As the government deliberates over the development consent order for the proposed £9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC), NCE was invited to spend an afternoon in the Dartford Crossing control centre to see why this project is so vital.
The completion of an 853m logistics tunnel at the High Speed 2 (HS2) Old Oak Common station construction site has sent a “big message” to government to give the go ahead for tunnelling to Euston, according to HS2 project managers.
A 1.8m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) has arrived in Meadow Lane Portadown for use on a key £7.8M Northern Ireland Water wastewater network upgrade.
New Zealand’s Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel project has become NZ$204M (£100M) more expensive to deliver due to inflation which has increased labour and material costs.
The southbound tube of Blackwall Tunnel will close for five weekends starting tomorrow, 13 January, so Riverlinx CJV can conduct drainage and gantry installation works for Silvertown Tunnel.
Viral videos showing members of the Hasidic Jewish community emerging from under a New York City synagogue and clashing with the New York Police Department (NYPD) have drawn concern from engineers and authorities.
Breakthrough has been made on the last 3m of Australia’s Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro scheme’s transformer hall cavern ‘crown’ or ceiling.
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen has kicked off 2024 by promising to build a new eastern crossing over the River Tees and reconstruct Teesside Airport train station using funds from the cancelled northern legs of HS2.
Sinkholes, abandoned rail links and beavers all feature in New Civil Engineer’s Top 10 most read stories of 2023.
The NSW Government's Sydney Metro West project has achieved two simultaneous TBM breakthroughs, marking the first “double breakthrough” in the southern hemisphere. As reported by GE, the work forms part of Sydney Metro West’s central tunnelling contract, which the Acciona and Ferrovial joint venture (AF JV) won in July 2021. It…
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