Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.
NCE is inviting women engineers to put themselves forward to join…
An underground through station for High Speed 2 (HS2) and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) services at Manchester Piccadilly would be high risk but faster and more affordable than the Department for Transport’s (DfT) assumptions, according to a tunnelling expert.
A group of local authorities from Greater Manchester, banded together under the…
Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development has formalised a partnership with Aecom to undertake infrastructure reconstruction following damage caused by the invasion of Russia.
Under the agreement, Aecom will provide programme management and technical advisory services for the infrastructure rebuild in the Ukraine. Earlier this month, industry experts told NCE…
The Spanish government has pledged £2M (€2.3M) towards a design study for revived plans to connect Europe to Morocco’s high speed rail network with a tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Proposals for the “Europe-Africa Gibraltar Strait fixed link” were mothballed in 2009 but revived in April of this year when…
Tunnelling on the Snowy 2.0 hydroelectricity megaproject in Australia is poised to restart by the end of July, pending approval of programme modifications.
Snowy 2.0 is being constructed for project promoter Snowy Hydro by the Future Generation (FGJV) joint venture between Webuild, Australian firm Clough and an American subsidiary of Webuild…
Excavated material from High Speed 2’s (HS2) newly started Bromford Tunnel in Birmingham will be reused to build embankments at the nearby Delta Junction, a triangular section of railway where the HS2 route curves west towards Birmingham and runs north towards Crewe and beyond.
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) to work…
The first shaft on the eastern section of London’s new super sewer - the Thames Tideway Tunnel - has been capped off marking a milestone for the £4.5bn project.
Tideway announced the completion of the concrete cover slab at King Edward Memorial Park (Kemp) foreshore site yesterday by its joint venture…
A supplier of low carbon hydrogen is being sought by National Highways to provide roughly 6,200t of the energy source over five years for the delivery of the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).
LTC, to which the government has already committed £800M including almost £300M on the development consent order application…
Risk of ground collapses above the planned A303 Stonehenge Tunnel have been raised following formation of a “sinkhole” above High Speed 2’s (HS2's) Chiltern tunnels in May.
Hydrogeological specialist George Reeves is part of campaign group the Stonehenge Alliance, which opposes National Highways' £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme past…
The Severn Tunnel will be closed for 10 days from today so Network Rail engineers can renew 3.2km of new track on the South Gloucestershire side of the tunnel.
In 2022, 3km of track was renewed on the Monmouthshire of the tunnel but now Network Rail will close the tunnel from…
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