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Behind the Controls: Learning Helical Pile Installation

When talking about heavy equipment, whether it be a skid steer or an excavator, most people correlate those machines with digging or moving earth. Most do not understand that a skid steer, backhoe, or...

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Westdown Quarry restart highlights geotechnical and operational controls

A dormant limestone quarry near Frome is moving closer to production after Heidelberg Materials UK agreed planning conditions with Somerset Council for the reopening of Westdown Quarry. The agreement...

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Soil nails replace temporary barriers at Dinah's Hollow landslip route

A long-running slope stability problem on the C13 at Dinah's Hollow in Dorset has reached the halfway point of a year-long remediation programme. The road, located near Shaftesbury between Melbury Abb...

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Layered seabed geology changes how subsea cables should be protected

The weakest part of a subsea cable route is not always the cable itself. Often, it is the ground model used to decide where and how the cable should be buried.New research by the British Geological Su...

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Norwegian tunnelling methods could reshape the Peak District tunnel case

A new proposal has revived the long-running idea of a road tunnel beneath the Peak District, aiming to improve journeys between Manchester and Sheffield while reducing heavy traffic through the nation...

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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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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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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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