London’s new £4.5bn super sewer, Thames Tideway, has completed all construction with the lifting of a 1,200t concrete lid to cap off the project’s deepest shaft.
The lifting of the 24m-wide lid at Abbey Mills Pumping Station marks the full completion of heavy civil engineering works for the project. Now this…
Construction of Northumberian Water’s new £155M, 57km water mains through the north east of England is gathering pace with the announcement of a road closure for pipelaying works to be conducted.
Working on behalf of Northumbrian Water, contractor Farrans started constructing the Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley, in November…
UK Power Networks has partnered with Barhale to build a micro-tunnel under the Grand Union Canal in West London to deliver power for High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnel boring machines (TBMs).
The tunnel will be used to carry power cables for HS2’s TBMs that are set to build the high-speed rail…
High Speed 2 (HS2) has celebrated the completion of tunnelling for its 16km twin-bore Chilterns tunnel as the second tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through on 21 March.
The TBM Cecilia, operated by HS2 main works contractor Align (Bouygues, McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick), follows the breakthrough of its twin TBM Florence in February.…
The Blackheath rail tunnel between Blackheath and Charlton in south east London will close for 10 weeks this summer as Network Rail conducts £10M worth of essential repairs.
From Saturday 1 June to Sunday 10 August inclusive, the Blackheath tunnel will close as Network Rail can conduct repairs to the 175-year-old…
A key member of the newly formed project team set to build the $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project has said how early designs and plans for the scheme are taking learnings from similar tunnelling projects that have taken place in London and the UK.
The two tunnels will be used by…
Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has launched the final tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the West Midlands leg of High Speed 2.
The contractor started 1,600-tonne Elizabeth on its mission to dig the second bore of the Bromford Tunnel for the rapid rail link. Named by local schoolchildren after activist Dame Elizabeth…
Construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark has hit a milestone with the completion of the first 100m, which accounts for the Danish portal.
Once completed in 2029, the 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn will be the world’s…
High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Chilterns tunnel boring machine (TBM) struggled through the final stretch of its 16km drive as slurry pipes became clogged with clay, officials told NCE.
The 2,000t TBM Florence, which is operated by HS2 main works contractor Align JV (Bouygues, McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick) concluded its two year and nine…
High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd and its main works contractor Align JV (Bouygues, McAlpine, VolkerFitzpatrick) celebrated the completion of the first bore of the 16km Chilterns tunnel today, 27 February.
The 2,000t tunnel boring machine (TBM) Florence, manufactured by Herrenknecht, set off on its journey from the south portal alongside the…
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