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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #100 Megaprojects (Part 3): Learning from Experience
Description: 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 from two of the most iconic tunnelling projects of recent times: London’s Crossrail and New York’s East Side Access.
Crossrail was the largest infrastructure project in Europe. Weaving in and out of the spaghetti of existing assets under central London occupied the best efforts of the British tunnelling industry for much of the early 2010’s. The project is a new east-west link through London and will see the first new line a...