The Tunnelling Podcast

Recent Episodes

Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience

Posted March 31, 2021 • 00:26:11

This is the third and final episode of our three-part special looking at the delivery of megaprojects. In this episode we examine the lessons learned...

Megaprojects (Part 2): How to Deliver?

Posted March 31, 2021 • 00:23:34

Our sister podcast Engineering Matters produced this three-part special looking at the delivery of megaprojects to mark its 100th episode. In this second...

Megaprojects (Part 1): What Makes a Megaproject?

Posted March 31, 2021 • 00:35:28

Megaprojects are among the most complex and challenging of society’s undertakings. Each is grand is scope and due to the scale, none are ever built...

Trenchless: Respecting the Ground

Posted February 26, 2021 • 00:19:10

A career spent working on, teaching about, and investigating trenchless projects in Canada has given one geotechnical engineer decades of lessons and...

The Men Behind the Shield

Posted January 29, 2021 • 00:22:49

The Thames Tunnel, an 11m wide, 6m high and 396m long tunnel cuts 23m under the river Thames when measured at high tide. It is the first known tunnel...