The Blackwall Tunnel southbound crossing will close for the third time in 2023 this weekend so engineers can divert utilities for upcoming work relating to the Silvertown Tunnel project.
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that from midnight on 8 July to 5am on 10 July, the southbound tunnel from Poplar…
High Speed 2 Ltd (HS2 Ltd) has paid an additional £305.3M to Skanska Costain Strabag JV (SCS) for works on London tunnels.
This brings the value of SCS’ contracts with HS2 Ltd for Phase One to over £3.8bn. SCS is creating over 20km of twin-bore tunnels for HS2 from central London…
The Gokarla Tunnel in Tibet topped out last week on 28 June, boasting tunnel entrances at each end at altitudes of over 4km above sea level.
The length of the structure is 12.7km, making it one of the world's longest tunnels at such a height. Its completion at unusually high altitude…
Skanska has completed work on a $1.8bn (£1.41bn), 3km light rail subway in Los Angeles.
The contractor has completed the Regional Connector project as part of a joint venture with Traylor Brothers for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The project consisted of a 1.76km long, 6.4m diameter tunnel excavated…
The European Union has pledged a further €700M (£599M) to the Brenner Base Tunnel project through its Connecting Europe Facility.
The under-construction Brenner Base Tunnel is a new rail route being driven beneath the Brenner Pass on the Italian/Austrian border at a total project cost of £13.2bn. It dives under the…
Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.
NCE is inviting women engineers to put themselves forward to join…
An underground through station for High Speed 2 (HS2) and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) services at Manchester Piccadilly would be high risk but faster and more affordable than the Department for Transport’s (DfT) assumptions, according to a tunnelling expert.
A group of local authorities from Greater Manchester, banded together under the…
Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development has formalised a partnership with Aecom to undertake infrastructure reconstruction following damage caused by the invasion of Russia.
Under the agreement, Aecom will provide programme management and technical advisory services for the infrastructure rebuild in the Ukraine. Earlier this month, industry experts told NCE…
The Spanish government has pledged £2M (€2.3M) towards a design study for revived plans to connect Europe to Morocco’s high speed rail network with a tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Proposals for the “Europe-Africa Gibraltar Strait fixed link” were mothballed in 2009 but revived in April of this year when…
Tunnelling on the Snowy 2.0 hydroelectricity megaproject in Australia is poised to restart by the end of July, pending approval of programme modifications.
Snowy 2.0 is being constructed for project promoter Snowy Hydro by the Future Generation (FGJV) joint venture between Webuild, Australian firm Clough and an American subsidiary of Webuild…
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