Tunnel damage makes one street unsafe in Northwest Arkansas
KFSM - Fort Smith,AR,USA
Petrie says it’s a hole 10 feet across, and 12 feet high, and used to be part of a 100-year-old stone tunnel
More than 50% of 15-km Gautrain underground tunnel excavated
Creamer Media’s Engineering News - Garden View,South Africa
Excavation of the adit tunnel linking the bottom of the shaft to the rail tunnel is continuing.Robbins TBM Overcomes High Overburden at Olmos
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By March 2010, the first phase of the tunnel project will be operational and will supply more than 2 billion cubic meters (500 billion gallons) of water annually for irrigation of 560 km2 (130000 acres) of farmland.
Heavy rain causes retaining wall near condo project to collapse
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
The Smart Tunnel was closed from 7pm onwards to divert floodwaters. The flood hit several areas here that are under strong objections from the residents
Roger K. Lewis - Fairfax County’s Metro Mistake Looms Over Tysons …
A tunnel has been strongly favored by almost everyone except the team of contractors … And a city is what the county wants Tysons Corner to become
Preliminary Work Starts in Tysons on Metrorail Expansion
WJLA - Washington,DC,USA
… to Dulles Airport is one step close after federal transit officials allowed site preparation for a 2100 foot tunnel under the heart of Tysons Corner.
$313M project seeks to merge Windsor rail lines
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
The new railway tunnel — large enough to accommodate modern container freight cars — between Windsor and Detroit would add $400 million
Cavico and Bao Loc Plant’s Investor Agreed to $2.8 Mil Adjustment …
MarketWatch - USA
… Bao Loc hydropower project. In 2005 Cavico entered into a $2.1 million contract with VGR Bao Loc to construct headrace tunnel, inclined penstock tunnel
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Devil’s Slide - KQED QUEST Radio Report
Official Caltrans site for the Devil’s Slide project. Includes maps and photos of the tunnel site, bridge, and road construction.
Big Becky moves out of troublesome rock conditions
St. Catharines Standard - St. Catharines,Ontario,Canada
… gorge and Ontario Power Generation hopes the pace will quicken on its Niagara Tunnel Project
Federal Agency Signals Support for Dulles Rail Funding
Washington Post - United States
Now, project officials may begin construction on the rail line itself, including a short tunnel through Tysons
Work on A3 tunnel steams along
Get Surrey - Manchester,England,UK. Nice Picture Gallery of tunnel-works!!
WORK on the mammoth task of burrowing a 1.2-mile tunnel under the A3 at Hindhead is on schedule and gathering pace.
Hindhead tunnel progress
BBC Berkshire - UK: Nice new video from works at the tunnel face
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Water Agency Completes Tunnel for Inland Water Project
89.3 KPCC - CA,USA
It was a scene right out of “Journey to the Center of the Earth” Wednesday near the San Bernardino Mountains. An 800-ton boring machine burst from beneath
Tunneling nearly complete for Inland Empire water project
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Workers walk through a finished part of the Inland Feeder Project’s Arrowhead West Tunnel, a 4-mile connection between Waterman and Devil canyons
US invited to learn Aussie water lessons
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
Mr Beattie’s speech came on a monumental day for a 20-year, $US1.2 billion water tunnel project in southern California designed to alleviate the region’s …
Tunnel is on course to beat blues for drivers
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
… joys of the Hindhead crossroads and the Devil’s Punch Bowl. These are the first pictures inside the boreholes of the tunnel
Underground plan for Brisbane
Courier Mail - Australia
AN underground rail system for Brisbane’s CBD is now being considered by the State Government following a year-long feasibility study into the project.
Hindhead tunnel progress
BBC Berkshire - UK
Contractors of the Hindhead tunnel have revealed the progress they have been making on improving the main route between London and the South Coast.
Estonia goes ahead with preliminary studies on bridge or tunnel to …
Baltic Business News - Europe
Finnish consultants will compare ferry transit with the benefits of a constant transport link such as a bridge or a tunnel.
Tunnel was considered for landslide highway stretch
Globe and Mail - Canada
The 75-year-old North Vancouver resident, who is currently on the advisory board for the Seymour-Capilano tunnel project, first visited the bluffs in 1963.
