Imagine a piece of software that could help you choose the route of a new metro crossing a city as complex and constrained as London.
One that would tell you exactly which route to select to weigh the competing constraints, and find an optimum balance of construction and in-service operational efficiency.…
Officials in two major cities in the United States have disagreed with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s claim to have the go-ahead to build an underground hyperloop track between several US cities.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk tweeted the news that he had a verbal agreement with the US government to build…
Today is deadline day for New Civil Engineer’s hugely popular Tunnelling Awards.
FAST Consortium wins Global tunnelling team of the year 2016 Back for their eighth year, 2017’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever. The awards showcase the very best tunnelling expertise and is now firmly established in London…
Transport for London (TfL) is to use a ”confidential dialogue” process on its procurement of the complex Silvertown Tunnel project.
As part of the process to select the preferred bidder, TfL is to hold a confidential dialogue with each of the bidders over the next six months. During the process, the…
The NCE100 Technical Excellence award is proof that innovation thrives in the industry
Winner | Davies Maguire’s rising factory 15 64 rising factory png copy The Davies Maguire team described and illustrated how its Rising Factory could enable a multi-storey building to be constructed at the rate of a floor a…
World heritage body Unesco has expressed concern over the impact plans for the 2.9km long Stonehenge tunnel would have on the site.
The body said the new tunnel and associated 2.2km of dual carriageway approach roads could ‘adversely’ affect the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the property. In a report submitted…
New Zealand’s £790M Waterview highways project will open next month following five years of construction, marking the end of the country’s largest ever road project.
The Waterview Connection scheme consists of 4.8km of six-lane highway, with more than half running through two underground tunnels. Road tunnels are not common in New Zealand,…
Engineers in Sweden are putting the finishing touches to the new £1.51bn (Kr16.8bn) underground City Line in Stockholm, one of the country’s most ambitious infrastructure project to date.
The new 6km long, tunnelled line between Tomteboda and Stockholm South, will open on July 10, doubling track capacity through the congested city centre.…
Hong Kong government is carrying out non-destructive testing on the massive Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge after arrests were made in connection with allegations that concrete cube test results had been falsified.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested two senior executives and 19 staff members from a contractor working for…
Digital mapping has located and recorded an array of World War 1 practice trenches and tunnels on a Ministry of Defence (MoD) construction site in the south of England.
The area in Larkhill on the MoD’s Salisbury Plain training area is being prepared for a housing development for returning service personnel.…
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