North East Link is another step closer to slashing travel times and taking trucks off local roads, as segments of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) have been lowered into the ground – as the project gets ready to dig the twin road...
"The venture, undertaken by its subsidiary KBCE and joint venture partner Penta-Ocean Construction, spans 10 kilometres from the South Tunnel to the Tuas Water Reclamation...
Numerical analyses for three-dimensional face stability of circular tunnels in purely cohesive soils with linearly increasing strength
Bing Huang a,b Daidai Yu b, Yinting Zhao b, Junfeng Zhu b
a Sichuan Expressway Construction and Development...
Effect and control of foundation pit excavation on existing tunnels: A state-of-the-art review
Bo liu a,b,c Wenwen Wu d, Haipei Lu d, Shuo Chen e, Dingwen Zhang f
a School of Civil Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
b...
Thermal performance of geothermal energy tunnel in unsaturated soils
Jinquan Liu a, Chao Zhou b
a Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, China
b Tsui...
Boring Company has hired lawyers to contest the claims
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13135885/elon-musk-Las-Vegas-loop-tunnel-construction.html
Five people who’ve seen the ... latest version, Prufrock 2, which dug the Encore tunnel...it required more employees to manage it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39517720
The project originally was projected to cost $4.4 billion
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/san-jose-bart-extension-price-tag-balloons-once-again-this-time-by-600-million/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y5g264PojA
The Lower Thames Crossing is a Pathfinder project exploring low carbon construction, and is committed to raising awareness amongst its workforce of the costs and impacts of carbon dioxide
National...
I was reading a news about the Ukrainian forces building tunnel. Why would it not be possible to build such tunnels via Tunnel Boring Machines?
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-forces-build-miles-tunnels-063119692.html
S. Keene's Freedom of Information request to Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/stonehenge_whs_full_report_to_un
As a weekend teaser.
Yes, Sweden has a ski tunnel which was built in 2005 and 2006 and cost SEK 61 million. 1.3 km long. It is also 8 meters wide and 4 meters high.
Photo: ChrisPsi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
COWI job in New York, You can apply at COWI link at the bottom. Please do not send me DMs about this vacancy, I do not know any more than what is there at COWI site. Thanks.
Application Deadline: 16 March 2024 - United States - Plats: New York,...
Everything is built by Chinese companies. From China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, China Railway 23rd Bureau Group Co, Guizhou Highway Engineering Group to China National Technical Import and Export Corporation....