When I was a kid, I discovered a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that posed one of my own burning questions: How do they know the load limit on bridges? Calvin’s dad (incorrectly) tells him, “They drive ...

The Fehmarn Belt Tunnel, a €7 billion infrastructure project, is set to become the world’s longest prefabricated road and rail tunnel. Stretching 18 kilometers beneath the Baltic Sea, it will connect ...

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A project nearing completion in the Detroit area used a custom-built, diver-operated vehicle that can operate underwater and that replaced concrete liners for two raw water tunnels, eliminating the ...

Jinan, a city of 9.4 million people and the capital of Shandong Province in East China, has made world headlines. Crews working there have completed the monumental task of building the world's largest ...

Spain has begun investigating the possibility of connecting Europe to Africa via an underwater tunnel to Morocco. On Saturday, the Spanish government allocated €1.6 million (roughly $1.7 million) to a ...

The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is an immersed tunnel set to link the Danish island of Lolland with Germany's Fehmarn island. This remarkable tunnel beneath the Baltic Sea, expected to become one of the ...

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