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Tunneling Projects 2021: 50-Year Upgrades and New Tunnel Spending

Dan Duszynski

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March 15, 2021

With the latest 1.9 trillion dollar Covid 19 relief spending bill now heading to the White House for approval, tunnel project spending has become quite the political football. House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s pet subway project in her California home district, ridiculed by opponents as “Pelosi’s tunnel of love”, lost…

civil construction, tunnel boring machine, tunnel construction

Tunnel Construction Rocks with Boring Machines

Dan Duszynski

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October 13, 2020

Tunnel construction is a complex engineering task due to the difficulties and logistics involved in boring and digging over extended distances underground. However, thanks to advances in equipment technology, complex tunneling construction projects are accomplished throughout the world. The tunnel boring machine (TBM) has made the engineering and construction…

civil construction, civil construction industry 2020, tunnel construction

Soft Costs Are a Hard Burden on the US Tunnel Industry

Dan Duszynski

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October 5, 2020

In August of 2020 Tunnel Business Magazine published an eye-opening analysis of the exorbitantly high cost of US tunnels when compared with similar underground infrastructure projects around the world. The first and worst case cited was New York City’s Second Avenue Subway which opened to the public on January 1,…

elon musk tunnels, trending news, tunnel construction

Elon Musk Prepares to Start Tunneling Project at Las Vegas Convention Center

Dan Duszynski

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November 14, 2019

Elon Musk Prepares to Start Tunneling Project at Las Vegas Convention Center After years of planning and months of waiting, Elon Musk’s, The Boring Company (TBC), will begin construction on the Las Vegas Underground Loop System on Friday, November 15th. (more…)