Going down: Australia’s tunnel projects
Once considered an unfashionable civil engineering solution, a series of colossal multibillion dollar tunnelling projects is changing the way Australia ...
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3 weird and wonderful engineering traditions
For a profession based on forward thinking, science and careful calculations, engineering is steeped in tradition. Here’s a few customs ...
Remembering the tunnellers of the Western Front
World War I is often associated with the brutalities of trench warfare, but under No Man’s Land a complex series ...
Why tunnel boring is more exciting than you think
To celebrate World Tunnelling Day (4 December), create took a look at this fast-growing and vitally important sector.
Inside London’s ‘super sewer’
London is upgrading its sewer system to cope with its growing population, intercepting, storing, and transferring sewage waste away from ...
How Norway is building the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel
Boring through a 300-metre-high mountain, a new tunnel will allow ships to navigate more safely through a dangerously exposed part ...
The engineering behind Melbourne’s groundbreaking Metro Tunnel project
As Melbourne's Metro Tunnel project enters its final stretch, create spoke to tunnelling specialist Paul Thomas CPEng about the challenges ...
On a project as unprecedented as Snowy 2.0, the tunnelling machines are anything but ‘boring’
Three large tunnel boring machines have arrived in Australia to begin work on Snowy 2.0, Australia’s largest renewable energy project. ...
Building NorthConnex, Australia’s deepest road tunnel
Bypassing 21 sets of traffic lights, Sydney’s new NorthConnex tunnel is set to save commuters up to 15 minutes of ...
Going underground to protect Sydney’s Green Square redevelopment from flooding
Heavy flooding was threatening the redevelopment of an inner-Sydney precinct. The solution involved hydraulic testing and kilometres of micro-tunnelling.
