A consortium led by Itinera and including Spie Batignolles and Ghella has been awarded the €1bn (£855M) contract for the excavation of the Mont Cenis base tunnel in Italy.
The twin bore Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, also known as the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, is the largest engineering work on the…
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World first remote-controlled tunnel inspecting robot deployed on high-speed rail project
Italian firm Webuild and its Swiss subsidiary CSC Costruzioni have successfully used a specially-designed robot to inspect its new tunnel in a move that could greatly improve safety for tunnel workers going forward.
The world-first robot is named Axel, partly for the acronym Autonomous Exploration Electrified Vehicle and partly in honour…