Delhi govt passes Commonwealth road project
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Describing the project as an important infrastructure conceived after the tunnel project suffered a setback from conservationists
‘Clem 7′ now 1km under city
The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia
“In terms of the tunnel boring machines coming from the north side from Bowen Hills, there is now 1000 metres of twin tunnels excavated,”
Tunnel Boring Machine To Begin Trek To North Shore
KDKA - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The Port Authority’s tunnel-boring machine is ready to start digging its way from downtown to the North Shore possibly as early as today
Widening cracks hold up southern tunnel construction
Thanh Nien Daily - Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
A number of cracks have been found in the tunnel sections pre-constructed for part of a tunnel project running under the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City
Work to begin this week on 2nd tunnel under river
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Joe Grata, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Port Authority’s tunnel-boring machine is ready to start digging its way from Downtown to the North Shore
Australia’s largest tunnelling machines on order for Airport Link
Tamil Brisbane - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
“These state-of-the art tunnelling wonders will be specially designed and manufactured in Germany for use on Airport Link.”
Tunnel to Finland
Baltic Times - Riga,Latvia
TALLINN - Mayor of Tallinn Edgar Savisaar visited Helsinki to discuss with Mayor of Helsinki Jussi Pajunen the building of a railway tunnel between Estonia
Find the latest video from your favorite shows on Discovery Channel.
Discovery Channel :: Extreme Engineering: Alps Tunnel
Tunnel through the Alps in Extreme Engineering.
Tunnel Needs German Tiles
Wheeling Intelligencer - Wheeling,WV,USA
By FRED CONNORS WHEELING - More tile will be used to renovate the eastbound tube of the Wheeling Tunnel than officials originally projected would be needed
Govt pushes ahead with plans for Brisbane tunnels
ABC Online - Australia
It has been a day of big announcements for two new road projects in Brisbane, the Northern Link and the Airport Link.
Transatlantic Tunnel on Discovery Channel
Polish engineers bungle train tunnel
“During work on the tunnel, tracks were laid down on newly-raised ground which meant the distance between the tracks and roof of the tunnel became shorter,”
Sarajevo may rebuild wartime tunnel
Reuters - USA
By Adam Tanner SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The narrow tunnel that ran beneath Sarajevo airport was people’s only escape route during the longest siege
Mexico announces US$1.27 billion drain tunnel
The Associated Press -
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced on Wednesday it will build a US$1.27 billion tunnel that will be almost 39 miles (62 kilometers) long
Eurosprinter completes tunnel load trials
Railway Gazette International - London,UK
DENMARK: A Siemens ES64F4 multi-system locomotive has completed trials in the Storebælt tunnel to establish the maximum trailing load
‘Huge pressure’ to fast track rail tunnel link
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
Project manager Peter Muldoon also said there was “not a peep that the project is being targeted for cuts” by the Government to trim public expenditure
Massive drill surfaces after boring storm tunnel beneath South Boston
Boston Globe - United States
The 350-ton boring machine, custom-built for the project, included a train more than 300 feet long. It dug the tunnel 30 to 50 feet underground.
Between a rock and a hard place
ArabianBusiness.com - Dubai,Umm al Qaiwain,United Arab Emirates
… the Mountain to see Tom,’ That, however is exactly the plan for the Diftah-Shis tunnel project
Dublin tunnel could take 20 electric trains per hour
TWENTY ELECTRIC trains per hour - one every three minutes - would run through the planned tunnel linking Heuston Station with Docklands, according to Iarnród Éireann.
EU to review Morocco-Spain tunnel project
magharebia.com - USA
Morocco and Spain are working to finalise plans for a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar, to present to a joint EU-Moroccan commission in October
Crossrail puts business worth £130m up for grabs
Transport Briefing - London,UK
Taylor Woodrow, which is currently carrying out preliminary works for Crossrail, will help CLRL select teams.
Foreign skilled workers may reduce local Brits to pouring concrete
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
In the next two decades Britain will rebuild a third of its power generators, host the 2012 Olympics, complete the 30 billion pound London Crossrail line
Royal sign off for Crossrail
RailwayPeople.com - UK
The hotly debated Crossrail Bill finally received Royal Assent in July. The way is now clear for work to start on the project
Crossrail risk on track for Lloyd’s
Lloyd’s List - London,UK
The London Crossrail project is one of the largest and most challenging construction schemes in Europe and the risks which are associated with it
Downturn ‘will not affect €2bn plan’ for rail tunnel
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
By Paul Melia PLANS to build a €2bn underground DART tunnel through Dublin city centre will go ahead despite the economic downturn
Controlled blast at hydro scheme
BBC News - UK
In January, a huge boring machine completed a five-mile tunnel for taking water to the plant.
