A decision is expected today as to whether the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) will invest £13.6M into a full business case analysis on a proposed underground railway network for Bristol.
The decision comes as the mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees has defended a £7bn price tag for the proposed…
Proposals for a £500M series of tunnels or "fixed links" between the Shetland Isles will never pay for themselves, a tunnelling expert has told NCE.
Authorities on the Shetland Isles gave the green light to the formation of outline and strategic business cases for new links between the Islands this week,…
The United States government has recommended funding for 11 major rail infrastructure projects to receive a portion of £3.7bn (US$4.45bn) funding for transit schemes in 2024.
United States president Joe Biden and his transport secretary Pete Buttgieg have recommended the projects to receive federal support in Biden's fiscal year 2024 budget…
Testing of a new approach to tunnelling has moved a step closer after the firm leading the work has secured £25,000 in funding for feasibility studies.
The grant gained by hyperTunnel, which aims to deliver tunnelling 10 times faster than conventional techniques, is one of 24 extended by the new Global…
Engineers are to replace more than 1.5km of track running through a Victorian tunnel in Staffordshire this month.
Network Rail's in-house works delivery team will upgrade infrastructure within Meir railway tunnel under a £2M project. The line will close between Uttoxeter and Stoke-on-Trent for seven days from Sunday (5 March) so…
Along with correctly designing new structures, rehabilitating and upgrading infrastructure is going to become increasingly important as the civil engineering industry looks to extend the lifespan of existing assets and cut carbon by optimising new construction.
Getting the design right on new builds can be challenging but what technical issues does…
Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the contractor working on building the Silvertown Tunnel has completed the drive for the first bore with the tunnel boring machine (TBM) breaking through in Greenwich.
The news comes just a day after the meeting papers for TfL’s next Programmes and Investment Committee meeting…
A paper detailing five reform areas for the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) planning process has been released by the government.
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities paper outlines issues facing the system for progressing major infrastructure projects from initial idea right through to delivery. Five key areas are…
Transport for London (TfL) has reported that while good progress has been made on the 1.4km Thames tunnel, its capital costs on the project are now running £13M over budget. This is an additional £1M since the last update in December, according to meeting papers released ahead of TfL’s next…
Tunnelling in Ruislip for High Speed 2 (HS2) stopped for two hours over the weekend as bubbling foam escaped at ground level through a pre-existing borehole.
The incident occurred on Saturday 18 February. Investigations are ongoing but Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture's (SCS JV) work has resumed after pausing as a…
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