Search Results: 'Skanska'

Skanksa completes $1.8bn underground rail scheme in Los Angeles
30 June, 2023
Skanska, in collaboration with Traylor Bros, has successfully concluded its involvement in the underground Regional Connector Transit project situated in downtown Los Angeles, marking the end of their nine-year engagement. The joint venture secured the design-build contract from LA Metro in April 2014, leading to the completion of this remarkable $1.8 billion undertaking.

Packed schedule in Boston
28 June, 2023
TTNA previews the packed program for RETC 2023, in Boston, MA, in June

Two years of permanent construction completed at HS2’s Old Oak Common Station site
23 June, 2023
Two years of permanent construction have been completed at HS2’s Old Oak Common Station site.

Skanksa wins further Norwegian road project
22 June, 2023
Skanska has secured the contract for the design and construction of the E10/rv 85 road project in northern Norway, including seven tunnels.

HS2 green tunnel portal completed
16 June, 2023
Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS) has completed the western portal of HS2’s Copthall Green Tunnel.

Skansa secures Norwegian tunnels work
09 June, 2023
Skanska has signed a contract with the Norwegian Road Authority to deliver a section of Norway’s E18 motorway, including two tunnels.

Hole appears above HS2 Chiltern Tunnel
15 May, 2023
Investigations are under way after a surface hole appeared above an HS2 tunnel in Buckinghamshire on Saturday.

HS2 trials dual-fuel piling rig
28 April, 2023
HS2 has installed four 30m-deep piles on a London site using a hydrogen dual-fuel piling rig.

HS2 confirms work on Euston Tunnel on hold
18 April, 2023
HS2 Ltd has confirmed that tunnelling to London’s Euston Station terminus has been deferred.

HS2 delay and Euston revisions will add costs, says NAO
27 March, 2023
The government’s two-year pause on parts of HS2 will create additional costs and a potential higher price overall, according to the public spending watchdog.

SCS Monitoring after HS2 foam pool appears
21 February, 2023
Tunnelling on HS2 was halted for around two hours on Saturday after a pool of foam appeared above the TBM in Ruislip.

Norwegian Tunnels Stats Update: 2022
21 February, 2023
Data from the latest annual update on tunnelling activity in Norway show an uptick in excavation and well as some changes in who is doing the most work

HS2 partners with Build UK for Open Doors 2023
11 January, 2023
HS2 is partnering with Build UK, an organisation representing more than 40% of the UK construction industry, to support the Open Doors 2023 programme.

Ken Spiby awarded James Clark Medal
27 December, 2022
The British Tunnelling Society has chosen Ken Spiby as recipient of the James Clark Medal for his major contributions to the industry

Skanska signs Rogfast tunnel contract
12 December, 2022
Skanska has signed a contract with the Norwegian Road Authority to build a subsea tunnel for Norway’s E39 Rogfast project.

HS2 exceeds diesel-free site target
07 December, 2022
HS2 is now operating 10 diesel-free sites, exceeding the project’s original target of one diesel-free site in 2022.

HS2’s 2.7km spoil conveyor starts operation
23 November, 2022
A 2.7km (1.7 mile) network of conveyors has begun operating in West London, and will move more than five million tonnes of spoil excavated for the construction of HS2.

HS2 announces winners of competition to drive best practice
14 November, 2022
HS2 Ltd has announced this year’s winners of a competition to share insight from the UK’s largest construction project with the wider infrastructure industry.

National Highways resubmits application for UK’s longest road tunnel
08 November, 2022
National Highways has resubmitted its Development Consent Order (DCO) application for the Lower Thames Crossing.

Design and construction of a cavern in downtown LA
31 October, 2022
Christoph Eberle reports on the BTS March evening meeting where Carlos Herranz, Tunnel Design Manager at Mott MacDonald, discussed the design and construction by sequential excavation of LA Metro’s largest underground cavern.