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Western branch of the Main Trunk Sewer in Doha South Sewage Infrastructure Project completed

08/01/2018

This is in addition to the construction of 11 shafts at a depth ranging from 20 to 40 metres, which will be used to excavate the main tunnel. To minimise the impact and space of construction works ...

Smarter asset management at the intersection of infrastructure and technology, London

06/01/2018

With increasing population density compounded by urban growth and modernisation in developing regions, the need for new infrastructure grows exponentially.

Work starting on Norway's mega-tunnel project

06/01/2018

Construction is now commencing on Norway's Rogfast tunnel mega-project on the E39 route between Bergen and Stavanger. The project will cost around €1.8 billion to construct according to some ...

Asia's longest tunnel in Kashmir gets green light

05/01/2018

Jammu and Kashmir's capital, Srinagar, and Leh, the state's Buddhist heartland, will be connected by an all-weather tunnel through Zojila, according to the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways ...

Crossrail 2 facing delays

04/01/2018

Crossrail 2 facing delays. 4 January 2018 London's Crossrail 2 project could see its timings slip as a result of the government's independent review of the scheme. To continue reading this story, ...

Arcadis has been commissioned by Beliris to supervise the expansion of the Brussels metro

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 ...

LA Metro nearly finished Regional Connector's twin tunnels

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 ...

Santiago modifies alignment for new metro line

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

More than half of adults don't know what civil engineers do, survey says

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 ...

Call-up for £7.3bn private finance road tunnels plan

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.

Cut-price nuclear power plant possible, says EDF

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 ...

Tideway plant deal for Balfour Beatty

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 ...

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