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Tailrace tunnel breakthrough advances Australia’s largest renewable project

Australia’s Snowy 2.0 pumped storage hydropower project has reached a major construction milestone after tunnel boring machine Lady Eileen Hudson completed excavation of the 6 km tailrace tunnel and b...

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A Legacy of Leadership, Mentorship & Service: Gary L. Seider P.E.

After nearly four decades of service to A.B. Chance (purchased by Hubbell in 1994), Gary L. Seider, P.E., is retiring from a career that helped shape not only a product line, but a lasting foundation...

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Alaska 2025's glacier retreat linked to one of the tallest tsunamis ever recorded

A massive landslide in Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord generated one of the highest tsunami run-ups ever documented, according to new scientific analysis. The event occurred on 10 August 2025, when more than...

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Mexico City’s sinking crisis mapped by next-generation satellite

Mexico City’s long-documented subsidence problem is receiving renewed attention after the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission mapped areas of the metropolitan region sinking by more tha...

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Brownfield success: Engineering excellence starts below ground

Why environmental and geotechnical teams must unite data and work as one to better manage risks in brownfield projects. In the world of infrastructure, the most significant risks often lie hidden belo...

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New sprayed concrete lining guide reshapes soft-ground tunnelling standards after decades of lessons

The publication of a new best-practice design guide for sprayed concrete linings (SCL) in soft ground marks an important technical development for underground construction, consolidating lessons from...

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Active landslide threatens long-term connectivity in southern Bulgaria

One of Bulgaria’s most significant modern geotechnical failures has severed the main road between Pamporovo and Smolyan after a large landslide reactivated along a slope system first documented more t...

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Scripting Comes to RS3: Automate, Customize, and Accelerate Your 3D Modelling

Why Scripting Matters Geotechnical projects are more complex. Models are larger, construction sequences have more stages, and parametric studies must be rerun. Manually building and post-processing mo...

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Why historic clay embankments are increasingly vulnerable? The Gloucestershire’s railway landslip

A renewed embankment failure on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway has highlighted how seasonal weather cycles can expose geotechnical vulnerabilities in legacy railway infrastructure. The...

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Deep beneath London: HS2 completes critical safety cross passages in Northolt tunnel

HS2 has reached a major underground construction milestone with the completion of all 34 cross passages linking the twin bores of the 8.4-mile Northolt Tunnel beneath west London. Running between West...

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