Numerous incidents of large excavations adjacent to highway structures being undertaken without adequate temporary works have been pulled up for their disregard of required standards.
Balfour Beatty has commenced preparatory works for the dualling of the A9 in Scotland between Tomatin and Moy, while the Scottish government has given the go ahead for the next section.
Work on the £161M Oxford station upgrade will see the boring of trial holes on Botley Road as the “complex” rerouting of mains continues to stall works and leave the crucial city artery blocked.
Ground investigations that will inform the construction of Cern’s new 91km circumference particle accelerator have commenced.
Tunnelling technology firm Herrenknecht has successfully utilised its Tunnel Enlargement System (TES) to widen the profile of two ageing railway tunnels in Germany while trains continued to run.
Buckinghamshire Council has granted permission to HS2 Ltd to excavate through part of an ancient earthwork structure known as Grim’s Ditch in the Chilterns after the railway developer revised its plans.
The government of Victoria, Austrialia has named a Webuild-led JV as the preferred bidder for the north tunnels contract on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East project.
Earthworks for High Speed 2 (HS2) in Warwickshire will go ahead after a High Court judge dismissed the Environment Agency’s attempted injunction against HS2 Ltd’s programme of works.
The catastrophic failure of the Teton Pass in Wyoming was down to soil saturation after snow melted rapidly in the warmer than average spring temperatures, a geologist has said.
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.
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