As project director on London’s $1.2-billion Silvertown highway tunnel, Juan Angel Martinez Diaz successfully adopted hovercraft-like skates to rotate the job’s 39-ft-dia tunneling shield to drive both bores of the 0.9-mile crossing, saving critical time on the project’s tight schedule.
Cross passages between both bores of London's 0.7-mile Silvertown tunnel are nearing completion, marking the end of excavations on the River Thames crossing.
The British Antarctic Survey’s Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Program includes the largest building yet at BAS’ Rothera station—the 50,0000-sq-ft Discovery Building.
The contractor OpenIJ has finally sunk a 150,000-tonne concrete caisson at the troubled project for the world’s largest sea lock in IJmuiden, Netherlands.
The latest Autodesk University user conference, held in London in June with an estimated 2,000 attendees, showcased some of the recent achievements in the automation of design and construction.
