Talking to TV KCN1, assistant Mayor of Belgrade Andreja Mladenović said that one of the key moves of the municipality is the construction of a tunnel from the Faculty of Economics to Stefan Lazarevic Street which will relieve the city center by...
Helsinki first began digging up its surface in the 1980s during the Cold War, with the aim of creating a subterranean space that could contain the city’s entire population in case of an...
At the 14th 'Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course', awards have been presented by the course director Levent Ozdemir.
https://tunnelingonline.com/achievement-awards-presented-at-breakthroughs-in-tunneling-short-course/
Sorry for those who expected a more serious post. It is almost and finally weekend. Happy weekend to all.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1434400149711712261
Russian news company Sputnik write Chinese language Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu support "Cedar Avenue" as alternative to new Silk Road (Belt and Road) and Suez Canal. He write modernize Trans-Siberian Railway in project to...
"The two-tier tunnel would connect Quebec City's downtown sector with South Shore municipality of Lévis. It's projected to cost anywhere between $7 billion and $10 billion and is expected to be completed by...
Condat partners with Chryso.
CHRYSO and CONDAT Technology Partnership in TBM tunneling - preview at AFTES 2021
[France] CHRYSO, a leader in Construction chemicals, today announced a technology partnership with CONDAT.
As CONDAT is a world...
why did the underground tunnel never materialise?
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/2459593/the-ambitious-crossing-plan-from-dundee-to-fife-under-the-sea/
Land Transport Authority (LTA) faced hardships during construction of the Thomson-East Coast Line’s second stage.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/thomson-east-coast-line-making-stage-2-reality-lta-2114226
The New World Heritage Site the Trans-Iranian Railway:
No fewer than 224 tunnels total more than 76 kilometers in length, while 174 viaducts and 186 smaller bridges carry the railway across deep ravines and river valleys as it climbs to two...
Tenochtitlan featured numerous dam systems to prevent flooding from torrential rains, but Spanish conquistadors failed to appreciate the ingenuity of this indigenous infrastructure, destroying many of the pre-Hispanic constructions in the early...
Magnetic levitation train at the speed of 600km/h. The speed of sound is 1235 km/h.
https://www.intelligentliving.co/china-worlds-fastest-maglev-train-half-speed-of-sound/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ1hRenIxGk
Zhengzhou saw a year’s worth of rain in just three days. The underground rail system of Zhengzhou has been flooded where passengers trapped in flooded...
https://www.piarc-tunnels-spain2022.org/call-for-papers/
At the events,
https://tunnelcontact.com/events/event/view/34566/piarc-2nd-international-conferenceon-road-tunnel-operations-and-safety-viii-spanish-tunnels-simposium
"long-awaited projects like Crossrail 2 and the Bakerloo line extension to her old constituency of Lewisham have been mothballed, with TfL needing to find £300m of savings this year...
SOPREMA’s high quality PVC geomembranes are part of a fully repairable waterproofing system specially designed to follow the specification guidance suggested by the British Tunnelling Society and the UK...
Tunnels are regularly closed for traffic albeit for short times even if all is fine. We are not talking about extraordinary closures here. But normal maintenance closures.
What are the 10 maintenance tasks performed in tunnels?
Testing of...