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Stay up to date with the latest opinion features from the global tunnelling industryYou can’t deny Benjamin Franklin his oft repeated adage of “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” But it seems taxes—normally an election year darling—while...
The majority of the world’s most densely populated cities are in southern and eastern Asia. Population growth in Asia is running at eight times that of Europe and accounting for 46 per cent of...
For the past couple of years, since cheap credit ended, governments around the world have been in a state of flux. This time last year, the tunnelling industry was welcoming stimulus packages in...
The delays that hit Crossrail last month will leave the industry feeling nervous about what is to come. Awarding of the two main tunnelling contracts, C300 and C305, have been delayed until...
When are three collapses on the same tunnelling project not a sensation? When you are the mayor of Prague apparently.
Last month’s collapse during construction of the Blanka Tunnel Complex...
TBMs are getting bigger. Why the same old, same old
The BTS meeting report of a...
Back to school Dr. Priscilla Nelson, Professor of civil and environmental engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, was interviewed by staff writer Nicole Robinson.
The UK tunnelling industry – and it is certainly not alone in this – sees severe peaks and troughs. A good example is the long break between the end of the Tyne & Wear Metro, the Fleet Line, the...
Most, if not all, tunneling businesses will be looking to China to boost their returns over the coming years as previously buoyant markets slow. Understanding the opportunities that exist in the...
There’s some very exciting news this month on p55 of the international magazine. We’re proud to announce that Tunnels and Tunnelling and the As if to shadow the T&TI comment from October last year, where we tried to offer a glimmer of optimism for our sector in the face of a world recession, the news this month is full of large scale...
I am sure you’ll all be aware that most of the world, especially our friends in Scandinavia and Canada, have had a good old laugh in recent weeks at the UK’s wholesale inability to deal with...
It was another year of ups and downs for the tunnelling industry, a situation we must surely all be getting used to by now. Whilst the world recession, which started pretty much in mid 2008, is...
Prompted by a ‘near-miss’ while driving to work this morning, I was reminded that we are all required to manage risk in our every-day lives. If you drive around a blind bend on a quiet narrow...
If, as alluded to in last month’s comment, Cern’s large Hadron Collider doesn’t finish us all off, then it appears that many of the world’s more unscrupulous financial fat cats have been doing a...
Eventually. But according to recent press reports, the world should already be a distant memory, swallowed up in a black hole created by a bunch of crazed scientists, bent on discovering the...
An ‘Act of God’ is a legal term for “events outside of human control for which no one can be held responsible and which cannot be prevented”. We sometimes hear the expression banded around...
It’s going to be quite an undertaking, the extensive renovation works planned to relieve passenger congestion at Victoria Station, one of London’s most famous and busiest transport hubs (p16)....
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