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High-Speed Naples-Bari: The Dig Using Hyperbaric Pressure Begins
- May, 31, 2024
- Tunneling Sustainable Development News On Projects / Industry News On Products & Services
- Italy
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Project and Its Challenges In an innovative leap for Italy’s high-speed rail network, hyperbaric excavation technology is being deployed on the Naples-Bari railway line. This cutting-edge techniq...
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Rexy Completes Its Journey in the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
- May, 15, 2024
- Tunneling General Construction News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Toronto
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The end of April 2024 marks a significant milestone for the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension as the tunnel boring machine, Rexy, emerges triumphant from the western underground segment. This achieve...
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Progress and Challenges of HS2's Northolt Tunnel Project
- Apr, 24, 2024
- Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Tunneling In Soils Engineering Geology Structural Geology News On Projects / Industry
- United Kingdom, Northolt
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Northolt tunnel project under High Speed 2 (HS2) is making significant steps forward, with all four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) now operational. The recent addition of TBM Anne, joining its pre...
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Broadway Subway Project’s TBM breaks through Oak-VGH Station in Vancouver, Canada
- Oct, 17, 2023
- Tunneling Other Geotechnical Transportation Geotechnics
- Canada
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The first of the two tunnel-boring machines (TBM) digging through the Broadway Subway Project broke through the Oak-VGH Station in Vancouver on October 12, 2023. The news came on Friday, as the Gove...
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Drilling for Stuttgart 21 project’s 56km tunnels marks completion
- Sep, 29, 2023
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics Other Geotechnical
- Germany
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A significant milestone was reached in the Stuttgart 21 project with the final tunneling breakthrough taking place in the city’s airport tunnel on September the 14th. Furthermore, the Stuttgart 21 p...
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Drilling for the 5.63-kilometer-long Učka Tunnel in Croatia has been completed
- Sep, 22, 2023
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics Other Geotechnical Underground Structures
- Croatia
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
It was announced that drilling for the new 5.63-kilometer-long Učka Tunnel in Croatia has been completed on Monday, September 18. The new Učka Tunnel will be the second road tunnel under the Učka mou...
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British company introduces waterless pumped storage hydropower technology
- Aug, 24, 2023
- Green Infrastructure Tunneling Energy Geotechnics Other Geotechnical Underground Structures
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A UK-based company has developed a waterless pumped storage hydropower technology, and recently teamed up to deliver 100MW energy storage capacity projects by 2030. Furthermore, this technology work...
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World’s longest railway tunnel will remain closed for months after derailment
- Aug, 21, 2023
- Tunneling Railway Geotechnics Underground Structures Other Geotechnical Transportation Geotechnics
- Switzerland
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Europe’s Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world’s longest and deepest railway tunnel, is going to remain closed to passenger trains for several months after it sustained damage from a derailment on August 1...
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HS2’s Florence and Cecilia TBMs reach Little Missenden
- Aug, 09, 2023
- Tunneling Railway Geotechnics Underground Structures Other Geotechnical
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
HS2 announced on Tuesday, August 8, that Florence and Cecilia, the two 2,000-ton tunnel boring machines (TBMs) had reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft. This event marks a significant mile...
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Consent granted for the development of Scotland’s £500M underground pumped storage hydro plant
- Jul, 28, 2023
- Green Infrastructure Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Other Geotechnical
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The development of a £500M underground pumped storage hydro plant in Ben Cruachan, Scotland, was granted consent on Tuesday, July 25. The project involves the expansion of the existing Cruachan Powe...
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