I had read this interesting article on the site of the energy company in Turku, but I did not have time to write about it until now.
Located in the southwest of Finland, with a population of about 200 thousand inhabitants, Turku is one...
In construction of a dirty water tunnel in Afyon, there was collapse. Cut and cover tunnel. One worker has died.
https://www.evrensel.net/haber/405049/afyonda-is-cinayeti-gocuk-altinda-kalan-70-yasindaki-isci-yasamini-yitirdi
Nye Veier road company decides against a tunnel for Ulsberg to Vindåsliene connection.
Together with their Spanish partner FCC Construcción, Nye Veier looked into 7 different options. Veier24 writes they decided against a...
Work accident occured at the Fort Wayne Deep Rock tunnel site run by contractor Salini Impregilo/Lane Construction. It happened on April 17. One worker had to be hospitalized. As of now, no more details have been released by Indiana...
For Hamyang - Ulsan Construction Highway 14 construction, residents complaint about builder company Korea Expressway Corporation. It is second year for construction. Residents continuesly complain.
It is in newspapers the site of...
A real world problem not in the reports:
Pollutants from vehicles using new road tunnels to be built under Sydney Harbour will be up to 26 per cent higher than the government's baseline modelling for the multibillion-dollar project unless...
Enbridge Energy will not delay appluing for permits for the Great Lakes Tunnel Project under the Straits of Mackinac, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tribal governments that oppose the project want Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to slow the process down. They...
A 37 year old worker died in Hong Kong. At tunnel construction site a meta 17 metres by 1.3 metres fell on him. This is they say second fatal work incident in a week in...
This story is about Kate Cole, a Certified Occupational Hygienist with degrees in Science, Engineering, and Occupational Hygiene and almost two decades of experience working for construction prokects in Australia, USA and Hong Kong. She is...
Australian company MineARC (https://minearc.com.au/) is known for the refugee chambers for the mining industry. They have designed a custom refuge chamber for a tunnel boring machine used in a Qatari project. What makes it special is the...
London's `Super Sewer` Thames Tideway Tunnel contractors have brought in a Christian saint's statue to to protect construction workers!
The contractors did not stop there. They also took a pries 60 down in the shaft to bless the...
A railway construction company worker was killed after being hit by loose debris at an under-construction tunnel in Ramban district.
http://news.statetimes.in/man-killed-at-under-construction-railway-tunnel/
China - Laos railway tunnel beakthrought was achieved recently. But at what cost?
China is building this 6 billion US$ China Laos railway. Supposedly it will also help Laos economy. But it is instead an environmental and sociological...
Gouda, February 20th – Siqura, the leading Dutch supplier of traffic surveillance, management and control systems, has delivered bespoke cameras and software for an integrated security solution in three major tunnels in the Czech...
I read this. Important for workplace tunnel construction safety. Every tunnel must have this (I copy the writing):
Worker Tracking & Safety Monitoring in Construction:
UWB RFID Brings Security to Grand Paris Express
Worker tracking RTLS...
Associate Professor Dr Roszilah Hamid with together with seven other researchers from the faculty’s Smart and Sustainable Township Research Centre (SUTRA) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) starts initiative to develop a fire protection...