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Civil Engineering News Recap of January 2025
- Feb, 06, 2025
- Tunneling Geoenvironmental Engineering Railway Geotechnics Sustainable Development Green Infrastructure General Civil General Construction Structural Failures Damage (Structural) Forensic Engineering Steel Structures Wood Structures Structural Systems Wind Engineering
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of January 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Ch...
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China Completes World’s Longest Expressway Tunnel, Redefining Connectivity
- Jan, 01, 2025
- Tunneling Geoenvironmental Engineering Railway Geotechnics News On Projects / Industry
- China
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
China has achieved a groundbreaking milestone with the completion of the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world’s longest expressway tunnel. Stretching an impressive 22.13 kilometers, this marvel slices...
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Nuclear Progress: Hinkley Point C Marks Reactor Installation Milestone
- Dec, 04, 2024
- Structural Systems Other Structural Geoenvironmental Engineering Green Infrastructure General Civil General Construction News On Projects / Industry News On Products & Services
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset, England, has reached a significant milestone with the installation of its first reactor pressure vessel (RPV). This marks the first reactor instal...
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Revolutionary 3D-Printed Clay Reefs Enhance Biodiversity in the Maas River
- Jul, 10, 2024
- Geoenvironmental Engineering Levees Slope Stabilization Erosion Other Geotechnical News On Products & Services News On Research / Academia
- Netherlands
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Innovative Solution for Erosion Control Rijkswaterstaat is implementing a groundbreaking solution to address the erosion of riverbanks along the Maas River near Oeffelt. This initiative aims to comb...
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Thames Water Accelerates Plans to Secure South East's Future Water Supply
- Jun, 07, 2024
- Sustainable Development General Construction Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom, Abingdon
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Today marks a significant step in securing the future water supply for the South East as Thames Water launches a public consultation on a new reservoir near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. This ambitious proj...
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An assessment of the Chernobyl disaster 38 years after it happened
- Apr, 26, 1986
- Forensics Other Geotechnical General Civil General Construction Environmental Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Ukraine, Pryp'yat'
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Saturday, April 26, 1986, 01:23:45 AM local time. A terrifying accident was taking place in the northern Ukraine, in the former USSR. Few people realized it immediately, and even fewer were aware of...
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New study finds above-limit quantities of PFAS “forever chemicals” in water globally
- Apr, 08, 2024
- Groundwater & Seepage General Civil Geoenvironmental Engineering Contaminant Transport News On Research / Academia Other News
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A new study, led by the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia was published on Monday, April 8, 2024, in the Natural Geoscience journal, which found that “forever chemicals” exist at hig...
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Largest dam removal in US history reaches important milestone
- Jan, 11, 2024
- Dam Engineering Environmental Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry Other News
- United States
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The largest dam removal in the history of the United States is currently taking place on the Klamath River, which flows through Oregon and northern California. The Klamath River has historically been...
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North America’s largest biochar plant to be constructed in Canada
- Jul, 05, 2023
- Environmental Engineering Sustainable Development Geoenvironmental Engineering Green Infrastructure General Civil News On Products & Services News On Projects / Industry Other News
- Canada, Port-Cartier
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North America’s largest biochar production plant is set to be constructed in Port-Cartier, Quebec, Canada. Furthermore, the project will be realized by a Canadian-French consortium, and its first ph...
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Purdue Geotechnical Society’s 19th G.A Leonards Lecture now on YouTube
- Jul, 04, 2023
- Geoenvironmental Engineering Remediation Technology Contaminant Transport Geosynthetics For Containment Landfill Engineering Groundwater & Seepage Other Geotechnical
- United States
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Professor Krishna Reddy gave the 19th G.A. Leonards Lecture on “Sustainability and Resiliency-Based Innovation: Research and Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering”, which was hosted by the Purdue...
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