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Former ITA executive director Olivier Vion dies
The tunnelling industry has been paying tribute to Olivier Vion, a former executive director of the ITA and a BTS member, who died on Saturday, July 20 after a short illness.
Tunnelling under way on Polish road tunnel
The TBM has been launched to construct the tunnel on Poland’s S19 highway.
Chalking up achievements
Boring on HS2’s longest tunnel, through the Chiltern Hills, is complete. Keren Fallwell spoke to some of the team involved
BBT SE reduces segment production impact
BBT SE is celebrating the steps taken to reduce the environmental impact of tunnel segment production for the Brenner Base Tunnel.
Parson appointed to New Hampshire tunnel project
Parsons Corporation has been selected by the City of Manchester, New Hampshire, to help deliver the new Cemetery Brook Drain Tunnel Project, the city’s largest public works project to date.
ITA at 50: Iconic tunnels
Among recent celebrations for its 50th Anniversary, ITA announced a list of ‘Iconic Projects’ from across the world built during the same period. A book with the list will contain profiles of the tunnel projects is due to be available soon. T&TI briefly reviews the listing, including those from the UK
Veidekke wins Gothenburg rail contract
The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) has appointed Veidekke to build the Haga–Otterhällan section of the Västlänken railway connection under central Gothenburg.
Oregon makes waves in energy research
PacWave South will be the first pre-permitted, full-scale test facility for wave energy devices in the US. Jacobs partnered with the HDD Company and Oregon State University to help deliver the US first, on Oregon’s Pacific Coast. The project, which includes offshore bores, is described by Nason McCullough, Vice President and Senior Geotechnical Engineer, Jacobs; Phill Perron, Vice President, Projects, The HDD Company; and, Dan Hellin, Deputy Director, PacWave
Data Focus on Tunnel Projects In Americas
Courtesy of GlobalData, a sister publication of T&T, we take a look at tunnel-based infrastructure project value pipelines in North America and Latin America based on figures from the Q1-2024 analysis.
Subway expansion in Vienna
A milestone step on Vienna’s metro expansion is JV of Porr & Strabag receiving a Herrenknecht EPBM to work on extension of Line U2