Tunnelling has begun for a new southbound Northern line tunnel as part of Transport for London’s £607M Bank station capacity upgrade.
Bank is Transport for London’s biggest Tube station, serving around 100,000 people over three peak hours each morning. Measures to regulate the flow of passengers, 40% of which change trains…
Pressure is building for a feasibility study to be carried out for a proposed fixed link tunnel connecting the Isle of Wight to the mainland.
Under the proposal a twin bored tunnel would connect the Isle of Wight and the mainland over an 11km long dual carrigeway. It would also incorporate…
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed he is ready to start construction of a road tunnel under Los Angeles after sharing pictures and videos of his tunnel boring machine (TBM) on social media.
The TBM, named Godot, appears to be complete in a video showing the cutterhead in operation, although Musk…
Robotics make inspecting and replacing cutter discs on tunnel boring machines safer and faster.
Robotics are finding a real application in tunnelling projects, where there are real, tangible safety benefits in putting robots instead of humans in high-risk places. Nowhere is this being better demonstrated than in Hong Kong on the…
An engineering professor has dismissed as unrealistic tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s futuristic vision of underground traffic tunnels.
Musk, chief executive of several hi-tech companies including Tesla and SpaceX, recently gave a TED talk on his plans to tunnel under Los Angeles to alleviate traffic pressures in the city, which he described…
Scottish Water’s £100M Shieldhall Tunnel project has reached its halfway mark under Glasgow’s Pollok Park.
This week the full circle concrete rings which will form the 5km tunnel, which will be Scotland’s longest, were installed at 2.5km along the route. Construction using a 180m long TBM started last July and will…
A site in east London has broken the record for the UK’s most heavily loaded pile.
The pile was one of two which were being tested on the site of the prospective Spire skyscraper in Canary Wharf in London. Using a maintained load static pile testing method, the load on the…
Skanska has won a £31M contract to build a power plant in Norway, which includes a 7km tunnel through a mountain.
Some of the construction sites can only be reached by helicopter and work involves drilling of shafts, blasting for the power plant and concrete work in the power station. The…
The firm delivering London’s super sewer, better known as the Thames Tideway tunnel, is not an organisition to shy away from ambitious targets.
It is trying to deliver the £4.2bn tunnel two years ahead of target, while marrying state-of-the art engineering with a complex system of Victorian sewers. So it is no surprise that…
The government is considering imposing tolls on motorists or seeking cash input from a developer to fund the construction of the £6.2bn Lower Thames Crossing.
Highways England said it has been scoping the market’s appetite for private investment in the project. A spokesman said: “Ultimately the funding route will be a…
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