{"id":14534,"date":"2023-12-31T08:39:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T08:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=14534"},"modified":"2023-12-31T08:39:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T08:39:30","slug":"a-quick-peek-at-year-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=14534","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Peek at Year 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-size: 2rem;\">Happy New Year<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We\u2019re wishing you all the best for your goals, plans, and resolutions as we enter 2024!<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a quick peek at the 10 most popular news of 2023:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/snowy-2-0-project-advancing-despite-tbm-pause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snowy 2.0 Project \u2013 Advancing Despite TBM Pause<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to a surface depression in Snowy 2.0 project, a TBM has been stopped but Australia\u2019s Snowy Hydro says that the solid construction progress is being made.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/wtc2024-call-for-abstracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WTC2024 \u2013 Call for Abstracts<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WTC2024 is the world\u2019s major tunnel and underground engineering industry congress, which will be held in Shenzhen, China, April 19-25, 2024.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/london-super-tunnel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London Super Tunnel<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more than a decade, over 10,000 engineers and construction workers have raced to construct a brand-new subterranean railroad beneath London \u2014 the Elizabeth Line \u2014 London\u2019s new Underground.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/rebranding-mcmillen-jacobs-associates-to-delve-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rebranding McMillen Jacobs Associates to Delve Underground<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following confirmation of its shareholders in November for the company to retain its underground division and separate the water resources division from the parent company, McMillen Jacobs Associates has rebranded as Delve Underground.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/tac-2023-conference-smart-solutions-future-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TAC 2023 Conference \u2013 Smart Solutions, Future Growth<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC) has announced that the \u201cTAC 2023 Toronto Conference\u201d will be hosted from Sunday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 26, 2023, at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, ON.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/contractors-selected-to-submit-tunnelling-bids-for-saudi-megaproject-neoms-railway-junction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contractors Selected to Submit Tunnelling Bids for Saudi Megaproject Neom\u2019s Railway Junction<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NEOM has chosen several contractors to offer bids for five different contracts to deliver tunnels that will operate as a railway junction for Saudi Arabia\u2019s Neom megaproject.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/atkins-awarded-metrolink-advance-works-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atkins Awarded MetroLink Advance Works Contract<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has selected a member of the SNC Lavalin Group, Atkins, to conduct the detailed design of the advance works program for the Dublin Metrolink project.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/parsons-awarded-contract-for-saudi-arabia-mega-project-rua-al-madinah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parsons Awarded Contract for Saudi Arabia Megaproject<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parsons Corporation declared that the company was appointed by the Rua Al-Madinah Holding Company (RAM-H) to deliver construction project management consultancy and contract administration services (PMCM) for the Rua Al-Madinah mega mixed-use real estate project in the holy city of Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Under this contract, which is worth about $15 million, Parsons will handle the significant infrastructure works containing the tunnel, road, and utility works.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/silvertown-tunnel-uks-largest-tbm-rotated-in-reception-chamber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silvertown Tunnel \u2013 UK\u2019s Largest TBM Rotated in Reception Chamber<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to rotating the first section to the TBM in the reception chamber, engineers working on London\u2019s Silvertown Tunnel have used nitrogen skates.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 style=\"font-size: 1.3rem;\"><a href=\"\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/news\/warszawa-plans-three-more-metro-lines-by-2050\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warszawa Plans Three More Metro Lines by 2050<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mayor of Warszawa, Rafa\u0142 Trzaskowski, has proposed a public transport master plan presented that envisages expanding the metro network from three lines totaling 41\u00b75 km to five lines totaling 113 km by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year We\u2019re wishing you all the best for your goals, plans, and resolutions as we enter 2024! Here&#8217;s a quick peek at the 10 most popular news of 2023: Snowy 2.0 Project \u2013 Advancing Despite TBM Pause Due to a surface depression in Snowy 2.0 project, a TBM has been stopped but Australia\u2019s Snowy Hydro says that the solid construction progress is being made. WTC2024 \u2013 Call for Abstracts WTC2024 is the world\u2019s major tunnel and underground engineering industry congress, which will be held in Shenzhen, China, April 19-25, 2024. London Super Tunnel For more than a decade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}