A third “giant” tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been launched by High Speed 2 (HS2) contractor Skanska Costain Strabag (SCS JV) from its Victoria Road Crossover Box near Old Oak Common in London.
The 1,700t TBM named Emily is an earth pressure balance machine and is designed specifically for the soft…
The opening of Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Silvertown Tunnel has been brought forward to early 2025 while work on the cut-and-cover sections and road realignment works have hit full steam.
Documents from the February 28 meeting of TfL’s Programmes and Investments Committee reveal that the permit-to-use date of the 1.4km tunnel…
Campaigners’ case against the government’s decision to green light the £1.7bn Stonhenge Tunnel has been quashed by a High Court judge.
The £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade, which includes a 3.3km tunnel beneath the Unesco World Heritage Site as part of the 12.8km dualling project, was granted a development…
A new video has detailed how the 73,000t concrete elements that will form the 18km immersed tube Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be precisely assembled to mm precision on the seabed between Germany and Denmark.
Once completed in 2029, the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island…
Two more sinkholes have opened up within five days of each other along the route of tunnelling for High Speed 2’s (HS2's) Chiltern tunnels.
The two sinkholes have appeared in a field adjacent to Frith Hill on the outskirts of South Heath, Buckinghamshire. HS2’s working assumption is that a combination of…
Sewage will be diverted from the River Thames in increasingly large proportions from summer 2024 as London’s super sewer Thames Tideway Tunnel starts the process of commissioning.
When the £4.5bn project is completed, it is projected to divert 95% of the sewage pollution that currently spills directly into the River Thames.…
Tunnelling for the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) will use the latest tunnelling technologies to overcome site, geological, water pressure and other constraints, the project’s tunnels technical director Keith Bowers told NCE.
At the end of last year, National Highways awarded the £1.34bn Tunnels and Approaches contract for the LTC scheme…
Ageing tunnels in America, coupled with the country’s continued growth, have created an extremely high demand for attention. The imminent repair and replacement will result in significant growth in the tunnel construction market in North America over the next several years.
Thousands of tunnels are in dire need of attention…
As the government deliberates over the development consent order for the proposed £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), NCE was invited to spend an afternoon in the Dartford Crossing control centre to see why this project is so vital.
The LTC project will see 4.2km twin road tunnels, the longest road tunnels…
The completion of an 853m logistics tunnel at the High Speed 2 (HS2) Old Oak Common station construction site has sent a “big message” to government to give the go ahead for tunnelling to Euston, according to HS2 project managers.
An 847t tunnel boring machine (TBM) called Lydia broke through yesterday, 23 January,…
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