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...
There has been a deadlock at Melbourne's West Gate tunnel construction. Contractors (John Holland and CPB Contractors) have switched off the tunnel boring machines and fired 137 workers, according to the Australian press. The...
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) goes ahead in its plans to build the controversial single tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The tunnel tunnel is controversial because it would drive already imperiled Delta...
During the construction of Milano's Blue Line subway tunnel, 42 year old tunnel engineer Raffaele Ielpo died yesterday.
Accident happened when he was doing the measurements in the subsoil to calculate the height of the wall of an emergency...
On Wednesday afternoon, the operation center in the South West reports a fire in a tunnel under construction at Hardeland in Etne, where SKL is undergoing a major power development of which this tunnel is part.The tunnel lies at the...
According to experts, Italy's tunnel infrastructure managed by Autostrade per l'Italia (Aspi) are not in compliance with the fire requirements, so much so that Italy risks an EU infringement procedure. Only after we see the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By93336EEI0
Everybody remembers in August 2018 the Polcevera Viaduct has collapsed and killed 43 people. It was in Italy. It was in Genoa. And it was maintained by motorway operator Autostrade per...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_s2vAAlrYI
A new movie by Pål Øie called 'Tunnelen' (The Tunnel) will have its premier on December the 25th. It is not to be confused with the 2016 movie by director André...
The biggest construction union local in North America will open an $8 million tunnel rescue training center in Vaughan, Ontario.
The training center will be equipped with air packs and assorted rescue equipment as would any tunnel site....
According to Belgian press, following a broken water pipe at Simonis station, a repair had to be performed at Brussels metro tunnel. And it seems it quickly turned into a Belgium-style language war.
STIB (Brussels Public...
Recycling is good for the environment
https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/5477/recycled-herrenknecht-mixed-shield-is-used-in-netherlands-tunnel-project
Traditional insulation and non-combustibility are easily glossed-over topics. Ascertaining what constitutes passive fire protection, as opposed to risk reduction through provision of safe materials near passengers and operators, takes a reasonable...