20/04/2018
Tunnel boring machines often have a female name, a tradition that began when miners prayed to the patron saint of mines, Barbara, to protect them as they worked underground. The naming of the ...
19/04/2018
From the 26,000 concrete rings used to build the tube tunnels to the 50,000 cu m to create a typical station, it has been the backbone of this scheme. And it has given contractors an opportunity to ...
19/04/2018
A massive downtown tunnel project intended to keep sewage overflows from spilling into the Ottawa River is running roughly six months behind schedule, the City of Ottawa says. Construction on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
