Engineering infrastructure specialist Dyer & Butler has been brought in to strengthen a tunnel which runs directly below the site of the new £337M Museum of London development.
The City of London Corporation has appointed Dyer & Butler, part of M Group Services, to strengthen the Snow Hill rail tunnel lids…
Construction of a tunnel or bridge across the Corran Narrows in West Lochaber, Scotland is viable in engineering, planning and economic terms, Highland Council has said.
A feasibility study completed by engineering consultant Stantec and jointly funded by regional transport partnership Hitrans, Highland Council and Highlands & Islands Enterprise has concluded that…
NCE is calling for tunnelling projects around the world to celebrate their achievements with the launch of its third annual Tunnelling Festival.
This year’s Tunnelling Festival will take place on 8 December in London and will feature a conference to share best practice and industry insight during the day and an…
Société du Grand Paris has awarded the contract worth €181M (£155M) for an operations centre on lines 16 and 17 of the Grand Paris Express project to a joint venture of Brezillon, Bouygues, Eiffage, Clevia and Statelec.
It has also awarded the €100M (£86M) deal for the first station on the two…
The NCE Tunnelling Festival Awards are back for 2020. Back for the third year, New Civil Engineer’s Tunnelling Festival Awards showcase and celebrate the projects, innovations and technologies that are driving the industry forward. The Festival provides a fantastic forum to gather the thought-leaders, decision-makers and young engineers from the…
National Grid has submitted a planning application to tunnel within the Snowdonia National Park.
The energy company wants to remove 3.5km of overhead power lines and bury them underground. To do so it is seeking to construct a 3.5km tunnel beneath the Dwyryd Estuary near the town of Penrhyndeudraeth. The project…
A Northern Ireland to Scotland tunnel could cost up to £16bn less than a bridge, according to the architect who first proposed plans for a crossing.
Alan Dunlop – of the Glasgow-based Alan Dunlop Architects – initially suggested a bridge across the Irish Sea in January 2018; plans which won the support…
Foundations work for the final part of the Nova development in Victoria, London is believed to have set a new depth record for piling in the capital following completion of a 79m deep pile.
Keltbray Piling completed work to bore the pile into the Thanet Sands yesterday as part of its…
Highways England has shortlisted three international joint ventures for the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge upgrade project.
They will negotiate with Highways England over the next six months and then submit tenders. The groups are as follows: BMJV, comprising Bouygues Travaux Publics and J Murphy & Sons; HDJV, (Hochtief Infrastructure and Dragados); and MORE…
History has been made – Sydney Metro is proud to claim – with completion of the first rail tunnels beneath Sydney Harbour in New South Wales, Australia, as a key part of a new metro project.
Breakthrough on the second bore of the tunnel for Sydney Metro City and Southwest project…
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