Latest Tunnels News

High Speed 2 Ltd (HS2 Ltd) has paid an additional £305.3M to Skanska Costain Strabag JV (SCS) for works on London tunnels.

The Gokarla Tunnel in Tibet topped out last week on 28 June, boasting tunnel entrances at each end at altitudes of over 4km above sea level.

Skanska has completed work on a $1.8bn (£1.41bn), 3km light rail subway in Los Angeles.

The European Union has pledged a further €700M (£599M) to the Brenner Base Tunnel project through its Connecting Europe Facility.

Putting female role models in the spotlight is a key part of today’s International Women in Engineering Day, which is now an annual event, and NCE is relaunching an initiative to ensure  women remain in that spotlight throughout the year.

An underground through station for High Speed 2 (HS2) and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) services at Manchester Piccadilly would be high risk but faster and more affordable than the Department for Transport’s (DfT) assumptions, according to a tunnelling expert.

Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development has formalised a partnership with Aecom to undertake infrastructure reconstruction following damage caused by the invasion of Russia.

The Spanish government has pledged £2M (€‎2.3M) towards a design study for revived plans to connect Europe to Morocco’s high speed rail network with a tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar.

Tunnelling on the Snowy 2.0 hydroelectricity megaproject in Australia is poised to restart by the end of July, pending approval of programme modifications.

Excavated material from High Speed 2’s (HS2) newly started Bromford Tunnel in Birmingham will be reused to build embankments at the nearby Delta Junction, a triangular section of railway where the HS2 route curves west towards Birmingham and runs north towards Crewe and beyond.