The 41 workers have spent almost 200 hours inside the tunnel as fears for their health and safety mount https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/20/india-tunnel-workers-may-be-trapped-days-health-fears-uttarakhand

About 200 disaster relief personnel have been at the site using drilling equipment and excavators in the rescue...

   The City of Toronto is investigating a sewage leak in the west end after reports from residents put off by the discovery of foul fluid bubbling onto the street from sanitary...

At least 40 construction workers are trapped after a road tunnel collapsed in India's Uttarakhand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5fNhD4K_ng  

Dozens of construction workers are feared trapped after the road tunnel they were building collapsed in northern India’s Uttarakhand state.... up to 36 people were believed to be trapped in the tunnel, which partially...

  Statens vegvesen, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, has been made aware that plastic clips have been found on a beach in the Haugesund area. Statens vegvesen will now identify whether these come from the filling areas to...

Interesting research paper in progress. Maoyi Liu 1 Rong LIU 2  Zelin Zhou 3 Kai Wang 3 Shijun Zhou 4 Jiayin Jia 4 Jinlai Zhao 5      1 Chongqing City Construction Investment (Group) Co., Ltd,...

The TBM excavated mass was used in several places around Oslo. Only now the municipalities discover that it contains sulphate, potentially contaminating the ground...

National Grid and its contractor Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture (HMJV) have completed what is said to be the world’s largest ever continuous pour of Wagners’ Earth Friendly Concrete on the £1bn London Power Tunnels...

Reduced Pressure Effect on Smoke Layer Plug-Holing Behavior of Tunnel Fires with a Naturally Ventilated Vertical Shaft Jie Wang School of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, 947 Heping Avenue,...

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As the first construction project in Denmark, a water treatment plant at the tunnel factory in Rødbyhavn ensures that all water after the casting of elements for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be reused as wash water. Water is needed to cast...

Bane Nor (the state owned railway infrastructure maintenance and operation company) had not notified the Vestby municipality where the TBM tunnelling excavation earth was dumped had led to the leaching of sulphate and uranium on Åsland....

The dispute over a planned S-Bahn tunnel under the Berlin monument to the Sinti and Roma genocide of WWII is flamed again. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/streit-um-s-bahn-tunnel-unter-sinti-roma-mahnmal-in-berlin-102.html

ASFINAG organizes a large tunnel drill; More than 200 emergency services rehearse in the Bosruck tunnel on the A 9 Pyhrnautobahn Saturday night "large -scale operation" for fire brigades, rescues and police; Tunnel blocked from 5...

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen) aims to increase tunnel safety by using AI. The use of artificial intelligence for tunnel event notification provides impressive accuracy, shows one of the pilot projects of Statens...

Engineers want to set up giant oven at HS2 boring sites to create calcined clay mix for use in foundations and platforms https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/12/how-hs2-waste-clay-could-be-conjured-into-concrete-to-cut-emissions

English news https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202310/12/WS65279818a31090682a5e82ae.html

Campaigners have taken the first steps towards a legal challenge against the government’s decision to grant a development consent order (DCO) to the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel...

Gardens, children’s playgrounds, road signage, cars and homes are being caked in dust https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/silvertown-tunnel-dust-royal-docks-greens-newham-sadiq-khan-b1096362.html