Tunnelling has begun on gas firm Cadent’s biggest civil engineering scheme, as part of a major £17.5M gas pipeline project in London.
A 330m long tunnel is being constructed 30m under the Thames, running from Royal Hospital Chelsea on the north bank to Battersea Park on the south. It will house…
The decision on whether to grant planning permission for the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel has been pushed back a month so that transport secretary Chris Grayling can consider air quality concerns.
A statement by transport minister Paul Maynard said: “This extension is to enable further consideration of the recent responses to the…
Environmental controversy surrounding the Silvertown Tunnel in east London is heating up as more campaign bodies and local councils hit out against the scheme.
In August environmental group Friends of the Earth called for the scheme to be scrapped, citing a disagreement with Transport for London (TfL) about air pollution modelling.…
The Department for Transport (DfT) has published plans for a realigned £1.6bn A303 Stonehenge road upgrade.
Plans for the A303 upgrade between Amesbury and Berwick Down went out to public consultation in January. They included proposals to dual the road, build a 2.9km dual carriageway tunnel beneath the Stonehenge World Heritage…
Fresh controversy has hit the Silvertown Tunnel scheme in east London after Friends of the Earth and Southwark Council called for the project to be reconsidered because of air quality concerns.
The latest blow has comes days after it was revealed that the Health & Safety Executive has major concerns about the…
A 10.6m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) in south west Germany is being encased in concrete to halt damage to an above ground rail line, caused by a collapse on an under construction tunnel.
The tunnel collapsed on 12 August when the TBM was passing 5m below the Rhine Valley rail…
A row between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Transport for London (TfL) over risks posed by a chemical site is threatening the Silvertown Tunnel scheme.
Transport secretary Chris Grayling will make a decision on whether to grant planning permission for the east London tunnel in October, but the HSE…
Sweden has just celebrated the completion of one of its most ambitious infrastructure projects.
The new 6km-long tunnelled City line, dubbed the Crossrail of Stockholm, runs between Tomteboda in the north and Stockholm South, doubling track capacity through the city centre. Until now, all rail traffic, including commuter, long distance, regional…
Imagine a piece of software that could help you choose the route of a new metro crossing a city as complex and constrained as London.
One that would tell you exactly which route to select to weigh the competing constraints, and find an optimum balance of construction and in-service operational efficiency.…
Officials in two major cities in the United States have disagreed with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s claim to have the go-ahead to build an underground hyperloop track between several US cities.
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk tweeted the news that he had a verbal agreement with the US government to build…
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