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Amtrak crews have kicked off the first long-term track outage in support of the $1.6bn East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project (ERT ...
National Grid is inviting communities in East Lindsey, Boston and South Holland in Lincolnshire, King’s Lynn, West Norfolk, and ...
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Interfaces in construction projects often introduce risk. And cross passages are, by definition, interfaces between main tunnels. “Challenges have increased where you have soft ground and the ...
Removing fossil fuels from sites is a must if countries – and companies – are serious about decreasing the carbon footprints of their activities. BEVs are already in use on the UK’s HS2 high-speed ...
Canada’s Ontario government has broken ground on the final tunnel section of the $4.7bn Eglinton Crosstown West Extension, marking another significant milestone in the province’s plan to deliver a new ...
Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announced the award of contracts for substructure and airside infrastructure works at Changi Airport’s Terminal 5 (T5). The substructure contract has been awarded to a ...
ITA-AITES Working Group 2 (WG2) – Research is developing a publication on damages of precast concrete segmental linings, with the intent being to better understand damage that occurs during tunnel ...
TERRATEC has installed four Continuously Advancing Tunnel Conveyors for Contract Package CP101 of the Metro Manila Subway Project – the Philippines’ first underground railway system. The ...
June 16 th saw the lowering of the 230-ton main shaft boring machine ‘Dream’ to the bottom of the foundation pit on an underground smart parking garage project in the Jing’an District, Shanghai. The ...
HS2’s TBM ‘Mary Ann’ has broken through today, marking the end of her mission to excavate the first bore of what will soon become the longest railway tunnel in the West Midlands. The 125m long, 8.62m ...
Major construction has kicked off on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL), with works full steam ahead to build a TBM launch site in Clarinda, where tunnelling will start next year. The TBMs will ...