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Cutting the Silk Road Lawrence Williams visits the Salmankas tunnel site with tunnel supervisor Ersin Yilmaz
Qatari coup Qatar is preparing to set new records in tunnelling with 26 tBms simultaneously boring 59km of twin bore tunnels creating the first phase of the vital doha metro. technical journalist Bernadette Ballantyne reports
The thin sprayed line P H Ferreira and Alfredo Piroddi of South African material and services supplier Minova RSA look at the use of thin sprayed liners and lessons that can be learned from experience in the mining industry
Ingula slant Ingula pumped storage scheme is one of Africa’s larger tunnelling projects and underground works are in their final stages, reports technical journalist Patrick Reynolds
Morocco’s record microtunnel Morocco’s biggest microtunnelling project in length and diameter is Casablanca’s first as the city prepares to connect a new water treatment plant to its sewer network. Dirk Derycke, division manager tunnelling for Belgian contractor Denys gives this report on works in progress
Advancing Africa The extent of tunnelling in the Middle East is well known. And while Africa is hardly synonymous with massive investment programmes, the amount of tunnelling is significan. Alex Conacher takes a look
Two worlds of tunnelling The Middle East stays strong on tunnelling for its new dream cities, while a belt of hydropower projects buoys the African market. Alex Conacher reports