Tunnel Construction Engineering Services & Solutions | WSP

Tunnels

WSP has one of the longest standing and extensive tunneling practices globally. In both rock and soft ground, we build transportation, water, and utility tunnels, and underground spaces.

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What Is Critical, Yet Generally Goes Unnoticed?

Tunnels transform transportation networks by linking nations, uniting communities, and reducing travel time. Water and wastewater tunnels make modern hygiene and sanitation standards possible. Utility tunnels bring us electricity, telephone, internet, and gas pipelines, powering our lives. Underground spaces contribute to our transit networks, our energy reserves, and our scientific research. Tunnel design and construction requires a wide range of engineering skills to deliver innovative solutions.

Bringing together all required disciplines under one roof, WSP is a world leader in tunnel planning, design, rehabilitation, and construction. From pre-feasibility, through fire and risk engineering and ventilation systems, to post-maintenance, we offer in-depth expertise throughout the tunnel lifecycle.

Our hands-on experience includes all types of tunnels—rock, soft ground, cut-and-cover, immersed tunnel, micro/trenchless, and the New Austrian tunneling/sequential excavation method. Our engineers have worked on a wide variety of underground construction projects around the globe, from road tunnels and subway stations, to underground nuclear waste repositories and water conveyance systems.

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Locally Dedicated with International Scale

Our global presence means you can draw on our experience across various ground conditions in big cities, seismic areas, mountains, and underwater.

Technology-driven

Our design teams work extensively with the latest technologies, including digital modeling of ground/structure interaction, BIM and VDC.

World-class Tunnel Solutions

We provide expertise across the entire project lifecycle, from feasibility to design, to construction management, to testing and commissioning.

Projects

Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India

Delhi Metro

Delivering a sustainable and viable mass transit system to India’s Delhi residents, with the addition of new metro lines and stations

Zheng-Xi High Speed Rail © DIETRICH THEUREROF DB-INTERNATIONAL

Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Zheng-Xi High Speed Rail

When it opened on February 6, 2010, the new line reduced travel time between Zhengzhou and X’ian in China from up to 11 hours to about 2 hours.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm Central Station

Stockholm Central Station is the busiest station in Sweden, both for long-distance travel and within the Stockholm commuter network.

Stockholm, Sweden

Tramway City

The tram network in Stockholm is undergoing a major expansion. Tramway City is expected to carry 63,000 passengers per day in 2030 and will supply the new Royal Seaport district with efficient and environmentally friendly public transport.

Ring Railway to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Vantaa, Finnish Capital Region, Finland

Ring Railway to Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Speeding up cross town travel and connecting urban areas with Helsinki’s International Airport

City Line in Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden

City Line

Building one of the most complex construction projects in Sweden to improve mobility in the heart of Stockholm

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Stockholm, Sweden

Norra Station Hagastaden

The Norra Station/Over Decking project involves extending the Norra Länken to create Hagastaden, a new district uniting the cities of Stockholm and Solna.

Dubai, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Palm Jumeirah

Groundbreaking land development project, involving bridges, roads, marine structures, utilities, power, water, and tunnels

New York, NY, USA

Fulton Street Transit Center

Helping deliver a transit center that is seen as essential to the economic recovery of Lower Manhattan

Roy HIll Iron Ore Mining Project

Roy Hill Iron Ore

The Roy Hill Iron Ore Project involved the delivery of a new mine and its process plant, a 344-km heavy haul railway from mine to port, and a new two-berth port facility at Port Hedland.