London’s University of Hole Digging
CrossRail is overseeing a new Tunneling and Underground Construction Academy or TUCA.
After CrossRail has been completed it will operate independently to train staff for other tunneling schemes. The only other such academy in Europe is in Switzerland, which focuses on hard rock tunneling. So if we are to have a Golden Age of Tunneling, we shall be well-prepared in the UK.
The Anonymous Widower 
[…] TUCA is an interesting one, as it is a legacy of CrossRail and is effectively a European University of Tunnelling. I have talked about it before. […]
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[…] CrossRail faced with Europe’s largest project and one of the biggest tunnelling projects ever, decided that it was better to use bigger machines and upskill the workforce. They even created TUCA, which I have called, London’s University of Hole Digging. […]
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[…] TUCA – London’s University of Hole Digging […]
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[…] In East London, there is TUCA, which I call London’s University of Hole Digging. […]
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