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Contractor pleas guilty in Toronto subway Construction Death
08 December, 2014
CANADA - The 2011 death of a worker and injury to another at a Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway construction site in North York has resulted in a guilty plea and a CAD 400,000 (USD 350,000) fine, the Ministry of Labor of Ontario announced on November 28.

Wrapping Farringdon
20 November, 2014
Angelos Gakis was a runner-up for this year’s Harding Prize. This article is based on his paper, ‘Design of a SCL wraparound tunnel utilising a 3 D geological model at Crossrail’s Farringdon Station’.

Clear air, clear Conscience
28 July, 2014
Limited resources and administrative uncertainty can throw up some difficult safety decisions. The directors of Pospisil & Ilg Associated Engineers provide some advice

Fourteen rescued after 131 hours underground
21 July, 2014
Fourteen workers were rescued from a railway tunnel collapse in southwest China's Yunnan Province in the early hours of Sunday 20 July after more than five days trapped underground, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Makkah plan to avoid tunnel jams in place
30 June, 2014
Civil Defence authorities in Makkah are on a mission to combat the toxic air emissions that result from the increased influx of vehicles during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

Obstacles to the underground
27 June, 2014
William Edgerton of Jacobs Associates, and chair of the Underground Construction Association, discusses barriers to the advancement of the underground industry in North America.

Corrosion contract awarded for Eurasia Tunnel project
26 June, 2014
Intertek has secured a contract to provide corrosion services for the Eurasia Tunnel Project in Istanbul, which will result in the construction of an undersea highway connecting Asia and Europe for the first time.

Worker dies on Indy Deep Tunnel project
18 June, 2014
A crew member on Indianapolis’ Deep Rock Connector Tunnel project died Friday in the early morning while working underground, project owner Citizens Energy reported.

Gowanus Canal tunnel reactivated
12 June, 2014
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) reactivated the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel after a full rehabilitation and upgrade worth USD 177M that began in 2010, it announced May 29.

ITA Working Group Five suspends future activities
27 May, 2014
The ITA Working Group on Health and Safety in Works (WG5) has been forced to temporarily suspend future activities due to poor attendance. Speaking at the ITA General Assembly in Brazil last month, group animateur Donald Lamont also warned that the level of scrutiny afforded the current documents up for review was not as great as he had hoped, and could result into a delay of up to a year for the work programme.

BTS Tunnel Design and Construction Course one month away
22 May, 2014
The BTS Tunnel Design and Construction Course 2014 launches on 30 June. Aimed at young consulting engineers early in their careers, as well in part at client representatives and interested insurance/financial parties, the annual event will this year be held at Warwick University over five days.

The operator In control
26 March, 2014
An awareness of internal and mental processes relating to stress and fatigue is important when preparing for how people will react in a crisis situation. In an unusual twist, Allard Klok, project leader and trainer - tunnelling at Trainingproducties looks not at tunnel user behaviour, but operator behaviour when the pressure is on

Crossrail worker killed
07 March, 2014
A worker has died on the Crossrail project in London. The man was pronounced dead at the scene after London Fire Brigade and ambulance crews arrived at the Fisher Street site in Holborn at around 05:40 this morning.

Delhi's Belly
26 February, 2014
Supplying eight of the 25 TBMs required for Delhi Metro's Phase III, manufacturer Terratec is heavily invested in the project. In a series of vignettes, Tunnels checks out how the different worksites are being handled in a city crowded beyond capacity.

Tread softly
26 February, 2014
In the wake of devastating floods in northern India last June, environmentalists have accused hydropower infrasturcture of causing a man-made disaster. Mahendra Bisaria, of Gammon Infrastructure, defends the use of hydropower by exploring the region’s geology and the development process for such projects.

Curve Ball
22 January, 2014
Making history, James W. Fowler Co. makes the longest compound curved microtunnel drive in the US to date on the Santa Ana River Interceptor project, John Fowler of JWF reports.

Keep on trucking
17 January, 2014
In this insight take on construction vehicles, technical journalist Jodie Satterthwaite looks to the mining industry for underground requirements