Deep under the Yangtze River, a stranded tunnel boring machine that looked like a sunk cost has instead become a showcase of ...
Boring a tunnel is a very tedious job (the name of the operation gives it away), but one perfume salesman and space enthusiast has a different opinion. The Boring Company’s Elon Musk dreams that one ...
Engineers in New South Wales, Australia are working to restart one of the three drilling tunnels on the already delayed Snowy 2.0 pumped storage hydro project after it was halted in December when a 30 ...
As with any task, if there’s more than one way to do it, then you should explore all of your options before forging ahead. This holds true in the world of utility construction. For years now, ...
These photos show a huge HS2 tunnelling machine being lifted out of the ground – after it completed a five-mile drive underneath London. The 850 tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) – named Sushila – was ...
Here's how Chinese engineers rescued a failed tunnel boring machine by guiding a second one to meet it under a river.