High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor BBV (Balfour Beatty Vinci) has launched its tunnel boring machine (TBM) Dorothy for a second drive beneath Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire.
The TBM – named after Nobel Prize winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin – was first launched in December 2021 and became the first…
Construction work on Transport for London’s (TfL) Silvertown Tunnel in east London has reached a major milestone this week as the drive on the first 1.1km long bore reaches the navigation channel under the River Thames.
The drive on the new road tunnel has now reached 280m with an advance rate…
National Highways has revealed its updated plans for the proposed Lower Thames Crossing, after resubmitting the development consent order (DCO) application for the project earlier this month.
The initial plans were pulled in November 2020, with the Planning Inspectorate asking for more information in relation to construction plans and environmental mitigations.…
Travel times between the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Bandung are expected to be slashed from three to five hours to just 36 minutes as a new high speed rail link started test operations yesterday.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo laid down a challenge for the project team on the 143km long…
Femern A/S, the company delivering the Fehmarnbelt rail and road tunnel between Germany and Denmark, has put contractors on alert for its €200M (£176M) track and catenary systems contract.
The 18km Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel and the world’s longest underwater road and rail tunnel when complete.…
Civils contractors have warned that the UK’s infrastructure sector is being hampered by a lack of skilled workers, adding that the number of firms reporting difficulties in labour supply has reached record highs.
The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA)’s Workload Trends Survey for the third quarter of 2022 found that while…
National Highways is using cosmic ray technology to inspect a 126-year-old railway tunnel in Glasgow.
By using a novel process called muon imaging, which harnesses cosmic rays to create x-ray like images, National Highways is hoping to uncover defects and voids within the Balgray Tunnel without having to be in physical…
This month's NCE News Wrap is out now, bringing you recent key stories in a quick five-minute roundup.
In November's News Wrap video, NCE takes a look at the latest HS2 and Crossrail developments, along with the news that the creation of Great British Railways has been delayed. In Crossrail news,…
Transport for the South East’s (TfSE) proposals for the longest road tunnel in the UK have been branded "too distant a prospect" by Adur and Worthing Council.
A number of key players have responded to TfSE’s Strategic Investment Plans to air their concerns for the plans to divert the A27 away…
The Dartford Crossing east tunnel will close overnight on seven different occasions over the next eight days for essential maintenance.
Connect Plus, National Highways' maintenance contractor for the M25 and Dartford Crossing, will start its work tonight, Thursday 3 November, which will see the tunnel close from 8.30pm until 5.30am tomorrow…
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