“The collapse occurred early in the morning of July 17 along the Fort Laramie-Gering irrigation canal west of Lingle and caused a large breach of the canal...
European Commission opens an investigation into whether the public financing model of the Fehmarn Belt fixed rail-road link is in line with EU state aid rules.
Denmark will own and bear the full risk for financing the...
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed for the 100 kilometers-long Helsinki-Tallinn undersea railway tunnel.
It has been signed on July 12 by 4 parties: "Finest Bay Area Development (Febay), Finland, Touchstone Capital...
Astaldi had declared insolvency in September 2018. Salini, which grabbed larger Impregilo before, now uses this opportunity to also take over Astaldi.
A good summary of what is going on in Italian (tunnel) construction...
Design-build construction of the latest cable tunnel under London is scheduled for award in November 2019 and start of construction on the six-year project in 2020.
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The rebidding process of the Zojila tunnel is taken longer than expected.
When the contract with with first contractor IRB Infrastructure was cancelled, in a rebidding process in in 2018 M/S IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd was...
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The boring of the Geçitköy-Güzelyurt water tunnel in Turkish Republic of North Cyprus continues.
Length : 5700 meters
Diameter: 4,2 meters
Method: Tunnel Boring...
Silvan tunnel is part of the gigantic GAP (Southsastern Anatolia Project) of Turkey. In combination with Babakaya tunnel, it will convey the water from the 175.5m high (highest in Europe) Silvan Dam to a 97,7 kilometer long water pipeline...
Chennai Airport has appointed Singapore-based Meinhardt as the consultant to examine a proposal for the construction of a tunnel inside the airport.
Meinhardt is to provide suggestions and recommendations in six...
Melbourne metro construction costs are already 31% over in the early phases of project. 31%!
So far $476 million, was approved but the expected expenditure is $625,5 million!
For the total cost of the metro project $11 billion was...
Gerede tunnel is no spectacular. It is only a water tunnel 5,5m diameter. 31.6km long.
Türkiye has more interesting tunnel projects. For example Bosphorus tunnel connecting Europe to Asia.
But Gerede is more challenging because...
Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be constucted between Denmark and Germany.
18 kilometers long Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be the World's longest immersed tunnel!
Denmark’s state transport company Sund & Bælt and IBM join forces and in...
A judge investigating the $624 million cost-overrun lawsuit against the state of Washington finds out that the evidence has been thrown out.
The 17,5m diameter Bertha (produced by Japan's Hitachi Zosen) had hit a steel pipe in 2013. It...
The 13,051 feet-high Rohtang Pass on the Manali-Leh highway remains blocked due to heavy snowfall for six months. As a result, Lahaul and Spiti bordering Ladakh and Tibet is cut off from the rest of the country between November and May.
The...
Elon Musk's "Boring Company" comes up with some serious document this time, titled “Washington, DC, to Baltimore Loop Project Proposed by the Boring Company”.
Boring Company plans to shorthen the hour-long car...