Grand Paris Express project promoter Société du Grad Paris has announced that construction work on the new station at Châtillon-Montrouge has been completed after five years.
The new station will provide an interchange between Line 15 South and the existing Line 13 terminus at the station, as well as the T6…
Construction of the eastern section of the new Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) in Melbourne, Australia took a step closer to reality last week as the Victorian Government named a shortlist for the tunnelling work.
The announcement comes just weeks after Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office predicted that the cost for the whole…
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig London’s Silvertown Tunnel has begun its 1.4km journey.
The TBM has been launched by the Riverlinx CJV – a joint venture between Bam Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant. The TBM for the project is the largest diameter machine to be used in…
Adur and Worthing Council is actively considering plans for “the longest road tunnel in the UK” to help ease congestion on the A27.
The scheme was discussed by the council’s Joint Strategic Sub-Committee last night (6 September) and recommended for approval. It comes after Transport for the South East (TfSE) included…
Danish civil engineering monitoring specialist Worldsensing has launched an innovation that will allow monitors to be installed and activated as the tunnel lining is installed, improving safety and efficiency.
Currently, the tunnel excavation process has to be paused at intervals to allow monitors to be installed into the lining’s inner surface.…
Vejdirektoratet, the Danish Road Directorate, has chosen two companies to build a new road tunnel in Copenhagen.
Belgium company Besix is the lead contractor in a consortium formed with its Danish partner MT Højgaard Denmark. Together they will deliver the £296M (€346M) design & build contract. The "technically complex" contract includes…
The terms of Transport for London’s (TfL) £3.6bn funding deal with government have been released and come with conditions relating to Crossrail and Hammersmith Bridge.
Money ringfenced for major projects largely consists of completing jobs already started or largely finished; including the Northern Line Extension, Bank Station Capacity Upgrade and Barking…
Transport for London (TfL) has accepted the complex £3.6bn capital funding settlement from the Department for Transport (DfT) following long negotiations.
The DfT and TfL have been negotiating a long-term capital funding settlement for several months. Without one, TfL cannot plan for the long-term and its assets will fall further into…
Work on EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station reached a key milestone today with contractor Balfour Beatty lowering the last of six water intake tunnel head structures into position in the Bristol Channel.
The final 5,000t concrete structure was positioned in 25m water depth using two floating cranes each with…
The Victorian state government in Australia has defended plans to build a new 90km long rail route around the Melbourne region after a parliamentary financial watchdog warned that the costs had doubled to AUS$125bn (£73bn).
Analysis from Victoria’s Parliamentary Budget Office on what was already Victoria’s biggest ever infrastructure project before…
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