Transport for London (TfL) has revealed CGI images of a new walking and cycling bridge which will be installed over the Backwall Tunnel Approach Road.
The bridge is being built as part of the Silvertown Tunnel project, and images have been released by the Riverlinx consortium alongside a new virtual public…
The New Zealand government has granted a last-minute reprieve to the country’s biggest construction project amid fears that the latest Covid-19 lockdown would cause prohibitive cost increases.
Business ministers gave permission for tunnel boring to continue on the NZ$4.4bn (£2.3bn) City Rail link scheme in Auckland through the strict week-long restrictions…
Work on New Zealand’s largest construction project has shut down after one positive case was identified in the country.
The NZ$4.4bn (£2.3bn) project to build a 3.45km twin-tunnel rail link, which will run up to 42m below the city centre to connect Britomart Station and Mount Eden Station. The scheme is due…
A tunnelling boring machine (TBM), named Timmy the Tunneller, has arrived in Belfast for use on a major £7M flood alleviation project.
Once complete in early 2023, the project in the Ravenhill area of south Belfast will reduce the risk of sewers overflowing. The machine, which is over 2m in diameter…
Transport secretary Grant Shapps must “re-determine” his decision on Highways England’s planning application for the Stonehenge Tunnel after a High Court judge ruled his original decision to approve the scheme as “unlawful”.
A statement released by the Planning Inspectorate adds that the original planning approval has been “quashed” following the High…
Costs on Melbourne’s West Gate Tunnel road project have increased by almost 50% from a contracted cost of AUD6.7bn (£3.55bn) before tunnelling has started on the scheme as a result of ground contamination issues.
Toll road operator Transurban, which has partnered with the Victorian Government to deliver the motorway tunnel between…
Tunnelling work on a key connection tunnel into London’s super sewer tunnel is progressing well, according to Tideway.
Joint venture contractor CVB, formed by Costain, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche, has successfully drive 1km of the 4.5km Greenwich Connection Tunnel. The tunnel will connect Greenwich Pumping Station to the…
Anglo American has said that work on its Woodsmith polyhalite mine, which will produce an efficient new fertiliser, in North Yorkshire is ramping up with the workforce growing by 30% this year.
However, the detail around the progress of the tunnel being constructed by Strabag that will connect the mine to…
Bachy Soletanche Singapore and Balfour Beatty subsidiary Cammon Construction has been awarded the S$664M (£345M) contract to design and build and extension to Ang Mo Kio metro station and tunnels in Singapore.
Under the deal with Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA), the joint venture will construct a new 300m long underground…
Contractor Kolin Construction working on the Eşme-Salihli Railway Tunnel in Turkey set new world records for advances in one day, a week and a month in May (for a 13m-14m diameter machine in mixed ground) and then broke those records again a month later.
The project is using a second-hand Robbins…
New Civil Engineer Civil engineering and construction news and jobs from New Civil Engineer