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Public opinion
12 December, 2013
Almost four years ago Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) dubbed "Obamacare" by detractors. As this new year begins most aspects of the ACA that haven't already started are now effective-such as the health care exchanges for people buying their own plans, and making it illegal for insurers to deny coverage based on preexisting conditions.

Growing underground
11 December, 2013
Ever more efficient mine development infrastructure, and geotechnical planning, are key to expanding production at major mines. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Shutdown Showdown
04 December, 2013
"Due to a lapse in funding, the US Federal Government has shut down.”

Southland Mole to build Honolulu sewer
14 November, 2013
The City and County of Honolulu awarded some USD 175M in contracts for the Kaneohe-Kailua gravity sewer tunnel project to the joint venture group of Southland Contracting, Inc. and Mole Construction, Inc. (Southland Mole JV) and local construction management firm Bowers + Kubota.

Heavy Metal
10 October, 2013
The central nippon expresway company’s Makoto Yamawaki, Masahiro nakata, and atsunori ishida give Tunnels a preview of their assessments of countermeasures for excavated soil containing heavy metals at the shin tomei expressway’s gakudozan tunnel project. the final paper has been submitted for presentation at WTC 2014

Facing the future
25 September, 2013
The population of London is expected to reach 10 million by 2030, and the future of the Underground is crucial to supporting this growth. Neil Moss, principal tunnel engineer, and Keith Bowers, profession head for tunnel engineering, both of London Underground, review possible future developments in the near future

Funding Gap
25 September, 2013
Highlights such as the Jubilee Line Extension stand out from the economic mire of the past 50 years. The second half of the 20th century was not kind to a Britain newly stripped of superpower status, or the capital’s metro, which following WW2 entered a half century of neglect and underinvestment

In the smoke
23 August, 2013
Petr Pospisil of consultancy Tunnelventilation.pro gives this reflection on the realities ofa fire in a tunnel, and the disorientating effects that can still be in effect despite ventilation

Breathing tunnels
23 August, 2013
Roger Gale of KGD Developments discusses making road tunnel environments safethrough effective filtration

Riyadh ‘Miracle’ metro project unveiled
30 July, 2013
Riyadh Governor Prince Khaled bin Bandar on 28 July 2013 unveiled the USD 20.9bn Riyadh Metro Project that calls for construction of a 177.7km six-line automated metro network in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

CSO Snapshot
20 June, 2013
In this snapshot of CSO work Nicole Robinson checks in with executive director of the NBC, Ray Marshall as construction moves forward in Providence, Rhode Island.

Cleaning up the capital
19 June, 2013
A TBM launch this spring in Washington DC is the first of several to come as the capital cleans up its CSOs. Nicole Robinson looks at the Blue Plains Tunnel.

Sprayed overbridges
06 June, 2013
SCL overbridges at tottenham court road. Andreas Feiersinger of dr. Sauer & partners, and Phillip Lea of Halcrow were the authors of this paper, which was presented at the March meeting of the british tunnelling Society

Face the facts
05 June, 2013
As this issue of Tunnels North America goes to print, three significant events took place in the US within days of each other. Two brothers set off bombs at the Boston Marathon, a fertiliser plant exploded in Texas and the Federal Aviation Administration furloughed air traffic controllers as part of the government-wide sequester, the current buzzword for USD 85bn spending cuts.

New dawn
04 June, 2013
Indonesia is an often overlooked Asian giant, yet it has all the potential to become an economic powerhouse, albeit one currently with poor infrastructure. This is a match made in heaven for tunnel work as the country enters an age of urbanisation and infrastructure investment. It was this year's Bauma partner country. Danny Richards of Timetric, the market analysis arm of Tunnels publisher presents this report

DC Water awards Anacostia River Tunnel
08 May, 2013
DC Water's board of directors recently approved the the design and construction of the second portion of the tunnel system that will bring relief from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) to the Anacostia River. The design builder of the USD 253.9M proposed contract is a JV of Impregilo-Healy-Parsons.

OSHA issues final rule to protect underground construction workers
02 May, 2013
The US-based Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issues a final ruling to protect workers using cranes and derricks in demolition and underground construction, the Labor Department announced last week. Application of this rule will protect workers from hazards associated with hoisting equipment used during construction activities.

Mott MacDonald acquires Brazilian environmental engineering consultancy
02 May, 2013
Global engineering firm, Mott MacDonald, is acquiring Habtec Engenharia Ambienta, a Brazilian environmental engineering consultancy, it was announced mid April. Mott MacDonald stated that the acquisition is part of the company's strategy to create a regional base in Brazil from where it can expand across South America.

Load it, Haul it, Dump it
16 April, 2013
In this insight take on construction vehicles, technical journalist Jodie Satterthwaite looks to the mining industry for underground requirements.

Prague Metro
05 April, 2013
Ermin Stehlik and Vaclav Soukup of Metrostav are presenting the keynote talk‚ 'Prague Metro construction – past, present and future' at UC Prague 2013. This comprehensive three-part article covers Prague Metro construction from its beginnings in 1966 up to the present and into future plans. Early construction covered in this, the first part, was affected by the political situation, with the start of construction based on imported Soviet technologies.