Video: Changing cutting tools on Bertha TBM

After tunneling 9,270 feet under downtown Seattle, the Bertha tunnel boring machine finally broke through at the north portal yesterday. The breakthrough marks a major milestone in the project to replace the seismically deficient SR-99 […]

The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) recently christened a new Tunnel Boring Machine ‘Lady Bird’ in honor of former first lady Claudia Alta ‘Lady Bird’ Taylor Johnson. The roughly 23-ft diameter […]

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 […]