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Frelinghuysen fumes at opposition to Gateway tunnel project

18/04/2018

The $30 billion Gateway tunnel project is too important to postpone and will be built, regardless of any opposition from federal officials, including President Donald Trump, Rep. Rodney ...

New Anacostia Tunnel Prevented 170 Million Gallons Of Sewer Overflow Into The River

18/04/2018

Even with the new capacity, Monday's storm filled the tunnel, causing between 10 and 20 million gallons to overflow into the Anacostia. That's about 10 percent of what would have spilled into the ...

Perth Airport link tunnelling work resumes after two-month hiatus

18/04/2018

West Australian transport authorities have declared the problems that saw the Forrestfield-Airport Link tunnelling ground to a halt resolved, with work resuming this morning. The Public Transport ...

Report outlines urgent need to attract Irish construction workers

18/04/2018

The Construction Industry Federation says there is an urgent need for the industry to attract more talent. It comes after a new report by the Central Bank shows that one in every two workers who ...

Elon Musk just poured more than $100 million into The Boring Company

17/04/2018

The Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunnel-digging company, has raised $112.5 million in a recent round of funding, according to an SEC filing the ... In March, Musk said the company would sell ...

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 ...

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