As usual, New Civil Engineer is has a more sober header than daily newspapers.
Progress revealed on HS2 tunnelboringmachines
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/progress-revealed-on-hs2-tunnel-boring-machines-27-05-2020/
This prufrock thing pure vaporware. Elon Musk has no...perience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnelboringmachines. You may hire some experien...k this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnelboring machine 10 times faster than st...
Probably this tunnel will serve China to make the Uygurland a `more Chinese` land.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-10/uyghur-culture-under-threat-in-china-thrives-in-australia/11673636
Donnie the TunnelBoring Machine, behind some people.
https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/
#Coxwell
Turkey to benefit more from BRI as China-Europe freight trains through subsea Bosphorus tunnel
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-11/08/c_138540179.htm
' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnelboring machine technology'?
Are you serious?
The last time I checked it was the USA a.k.a Robbins, who invented TBM and took it further than anyone else.