A 1.8m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) has arrived in Meadow Lane Portadown for use on a key £7.8M Northern Ireland Water wastewater network upgrade.
Northern Ireland Water (NI Water) is the sole provider of water and sewerage services in Northern Ireland. Its wastewater upgrade at Portadown in County Armagh, 40km…
New Zealand’s Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel project has become NZ$204M (£100M) more expensive to deliver due to inflation which has increased labour and material costs.
As reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the water company responsible for the Central Interceptor, Watercare, recently revised the project’s budget to NZ$1.523bn (£750M), up…
The southbound tube of Blackwall Tunnel will close for five weekends starting tomorrow, 13 January, so Riverlinx CJV can conduct drainage and gantry installation works for Silvertown Tunnel.
Riverlinx CJV is made up of Bam, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant and is contracted to build the 1.4km Silvertown road tunnel to link Silvertown in…
Viral videos showing members of the Hasidic Jewish community emerging from under a New York City synagogue and clashing with the New York Police Department (NYPD) have drawn concern from engineers and authorities.
Worshippers at the Brooklyn synagogue, known to be the World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, appear to have constructed…
Breakthrough has been made on the last 3m of Australia’s Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme’s transformer hall cavern ‘crown’ or ceiling.
When completed, the 223m long, 46m high transformer hall and 251m long, 52m high machine hall will jointly form one of the largest and deepest caverns in the world, big enough…
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen has kicked off 2024 by promising to build a new eastern crossing over the River Tees and reconstruct Teesside Airport train station using funds from the cancelled northern legs of HS2.
The idea of a new eastern crossing linking Hartlepool and Redcar is not a new…
Sinkholes, abandoned rail links and beavers all feature in New Civil Engineer’s Top 10 most read stories of 2023.
Thank you for reading. Environment Agency investigation continues as drone footage shows extent of HS2 Chiltern Tunnel sinkhole Link: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/environment-agency-investigation-continues-as-drone-footage-shows-extent-of-hs2-chiltern-tunnel-sinkhole-24-05-2023/ £298M plan drawn up to reinstate abandoned Yorkshire to Lancashire rail link…
The NSW Government's Sydney Metro West project has achieved two simultaneous TBM breakthroughs, marking the first “double breakthrough” in the southern hemisphere. As reported by GE, the work forms part of Sydney Metro West’s central tunnelling contract, which the Acciona and Ferrovial joint venture (AF JV) won in July 2021. It…
A consortium led by Eiffage has won a €2.54bn (£2.2bn) contract to design and build a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express.
Société du Grand Paris’ overall €35.6bn (£28bn) Grand Paris Express project will see 200km of new metro line to its public transport network. The…
NCE can reveal that 86 structures currently in use by National Highways on the UK’s Strategic Road Network are past modern design life standards of 120 years.
An exclusive Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by NCE has revealed the extent of structures that have passed modern design life standards. The…
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