As they enter, they pass by a shrine to Saint Barbara — the patron saint of tunnellers — which is even decorated with fairy lights and creates a good omen of safety for the harder work being done.

Each were approximately a kilometre in length. Unlike the Hamas tunnels dug through sand in Gaza, Hezbollah’s tunnellers had to bore through limestone and bedrock. This was no small endeavour ...

The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On 1 July 1916, the ...

So tunnellers “trick” the mountain, by using complex physics to distribute the load around the new hole in such a way that it does not cave in. When you enter the remnants of a tunnel after a ...

Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east, the Russian Army was able to mobilise more quickly than the Germans had anticipated and began advancing towards Germany’s borders.

Shah Asif Hafiz from the Department of Accounting and Dewan Md Alif from the Department of Finance are part of a 19-member team called Bored Tunnellers. The team comprises students and researchers ...

Six contractors are to compete for the opportunity to construct Norway’s Stad ship tunnel. Among them are two Norwegian companies, one French, one Spanish-Norwegian, and two Chinese bidders. “We are ...

A twin anti-slip system with full redundancy of the gripper levels reliably prevents the Gripper TBM for Limberg from slipping back Even the seasoned tunnellers aboard the tunnel boring machine (TBM) ...

Chennai Metro Rail Limited has commenced the expansion of the Chennai city’s metro rail network as part of Phase II following the successful completion of the Phase I and Phase I Extension Corridors ...

‘Navigator Tunnellers’ – Larch Maxey (aged 50; three years), Chris Bennett (aged 31; 18 months), Samuel Johnson (aged 39; 18 months) and Joe Howlett (aged 32; 15 months) occupied tunnels dug ...

Byline Times is an independent, reader-funded investigative newspaper, outside of the system of the established press, reporting on ‘what the papers don’t say’ – without fear or favour. On Friday (7th ...

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