What will 2015 hold for the tunneling industry? Tunnel Business Magazine asked a panel of 4 industry experts that question. The panel consisted of a Colorado School of Mines Professor as well as reps from Black and Veatch, AECOM, and Kenall Manufacturing. In general they seem to agree that there are opportunities in the US for large combined sewer outfall (CSO) projects, water distribution projects, and even high-speed rail, particularly in California. [Source: Check out all of the analysis at Tunnel Business Magazine]
Miscellaneous
Directional Core Drilling for Tunneling
When you’re doing a geological investigation for a tunnel, only having vertical or traditional angled core holes only gives you a very limited picture of geology of the rock mass through which you’re going to […]
Failures
Tunneling ground loss sinkhole opens in Beijing street, swallows truck
On April 26, a sinkhole opened up in a busy Beijing street in China’s capital city, swallowing up a truck. According to news reports, the driver and passenger jumped out of the vehicle before it […]
Miscellaneous
Nicholson Gives You The Shaft & The T-Shirt at NAT 2018
Geotechnical contractor Nicholson Construction has brought out a hilarious marketing slogan for the NAT 2018 tunneling conference happening this week in Washington D.C. If you are at the conference, go visit them in Booth 505 and maybe […]