One day last summer, just before 5am, thousands of people gathered at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS) to watch the sun rise behind the sacred Heel Stone.
The event on June 20 marked the Summer Solstice, when the sun rises behind the ancient stone monument at the site which some believe is criss crossed by…
Fehmarn Belt link developers, Femern, have inked technical consultanct services contracts with a Ramboll/Arup/TEC joint venture (JV).
The JV beat bids from CH2M Hill, Sweco and AF Infrastructure. The £5.6bn 18km Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link will connect the Danish island of Lolland with the German island of Fehmarn. It will be…
Contractors have finished a major tunnelling operation to divert a water main under London’s South Circular Road and around a river and two railway lines.
Thames Water described the project as like ”threading the eye of a needle”. The diversion was carried out to enable the building of 588 apartments by…
London’s Tube network is being extended for the first time in a decade.
There is always a lot of excitement surrounding the start of tunnel construction: the awesome sight of colossal tunnel boring machines (TBMs) being lowered deep underground. There is also the anticipation that, once rested and connected up, they…
The frontrunner to build the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel in East London failed to even make the shortlist, New Civil Engineer can reveal.
A Bouygues/Bam Nuttall joint venture was hotly tipped to win the project that demands very complex tunnelling in a confined urban area. It was thought that Bouygues’ experience in…
The Norwegian government has given the go-ahead to build the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel at a cost of £192M (NKr2bn).
The Stad Ship tunnel is now in the feasibility study phase, being run by the Norwegian Coastal Administration. The tunnel, which will be 37m high by 36m in diameter, will mean…
The £4.2bn Thames Tideway Tunnel could have been smaller and cost less claims a new report by public spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).
The report says that correcting inaccurate modelling predictions could have resulted in a ”smaller”, lower cost tunnel. However, the same report also acknowledges the government’s claim that…
Highways England has appointed Tim Jones as project director for the new £4bn Lower Thames Crossing tunnnel scheme.
Jones’ appointment comes at a critical time for the project as the government seeks pilot projects to be delivered via its new private finance mechanism – labelled PF2. In May he will leave…
Mike Unsworth must be congratulated for his intention to build a tidal lagoon power project in Swansea Bay once the expected contract for difference is agreed (New Civil Engineer, February). It is sad we could have led the world nearly 100 years ago as ICE member AMA Struben argued the…
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has reiterated plans to build a tunnel in Los Angeles, California to tackle traffic congestion, despite reports that he does not have planning permission.
Tesla chief executive Musk first announced his plans on Twitter in December. Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring…
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