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£19.8M Torcross coastal defence scheme begins with 90,000 tonnes of rock armour

Construction has begun on a £19.8 million coastal defence scheme at Torcross in Devon, where almost 90,000 tonnes of new rock armour will be placed along the shoreline following severe storm damage ea...

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Seismic memory in stone: Acropolis wall and Areopagus rockfall point to 0.21–0.23 g shaking in the 1705 earthquake

A forensic back-analysis combines staged pseudostatic soil–structure interaction models of the Acropolis Circuit Wall with a limit equilibrium study of a limestone block detachment at the Areopagus to...

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Ship Canal project adds 112 million litres of underground wastewater storage

Seattle has completed the $255 million Ship Canal Water Quality Project, bringing into service a major underground storage system designed to reduce the amount of untreated sewage and polluted stormwa...

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Skye road restored after 300-tonne landslide with rock armour and drainage works

Around 300 tonnes of rock, soil and debris were removed from a key road on the Isle of Skye after a landslide blocked the route near Uig, triggering a rapid programme of slope stabilisation and draina...

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Central structure completed on HS2's 1.4 km Wendover green tunnel

Construction of HS2's Wendover green tunnel has reached a major milestone with the two halves of the 1.4 km cut-and-cover structure now joined, completing the central section of the tunnel less than 1...

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Work advances on Auckland's $260M Herne Bay wastewater tunnel

Construction is gathering pace on Auckland's NZ$260 million Herne Bay Collector, a new wastewater tunnel designed to capture wet-weather overflows before they reach Waitematā Harbour and divert them i...

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Two workers killed after slope incident at Chile's El Teniente copper mine

Two workers have died following a slope incident at the open-pit section of Chile's El Teniente copper mine, with operations in the affected area remaining suspended while authorities investigate the...

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Helical Piles Help Rebuild Storm-Damaged Boardwalks in Remote Alaska

A powerful tropical cyclone, Typhoon Halong developed near Iwo Jima, Japan on October 3, 2025. Four days later, after transitioning into an extratropical cyclone, the storm hit western Alaska, deliver...

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Manhattan's 138 lost cemeteries: a construction risk hidden under New York's streets

An NYU team has mapped burial grounds that have disappeared from Manhattan's maps. They argue that a shared, GIS-based record of forgotten graves should become a standard pre-construction tool, so tha...

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Panama assesses widespread earthquake damage as fresh 6.1 quake rattles southern region

Panama is assessing widespread damage to homes, schools, churches, roads and bridges after a powerful earthquake sequence struck the country, with a fresh magnitude 6.1 earthquake shaking the southern...

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