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#265 Tunnelling Innovation: Inventing the Bentonite Shield
Sixty years ago a civil engineer called John Bartlett of Mott, Hay & Anderson had a revolutionary idea. He noticed that bentonite clay could be
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Building on the soft ground of Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the modern European city, sitting on the southwest coast of Sweden. For hundreds of years it has acted as a key trading hub
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Robot swarm builds test tunnel
Hampshire-based technology company says it has completed the first entirely robot constructed tunnel at its research facility. The new automated construction method makes use of
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HS2 begins boring first London tunnel
The first tunnel boring machine (TBM) has begun work in London for the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project. The TBM named Sushila, after a
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Tunnelling through rock without contact
San Francisco-based Petra (Greek for rock) says it has developed a new way of tunnelling through rock which will make it cheaper to put utilities
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#69 Artificial Intelligence in Infrastructure
Maintaining a tunnel requires many hours of dedicated work by highly skilled engineers. And as our network of tunnels expands, so does the maintenance demand.
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#54 Keith Bannerman: A life underground
Carving out underground space for railways, roads, waterways, urban development and even fishing and farming is how some people spend their entire careers. One of
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#46 Metro stations: The gateway to the city
A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion,
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#42 Surviving a tunnel fire
This week we are bringing you an episode of our newly launched Tunnelling Podcast, made in partnership with the British Tunnelling Society. In March 1999,
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#13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam
Are there really bodies buried in the Hoover Dam? Was the hard hat really invented here in 1931? And why was it originally called Boulder