Engineers are today beginning the first phase of concrete pouring for the track beds in the new Bank Station south tunnel, as work remains on track during the 17-week blockade led by Dragados.
Pictures from inside the tunnel, provided by track expert Nathan Gray, show the engineers at work preparing the…
National Highways has designated its Lower Thames Crossing project as a “pathfinder” in its move towards carbon neutral construction.
The Kent to Essex road tunnel will be used as a testbed to explore how National Highways can reach its target of achieving carbon neutral construction and help the UK reach net…
Transport for London (TfL) has been forced to delay its search for contractors to upgrade the Rotherhithe Tunnel due to ongoing funding uncertainty.
TfL is ready to go to market with a design and build contract to upgrade the tunnel, but procurement has been put on ice, documents released ahead of…
Construction waste from the Silvertown Tunnel project is being taken offsite by barge.
Riverlinx CJV, a joint venture between Bam Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant, has begun removing beneficial reuse excavated material by barge, following a major upgrade of the facilities at Thames Wharf in Silvertown, to enable safe mooring…
Network Rail had not cleaned or treated the tracks on the day of the Salisbury train collision despite plans to do so once every 24 hours, according to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch’s (RAIB) interim report into the incident.
RAIB investigators have previously said that “low adhesion" between the track and…
Cowi has won an engineering contract to develop designs for a proposed eight-lane immersed tunnel in Vancouver, Canada.
The proposed tunnel will have three general purpose traffic lanes and one dedicated bus lane in each direction, as well as a bi-directional multi-use cycle path/pedestrian walkway to improve travel across the George…
National Highways' long-running battle with disgruntled campaigners in West Yorkshire has boiled over, with the police called in to investigate an alleged case of trespass.
England's major roads operator filed the complaint after unsolicited photos emerged from inside the abandoned Queensbury Tunnel near Bradford. The report has been filed with West…
This video is from NCE's Tunnelling Festival 2021. A senior project boss working on the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Putrajaya Line has revealed how challenges were overcome to keep construction going on the £5.4bn scheme. Gamuda deputy project director NG Hau Wei discusses how delivery of the tunnelling works were…
The long-running row over HS2's Wendover Dean Viaduct has resurfaced, with local councillors demanding HS2 Ltd publishes key analysis behind its decision to build a bridge instead of a tunnel.
Wendover Parish Council has accused HS2 Ltd of a lack of transparency due to its failure to release "independent analyses" that…
EXCLUSIVE The carbon cost associated with the construction of National Highways' Lower Thames Crossing project has risen to almost £500M, NCE can reveal.
Due to changes in the way the government calculates carbon values, the true cost of emissions during the construction of the £6.4bn to £8.2bn road project has risen…
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