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Tunnelling attention in Europe this year has swung from the Alps, following completion of excavation on the world-beating 57km long Gotthard high speed rail tunnel, to the UK with a [...]

Ireland's Limerick Main Drainage scheme is a US$239M project that involves constructing some 48km of sewers of up to 2.82m diameter for Limerick City Council. The construction stage comprised 19 [...]

THINK YOU'VE GOT A TOUGH JOB? Try spending two years working in a tunnel out in the middle of nowhere, packing up all your equipment and hitailing it out every […]

Records are made to be broken, and the latest to fall occurred on February 27th, 1996 when the record for TBMs in the 13-16 ft (4-5 m) class established by [...]

The harbour at Ramsgate in southeastern Kent provides a busy cross-channel freight ferry service to Ostend. The expected increasing numbers of heavy goods vehicles using the port necessitate improved road [...]

The need for compressed air tunnels has diminished in recent years, mainly because of continuing development of earth pressure balance and slurry shields. There are many good reasons for avoiding [...]

A tunnel beneath the River Tees, in the north of England, is playing host to a section of the new Central Area Transmission System (CATS), a pipeline designed for the [...]

By Paul Fournier Testa Corporation demolishes '50s-era elevated highway as Big Dig opens Now that Boston's $14.6-billion Central Artery/Tunnel (Big Dig) has been opened to traffic, dozens of construction machines [...]

The Weser Tunnel will form the principal crossing point for the Weser River as part of the B 437 federal highway. It connects the A 27 federal motorway between Bremen [...]

With various systems available for replacing or rebuilding existing large-diameter sewer tunnels, the owner of a new tunnel project is confronted with deciding which system is best suited for that [...]

Bages, Spain - Motorway. Award to GPO Ingeniera SA of engineering design contract for C-37 motorway with tunnels from Igualada to Manresa in [...]

South Carolina, US - Stormwater Storage. URS designing $12 million, 1.28km-long x 3m-diameter tunnel with 18 drop shafts in sandy, silty clay underlain by marl as an overflow for existing [...]

Solna, Sweden - Cable Duct Restricted invitation to tender, deadline 28th August, 2001, for 2.45km-long x 18[m.sup.2] cable tunnel with 27[m.sup.2] access tunnel for Solna [...]

China Harbour Engineering Company Group and Australian company Transfield Pty Ltd have been awarded a HK$380 million contract to construct the Kai Tak Transfer Scheme, part of the West Kowloon [...]

Parking space and traffic problems combined to create significant difficulties at the Buffalo Niagara international Airport, managed by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA). Even though two new parking areas [...]

Homewood, Illinois had a stormwater H problem. For decades, a drainage basin in central Homewood experienced unacceptable ponding of stormwater, causing distress to its residents every time it rained. The [...]

In the United Kingdom, the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, Section 2, prequalifications are underway for contract 105 for Union Railways at St Pancras. Contract 105 is for deck extension of [...]

At Zurich, in Switzerland a second underground station with four tracks is to be built beneath the central railway station, with a 4.8 km-long single-tube tunnel connection to Oerlikon in [...]

Scotland's 147 m-long Roughcastle tunnel, being driven under the main Edinburgh Glasgow railway line and below the historic Antonine Wall, which is the northernmost boundary of the Roman Empire, is [...]

The Stuva annual report lists all planned underground transportation projects in Germany. At any given time, there are around 180 km of tunnels under construction, mainly by TBM. Of the [...]

Soft ground, asymmetrical shapes, and high jacking forces made design of the thrust pits for the CO9A4 section of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) project as challenging as the tunnel jacking [...]

Tenders for Barcelona metro are expected in November, 2000. A 36.8 km-long, 9 in-diameter, twin-track, single-tube system with 37 stations is to be constructed as four sections, starring end-2001 and [...]

Twin-bore 2.64 km-long rock tunnels will be driven under the active runways beneath Minneapolis/St Paul airport, with NATM station to be excavated in limestone. An EPB machine with precast concrete [...]

