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China's longest underwater highway tunnel to be completed

30/03/2021

It is part of the Changzhou-Wuxi Highway which has a total length of 43.9 km. Construction of the underwater tunnel began in January 2018 in east ...

The Challenge of Building a Tunnel in the Middle of the Colombian Rainforest

30/03/2021

The La Paz tunnel is located in the La Paz mountain range in Lebrija, a municipality in the department of Santander (Colombia). This region has a warm climate with two annual periods of torrential ...

Crews prep boring machine for new sewage tunnel from Ballard to Wallingford

30/03/2021

“Sir Digs-A-Lot” is one of five finalists out of 1,200 community suggestions for the name of Seattle’s next big underground tunnel boring machine...

World's first ship tunnel to be built under Norwegian mountains

29/03/2021

(CNN) — Norway has got the go-ahead to construct what's being billed as the world's first ship tunnel, designed to help vessels navigate the treacherous Stadhavet Sea...

The Science of Tunnelling

29/03/2021

Cross River Rail will have 5.9 kilometres of twin tunnels running deep under Brisbane. Giant underground factories...

Thames Tideway completes 9th and final central London shaft

29/03/2021

Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke joint venture has just completed excavation of the ninth and final shaft of the central section of the super sewer project...

Major milestone reached on world's longest immersed tunnel

29/03/2021

Fugro delivered the ground investigation for Femern Link Contractors, a consortium formed by Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Per Aarsleff, Wayss ...

Bob Bell

29/03/2021

For his long and distinguished career in tunnelling, dedication to the BTS and commitment to developing young tunnel engineers...

World's first major ship tunnel project to take bids soon

26/03/2021

The tunnel, originally announced in 2017, will bore through just over a mile of the peninsula at its narrowest, southern end and allow ships to avoid the ...

Simultaneous pipejacking innovation to fast track London heat and power scheme

25/03/2021

Two Iseki 1200 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named after two deities – the Norse goddess Freya and the Greek goddess Artemis – will complete ...

Bids in for major Bulgarian road contract

25/03/2021

The scope of work in the project includes the construction of a 10.5km highway, plus five tunnels with a combined length of 4km. The longest of these ...

WSP USA Projects Win Nine 2020 ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards

25/03/2021

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recognized nine WSP USA projects for Engineering Excellence..

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