Raymond William Loveridge, University of Technology Sydney | 14 January 2020 More than 2,000 homes have been destroyed in Australia since the start of the bushfire season. More will certainly be destroyed before the season ends in March. Could these houses have been built to better withstand fire? Quite probably. But that doesn’t necessarily mean […]
Significant progress on the Melbourne Metro Tunnel at South Yarra has been made over the summer period, along with major road projects and tram upgrades. Construction crews will be working until the end of January to excavate the final section of the Metro Tunnel entrance and make room for the new track which will connect […]
Image: Sydney Metro The first tunnel boring machine (TBM) to begin excavating under the centre of Sydney has finished its journey and broken through at the future site of Barangaroo Station. TBM Nancy broke through a wall of sandstone after a 15 month excavation to deliver Sydney Metro’s newest railway tunnels. Nancy was first launched […]