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HS2 launches third TBM in London
HS2 has once again begun tunnelling under London, launching its third TBM under the city. The 853m long, 6.2m i.d….
HS2’s London ‘superhub’ station construction commences
Wednesday 23rd June saw HS2 Ltd commence permanent works on its west London ‘superhub’ station – Old Oak Common. The UK…
Clif Kettle, 1951 – 2020
World leading grouting expert Clif Kettle has sadly passed away after a short illness, Bachy Soletanche, with whom Clif spent…
HS2’s first London TBMs officially awarded
The contract for the first two TBMs for London’s HS2 tunnels has been signed with HS2’s Main Works Civils Contractor,…
UK clients look to new procurement routes
Contractor Skanska rounded up some heavy hitters from the UK’s infrastructure clients to look at how the construction industry is…
Mace/Dragados win final HS2 Euston contracts
The UK’s HS2 Ltd and a Mace/Dragados team has signed contracts to deliver the high speed rail project’s landmark terminus…
Bentonite TBM pioneer wins Sir Frank Whittle Medal
Civil engineering pioneer John Bartlett CBE FREng, who designed the UK side of the Channel Tunnel, has received one of…
Melbourne creates tunnelling training centre
An Australian-first tunnelling training centre in Melbourne will train thousands of local workers to deliver the Andrews Labor Government’s record…
BTS Conference and Exhibition
The BTS 2024 Conference and Exhibition is the largest gathering of tunnelling professionals in the UK. Taking place on October…
Mike King strengthens WSP tunnelling team
Mike King has left CH2M and joined WSP as the new head of geotechnical engineering and tunnelling within their 600…
£1M fine for Crossrail contractor following incidents
A joint venture comprising of three companies established to support the Crossrail tunnel construction has been fined a total of…
CH2M withdraw interest in HS2 Phase 2b
Jacqueline C. Hinman, Chairman and CEO of CH2M, has written to David Higgins, Chairman of the UK’s HS2 Ltd, to…
Alun Thomas joins Minova
Minova is pleased to announce that Dr Alun Thomas has joined them as their Director of Tunnelling for (EMEA) Europe, Middle…
TfL takes over tunnelling academy
Crossrail’s legacy of tunnelling and underground construction will continue after Transport for London (TfL) signed a contract with Prospects College…
Prosecution confirmed for Crossrail incidents
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has informed BAM Nuttall Limited, Ferrovial Agroman (UK) Ltd, and Keir Infrastructure and…
Think big for a bright future
The UK tunnelling industry must “think big” if it is to reclaim the leading role it used to play in…
EIB loan to Thames Tideway
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide a £700M loan for the £4.2bn, 25km long, 7.2m i.d. Thames Tideway…
Sarah Ryan moves to SIKA UK
Sarah Ryan is the new specification sales manager in the South East of England, for waterproofing company, Sika. Sarah has…
Tunnelling Journal April/May 2016
In the February/March issue of TJ my comment focused on the allocation of risk, and my belief that it should…
HS2 appoints Phase One Engineering Delivery Partner
With construction due to start next year, the UK’s HS2 project took another significant step forward on March 18, with…
Crossrail 2 and HS3 get green light in UK Budget
In the UK’s 2016 Budget speech today (March 16), Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne has given London’s Crossrail 2…
Crossrail named the Elizabeth line as the Queen visits Bond Street
Crossrail is to be named the Elizabeth line in honour of the Queen. The name was unveiled along with the line’s…
Contractors from 11 countries vie for $10.9bn Melbourne Metro Rail
The largest ever public transportation project in the Australian state of Victoria, Melbourne Metro Rail, has attracted strong interest from…
Arup Atkins JV awarded Tideway contract
A joint venture between Atkins and Arup has confirmed its award of a consultancy contract to deliver design and engineering…
AECOM announces Tideway award
AECOM has officially announced that it has been formally appointed as the lead design consultant for the central section of…
Further consultation launched for London's Crossrail 2
Transport for London has launched its third public consultation – this on more detailed plans – for the new Crossrail…
Crossrail dismantles final TBM
Crossrail’s final tunnelling machine, Victoria, is being dismantled 40m below Farringdon in central London following the completion of Crossrail tunnelling….
