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Broadway Subway Project’s TBM breaks through Oak-VGH Station in Vancouver, Canada
- Oct, 17, 2023
- Tunneling Other Geotechnical Transportation Geotechnics
- Canada
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The first of the two tunnel-boring machines (TBM) digging through the Broadway Subway Project broke through the Oak-VGH Station in Vancouver on October 12, 2023. The news came on Friday, as the Gove...
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Drilling for Stuttgart 21 project’s 56km tunnels marks completion
- Sep, 29, 2023
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics Other Geotechnical
- Germany
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A significant milestone was reached in the Stuttgart 21 project with the final tunneling breakthrough taking place in the city’s airport tunnel on September the 14th. Furthermore, the Stuttgart 21 p...
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Drilling for the 5.63-kilometer-long Učka Tunnel in Croatia has been completed
- Sep, 22, 2023
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics Other Geotechnical Underground Structures
- Croatia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
It was announced that drilling for the new 5.63-kilometer-long Učka Tunnel in Croatia has been completed on Monday, September 18. The new Učka Tunnel will be the second road tunnel under the Učka mou...
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British company introduces waterless pumped storage hydropower technology
- Aug, 24, 2023
- Green Infrastructure Tunneling Energy Geotechnics Other Geotechnical Underground Structures
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A UK-based company has developed a waterless pumped storage hydropower technology, and recently teamed up to deliver 100MW energy storage capacity projects by 2030. Furthermore, this technology work...
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World’s longest railway tunnel will remain closed for months after derailment
- Aug, 21, 2023
- Tunneling Railway Geotechnics Underground Structures Other Geotechnical Transportation Geotechnics
- Switzerland
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Europe’s Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel, is going to remain closed to passenger trains for several months after it sustained damage from a derailment on August 1...
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HS2’s Florence and Cecilia TBMs reach Little Missenden
- Aug, 09, 2023
- Tunneling Railway Geotechnics Underground Structures Other Geotechnical
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
HS2 announced on Tuesday, August 8, that Florence and Cecilia, the two 2,000-ton tunnel boring machines (TBMs) had reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft. This event marks a significant mile...
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Consent granted for the development of Scotland’s £500M underground pumped storage hydro plant
- Jul, 28, 2023
- Green Infrastructure Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Other Geotechnical
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The development of a £500M underground pumped storage hydro plant in Ben Cruachan, Scotland, was granted consent on Tuesday, July 25. The project involves the expansion of the existing Cruachan Powe...
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First trains test Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel
- Jul, 26, 2023
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics Other Geotechnical
- Australia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
It was announced on Tuesday that the first test trains entered Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel. Metro Tunnel is a new twin 9-kilometer metro project that will connect Melbourne’s existing Sunbury line with...
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First design and build contract awarded for the Grand Paris Express
- Jul, 13, 2023
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics Transportation Engineering General Civil General Construction News On Projects / Industry Other News
- France, Paris
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The first design and build contract for the Grand Paris Express was awarded by the Société du Grand Paris to a mainly French encompassing consortium on July the 13th. The Grand Paris Express is a pr...
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Casting of Fehmarnbelt tunnel’s precast elements has began
- Jul, 14, 2023
- Transportation Geotechnics Tunneling Offshore Geotechnics Other Geotechnical
- Denmark
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Casting of the elements for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel has now begun, as was announced on July 10. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is going to be an 18 km long immersed tunnel, which will stretch between Rødbyhav...
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