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Fehmarn Belt Tunnel: World’s Longest Immersed Tunnel Faces Delays

The Fehmarn Belt Tunnel, designed to connect Rødbyhavn in Denmark with Fehmarn in Germany, is one of Europe’s most ambitious infrastructure projects. Spanning 18 kilometers beneath the Baltic Sea, it...

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Jammu Landslide Claims 35 Lives Amid Flooding Crisis

A major landslide struck the pilgrimage route to the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district, following several days of relentless rainfall. The collapse occurred near Inderpra...

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Artificial Ground Freezing: Applications, Techniques, and Key Considerations

Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF) is a temporary ground improvement technique widely applied in tunneling, shaft sinking, and underground construction below the water table. The method involves loweri...

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Cracks Before Collapse: What the Söke–Kuşadası Highway Failure Reinforces About Slope and Wall Design

On 10 August 2025 a roadway collapse occurred on the Söke–Kuşadası corridor near Yaylaköy in southwestern Türkiye. Field checks against historical satellite imagery and roadside street views show lon...

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£3bn Haweswater Aqueduct Upgrade to Secure Water for Generations

The £3bn Haweswater Aqueduct Resilience Programme (HARP) has officially reached financial close, setting the stage for one of the UK’s largest water infrastructure upgrades. Originally constructed be...

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Massive Landslide Buries Petrol Pump on Jammu–Srinagar Highway

A significant landslide struck near Balinallah on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway in Udhampur district, Jammu and Kashmir, on August 24, 2025. Triggered by continuous rainfall, the slope failure...

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GKM Consultants to rebrand as GEO-Instruments

Keller North America (Keller) announces that Canadian-based instrumentation and monitoring company, GKM Consultants, will rebrand to GEO-Instruments, effective September 2, 2025. GKM Consultants is k...

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Subsurface Modeling and Analysis Finalists in the 2025 Going Digital Awards

Bentley Systems, announced the finalists for the subsurface modeling and analysis finalists in the 2025 Going Digital Awards. The awards celebrate the extraordinary achievements of engineers and proj...

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Hidden Faults Offer Clues to Slow Earthquakes in New Zealand

A recent international study has provided new insight into the phenomenon of “slow earthquakes” along the Hikurangi subduction zone off New Zealand’s North Island. Researchers identified previously h...

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Artificial Ground Freezing as a Tool in Urban Tunnelling

The construction of cross passages along High Speed 2’s (HS2) London tunnels represents the most extensive application of artificial ground freezing (AGF) in the UK. These cross passages, typically 5...

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