Unsupported browser

For a better experience, please update your browser to its latest version.

Skip to main content
Skip to navigation

We'll assume we have your consent to use cookies, for example so you won't need to log in each time you visit our site.
Learn more

Sign in

Ground Engineering

Home
News
- Latest news
  - Gallery: First Tideway TBMs are lowered into position
    
    21 June, 2018 6:33 am
  - Investigation launched into excavation works at HK metro station
    
    21 June, 2018 6:00 am
  - New reservoir to be built within existing reservoir
    
    21 June, 2018 6:38 am
  - Wood Thilsted and WSP to design foundations for US’s largest offshore windfarm
    
    21 June, 2018 6:13 am
- - Gallery: Oroville Dam repairs in full swing
    
    Repairs of the spillway structure on the Oroville Dam in California are well underway.
Opinion
Features
Events
- - Webinars
  - Roundtables
- - Project of the decade
    
    12 December, 2017 7:00 am
  - GE Awards raises over £8,000 for Mates in Mind
    
    14 June, 2018 7:00 am
  - Queensferry Crossing named as Project of the Decade
    
    7 June, 2018 8:23 am
  - GE Awards entry deadline extended
    
    11 January, 2018 7:46 am
GE digital
Technical papers
- Latest technical papers
  - Cooling Prize paper: Ground movement due to shaft construction
    
    29 May, 2018 8:00 am
  - Technical paper: Reliability and risk in gas protection measures
    
    24 May, 2018 10:23 am
  - Technical Paper: Slope stabilisation and erosion protection in a single operation
    
    12 April, 2018 8:52 am
  - Technical paper: Construction of a reinforced soil wall for a working platform for 1000t crane and TBM on the Elan Valley Aqueduct
    
    5 March, 2018 9:40 am
Geotechnical Services File
Subscribe
- Choose your subscription package
  
  Individual subscriptions
  
  Corporate subscriptions
- Individual subscriptions
  
  This subscription package is aimed at the geotechnical community professional that wants to access key industry intelligence.
  
  Subscribe
- Corporate subscriptions
  
  Our scalable membership packages are exclusively designed for companies who want to purchase access for 10 or more users and benefit from a group saving.
  
  Find out more

You are here:News

ld5000 china 1 800x550

World’s largest drilling rig arrives in China

25 May, 2018 By Michaila Hancock

A pile top drilling rig has successfully completed its 20,152km journey from the UK to Guangzhou, China in preparation for its next mega-project.

TO KEEP READING

Already paid? Activate your digital account now

Alternatively register for guest access