Construction of a 5km replacement gas tunnel under the River Humber was completed last year and now, in the penultimate stage of the project, the last piece of pipeline has been floated into the tunnel.
National Grid working with joint venture of Skanska, A Hak and Porr, completed the 3.65m diameter…
Queensbury Tunnel could soon form part of a new “greenway” transport link connecting Halifax and Bradford, after the Department for Transport (DfT) announced funding for to build a business case for its redevelopment.
The disused tunnel, which extends for 2.2km between Bradford and Halifax, has been the focus of a long…
Tunnelling start-up The Boring Company is challenging teams from across the world to come up with tunnelling solutions and answer the question: “Can you beat the snail?”.
The Boring Company is gauging interest from anyone who has an interest in tunnelling including students, companies and hobbyists, to design, build, and race their…
Construction of a key connection tunnel on London’s Tideway super sewer project was completed last week with breakthrough of the tunnel boring machine (TBM), named Charlotte.
The latest milestone comes just a week after the project revealed it could be three months behind schedule and up to £900M over budget. The…
NCE has announced that the deadline for the 2020 Tunnelling Awards has been pushed back by 10 weeks to give clients, contractors and consultants delivering world-class scheme more time to enter.
The challenges of working through the Covid-19 pandemic and demand to keep project programmes on track have led to the…
Clients, contractors and consultants delivering world-class tunnelling work have until the end of this week to ensure their work is recognised at this year’s Tunnelling Festival.
The deadline for entering the awards is 26 June and NCE has lined up a whole host of industry experts to judge the entries ahead…
Innovative engineering is enabling a new mine to be developed in the environmentally sensitive North Yorkshire Moors.
Industrial heritage from mineral and metal extraction is common in national parks, and work is underway near Scarborough to bring a new generation of mining to North Yorkshire. The work is shielded by trees…
A High Court judge has dismissed a resident’s application for a judicial review of High Speed 2’s (HS2) Three Tunnels design at Euston.
Mr Justice Jay ruled that the scheme could be constructed safely and that the “Three Tunnels design would not impose a ‘disproportionate or excessive burden’ on the Claimant”…
The cost of preparatory works for the abandonment of a disused railway tunnel in West Yorkshire has passed the £4M mark, more than seven times the original estimate.
Costs associated with the Queensbury Tunnel continue to rise, with Highways England footing the bill. The latest costs accrued relate to spray concrete…
Manufacturing of the first two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be launched on High Speed 2 (HS2) is progressing well at Herrenknecht’s factory in Germany, HS2 Ltd has said.
The TBMs, which are due to be delivered to the Align joint venture this autumn, will be the first multi-mode machines used…
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