Civil Engineering Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/category/structures/civil-engineering/ Mechanically-minded travel Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:15:10 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 First Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Section Immersed https://mechtraveller.com/2026/05/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-section-immersed/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/05/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-section-immersed/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 16:41:06 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=13116 The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is a major European civil engineering project to lay an 18 km (11.2 mile) road and rail tunnel under the Baltic Sea between Germany and Denmark. (See The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel for overview.) Earlier this week, the first of its 89 pre-fabricated concrete tunnel sections was floated out of the harbour at Rødbyhavn […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/05/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-section-immersed/feed/ 0 The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel https://mechtraveller.com/2026/05/the-fehmarnbelt-tunnel/ https://mechtraveller.com/2026/05/the-fehmarnbelt-tunnel/#respond Thu, 07 May 2026 16:16:54 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=13107 The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is a major European civil engineering project to lay an 18 km (11.2 mile) road and rail tunnel under the Baltic Sea between Germany and Denmark. You notice I said “lay” and not “dig”. This amazing tunnel will be laid in sections in a giant trough dredged out of the seabed, and […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2026/05/the-fehmarnbelt-tunnel/feed/ 0 The World’s Highest Bridge opens in China https://mechtraveller.com/2025/10/the-worlds-highest-bridge-opens-in-china/ https://mechtraveller.com/2025/10/the-worlds-highest-bridge-opens-in-china/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:04:19 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=12086 The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge towers 625 metres over the Beipan River in China’s Guizhou province, which is known for its dramatic mountains. After three years of construction, the massive 2,890-meter-long* suspension bridge was finally opened to traffic on Sunday (28 Sep), dramatically cutting the 2 hours it used to take motorists to get from […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2025/10/the-worlds-highest-bridge-opens-in-china/feed/ 0 Croatia opens Peljesac Bridge, bypassing Bosnia to get to Dubrovnik https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/croatia-opens-peljesac-bridge-bypassing-bosnia-to-get-to-dubrovnik/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/croatia-opens-peljesac-bridge-bypassing-bosnia-to-get-to-dubrovnik/#respond Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:57:51 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7706 Croatia’s long-awaited Peljesac Bridge was opened yesterday by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic. The stunning piece of engineering is a cable-stayed road bridge, supported by six pylons stretching 2.4km (1.5 mile) from the Croatian mainland to the Peljesac peninsula. The significance of the bridge is that it ends the need for tourists, residents and businesses to […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/croatia-opens-peljesac-bridge-bypassing-bosnia-to-get-to-dubrovnik/feed/ 0 The world’s largest sea lock at IJmuiden will enable the new generation of giant ships to reach Amsterdam https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/the-worlds-largest-sea-lock-at-ijmuiden-will-enable-the-new-generation-of-giant-ships-to-reach-amsterdam/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/the-worlds-largest-sea-lock-at-ijmuiden-will-enable-the-new-generation-of-giant-ships-to-reach-amsterdam/#respond Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:25 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7268 The long-awaited new sea lock at IJmuiden opens on Weds (26 Jan). This massive marine engineering project at the gateway to the North Sea Canal (Noordzeekanaal) which leads to Amsterdam, got underway back in 2016. Now, finally* the new lock, which replaces the old North Lock (Noordersluis)** that had been in operation for almost 100 […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/01/the-worlds-largest-sea-lock-at-ijmuiden-will-enable-the-new-generation-of-giant-ships-to-reach-amsterdam/feed/ 0 Stad Ship Tunnel given the go-ahead https://mechtraveller.com/2021/03/stad-ship-tunnel-given-the-go-ahead/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/03/stad-ship-tunnel-given-the-go-ahead/#respond Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:15:41 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6773 Norway’s long-awaited Stad Ship Tunnel has been given a green light. The world’s first ship tunnel will allow large ships to avoid the notoriously exposed and treacherous piece of sea at the tip of the 27 km Stad Peninsula in Vestland, on the southwest coast of Norway. First mooted in 1874, plans for the tunnel […]

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