Works to assemble High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) 2.7km Greatworth ‘green tunnel’, the longest of its type for the project’s Phase 1, have commenced in West Northamptonshire.
A total of five green tunnels are to be constructed for this phase. They are being built using a ‘cut and cover’ process, which involves…
The TRU East Alliance, working together with Active Tunnelling, has completed three new drainage tunnels beneath the railway line at Ulleskelf Mires in North Yorkshire.
NCE sister title Ground Engineering reports that, as part of the work, three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) worked simultaneously side by side beneath the four track…
An Australian-Italian contractor duo has reached the halfway point of a 15km-long tunnel that represents New Zealand's biggest wastewater project and the country's longest bored tunnel.
Working on behalf of the region's water company Watercare, the joint venture formed by Rome-based Ghella and Sydney-headquartered Abergeldie hailed the milestone moment on the…
Opponents to the A303 Stonehenge tunnel project will today present a petition with 225,000 signatures from 147 countries to Unesco in Paris calling on the government to halt the project and for clarification from Unesco about what the project might mean for the site's World Heritage Site (WHS) status.
Presentation of…
Plans to construct a series of connecting tunnels linking the Shetland islands have advanced, with Shetland Islands Council having secured a summit with Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack.
The tunnels are part of Shetland Islands Council’s Shetland Short Crossings Project, devised to connect all the Shetlands’ main islands by…
A consortium led by Itinera and including Spie Batignolles and Ghella has been awarded the €1bn (£855M) contract for the excavation of the Mont Cenis base tunnel in Italy.
The twin bore Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, also known as the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, is the largest engineering work on the…
Swiss Federal Railways SBB has unveiled plans to renovate the double-track Hauenstein Base Tunnel, part of the Basel–Olten railway line, one of Switzerland’s leading rail routes for freight and passengers.
The 8km tunnel was built from 1912 to 1916 and crosses the Jura mountain range between Tecknau in the canton of…
Extensive repairs to the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy are set to go ahead from 4 September despite disruption caused by an extreme weather related rockfall in the area.
According to media outlets including Italy’s press agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) Valle d'Aosta Governor Renzo Testolin confirmed on…
HB Tunnelling has completed the construction of a 252m long tunnel that will form a section of a new trunk water main in Glasgow.
The tunnel, which has an internal diameter of 1.5m, was constructed between Broomloan road and the north side of Bellahouston Park in the suburb of Ibrox, south…
A consortium including Ghella and Acciona has been named as preferred bidder for tunnelling works on Suburban Rail Loop East (SRL East), part of Melbourne’s planned Suburban Rail Loop (SRL).
Suburban Connect, a consortium made up of Ghella, Acciona Construction and Australasian construction company CPB Contractors is expected to deliver SRL…
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