Key ingredient arrives for underground project
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
Lafayette’s long-discussed tunnel project took a major step forward Saturday with the arrival of the machine that will do the work.
So you want to study: Civil engineering
guardian.co.uk - UK
Some of the projects we’re working on include Crossrail, the M1 widening and Dubai Metro (the emirate’s first mass transit system).
SF planners approve Central Subway project
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
An additional 2000-foot stretch of tunnel would be dug into North Beach for the possibility of future expansion.
Istanbul’s tube tunnel to connect Bosporus
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
As efforts to connect two sides of Bosporus by tunneling underwater gain momentum with a new highway tube tunnel project
Date set for Large Hadron Collider launch
ZDNet UK - UK
The LHC is located in a 27km-long circular tunnel that lies beneath the Franco-Swiss border. The first attempt to circulate a beam of particles
Sound Transit
As you know, University Link is a 3.15-mile light rail extension that will run in twin-bored tunnels from downtown Seattle north to the University
Turkish-French JV wins Bosporus tunnel tender
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A Turkish-French consortium, Cengiz Insaat-Makyol-Dogus and Vinci, offered the lowest bid in a tender for the construction of an immersed auto tunnel project that is to connect the European and Asian sides of Istanbul
Boy dies as sand tunnel collapses
BBC News - UK
A 16-year-old boy who died after a tunnel dug in sand dunes collapsed around him, was trapped 5ft (1.52m) below the surface, rescuers have said.
NATM-Engineer University Course
The University Course “NATM-Engineer” was created to satisfy the continuously increasing worldwide demand for qualified tunnel engineers. An increase of the skills of the participants in the fields of geotechnical engineering and tunnelling, with an emphasis on the “New Austrian Tunnelling Method” (NATM) is the aim of the course.
The course is jointly organized by the Graz University of Technology and the University of Leoben.
Courses will be held in Graz and Leoben in Austria.
The degree holders shall be enabled to accomplish tunnelling projects on their own in the face of geotechnical, structural, organizational, contractual and economic needs according to the latest state of the art.
London must pour more money into the tube, says upgrade firm
guardian.co.uk - UK
The £30bn public-private partnership under which firms are contracted to upgrade the tube network slipped into financial crisis last year
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Due to demand from the people for a tunnel at the Kotal hills, the Government has recently sanctioned a huge amount for this project, benefiting all the southern districts. Tunnel was completed in 2004.
South tunnel ‘still on track’
Sun.Star - Philippines
By Linette C. Ramos DESPITE minor delays, project managers hope to finish the P1.2-billion tunnel at the Cebu South Coastal Road Project (CSCRP) by July
Bilfinger Berger Canada files suit against Metro Vancouver over …
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
… safety of the project and the viability of continuing to tunnel as planned with the specified TBMs (tunnel boring machines),” said the court document
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests.
Seattle Sound Transit: Beacon Hill Station goes blue
The blue color scheme for the Link light rail Beacon Hill Tunnel Station was installed recently. In early 2009 the station’s artwork, suspended sculptures by Dan Corson, will be put in place. Light rail trains will begin carrying passengers in mid-2009
Hindhead Tunnel England: New Pictures on Photo-Gallery Highways Agency
Very nice Progress Photographs Hindhead Tunnel July 2008 Highways Agency
NJ Transit Project In Jeopardy During Weak Economy
WCBS-TV New York - NY,USA
Transportation officials hope a new tunnel project, scheduled to start next year, will allow them to run more trains into the city by 2016
Tunnel float under water in dire times
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
The Queensland Government was the first victim of difficult market conditions, as it undertook a hedging strategy to keep the project going
Salem Depot still missed, 50 years after its doom
The Salem News - Beverly,MA,USA
The tunnel project had three phases that were carried out over the better part of a decade. It cost more than $8 million
Another Delay For Rail
Vienna/Oakton Connection - VA,USA
They said their members are convinced that a tunnel- underground construction in the Tysons Corner-area would be far less devastating to the environment.
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