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Seoul’s Underground Infrastructure Raises Ground Stability Concerns

Seoul’s recent sinkholes have raised public safety concerns and questions on how existing and future underground infrastructure affects such events.  On March 25th, as you can see in the following vi...

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TBM Flavia’s Final Push: Excavation Complete at Brenner, Italy

In a feat of engineering excellence, excavation on the Italian side of the Brenner Base Tunnel has officially concluded with the final breakthrough of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) “Flavia.” The comple...

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Beneath the Shatt al-Arab: Iraq's Immersed Tunnel Breaks New Ground in Middle East Engineering

Iraq has reached a major milestone in its historic infrastructure journey with the ongoing construction of the Basra Immersed Tunnel—an engineering first for the Middle East. As part of the broader A...

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Floating Concrete Giants: Inside Belgium’s Tunnel Mega-Project

In an extraordinary display of modern geotechnical and civil engineering, Belgium’s 1.8-kilometre Scheldt Tunnel is taking shape beneath the mighty Scheldt River in Antwerp. As part of the transforma...

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Geotechnical Excellence Beneath Kosciuszko with Snowy 2.0 project

Australia’s most ambitious renewable energy initiative, Snowy 2.0, continues to make strong progress despite facing a few geological and environmental setbacks. The project, which links the Tantangar...

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Ground Shifts and Gaps in Safety: What Caused the Gwangmyeong Subway Failure?

On April 11, a devastating collapse occurred at a subway construction site in Gwangmyeong, South Korea, leaving one worker rescued after 13 hours underground and another still missing. The tunnel, bu...

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Auckland’s Underground Giant Emerges After 4 Years of Tunneling

On March 28, 2025, Auckland’s most ambitious underground engineering project reached a historic milestone. After nearly four years of tunneling, the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) “Hiwa-i-te-Rangi” brok...

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Advanced Modelling for Deep Burial Structures in France

In the heart of France’s Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone, a complex challenge unfolds—how do we safely seal radioactive waste for thousands of years? Enter Cigéo: the French National Radioactive Wa...

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Geotechnical news recap of February 2025 now on YouTube!

You can now find Geoengineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting geotechnical news of February 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Santorini on...

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Telangana Tunnel Collapse: Geotechnical Challenges in Rescue Operations

The Telangana tunnel collapse at the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) has entered a critical phase as rescue teams battle against extreme geotechnical challenges to reach eight trapped workers. The c...

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