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Powering Peru
18 February, 2016
With a burgeoning market for hydropower development, tunnelling work is seeing an uptick in South America’s third largest country. Nicole Robinson looks at two recent projects

Central America’s First Metro
28 July, 2015
Central America’s first metro is a boon for tiny Panama’s traffic-beleaguered highways, but despite a positive start future work neglects tunnelling. Santiago Erans of FCC speaks to Tunnels and Tunnelling in the aftermath of a successful completion of Line One, and the award of Line Two.

Rio realised
03 October, 2014
Cutting under the dense urban environment of Rio de Janeiro’s southern and western sprawl is calling for a mix of measures, from drill and blast with shotcrete lining, to segmentally lined TBM drives. The mixed ground showed its complexity with a sinkhole earlier this year, but careful monitoring and quick response is keeping the project on track for the 2016 Olympic Games. Technical journalist Rhian Owen reports

Crafting Cheves
17 May, 2012
Hochtief is constructing the Cheves hydro project, in Peru, which involves a range of tunnelling challenges, reports technical journalist Patrick Reynolds

The Latin dawn
10 May, 2012
South America is one of the waking giants of the global economy, with some analysts suggesting that a future Brazilian superpower could already be rising. Alex Conacher speaks to Rolando Justa, boss of Robbins’ new Chilean office as he sets up shop in the Latin continent

Boom to meet needs
26 December, 2011
The economies of Latin American countries are bucking the global trend and are the strongest they have been for many years. Nicole Robinson and Maurice Jones highlight some market factors and important projects in this increasingly important region for tunneling

Spending heads south
10 November, 2010
Mexico, Panama and Chile are seeing tunnelling for many of their infrastructure projects, and they’re not alone in the region, Nicole Robinson reports

Hyperbaric health & safety
10 May, 2007
Technical journalist Maurice Jones checks on current accepted compressed air procedures, and why technology transfer and development is still an important course of action

Lubricating Lisbon's Yellow Line
01 March, 2002
Extensive research into earth pressure balance techniques helped minimise surface settlements and aided early completion on the Campo Grande to Ameixoeira section of the Yellow Line metro extension in Lisbon, Portugal. Dominique Moreau of Spie Batignoles TP, construction manager for the project, describes the work undertaken

Relief to a land of no water
07 April, 2001
The massive project to bring water to Manabi province in Ecuador was examined at the British Tunnelling Society's informal discussion held at the ICE in February