Local Dutch news outlet GelreNieuws writes that during the maintenance works at Betuweroute tunnel, a worker got injured. The circumstances nor the nature of injury has not been disclosed. Betuweroute is a railway between The Netherlands...

9 workers trapped as tunnel collapses in south China Xinhua news write. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-09/11/c_139359258.htm

Hindustan Times: "An interim report from the CGWB (Central Ground Water Board), submitted on Monday, and another from an independent scientist have found “obstructions” in the groundwater flow due to several man-made...

Completion of the 8.6 kilometer long La Línea tunnel after 12 long years and many governments, tunnels suddenly become a subject of discussion in Colombian media. Not a day passes without the mention of the La Línea tunnel and in...

Research performed by Norway's SINTEF (an independent research institute) suggests that the rescue rooms are important help to people in case of tunnel fire. This has been reported in an article titled 'We should establish rescue rooms in...

Slovenian media write that the construction company Cengiz will start the excavation of the second tunnel of Karavanke tunnel as early as this month. Cengiz had been awarded for the 120 million euro Karavanke second tunnel contract after a...

  Norway is the country of tunnels. The country has around one thousand road and railway tunnels in all parts of the land.   Generally, Norwegian tunnels are known to have very high safety standards. But a recent report by the...

The wife of the injured tunnel worker Tyler Tompkins, a Salini Impregilo SPA Inc./The Lane Construction Corporation employee, files a lawsuit against the German tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht and a contractor.  The lawsuit...

The contractor company Cengiz will bring 30 Turkish personnel to Slovenia this week, press writes. Cengiz had already shipped the equipment to the ports of Koper and Trieste. Cengiz could not bring Turkish personnel because of the...

A consortium of Alstom, Indra and Constructora San José wins the tender for the ventilation and other safety of the Pajares variant reports elcomercio. The Pajares variant is a section of the León-Asturias high-speed train line to...

Madrid City Council accepted the calls by the labour unions to conduct a study in the tunnels of the city to document the asbestos usage. This comes after 3,500 fiber cement panels were detected in the Azca tunnels. Study will be conducted in...

  Enbridge closes one of the two existing fuel pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac. They say it is because of a 'damaged anchor support'. Both tunnels together carry 540,000 gallons of fuel daily. They claim it is a...

  'Stop the Silvertown Tunnel' campaigners try one more, probably one last time stopping the construction of the Silvertown Tunnel under the River...

  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

 R. Prasanna, S.M.ASCE ; and A. Boominathan, A.M.ASCE https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29GM.1943-5622.0001678

  Any fire is bad but tunnel fires are worse. The 1949 Holland Tunnel fire was one of them, I read, https://nj1015.com/the-1949-holland-tunnel-fire/

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...