The business case for a shorter Trans-Pennine tunnel will be taken to the transport secretary in the summer next year.
Speaking at the CECA conference in London, Highways England network planning director Jeremy Bloom said that the new plans were currently being drawn up in preparation to submit the new case…
Elon Musk’s tunnel firm has dropped plans to build a second test tunnel in California, with the engineering billionaire saying it is now moving forward with a larger tunnel network under Los Angeles.
Musk’s firm, called The Boring Company, had planned to bore a second test tunnel under Sepulveda Boulevard. The…
The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) will be future-proofed along the new 23km route with over 600 charging points and full data coverage to support the roll out of electric and autonomous vehicles.
Speaking at a Westminster Forum on the delivery of major infrastructure, LTC development director David Manning said Highways England…
The National Planning Inspectorate has said the £1.6bn Stonehenge Tunnel can be considered for a Development Consent Order (DCO).
The application was submitted in October. The project will now go through a four-stage process to determine whether it will get planning permission. The first stage which is pre-examination usually takes around…
The deadly fire currently raging through California has caused unprecedented damage, but what can engineers do to reduce the risk of future fires?
On the morning of November 8, a fire broke out on Camp Creek Road, Butte County, Northern California. Just four days later Camp Fire had killed 42 people,…
Strabag’s contract with Sirius Minerals has been extended to cover the entire 37km mineral transport system under the Yorkshire Moors for a new £1.5bn polyhalite mine.
Sirius Minerals has announced an extension to its agreements with Austrian contractor Strabag for works at the new Woodsmith mine in Yorkshire. The amended agreement means Strabag will be responsible for the procurement, engineering, and construction of the fit-out of the mine’s…
The new £4.2bn potash mine in the North York Moors is using a raft of new technologies to excavate its two 1.5km deep shafts and 37km of tunnels.
These include the UK’s first use of an innovative vertical shaft sinking machine (VSM) and the longest ever conveyor belt. The project will…
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has been urged to investigate planned repairs to the disused Queensbury Tunnel in West Yorkshire.
Campaign group Queensbury Tunnel Society has urged the HSE to investigate the plans, claiming that workers are being exposed to “wholly unnecessary risks”. Highways England looks after the tunnel on…
Detailed plans for the proposed £1.6bn, 2.9km long, tunnel which will take traffic away from the A303 close the Stonehenge World Heritage Site (WHS) have been released. The scheme now awaits a decision on its development consent order (DCO) application.
More than 300 documents have been logged as part of the application submitted…
The start of tunnelling on “London’s super sewer” has been moved until next month, New Civil Engineer can reveal.
With two tunnel boring machines lowered into position in June, New Civil Engineer understands that tunnelling on Tideway’s central section was scheduled for an October start. Two senior sources had previously indicated…
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