Growth Commission announced for Crossrail 2
London Mayor, Boris Johnson has announced a new Growth Commission to help the city realise Crossrail 2’s full potential to…
Preferred 'financer' for Tideway selected
The UK’s Thames Water has selected a preferred bidder to deliver the 25km long, 7.2m i.d. Thames Tideway Tunnel. The…
Crosslinx consortium scoops $5 billion Eglinton Crosstown contract
On Tuesday, the contract for one of the largest and most sought after infrastructure projects in Canada’s history was handed…
Crossrail tunnels complete
UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson celebrated the completion of Crossrail’s tunnels by going 40m…
Last stage for Crossrail tunnels
Crossrail’s final tunnelling machines, Victoria and Elizabeth, are currently being prepared to complete the last two 750m tunnel drives between…
Crossrail 2 takes 'major' step forward
The London Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have hailed a major step forward for Crossrail 2 after the UK…
Crossrail tunnels near completion
EPBM Victoria has successfully broken in to the eastern end of Liverpool Street Crossrail station. The breakthrough, 40m beneath the…
Land Rover launches new convertable with test drive through Crossrail's tunnels
Forty metres below the streets of London, the first prototype of Land Rover’s new Range Rover Evoque Convertible was granted…
Boris reveals plans for more London road tunnels during visit to Boston's Big Dig
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, yesterday (February 8th) confirmed five locations for planned major road tunnels under the UK…
Crossrail tunnels edge towards completion
TBM Elizabeth, named after HM The Queen, has successfully broken through in to the eastern end of Liverpool Street Crossrail…
UK tunnelling skills development receives £2.8 million investment
UK Skills Minister Nick Boles today (22 January) announced £1.1 million of government funding to match £1.7 million of industry…
Arcadis Hyder-led team to head up Crossrail 2 engineering study
On Thursday, January 15, Transport for London (TfL) appointed four major consulting groups to develop detailed plans for Crossrail 2,…
Paddington link tunnel award
London Underground (LU) has announced its intention to award the contract to design and build the Paddington link tunnel, which…
BBMV completes platform tunnels
BBMV, a JV comprising Balfour Beatty, BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, which is delivering two sections…
Crossrail 2 preferred route announced
The Mayor of London has set out the case for Crossrail 2, the £20bn high frequency, high capacity rail line…
Crossrail East Tunnels complete
Crossrail’s train tunnels in Docklands and southeast London are now structurally complete, following the breakthrough by TBM Ellie at Victoria…
Tideway gets UK government go-ahead
Thames Water has today been given the go-ahead by the UK Government to start building London’s $4.2bn, 25km long tunnelled…
Crossrail's Jessica breaks through
Crossrail’s 7.1m diameter TBM Jessica has completed a new train tunnel from Limmo Peninsula, near Canning Town, breaking into Victoria…
TfL announces that MTR will run Crossrail services
Transport for London (TfL) has today announced its intention to award the contract to operate Crossrail services to MTR Corporation…
Crossrail Stations at 50% completion
The construction of Crossrail’s new stations in central London and Docklands is now half complete, with almost three miles of…
BBC documentary to take viewers behind the scenes of Crossrail
A new three-part documentary taking viewers behind the scenes of Crossrail starts next week on UK television channel BBC Two….
Ellie breaks through into Stepney Green
Crossrail TBM ‘Ellie’ has broken through into a cavern 40m beneath Stepney Green, in the East End of London. The…
Crossrail's shortest drives begin
Crossrail today started its shortest tunnel drive from Limmo Peninsula, beside Canning Town station, towards Victoria Dock Portal in east…
Crossrail breakthrough heralds 75% tunnel completion
London’s Crossrail train tunnels are now three quarters complete reaching the 32km mark, following the breakthrough of Victoria, one of…
Crossrail 2 report shows positive funding possibilities
A Taksforce report by business group, London First named ‘Funding Crossrail 2’ has found that the new £12bn underground rail…
Crossrail's fortnight of milestones
Crossrail has delivered an unprecedented fortnight of construction progress ranging from completion of new train tunnels to three tunnel boring…
Andy Mitchell joins Tideway as CEO
Andrew Mitchell, Programme Director and Board Member at Crossrail, has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of London’s Thames…
TFL announces Bakerloo Line Link tender shortlist
London Underground (LU) has announced Costain/Skanska JV, Dragados S.A and Morgan Sindall/BeMo Tunnelling JV as the three shortlisted contractors bidding…
Tunnelling Journal Dec/Jan 2013
Bangkok Blue Line, Terratec, Slurry Removal, Crossrail, Crossrail’s Western Tunnels, Robbins, Herrenknecht, Trolex, BTS, ICE, CTRL 2, LTA’s Thomson Line,…
Crossrail's Stepney Green breakthrough
The UK’s Crossrail project has reached another important milestone with the breakthrough by Joint Venture Dragados/Sisk, which is constructing the…
More tunnels for HS2 announced
Following an eight week public consultation, it has been announced that Britain’s new High Speed 2 railway will now run…
Hinkley Point C gets go-ahead
The joint venture of Bouygues TP and Laing O’Rourke (BYLOR) has welcomed today’s announcement by EDF Group and the UK…
Crossrail completes first running tunnel
Crossrail’s western tunnels JV Bam Ferrovial/Kier Joint Venture (BFK) has completed the London project’s first running tunnel as EPBM Phyllis finishes…
Crossrail's millionth tonne removed
The one millionth tonne of earth to travel by rail has left Crossrail’s tunnel entrance in west London for Northfleet…
Crossrail TBM no7 launches
Crossrail’s seventh tunnel boring machine, Jessica, will start boring from Stratford today. The 1,000 tonne TBM will start building the…
URS named lead designer for Bank station capacity upgrade project
Dragados SA has appointed URS as lead design consultant for the £563M Bank station capacity upgrade project. Dragados was appointed…
Stepney Green Westbound cavern complete
Crossrail’s eastern running tunnels team has marked another major milestone this week with the completion of the westbound cavern 40m…