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Start of work on National Highways’ £1.7bn Stonehenge Tunnel scheme on the A303 is indefinitely delayed after the Court of Appeal upheld campaigners’ case against the scheme.

It is at the threshold between above and below ground infrastructure that exceptional design is achieved.

Northumbrian Water, principal contractor Farrans and subcontractor Joseph Gallagher have celebrated the breakthrough of their tunnel boring machine (TBM) after a 220m drive under the River Tees.

The world’s first rectangular pipe jacking tunnel boring machine (TBM) for hard rock has broken through in Chongqing, China after boring a 176m long road tunnel under two main roads.

Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) joint venture has completed the 22m deep tunnel portal at Washwood Heath in the east of Birmingham, which is where High Speed 2 (HS2) trains will emerge on their way into the city centre.

A prototype Automated Tunnel Robotic Installation System (Atris) has been developed to autonomously select brackets, locate where they need to be mounted along a tunnel wall, and install them.

A temporary section of the main access hall for Australia’s Snowy 2.0 hydroelectric power project has been damaged by drill and blast works in its transformer hall.

The excavation of 88km of underground tunnels needed for the High Speed 2 (HS2) route from London to Birmingham is now more than halfway completed.

The first of two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) has broken through on the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) extension in Toronto, Canada, completing its 6km drive.

The government is expected to confirm over £1bn of public funding to construct the 7.2km High Speed 2 (HS2) tunnels between Old Oak Common and Euston.