Hatch Mott MacDonald Wins ACEC Grand Award for Niagara Tunnel Project

The world's largest hard rock TBM breaks through on the Niagara Tunnel Project

The world's largest hard rock TBM breaks through on the Niagara Tunnel Project

Hatch Mott MacDonald received the prestigious ACEC Grand Award at the 2015 Engineering Excellence Awards Gala on April 21. ACEC had this project description in their program:

More than six miles long and 43 feet in diameter, the new Niagara Tunnel is the largest renewable energy project in the world. Providing much-needed power for the city of Niagara Falls, it is located deep beneath the city and is more than one and a half times wider than the English Channel Tunnel.

I blogged about this project a bit a number of years back, often pointing to the entertaining posts of a blogger and former insider in the Ontario tunneling and power industry who didn’t have too many flattering things to say about the project! But it is clearly a remarkable project and deserving of the ACEC award. [Source: Tunnel Business Magazine. Image: Tunnel Business Online]