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Snowy 2.0 tunnel boring machine remains stuck after a month

Snowy Hydro released an update regarding the state of its 2,000-ton, 134m-long tunnel boring machine (TMB), which has been stuck in hard rock for a month. Furthermore, it was originally announced on...

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$7.85 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline completed and given green light to go into service

Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday, June 10, announcing the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. The same letter r...

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Kazakhstan’s first automobile tunnel set for completion in 2024

Kazakhstan’s Minister of Transport, Marat Karabayerv, stated that the country’s first road tunnel is going to be completed by the end of the year. Furthermore, the twin tunnel is going to measure 84...

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One of the world’s largest tunnel boring machines is ready for delivery

It was announced on June 4 by German tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer, Herrenknecht AG, that one of the world’s largest TBMs is currently being dismantled for delivery. The TBM, called Shanh...

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Wyoming highway fill gives way causing major traffic disruptions

A landslide that took place at milepost 12.8 of Wyoming’s Teton Pass during the night hours between Friday the 7th and Saturday the 8th of June has caused major traffic disruptions. Furthermore, Teto...

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Videos show landslide blocking road in Taiwan

Footage has recently emerged, showing a landslide blocking a road in Keelung, Taiwan. Furthermore, the incident took place at about 2:30 p.m. on Monday, June 3, near the Beining Road entrance to Chao...

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Implenia-led joint venture secures second contract for major Norwegian sub-sea road tunnel

A joint venture between Implenia and Stangeland Maskin was awarded a second contract, worth CHF 540 million (€556.7 million), by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, for the Rogfast project. T...

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A brief tribute to Sir Alec Skempton

Professor Sir Alec Westley Skempton, one of the founding fathers of soil mechanics, was born exactly 110 years ago, on June 4, 1914, and we will try to draw a brief description of his vast legacy....

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€6 billion underwater tunnel could connect Spain and Morocco by 2030

It was recently reported that financial and strategic feasibility studies are currently underway for a very ambitious underwater tunneling project that would connect the European and African continen...

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Norway sued over the approval of deep-sea mining

It was announced on May 23 by the Norwegian branch of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) that they had filed a lawsuit at an Oslo court against Norway’s decision to approve deep-sea mining. Furthermor...

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