Robotic arms for tunnel-boring machines, concrete reinforcement made of old wind turbine blades and machine learning to reduce concrete waste are among innovations emerging from the $16.7-billion civil construction program for the U.K.’s London to Birmingham high-speed railroad. Construction began late last year.
The project will connect more than four million Buenos Aires citizens to sewers via a network of collector tunnels, a wastewater treatment plant and an outfall.
Elon Musk moves forward with a plan to expand his underground transportation system beyond the convention center area and into other Las Vegas corridors.