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The government of Victoria, Austrialia has named a Webuild-led JV as the preferred bidder for the north tunnels contract on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East project.

The $16bn (£13bn) project to build a new railway tunnel under the Hudson River in New York City has received $11bn (£8.6bn) funding from the US government.

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Candidates running for the South Basildon and East Thurrock constituency, which includes the site of the northern part of the planned Lower Thames Crossing, have expressed opposition to the road scheme.

Network Rail has begun a project to replace 7km of railway track running through the Severn Tunnel that will see the route closed for over two weeks.

Snowy Hydro 2.0’s tunnel boring machine (TBM) Florence has made incremental movements after seven weeks trapped in hard rock, while work to excavate the Australian megaproject’s transition tunnels is advancing.

Unesco has recommended that Stonehenge be listed as ‘World Heritage in Danger’ due to the A303 upgrade scheme and is again pushing for an extension to the tunnelled section to mitigate the detrimental effects to the site.

A £6M claim made by Tilbury Douglas against Arup for defective tunnel designs in a project to convert a former railway yard in Edinburgh into a commercial development has been thrown out by the court.

Proposals worth £220M to develop a cultural attraction in the deep-level subterranean wartime shelter tunnels under High Holborn have been approved by the City of London Corporation’s planning and transportation committee.

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Florence on Australia’s Snowy 2.0 hydro-electric scheme has now been stuck in place for four weeks.