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Video: Sharjah-Khorfakan Road opens, to reduce travel time to 45min

15/04/2018

New tunnels to reduce Sharjah-Khor Fakkan travel time to 45 minutes. During the inauguration of the project, Dr Sheikh Sultan recounted the difficulties they faced in building the road. "There was ...

New high speed railway proposed to connect two London airports

15/04/2018

HS4Air (High Speed for Air) is a new high speed railway that connects the existing HS1 rail line to the planned HS2 railway along a route that passes via both Gatwick and Heathrow airports to the ...

Porr lands Austria's largest-ever tunnelling project

12/04/2018

The construction phase for lot H51 involves building two main tunnel tubes between Pfons and Brenner, around 9km of exploratory shafts, and the emergency stop and transfer point at St Jodok. The two ...

$1.65B underwater rail link between Newfoundland and Labrador can work, study finds

12/04/2018

The study recommended using a single-tunnel boring machine to drill from Yankee Point on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland to Point Amour in southern Labrador — a distance of about 16 ...

London Power Tunnels phase two

11/04/2018

The second phase of an ambitious project to ‘rewire London’ will get under way this month (April) with public information events on the London Power Tunnels 2 (LPT2) scheme. LPT2 is a £750 million ...

SoCal Water Agency Commits $10.8B to Construction of Massive Water Tunnels

11/04/2018

Southern California's biggest water agency voted Tuesday to shoulder most of the cost of replumbing the troubled center of the state's vast waterworks, committing nearly $11 billion to the ...

Finally, Melamchi tunnel breakthrough

10/04/2018

Melamchi project began in 1988 after formation of Melamchi Development Committee, which was supposed to undertake construction work of the water ... The construction of the 27.5 kilometres long ...

Ahead of MWD's vote on water tunnel project tomorrow, we re-debate the pros/cons

10/04/2018

The original project, which includes the construction of two water tunnels at a total cost of about $17 billion, suffered a setback from complaints of its extravagant price tag. After much back and ...

27 Awe-Inspiring Photos Of Average-Sized Humans Next To Huge Machines

10/04/2018

Keep scrolling to see some gargantuan machines made throughout history with the relatively tiny people who helped to build them. ... The picture shows the Marine Running Tunnel (South) Boring ...

SBI to invest Rs 80 bn in hydropower project of Nepal

09/04/2018

The State Bank of India (SBI) will be investing a total of Rs 80 billion in the Arun III hydropower project of Nepal, which has 900 megawatts (MW) ... power station is awarded to Patel Engineering ...

VTA board to vote Thursday on BART extension recommendations

06/04/2018

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority board of directors on Thursday evening will vote on whether to certify an environmental impact report for Phase II of the BART Silicon Valley project ...

Tunnel project now getting deep

05/04/2018

The pump station shaft is part of what will pump the water collected by the tunnel into the treatment plant, Short said. But for now, the 66-foot diameter hole serves a different purpose. It's what ...

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