Isle of Wight Council has warned that further ground movement in Bonchurch, Ventnor, “cannot be ruled out” after the area was struck by one of its biggest ever landslides last month.
As first reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the major landslide on 10 December affected an area of about 42ha…
An Archirodon and Deme consortium has been awarded an estimated £795M (US$1bn) contract for the second phase of work to expand the Neom port at Oxagon in Saudi Arabia.
The port is located along the coast of the Red Sea and is adjacent to the nearby Suez Canal, through which 13%…
GHD has been appointed as one of the lead designers for Portsmouth Water’s Havant Thicket Reservoir project in Hampshire – the first major new UK reservoir in more than 30 years.
First reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the £325M Havant Thicket Reservoir will be designed to provide storage for…
A joint venture of CBNA and Halmar has been awarded a $819M (£671M) contract to design and build a major new sewer tunnel in Washington DC, USA.
As reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the 8.9km long Potomac River Tunnel will control combined sewer overflows (CSOs) into the Potomac River,…
After 18 months of setbacks crews have finally freed part of a micro tunnel boring machine (TBM) that became trapped in underground infrastructure while constructing a storm sewer in Toronto, Canada.
NCE sister title Ground Engineering reports that last Friday (22 September) the head section of the micro-TBM was successfully extracted…
The TRU East Alliance, working together with Active Tunnelling, has completed three new drainage tunnels beneath the railway line at Ulleskelf Mires in North Yorkshire.
NCE sister title Ground Engineering reports that, as part of the work, three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) worked simultaneously side by side beneath the four track…
Costs on redevelopment of Kidsgrove railway station in Staffordshire are set to rise by £8.6M and the project may be delayed after historic mine workings were discovered below the site, a local MP has said.
Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council (NULBC) was given £3.8M through the government’s Towns Deal Fund to…
The cost to free a micro tunnel boring machine (TBM) that became trapped last year while constructing a storm sewer in Toronto, Canada, has risen to C$25M (£14.6M) due to ground stabilisation challenges.
As first reported by NCE sister title Ground Engineering, the rescue mission has become increasingly expensive since February…
Risk of ground collapses above the planned A303 Stonehenge Tunnel have been raised following formation of a “sinkhole” above High Speed 2’s (HS2's) Chiltern tunnels in May.
Hydrogeological specialist George Reeves is part of campaign group the Stonehenge Alliance, which opposes National Highways' £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme past…
An underground collapse on a cross passage last week has stopped work on part of the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia, as reported by GE magazine. Workers were excavating a cross passage 25m below ground when rock and soil started to spill into the West Gate Tunnel’s inbound…
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