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Sinking the future
23 November, 2012
Plans for a new immersed tube tunnel in Virginia are moving forward, Nicole Robinson looks at the design of the new Midtown Tunnel

Follow the dollar
20 November, 2012
After four years of spending, Canada is a tunneling powerhouse with most major cities expanding their public transport and improving water and wastewater systems, drawing foreign companies to its northern locale. Meanwhile, the U.S. makes progress on its mega projects, Nicole Robinson reports

Time to take charge
19 November, 2012
Tunnels North America editor Nicole Robinson this month looks at the booming Canadian tunnelling market and the mega projects of the US. Last month’s sell out Tunnelling Association of Canada’s conference was a clear indicator of interest in the country and the numerous upcoming hydropower and transport works.

Chile Revisited
25 October, 2012
Two years ago the world was gripped by an unfolding drama as tense as the Apollo 13 crisis in 1970. This time, the story was much closer to home, in Chile, though as it turned out, the challenges proved as testing to resolve and no less remote. Mine rescue expert Brian Robinson looks back on the mine’s collapse and its rescue operation, exploring the implications for past, present and future underground works

Prepare for takeoff
24 October, 2012
Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport, located downtown and on an island on Lake Ontario needed a way to reliably transport passengers to their flights. A new pedestrian tunnel is under construction under the lake, Nicole Robinson reports

Future Planning
23 October, 2012
The procurement process for the Ottawa Light Rail project will finish this autumn. With a 2.5km tunnel planned for the city’s core, Nicole Robinson looks at what the city envisions and what the ground may hold for the future

At home in the Hoghouse
31 August, 2012
Working on New York’s mega-projects, one Sandhog, Bradley Gill, local 147, shares his experience ‘Shaping’ and helping to build the nation’s largest subway tunnels. Nicole Robinson reportsive

Creekside construction
14 August, 2012
Work in Austin’s limestone is going well for the mile-long Waller Creek tunnel. Nicole Robinson checks in on the flood-prone project’s progress

Austin attracts the industry
13 August, 2012
The Southwest and the Rocky Mountain regions aren’t booming with potential for major tunnelling projects. But water scarcity keeps the industry working underground, reports Nicole Robinson

The only thing we have to fear...
04 June, 2012
Some 60m under Zhanjiang Bay in southern China, and about a kilometer from the tunnel entrance, this editor breaks for water with the project manager and the chief engineer.

Chile mine rescue
17 May, 2012
In 2010 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama as tense as the Apollo 13 crisis of some 40 years earlier. This time the story was much closer to home in Chile, though, as it turned out, the challenges proved at least as great to resolve and no less remote. At February’s joint meeting between the BTS and Minsouth, mine rescue expert Brian Robinson gave a presentation on the rescue operation and its implications for past, present and future underground works

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

Toronto starts digging the line
08 February, 2012
Last year the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT project in Toronto expanded, adding 8km of tunnelling. Nicole Robinson discusses the design changes and progress on the city’s major east-to-west link with Jack Collins, vice president of rapid transit implementation for Metrolinx

Flood free facelift
08 February, 2012
Constructing a mile-long tunnel in downtown Austin, Texas, will provide flood protection at Waller Creek, and an environmental regeneration, Nicole Robinson reports

Lakeside risk
08 February, 2012
Challenging soil combined with strict deadline requirements to spur the City of Portland in Oregon, US, to award a non-standard contract. Construction on the much needed sewer relief project completed late last year as Nicole Robinson reports from site

Out with the old and in with the NIT
06 February, 2012
Keeping the water flowing is the soul objective of the New Irvington Tunnel as the old struggles against the constant threat of a major earthquake. Nicole Robinson was on site in San Francisco to see the roadheader excavating the 3.5 mile (5.6km) of tough and changing geology drive

From sea to shining sea
06 February, 2012
Demand for tunnels in North America is strong to meet public transportation and water conveyance needs. Nicole Robinson highlights projects in the region