09/02/2018
Six tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are being used to construct London's £4bn supersewer by three teams of contractors. At 25km long, up to 66 metres deep and more than seven metres in diameter, the ...
09/02/2018
The service tunnel would be constructed first and would be used to gauge the geological conditions for the main bores. Funded by a €1m grant from the EU, the report envisages splitting the project ...
08/02/2018
“Mary”, a 510-tonne, 160m tunnel boring- machine, has started its year-long crossing under the River Humber from Goxhill at a cost of £100m. ... A National Grid spokeswoman said: “The tunnelling ...
08/02/2018
But in the face of funding shortfalls, state Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth announced Wednesday the agency plans to pursue a staged construction approach, building only one ...
08/02/2018
Results of the study show that the region's direct profits from the tunnel, consisting primarily of time saved converted into money, would total more than €5 billion; indirect effects would bring in ...
08/02/2018
Driving work has commenced for Colombia's Toyo Tunnel project. The tunnel will measure 9.8km long and is located in Colombia's Antioquia Department, with the completion expected in 2022. The project ...
08/02/2018
The site has been used for tunnelling the new Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) tunnelling in the borough of Newham, near Canning Town tube station, but is no longer needed. It was Crossrail's primary work ...
08/02/2018
In April, tunnel boring machines (TBMs) began working on the most challenging part of the project -tunneling below River Hooghly to connect Howrah with Kolkata. Even before the TBMs reached the ...
07/02/2018
“We discovered that once you start to look at tunnelling a bit of it, the incremental costs of tunnelling that bit more isn't that much higher because most of the cost is sunk in to the tunnel ...
06/02/2018
The Chinese have made the world's largest high-altitude tunnel and have named it Zhegushan Tunnel. It measures a whopping 8700 meters and lies at an altitude of 3,200 meters. The tunnel has cut down ...
01/02/2018
Construction has begun on the $6.7 billion West Gate Tunnel, despite key planning approvals and legislation not having passed Parliament. Workers started clearing the site and excavating on ...
29/01/2018
A large U-shaped tunneling shield completed excavation of a railway tunnel in northwest China's Shaanxi Province Friday.
