The major mobile operators in The Netherlands (T-Mobile, KPN and Vodafone) have implemented the first mobile coverage which provides the commuters traveling at high peed trains with superfast downloads in tunnel of Oude Maas. T-Mobile released the...
Swedish company NCC has been commissioned by Region Stockholm’s Administration for Extended Metro to construct the Hagastaden station on the new subway line to Arenastaden. The estimated order value is approximately SEK 1.2 billion.
NCC is...
Cost of patching up London's aging bridges and tunnels soars by more than 700%
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/cost-of-patching-up-londons-ageing-bridges-and-tunnels-soars-by-more-than-700-25-02-2021/
Interesting!
Being faster than a snail is truly an innovation in tunneling. TUM Boring – Innovation in Tunneling is an initiative of the Technical University of Munich consisting of 60 highly motivated students who have teamed up to...
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria conducts a research to make tunnels CO2-neutral. The research is conducted at Brenner Base Tunnel. Below is the media release by TU Graz (author is Christoph Pelzl).
Brenner Base Tunnel as a...
The European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons has makes a series of recommendations on the way safety rules are set for the Channel Tunnel.
" The Committee recommended that this bi-national approach be formalised and that new...
I've got notified by a friend over a press release of Razel-Bec. Below is the translation to English (link to original is at the bottom).
PRESS RELEASE - A 100% Fayat consortium for lot 3 of line 16 of the Grand Paris Express 24 Feb...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JApGKNBUA
Serbia's Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Tomislav Momirović, today, told the representatives of the contractor companies Azvirt and Povercajna that they must strictly stick...
Tvp : Contractor Gulermak's TBM Anna breaks through at Trocka station shaft after 650 meters of boring. It had started on January 22 from the Zacisze station. It was the shortest spring of total 2878m tunelling Also the the last...
Transport for London (TfL) has awarded five contractors places on a new framework to construct and repair its highways network, including bridges and...
One takeaway: HS2 Boss gets paid £625000 per year, i.e. 52000 per month. Not bad.
https://sputniknews.com/uk/202102221082151995-as-work-progresses-on-uks-106-bln-hs2-railway-who-is-building-the-track-stations-and-trains/
I did not know that Boris Johnson's dream project has supporters even at the ranks of pro-independence SNP. A criticism of that:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19107317.clarity-currency-policy-urgently-needed/
Assessment of different ventilation strategies on ventilation performance in immersed tunnels
Linjie Li, Qiaozhi Qiu, Xuefu Zhang, Pai Xu, Jialiang Liu, Yilin Li
Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, People’s...
Swiss Tunnelling Society maintains a database of all tunnels in Switzerland.
You can reach it via the link: https://www.swisstunnel.ch/en/tunnelling-switzerland/tunnel-database/
It lists the tunnels and when you click on a specific tunnel, you...
There are many suppliers of tunnel lighting products today. Although the quantity of the products has drastically increased in the past decade, sadly the quality has gone down.
Apart from the quality problems from dubious producers, the market is...
Tunnel Lighting is not to be taken lightly!
As someone who has spent more than 10 years in this field, I can assure you that tunnel lighting is one of the pillars of safety in tunnels.
Innovation drives the tunnel lighting to new horizons....