An innovative tunnel is being constructed by Essex & Suffolk Water in a £20M project to deliver a 20km pipeline beneath the River Blackwater and Langford Cut in Essex.
Essex & Suffolk Water’s new pipeline, which will run between Layer-de-la-Haye and Langford, in Hertfordshire, will help make water supplies to customers…
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£37.6M contract awarded on Hudson Tunnel mega-project
New Jersey firm Conti Civil is to deliver the state's first works on the $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project.
The contractor was awarded the construction package for a job building a road bridge and moving utilities at Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen. This forms one of the first jobs on the…
EKFB begins assembly of HS2’s longest ‘green tunnel’
Works to assemble High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) 2.7km Greatworth ‘green tunnel’, the longest of its type for the project’s Phase 1, have commenced in West Northamptonshire.
A total of five green tunnels are to be constructed for this phase. They are being built using a ‘cut and cover’ process, which involves…
Trio of drainage tunnels completed on Transpennine Route Upgrade
The TRU East Alliance, working together with Active Tunnelling, has completed three new drainage tunnels beneath the railway line at Ulleskelf Mires in North Yorkshire.
NCE sister title Ground Engineering reports that, as part of the work, three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) worked simultaneously side by side beneath the four track…
Tunnelling reaches halfway on Auckland’s 15km super sewer project
An Australian-Italian contractor duo has reached the halfway point of a 15km-long tunnel that represents New Zealand's biggest wastewater project and the country's longest bored tunnel.
Working on behalf of the region's water company Watercare, the joint venture formed by Rome-based Ghella and Sydney-headquartered Abergeldie hailed the milestone moment on the…
Stonehenge campaigners take case against tunnel scheme to Unesco in Paris over World Heritage status delisting concern
Opponents to the A303 Stonehenge tunnel project will today present a petition with 225,000 signatures from 147 countries to Unesco in Paris calling on the government to halt the project and for clarification from Unesco about what the project might mean for the site's World Heritage Site (WHS) status.
Presentation of…
Shetland Islands’ undersea tunnels closer to reality as council secures ‘summit’ on transport connectivity
Plans to construct a series of connecting tunnels linking the Shetland islands have advanced, with Shetland Islands Council having secured a summit with Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack.
The tunnels are part of Shetland Islands Council’s Shetland Short Crossings Project, devised to connect all the Shetlands’ main islands by…
£855M contract awarded to drive final section of tunnel on Turin to Lyon rail line
A consortium led by Itinera and including Spie Batignolles and Ghella has been awarded the €1bn (£855M) contract for the excavation of the Mont Cenis base tunnel in Italy.
The twin bore Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, also known as the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, is the largest engineering work on the…
Swiss rail operator to overhaul Jura mountains’ Hauenstein Base Tunnel
Swiss Federal Railways SBB has unveiled plans to renovate the double-track Hauenstein Base Tunnel, part of the Basel–Olten railway line, one of Switzerland’s leading rail routes for freight and passengers.
The 8km tunnel was built from 1912 to 1916 and crosses the Jura mountain range between Tecknau in the canton of…
‘Deep renovation’ of Mont Blanc tunnel to go ahead despite ‘very significant’ rockfall
Extensive repairs to the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy are set to go ahead from 4 September despite disruption caused by an extreme weather related rockfall in the area.
According to media outlets including Italy’s press agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) Valle d'Aosta Governor Renzo Testolin confirmed on…