A major construction company gave the safety regulator a detailed plan to ... https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/there-was-a-plan-to-stop-sydney-tunnel-workers-from-being-killed-it-was-ignored-for-five-years-20250324-p5lm00.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7Rs4mA24k The North East Link Project has been leading the charge on sustainable practice in construction and has now become the first infrastructure project in Australia to achieve PAS 2080...

India Today has most interesting reporting on this unfortunate incident. https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/india/telangana/story/poor-planning-contractor-change-cag-report-raised-telangana-tunnel-issue-2691697-2025-03-10

Thirteen workers, including a 32-year-old, employed on tunnelling projects in Sydney have been diagnosed with silicosis. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/thirteen-workers-sydney-tunnelling-projects-diagnosed-silicosis/105058084

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJhsk22QFnE Hyundai & Ghella consortium (contractors) say this was `anticipated` situation with tunnel boring machine tunneling and immediately controlled. Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB)...

The Fehmarn Belt Link tunnel is expected to be completed in Europe by 2029. But detractors say it will severely impact the...

NSW government installs a warning mechanism for overheight vehicles. Better late than... Below is their release; A rare but highly disruptive problem for heavy vehicle operators on the Pacific Motorway is now a thing of the past following the...

Link: https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/61710/australia-snowy-hydro-pauses-snowy-20-underground-works-after-an-accident

A construction company called "Direct Underground Inc." has been fined $250,000 for the tunnel collapse which killed two workers in...

Korea Railroad Corporation announced that it will hold a 'Railroad Tunnel Manager Capacity Strengthening Training' with the Korea Tunnel Underground Space Society for three days from the 24th to the 26th. Tunnel construction safety at...

A fire is reported in a large construction machine in under-construction Boknafjord tunnel of Rogfast project. Reportedly the machine is 4-5 kilometers inside the tunnel. The fire department decided not to enter the tunnels because of the...

Unions have raised concerns about workers' readiness to use "refuge chambers" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/more-work-stops-on-snowy-hydro/104873152

  -Held by the MoL; winders selected based on the evaluation results of the advanced construction technologies… two prizes this year, as were the previous year. -“Will continue corporate-level endeavors to develop new...

Engineering daily write this Korean book published by Director Kim Young-geun of the Construction Strategy Planning Office of Korea has four parts: Tunnel Risk and Tunnel Accidents NATM Tunnel Accidents and Lessons TBM Tunnel Accidents...

For your interest Korea: 24 Vehicles damaged by concrete fallen from Suam Tunnel ceiling https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/61088/korea-24-vehicles-damaged-by-concrete-fallen-from-suam-tunnel-ceiling

Ground subsidence in Gifu Prefecture was likely caused by tunnel construction work for the magnetic-levitation (maglev) Chuo Shinkansen Line, Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) said. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15591176

Explosion occured when at Mokhtar Soussi Dam construction site, the workers were attempting to remove a metal piece stuck in the tunnel using a gas cylinder for...

  This is form June and about the work accident in China that killed 3 people last year.  Although the news article if about 7 months old, it is timeless to take lessons from...

Instead of buying another TBM, we retrofitted the shield and cutterhead with new parts from Germany. It's technically difficult when the tunnels are...

  ÖBB press release gives an account of the tunnel floodings as part of the mid-November floods in Austria. According to ÖBB , "the four-track west route was massively hit by heavy rainfall and storm, especially the...