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Mumbai Sewer Tunnel Sets Record with 87m Curve
- Jun, 02, 2025
- Tunneling In Rock Tunneling Underground Structures Environmental Engineering Sustainable Development News On Projects / Industry
- India, Mumbai
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
A significant engineering achievement was recorded in India’s tunnelling sector with the successful excavation of a tight 87-meter radius curve using the 3.14-meter diameter Rock EPBM (TBM S116). The...
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Asbestos: The Silent Killer That Still Threatens Communities Worldwide
- May, 03, 2025
- Damage (Structural) Structural Failures Structural Control Forensics Geoenvironmental Engineering Environmental Engineering General Civil General Construction News On Natural Disasters / Failures Geology Highlights Other News
- Gaza
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
Despite being banned or heavily regulated in many parts of the world, asbestos remains a dangerous and often overlooked threat. Recent reports from Japan and Gaza serve as grim reminders that asbesto...
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Civil Engineering News Recap of March 2025
- Apr, 01, 2025
- Concrete Structures General Construction General Civil Environmental Engineering Construction Management Sustainable Development Green Infrastructure Tunneling Railway Geotechnics Landfill Engineering Groundwater & Seepage Structural Failures Bridges Forensics Transportation Geotechnics Transportation Engineering
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
You can now find TheCivilEngineer.org's latest news recap video on YouTube, which includes what we found to be the most interesting civil engineering news of March 2025. Namely, these were: 1) Hydro...
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Toxic Air and Sickness: The Deadly Impact of Delhi’s Landfills
- Mar, 14, 2025
- Landfill Engineering Sustainable Development Groundwater & Seepage Environmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- India, New Delhi
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
For years, Delhi’s landfills have symbolized an environmental disaster—massive, toxic mountains of waste, towering over neighborhoods and poisoning the air and water. Among them, the Bhalswa and Ghaz...
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Hydrogen and Nuclear Energy Unite to Cut Asphalt’s Carbon Footprint
- Mar, 03, 2025
- Concrete Structures General Construction General Civil Environmental Engineering Construction Management Sustainable Development Green Infrastructure News On Projects / Industry News On Research / Academia
- United Kingdom
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The construction industry is taking a bold step toward sustainability with the introduction of nuclear-enabled hydrogen to power asphalt production. A groundbreaking initiative, led by a team of engi...
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Paving the Future: Sustainable Concrete from Plastic Waste
- Jan, 22, 2025
- Concrete Structures Sustainable Development Green Infrastructure General Civil General Construction News On Research / Academia News On Projects / Industry Environmental Engineering
- United States, Delaware
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
In a remarkable innovation, engineers have developed sustainable concrete pavers made from nearly 1,000 pounds of non-recyclable plastic waste. Installed on a prominent sidewalk, these pavers symboli...
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A Milestone in Mumbai's Sewage Disposal Project
- Sep, 02, 2024
- Tunneling Green Infrastructure Environmental Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- India, Mumbai
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project (MSDP) has achieved a significant breakthrough with the completion of a crucial phase involving tunnel boring machines (TBMs). As part of the city's ongoing efforts...
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Foundation Installation Campaign Begins on Dogger Bank B
- May, 16, 2024
- Foundations Structural Control Environmental Engineering Wind Engineering News On Projects / Industry
- North Sea
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
The journey to establish the world’s largest offshore wind farm, Dogger Bank, has reached a significant milestone with the commencement of the foundation installation for the second phase, Dogger Ban...
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New Delhi Suffocates as Toxic Smoke from Landfill Fire Engulfs the City
- Apr, 22, 2024
- Landfill Engineering Forensic Engineering Contaminant Transport Environmental Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- India, New Delhi
- Authored by: TheCivilEngineer.org
New Delhi is engulfed in hazardous fumes as a massive fire erupts at the Ghazipur landfill, exacerbating the city's chronic air pollution crisis. The blaze, which started on Sunday, releases dangerou...
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An assessment of the Chernobyl disaster 38 years after it happened
- Apr, 26, 1986
- Forensics Other Geotechnical General Civil General Construction Environmental Engineering Geoenvironmental Engineering News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- Ukraine, Pryp'yat'
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
Saturday, April 26, 1986, 01:23:45 AM local time. A terrifying accident was taking place in the northern Ukraine, in the former USSR. Few people realized it immediately, and even fewer were aware of...
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