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Geo Con
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Podcast: Environmental sustainability and carbon reduction
Breaking Ground’s latest episode discusses how geotechnical businesses can drive environmental sustainability by reducing carbon...
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Geo Con
Jul 3, 20231 min read
Sinking Millennium Tower shows signs of recovery, but expert has doubts
The latest phase of work to stabilise San Francisco’s troubled Millennium Tower has reversed some of the tower’s tilt, according to...
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Geo Con
Jul 3, 20231 min read
Latest people moves from BGA, Geobear and Geotechnical Engineering
The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) announces its new chair, Geobear gets a new managing director for its UK and Ireland business,...
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Geo Con
Jun 29, 20231 min read
Cowi-led team to design latest phase of Norwegian light rail project
Client Bybanen Utbygging has awarded a design contract to a partnership between Cowi, Ramboll and Asplan Viak for the fifth construction...
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Geo Con
Jun 22, 20231 min read
Geotechnical, design contracts awarded for mega Queensland pumped hydro scheme
Twin Hills Engineering and Drilling will carry out geotechnical investigation works and the GHD, Mott MacDonald and Stantec joint venture...
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Geo Con
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Implenia lands major civils contracts on Swiss transport projects
Swiss construction company Implenia has been awarded contracts to make improvements to a motorway junction in Zürich and to build a...
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Geo Con
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Snowy Hydro tunnelling could restart next month if environmental approvals granted
Boring on the main tunnel of the Snowy Hydro 2.0 hydropower project in Australia could restart at the end of July if the government...
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Geo Con
Jun 14, 20231 min read
New sustainability focused ground engineering event launched
The very first GE Sustainability conference - a highly anticipated and requested new event - will be held in London on 21 September....
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Geo Con
Jun 14, 20231 min read
Tunnelling completed at key City Rail Link station
Link Alliance has reached a major milestone on New Zealand’s largest transport infrastructure scheme, with the completion of mined...
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Geo Con
Jun 5, 20231 min read
First tunnel borers launched on Sydney Metro West scheme
The Acciona and Ferrovial joint venture has launched the first two tunnel boring machines to build a section of the 24km Sydney Metro...
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