THE UAE’s Diftah-Shis Highway – a route that will link the port of Khor Fakkan on the east coast of Sharjah emirate to Diftah in the central region – blasted its way into the local record books at the end of last month as the project team achieved their first of two tunnel breakthroughs – and in turn created the UAE’s longest rock tunnel.

STIRLING Lloyd Polychem, a leading UK waterproofing manufacturer, has recently launched a new membrane  designed for tunnels constructed using the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM), which involves sprayed concrete linings.