London’s £5 Billion Thames Tideway Tunnel Super Sewer Nears Completion After 8 Years of Construction
London is on the verge of realizing a monumental feat of engineering as its £5 billion "super sewer", the Thames Tideway Tunnel, approaches completion. The 25-kilometer (16-mile) tunnel, wide enough to fit three double-decker buses side-by-side, is set to revolutionize how the city manages its sewage, preventing millions...
Breakthrough for HS2’s Longest Rail Tunnel Under UK’s Chiltern Hills
HS2's first Tunnel boring machine (TBM) named "Florence" has broken through the chalk geology of the Chilterns Hills in Buckinghamshire, UK, completing a 10-mile drive and excavating the longest Tunnel on the high-speed rail project. The breakthrough took place on February 27th, 2024, and marks a significant milestone...
HS2’s Second Giant Tunnel Boring Machine Assembled and Set to Start Digging Into Birmingham
The UK's High Speed 2 (HS2) rail network took a significant step forward this week as specialists assembled a 1,600-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) set to begin excavating the second bore of the Bromford Tunnel into central Birmingham next spring. The behemoth machine joins 'Mary Ann', the first...