities in East Lindsey, Boston and South Holland in Lincolnshire, King’s Lynn, West Norfolk, and ...
The leading publication for the tunnelling and underground construction industry Tunnelling Journal (printed 6 times per year) back to back with 4 x North American Tunneling Journal and 2 x Canadian ...
The British Tunnelling Society (BTS 2024) Conference and Exhibition brought together clients, contractors, consultants and suppliers to talk about some of the pressing challenges facing our sector and ...
Removing fossil fuels from sites is a must if countries – and companies – are serious about decreasing the carbon footprints of their activities. BEVs are already in use on the UK’s HS2 high-speed ...
Interfaces in construction projects often introduce risk. And cross passages are, by definition, interfaces between main tunnels. “Challenges have increased where you have soft ground and the ...
Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announced the award of contracts for substructure and airside infrastructure works at Changi Airport’s Terminal 5 (T5). The substructure contract has been awarded to a ...
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced it will begin a new procurement and contracting process to make the final connection of a new bypass tunnel under the ...
Major construction has kicked off on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL), with works full steam ahead to build a TBM launch site in Clarinda, where tunnelling will start next year. The TBMs will ...
HS2’s TBM ‘Mary Ann’ has broken through today, marking the end of her mission to excavate the first bore of what will soon become the longest railway tunnel in the West Midlands. The 125m long, 8.62m ...
A major milestone has been reached in the delivery of the Sydney Metro West project, with excavation of the Hunter Street metro station cavern now complete. Excavation has been ongoing around the ...
ITA-AITES Working Group 2 (WG2) – Research is developing a publication on damages of precast concrete segmental linings, with the intent being to better understand damage that occurs during tunnel ...