Planned Line 2 of Bogotá will be underground according to feasibility study. It will have 11 or 12 stations ending in Fontanar del Río, Suba. This was announced by mayor Claudia López on Monday, March 15 as written in...
An important breakthrough for the merger of two great Italian construction companies. Both companies agree on the terms and timing of merger. Webuild is much bigger company than Astaldi. WeBuild itself is a merger of Salini and Impregilo and until...
Italian construction company WeBuild (previous name Salini Imregilo) has made an announcement for the new TBM they will introduce to Line 16 of Grand Paris Express
MILAN, March 12, 2021 – Webuild celebrated the baptism...
Evaluation of the bids for the tender for Oslo's new raw water tunnel tender has been delayed again according to Bygge (an important construction business publication in Norway). The latest deadline for the announcement of the winner was end...
Novosibirsk transport department plans to extend the Leninskaya metro line of the city, writes Regnum.
Currently Leninskaya line of Novosibirsk is 10,5 km long with 8 stations. There are plans to extend the metro line on both ends. Stations...
This academic paper is from 1977 but still so relevant I think.
Subsidence above Shallow Tunnels in Soft Ground
Authors
John H. Atkinson
Lect. in Civ. and Struct. Engrg., University Coli., Cardiff, Wales; formerly, Sr. Asst. in Research,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8GbkMLGgAM
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has deployed an indigenously assembled tunnel boring machine for Namma Metro work. The Herrenknecht TBM is the 5th TBM BMRCL deploys but also the...
Pozega - Kotroman route is said to be in planning phase will have 66 tunnels. Amazing.
https://www.worldhighways.com/wh10/news/challenging-serbian-highway-project
The government in Norway is allocating NOK 896 million for a new tunnel on highway 13 in Suldal in Rogaland.
The money for a new 4-kilometer-long tunnel in Rødsliane comes in the National Transport Plan (NTP) 2022–2033,...
Narvik lies on the path of Norway's E6 route. This causes air pollution for the city as the highway goes right through the city. 500 Lorries on a given day!
According to press leaks, 200 million will be allocated in the first part...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoOfvfVrwFg
T.C. Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı Adil Karaismailoğlu Ankara - Sivas Yüksek Hızlı Tren demiryolu konusunda bilgiler verdi.
Bakan, 393 kilometre uzunluğundaki demiryolu için, toplamda 66,1...
JOB: Herrenknecht TBM Operator, Singapore
BOTHAR BORING AND TUNNELLING PTY LTD (SINGAPORE BRANCH)
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Maintain line and grade of the tunnel, possessing extensive knowledge of TBM tunneling Guidance...
Guys, does anybody know how long this tunnel will be?
https://www.postindependent.com/news/glenwood-springs-councilors-approve-tunnel-design-for-south-bridge-project/
The civil Initiative Stop the HH connection asks the Danish Minister and the Transport Committee to block any plans for the proposed two tunnels between Denmark and Sweden.
The proposed fixed HH connection would consist of two separate tunnels....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gyY6a7VK6s
It is expected that the Malaga Metro will be operational in 2022.
https://murciatoday.com/work-on-malaga-metro-progressing-well-as-tunnels-are-linked_1568813-a.html
Route 40 is the Construction Consortium of the Bogotá Girardot third lane. For this Consortium, a Tunnel Engineer is required to coordinate the geotechnical, geological, electrical, mechanical and ITS disciplines of the project's tunnels,...
A critical and entertaining look into Montreal's Metropolitan Express Network (REM)
https://cultmtl.com/2021/03/rem-de-lest-contractor-claims-buildings-will-fall-if-we-dont-do-it-their-way-cdpq-infra-montreal-rail-train-project/
As part of plans to upgrade existing single track railway between Castlerock (Karnataka) and Vasco-da-Gama (Goa) to a double line, Indian railways will build a parallel line. Only that the parallel line will be underground to prevent tree cutting...
Appreciate any detailed news on this one below. You can DM if you feel so.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/new-debate-over-dallas-d-2-downtown-subway-transit-plan/2577295/