Items Tagged with 'tunnel construction'

Rescue crews spent four days navigating toxic gases and floodwater before recovering final victims, shifting focus to safety oversight and tunnel construction practices in northeast India.

Granite Janet, a 281-ton tunnel boring machine, arrived on an oversized truck at a parking lot beside the Queen City Bridge in Manchester, N.H. late last month as the $360 million Cemetery Brook Drain Tunnel project team prepares for its launch in August.

Construction is expected to begin next year on the first-of-its-kind full-scale ship tunnel, an estimated $870-million project to improve ship traffic on a dangerous stretch of the Norwegian coastline.

Project officials cited price dispute as the main reason to end the progressive design-build contract, and have begun the process of re-bidding work under a different delivery model.

Lane/Brayman’s five-year, $1-billion contract for the Ohio River Tunnel project in Pittsburgh is scheduled to get underway later this year.

Crews with Skanska and E-J Electric toil deep under Manhattan and the East River to completely rebuild a pair of two-tube rail tunnels.

Officials describe MetroLink as one of Ireland's largest-ever infrastructure programs and part of a trend toward automated metro systems.

The central tunnel contract award closes the last major gap in Gateway’s buildout between New York and New Jersey.

With federal funding restored, the rail megaproject's first pair of tunnel boring machines are nearly ready for assembly and launching.

TBM will support one of the city's largest-ever public works projects, set to start in August the bore of a 2.25 mile, 12-ft-dia stormwater conveyance tunnel.