Geotechnical consultant Gregg Korbin served on the Technical Advisory Board for Washington State DOT for the SR-99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Tunnel Project. He recently presented to the Vancouver Geotechnical Society on lessons learned from […]
The Crossrail project in London was Europe’s largest infrastructure project at the time of its construction beneath metro London, and there were many geotechnical innovations and challenges. Lord Robert Mair of Cambridge University recently gave […]
Tunneling World is reporting that Soletanche Bachy has completed the first tunnel using low carbon concrete pipes. The project involves a new linear discharge tunnel 921 m long, that links the new Bonneuil-en-France wastewater treatment […]
The 2021 Buchanan Lecturer is Dr. Philippe Jeanjean who is the Senior Advisor for Geotechnical Engineering at BP America in Houston, Texas. Dr. Jeanjean’s lecture is entitled “Offshore Geotechnics: From Oil & Gas to Renewable […]
How do you design deep foundations above a subway tunnel? Very carefully…and with PLAXIS 3D FEM geotechnical modeling and analysis! […]
A TBM named for Eliza Leggett, an active participant on the underground railroad, and later a suffragist, has been tunneling for the past 6 months on the massive I-75 reconstruction project in metropolitan Detroit. The […]
Golder, along with a multidisciplinary team of firms, was recognised with the Tunnelling Association of Canada’s (TAC) 2020 Canadian Project of the Year Award (under $100M). The honour was presented for the Riverside Stormwater Interceptor […]
The Boring Company’s tunnel boring machine is nearly complete with the first half of the dual tunnel people mover system servicing the Las Vegas Convention Center. The secretive tunnel project is reported to cost $52.5M […]
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 […]
The British Tunnelling Society (BTS) is encouraging our profession and the public to celebrate National Tunneling Day today, December 7. Their goal is to promote the industry (and its many professions) to students of all ages […]
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