04/01/2018
The monotube tunnel with a diameter of 9.8 m will be drilled with a tunnel boring machine. Technical department head Jens De Smet at Beliris explains that "due to the complexity of the project we ...
04/01/2018
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) in 2017 "nearly completed" mining twin tunnels for the Regional Connector light-rail project, ... The Regional Connect project ...
04/01/2018
PLANS for Santiago Metro’s future Line 7, announced in May 2017, were modified in December to relieve congestion on the parallel Line 1
04/01/2018
Two hundred years on from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) being founded, new research has found there to be a worrying lack of general awareness of what civil engineers do and an ...
03/01/2018
Highways England is calling up industry finance and construction experts to kick-start plans to privately finance its two biggest planned road tunnel schemes.
03/01/2018
These include the government taking a direct equity stake or adopting a regulated asset base model similar to that used for the Thames Tideway Tunnel, under which developers would receive income ...
19/12/2017
Balfour Beatty's Plant & Fleet Services business has been awarded a contract worth more than £2m to supply plant and site accommodation to the Balfour Beatty joint venture building the west section ...
19/12/2017
The first tunnel boring machine has been delivered to site and the first tunnel drive is expected to be launched in February 2018. While aborting the PDP model for MRT3 may be a slight setback for ...
13/12/2017
The construction of another dam 13 km upstream of Tsangmo which diverts the entire water inside the mountain suggests that its purpose may not just be hydropower generation. The purpose of this ...
13/12/2017
BERLIN (AP) — A fire alarm inside a railway tunnel being built under the Austrian Alps prompted workers briefly to take shelter in an underground safety area Monday, a project manager said. Eighteen ...
12/12/2017
Meet the female Crossrail engineers behind the biggest construction job in Europe
07/12/2017
The forward portion of tunnel boring machine Mom Chung is seen being assembled. A mining service vehicle enters TBM Mom Chung during southbound tunnel construction. A look inside the forward shield ...
