"Polymer technology reduces costs and waste generated by the move underground" https://tunnelingonline.com/moving-electrical-utility-infrastructure-underground-can-help-prevent-wildfires-and-losses-from-extreme-weather-events/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXyOJP9bKE Australia’s largest construction company, CIMIC (one of the contractors of Melbourne's West Gate Tunnel) is accused of underpaying workers, subcontractors and banks in Middle East by more than...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgvBEtzQq4 I would like to share the news I have seen at my favorite (*) tunneling journal, Tunnel Business Magazine, or shortly TBM (not to be confused with its more famous usage).  They have a well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azIBmmzECgs England's National Highways has to spend £7.3 million for works in the disused 1.4 mile long Queensbury Tunnel, instead of £550,000 it would cost, should the tunnel had not been...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RMGfkx1KoM Another interesting presentation at New Civil Engineer's Tunnelling Festival 2021. Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Putrajaya...

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/badaling-great-wall-station-high-speed-railway-intl-hnk/index.html

Top 10 Biggest Tunnel Boring Machines in the World https://autojournalism.com/biggest-tunnel-boring-machines-in-the-world/

China Gezhouba Group Corp. (CGGC) building Suki Kinari hydropower project under China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative. The project will provide Pakistan counterparts with a chance to work on tunnel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec9tPTcny-c

Organizers release a note saying " In a context of a global health crisis and awareness of the difficulty for many industry professionals at this time to commit to participate in the WTC2022 in April, the WTC2022 Organizing Committee in...

Nice visual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QccCVO810Q

With photos https://www.lavanguardia.com/motor/actualidad/20220128/8011589/tuneles-submarinos-mas-espectaculares-largos-mundo.html

https://www.ontheroadtrends.com/longest-tunnels-on-the-world/?lang=en

Nice read. Enjoy your weekend everybody. Even 100 years after its construction, ideas for putting it to use keep popping up. https://www.popsci.com/technology/cincinnati-subway-history/

Ground Engineering: Breaking Ground's latest episode looks at Hypertunnel, an infrastructure start-up which aims to reimagine the world of underground construction through artificial intelligence, machine learning and swarm...

HaPPy 2022 people.

I congratulate the new year of all my colleagues here.  

Happy new year! Ari.

Coert.

Over a half an hour, we welcome a new year. I hope one that will be better than the current one... Happy new year.