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Second giant TBM begins work on India’s first undersea rail tunnel

A second large-diameter tunnel boring machine has started excavation on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail project, advancing one of the most technically demanding parts of India’s first bullet trai...

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BGS depth-to-bedrock model strengthens early ground risk screening

The British Geological Survey has released Version 8 of its Superficial Deposit Thickness Model, giving engineers and geoscientists an updated national view of how much unconsolidated ground lies abov...

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UPLIFT aims to make deep geothermal energy safer and more predictable

A new Horizon Europe project called UPLIFT is targeting one of the most difficult questions in renewable energy: how to extract heat from deep, hot and low-permeability rock in a way that is technical...

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Inside the Levee Digital Twin: A Guided Walkthrough of California's Newest Flood Infrastructure Monitoring Tool

When the Levee Digital Twin Platform launched for California's Yuba River Corridor earlier this year, it introduced engineers and asset managers to a browser-based, continuously updated model of two c...

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Lima completes tunnel excavation for Peru’s first fully underground metro

Excavation has been completed on Lima Metro Line 2, marking a major milestone for Peru’s first fully underground metro system. The breakthrough of the final diaphragm wall at Station 4 completed the p...

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Hong Kong launches tender for 7 km East Kowloon green transit system for steep urban districts

Hong Kong has launched an open tender for the Smart and Green Mass Transit System in East Kowloon, marking a major step toward delivering a new 7 km urban transit corridor through one of the city’s mo...

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Sweden expands underground rock caverns for radioactive waste storage

Sweden is moving ahead with a major underground expansion of the SFR final repository for short lived radioactive waste in Forsmark. The new contract covers the construction of six additional rock cav...

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A circular pit on Google Maps becomes a major geology discovery

A circular feature first noticed on Google Maps has led scientists to identify a previously unrecognised meteor impact structure in remote Quebec. The structure, now named Uhackatik, is reported in th...

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Active fault raises geotechnical questions for the Brahmaputra mega dam

Chinese geologists have warned that an active fault line beneath the planned Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project could affect the structural stability of one of the world’s most ambitious dam schemes....

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Road collapse in Rize shows the risk of unsupported excavation near urban buildings

A road collapsed suddenly in Rize, Turkey, after ground movement developed beside an active building construction site. The incident occurred in the Islampaşa neighbourhood while foundation excavation...

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