In her speech over Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament a few days ago, the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to withdraw customs tax exemptions for Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) in import to...
Study on Internal Force of Tunnel Segment by Considering the Influence of Joints
Linwei Dong,Zhiyong Yang, Zhenyong Wang, Yaowen Ding, and Weiqiang Qi
School of Mechanics and Civil Engineering, China University of Mining and...
Stability Analysis of Slope and Diversion Water Tunnel of Hydropower Station under Strong Earthquake
Zhongchang Wang & Bo Li
School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian, 116028,...
NSW government's delayed and over-the-budget NorthConnex tunnel will open on Saturday. The $3Billion tunnel is expected to ease traffic congestion in the Sydney's...
Gyeongbu Expressway built 50 years ago. It is saturated with traffic. At peak hours traffic flow drops up to 7km/h. It is part of Seoul Expressways and important feeder for national road system.
Experts suggest that Seoul section of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6rOsxFrTPQ
Highways England releases the following on 3 February 2021
Jacobs awarded £162.5m Lower Thames Crossing contract
Highways England has awarded Jacobs the £162.5m Integration Partner...
Trucker magazine in Slovenia reports that excavation of second tube of Karavanke tunnel progresses as expected. Already Turkish company Cengiz has excavated 270 meters of 7,948 m long tunnel. The length of the tunnel from Slovenian side to Austrian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BtBHjH1qQI
Transport for the North (TfN) drops plans for a new major road across the Pennines with a dual-bore tunnel after studies revealed it would be too costly and environmentally damaging. They recommend...
I am reading this and I don't know what to think of it.
"officials say a tunnel under the New River would cost more than $3 billion. Instead they have proposed a 55-foot high-bridge that would cost an estimated $445 million.But...
Regarding the tunnel digging and other actions of anti-HS2 activists, HS2 Ltd released the following statement.
Statement from HS2 Ltd
HS2 Ltd has legal possession of the land at Euston Square...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKDbBXdTHtQ
Ulaştırma ve Altyapı Bakanı Adil Karaismailoğlu, "Başakşehir-Çam ve Sakura Şehir Hastanesi-Kayaşehir metro hattı projemizi bu yılın sonunda halkımızın hizmetine sunmayı planlıyoruz."...
From obsnews - Kim Jong-in, head of the People's Strength Emergency Response Committee visited Busan. He said he would actively review the construction of a Korean-Japanese submarine tunnel connecting Gadeokdo Island and Kyushu, Japan via...
Herrenknecht India has completed the factory tests of two refurbished tunnel boring machines. They will be used by ITD at Bangalore Metro
https://themetrorailguy.com/2021/01/31/factory-tests-completed-on-itds-bangalore-metro-tbms/
Spanish company Azvi has been awarded a contract in Norway for 36.9 million euros
The Sevillian construction company will rehabilitate the existing Ulriken railway tunnel (a new one is being built for which Azvi had contributed to work), located...
Spanish company Sacyr, as a part of SIS Consortium (with Italian Fininc), secures a 388 million euro worth contract from Italy's ANAS.
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Sacyr is awarded construction of the Tremezzina bypass (Como, Italy) for 388 million euros
The...
Pakistani engineers and workers have achieved an important milestone in the excavation of Jagran-II Hydropower tunnel. Two tunnelling teams one started from downstream and another from upstream met in middle with only 10 cm...
On 27 January, Lauderdale's mayor Trantalis has tweeted 'I had another productive conversation with @elonmusk's @boringcompanytoday about building a train tunnel through downtown #FortLauderdale. Broward Vice Mayor @Michaeludinejoined me...
Enbridge gets the Line 5 tunnel construction permit from the Michigan Environmental agency grants state. What is left is the federal approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the...