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FAST Consortium wins Global tunnelling team of the year 2016 Back for their eighth year, 2017’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever. The awards showcase the very best tunnelling expertise and is now firmly established in London…
Transport for London (TfL) is to use a ”confidential dialogue” process on its procurement of the complex Silvertown Tunnel project.
As part of the process to select the preferred bidder, TfL is to hold a confidential dialogue with each of the bidders over the next six months. During the process, the…
The NCE100 Technical Excellence award is proof that innovation thrives in the industry
Winner | Davies Maguire’s rising factory 15 64 rising factory png copy The Davies Maguire team described and illustrated how its Rising Factory could enable a multi-storey building to be constructed at the rate of a floor a…
World heritage body Unesco has expressed concern over the impact plans for the 2.9km long Stonehenge tunnel would have on the site.
The body said the new tunnel and associated 2.2km of dual carriageway approach roads could ‘adversely’ affect the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the property. In a report submitted…
New Zealand’s £790M Waterview highways project will open next month following five years of construction, marking the end of the country’s largest ever road project.
The Waterview Connection scheme consists of 4.8km of six-lane highway, with more than half running through two underground tunnels. Road tunnels are not common in New Zealand,…
Engineers in Sweden are putting the finishing touches to the new £1.51bn (Kr16.8bn) underground City Line in Stockholm, one of the country’s most ambitious infrastructure project to date.
The new 6km long, tunnelled line between Tomteboda and Stockholm South, will open on July 10, doubling track capacity through the congested city centre.…
Hong Kong government is carrying out non-destructive testing on the massive Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge after arrests were made in connection with allegations that concrete cube test results had been falsified.
On Tuesday, Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested two senior executives and 19 staff members from a contractor working for…
Digital mapping has located and recorded an array of World War 1 practice trenches and tunnels on a Ministry of Defence (MoD) construction site in the south of England.
The area in Larkhill on the MoD’s Salisbury Plain training area is being prepared for a housing development for returning service personnel.…
Tunnelling has begun for a new southbound Northern line tunnel as part of Transport for London’s £607M Bank station capacity upgrade.
Bank is Transport for London’s biggest Tube station, serving around 100,000 people over three peak hours each morning. Measures to regulate the flow of passengers, 40% of which change trains…
Pressure is building for a feasibility study to be carried out for a proposed fixed link tunnel connecting the Isle of Wight to the mainland.
Under the proposal a twin bored tunnel would connect the Isle of Wight and the mainland over an 11km long dual carrigeway. It would also incorporate…
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