If you ignore the touristic Paris words in the beginning, it is a good article for the project overview/news. Sort of Grand Paris 101.
Maybe one thing the article missing is the deployment of 'Worker tracking RTLS system' from a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJFCLJRZyvA
Japanese Tunnel Boring Machine producer JIMT (JIM Technologies) will bring 25 Tunnel Boring Machines to be used construction of Manila Metro. The cutter head of the first TBM has arrived in the...
May not be such a good news for the Stonehenge tunnel project.
"A Neolithic burial site, a mysterious Bronze Age C-shaped enclosure and ancient tools and pottery have been found by archaeologists carrying out work at the proposed new road...
Team or Dr. Lee Deok-hee at Korea Railroad Research Institute developed a survival passage (or tunnel) for subways.
The smart evacuation passage is a system that is stored in a folded state on the wall or ceiling in normal times, and...
ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias), the state-owned railway infrastructure manager in Spain awards the contract for conduction a study for renovation of the El Padrún and Villabona tunnels. The tunnels lie on the...
NSW government's delayed and over-the-budget NorthConnex tunnel will open on Saturday. The $3Billion tunnel is expected to ease traffic congestion in the Sydney's...
Gyeongbu Expressway built 50 years ago. It is saturated with traffic. At peak hours traffic flow drops up to 7km/h. It is part of Seoul Expressways and important feeder for national road system.
Experts suggest that Seoul section of the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6rOsxFrTPQ
Highways England releases the following on 3 February 2021
Jacobs awarded £162.5m Lower Thames Crossing contract
Highways England has awarded Jacobs the £162.5m Integration Partner...
Trucker magazine in Slovenia reports that excavation of second tube of Karavanke tunnel progresses as expected. Already Turkish company Cengiz has excavated 270 meters of 7,948 m long tunnel. The length of the tunnel from Slovenian side to Austrian...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BtBHjH1qQI
Transport for the North (TfN) drops plans for a new major road across the Pennines with a dual-bore tunnel after studies revealed it would be too costly and environmentally damaging. They recommend...
From obsnews - Kim Jong-in, head of the People's Strength Emergency Response Committee visited Busan. He said he would actively review the construction of a Korean-Japanese submarine tunnel connecting Gadeokdo Island and Kyushu, Japan via...
Herrenknecht India has completed the factory tests of two refurbished tunnel boring machines. They will be used by ITD at Bangalore Metro
https://themetrorailguy.com/2021/01/31/factory-tests-completed-on-itds-bangalore-metro-tbms/
Spanish company Azvi has been awarded a contract in Norway for 36.9 million euros
The Sevillian construction company will rehabilitate the existing Ulriken railway tunnel (a new one is being built for which Azvi had contributed to work), located...
Spanish company Sacyr, as a part of SIS Consortium (with Italian Fininc), secures a 388 million euro worth contract from Italy's ANAS.
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Sacyr is awarded construction of the Tremezzina bypass (Como, Italy) for 388 million euros
The...
Pakistani engineers and workers have achieved an important milestone in the excavation of Jagran-II Hydropower tunnel. Two tunnelling teams one started from downstream and another from upstream met in middle with only 10 cm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82-e8tT6yI
HNTB selected by SBCTA for Ontario Airport tunnel project
Emerging technology-based mobility solution project to connect Ontario Airport with Rancho Cucamonga station area via 4-mile-long...
Egyptian construction company Arab Contractors Company finished tunnel works for Phase 3A of Cairo Metro Line 3. It was 4 km tunnel boring. Total Phase 2 is 17,7km. With 15 stations.
Cairo Metro Line 2 shall connect Greater Cairo with some...
The $180 million contract to build a 25m high viaduct and connecting rail tunnels granted to China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) Limited.
RTS Link viaduct and rail tunnels location in Singapore (lta.gov.sg)
LTA Awards Second...
In a move to stem the growing discontent with the planned Lower Thames Crossing, Highways England puts out a press release which emphasizes the jobs boost the project would bring to the Kent and Essex.
Highways England had announced two...