Load cell specialist Thames Side-Maywood is helping to enforce weight restrictions in two of the world's busiest road tunnels. Supaweigh axle weighbridges incorporating Thames Side-Maywood load cells have been installed [...]

The population of Stockholm, capital city of Sweden, is expanding by 20,000 each year and has already reached the 2 million mark. This has been accompanied by a steady increase [...]

When roads and railways cross on the same plane, one eventually has to give way. In Boston, Massachusetts on the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project, it is the new highway that [...]

There was a long debate in the late 1970s about the route that should be adopted for the proposed bypass of the historic city of Graz in Austria. The tradition-alists [...]

FCC reports its involvement in the construction of the 11.6 km Caravia to Llovio stretch of the Autovia del Cantabrico dual carriageway in Spain with three tunnels of total length [...]

In Switzerland, the Flulen highway Contract was awarded to a joint venture of Zschokke/Locher/Murer/CSC/Rothpletz & Reinhard who will utilise the Robbins Herrenknecht TBM ex Bozberg and Murgenthal. Boring will commence [...]

Within the Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme in Hong Kong, two narrow transfer tunnels are presently under construction from Kwai Chung to Stonecutters Island: Tunnel G (drill and blast) of internal [...]

A state of emergency was declared in Bolivia following protests about the expected rise in water charges that will accompany the $200 million Misicuni waterworks contract in Cochabamba. The centrepiece [...]

On Friday 18th February 2000, contractor Edmund Nuttall Ltd successfully completed one of the two tunnel drives on its Portsmouth and Havant Wastewater Flow Transfer Tunnel for client Southern Water. [...]

In Austria, the Pyhrn A9 Motorway contracts are well underway, with the $3.9 million contract for the Traunfried 448 m x 70 sq m tunnel completed in limestones and dolomites [...]

Union Railways, builders of the CTRL rail link from London, England to the Folkestone portal of the Channel Tunnel has released prequalification invitations for the manufacture of precast concrete segments [...]

The traffic project German Unity Nr. 16 involves the construction of a four lane autobahn over a total of 223 km of A71 between Erfurt and Schweinfurt and A73 between [...]

A 1.4 km-long cut-and-cover tunnel on the Betuwe line in The Netherlands was part of a $220 million contract for the 22 km section from Papendrecht to Lingeval awarded to [...]

Robin B. Dill [1] Daniel J. Dobbels [1] Geoffrey A. Hughes [2] The Narragansett Bay Commission (NBC) completed a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Facilities Plan in 1993. This initial study [...]

Alaska WHITTIER ACCESS Kiewit Construction With the coming of summer, work on the sire starred full bore. The Portage access tunnel heat control work started with the installation of rock [...]

Atlantic City, New Jersey is considered to be the Las Vegas of the East, and the increasing numbers of casinos and hotels have dictated new areas for construction north of [...]

Mouchel of West Byfleet, Surrey, England reports that construction work has started on the Kohat Tunnel and Access Roads component of the Indus Highway, one of the main obstacles to [...]

The Northside Storage Tunnel is being constructed to help clean up Sydney Harbour by capturing 80-90% of the largest wet weather sewer overflow events which occur at Lane Cove River, [...]

The Bologna-Firenze high speed rail link is without doubt, in terms of scale, complexity and commitment of funds and human resources an undertaking of worldwide significance. The railway is under [...]

Construction of a new 5.5 km-long tunnel for the KowloonCanton Railway Corporation (KCRC) has begun on the proposed West Rail Link in Hong Kong, where a fleet of Atlas Copco [...]

The Jarva Mk 15 TBM at the Chimay hydroelecrtic project started boring tunnel on April 19th. The TBM is expected to excavate a total of 4 to 6 km of [...]

The second tunnel contract awarded recently by SDCWA is the 1.12 mile long Olivenhain-Lake Hodges connection. In April 2005 a $34.5 million design-build contract was awarded to Kiewit Pacific. Two [...]