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Sasago tunnel fire and failure
03 December, 2012
Nine people died following a tunnel ‘collapse’ in Japan. The Sasago road tunnel, 80km west of Tokyo suffered a fall of concrete following a fire on Sunday. The collapse occurred at 08:00 local time.

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

A country at work
24 October, 2012
Walter Trisi, north american area sales manager for caterpillar Tunneling canada corporation, and vice president of the Tunnelling association of canada (Tac) ontario chapter, provides insight into the booming tunnelling market in canada and a run down on upcoming projects

Grow and prosper
22 October, 2012
Tunnelling Association of Canada president Rick Staples welcomes the international tunnelling industry to the country, and launches a new partnership with Tunnels

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.

Chance on Thailand
16 May, 2012
Many, including the World Bank, consider Thailand to be one of the great development success stories, with sustained strong growth and impressive poverty reduction. The Thai economy was one of the world’s fastest growing in the decade ending 1995, with an average rate of eight to nine per cent a year, according to the World Bank. Following the Asian Crisis of 1997-98 the country managed a growth rate of around five per cent a year.

Talking tunnels
16 April, 2012
In ‘his’ first appearance for some years Drifter, the old T&T favourite, returns on page 58 to urge tunnellers to be more talkative. He calls for everyone to become more vocal in his or her support of the industry and in educating others on the importance of underground infrastructure. In a similar vein, the incoming and outgoing chairs of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) argue the importance of raising tunnelling awareness with politicians and clients. Damian McGirr and Bob Ibell argue that a steady future workload can be achieved by ensuring each city planner has the use of underground space firmly on the agenda. McGirr says the BTS will be central in making this happen.