Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has revealed he is ready to start construction of a road tunnel under Los Angeles after sharing pictures and videos of his tunnel boring machine (TBM) on social media.
The TBM, named Godot, appears to be complete in a video showing the cutterhead in operation, although Musk…
Robotics make inspecting and replacing cutter discs on tunnel boring machines safer and faster.
Robotics are finding a real application in tunnelling projects, where there are real, tangible safety benefits in putting robots instead of humans in high-risk places. Nowhere is this being better demonstrated than in Hong Kong on the…
An engineering professor has dismissed as unrealistic tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s futuristic vision of underground traffic tunnels.
Musk, chief executive of several hi-tech companies including Tesla and SpaceX, recently gave a TED talk on his plans to tunnel under Los Angeles to alleviate traffic pressures in the city, which he described…
Scottish Water’s £100M Shieldhall Tunnel project has reached its halfway mark under Glasgow’s Pollok Park.
This week the full circle concrete rings which will form the 5km tunnel, which will be Scotland’s longest, were installed at 2.5km along the route. Construction using a 180m long TBM started last July and will…
A site in east London has broken the record for the UK’s most heavily loaded pile.
The pile was one of two which were being tested on the site of the prospective Spire skyscraper in Canary Wharf in London. Using a maintained load static pile testing method, the load on the…
Skanska has won a £31M contract to build a power plant in Norway, which includes a 7km tunnel through a mountain.
Some of the construction sites can only be reached by helicopter and work involves drilling of shafts, blasting for the power plant and concrete work in the power station. The…
The firm delivering London’s super sewer, better known as the Thames Tideway tunnel, is not an organisition to shy away from ambitious targets.
It is trying to deliver the £4.2bn tunnel two years ahead of target, while marrying state-of-the art engineering with a complex system of Victorian sewers. So it is no surprise that…
The government is considering imposing tolls on motorists or seeking cash input from a developer to fund the construction of the £6.2bn Lower Thames Crossing.
Highways England said it has been scoping the market’s appetite for private investment in the project. A spokesman said: “Ultimately the funding route will be a…
A Tory council leader has demanded showdown talks with transport secretary Chris Grayling after the government announced its preferred route for the Lower Thames Crossing.
Thurrock Council leader Rob Gledhill described the selected project as “the worst choice out of a terrible bunch” and urged Grayling to explain it. The council…
Fresh technical details for the proposed Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) have been released following the announcement of the chosen route.
Transport secretary Chris Grayling announced Option C as the 21km LTC route following a public consultation. The road would cross under the River Thames via two bored tunnels (northbound and southbound)…
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