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Lima's Metro Line 2 project comprises 27 km of all-underground Line 2, plus an 8 km underground spur to the airport which will make up the first section of Line 4. Thirty-five new stations are being constructed, seven of them mined and the rest constructed by cut and cover. The MDL2 consortium is to design, finance and build the new line and to operate and maintain it for the following 30 years.

The WCSCU project will deliver additional capacity and step free access to the Victoria line at London Underground's Walthamstow Central station. A new station box will provide a new station entrance, a new subsurface ticket hall and connecting routes to both Victoria line platforms via escalators, stairs and lifts. Four new tunnel structures will connect the new station box with the segmental cast iron lining of the Victoria line platform tunnels. The use of traditional timber headings was chosen as the preferred construction method during conceptual design primarily due to the length of the structures (i.e. approximately 2 m each).

The Thames Tideway Tunnel is an under-construction 25km tunnel running mostly under the tidal section of the River Thames through central London. It will provide capture, storage and conveyance of almost all combined raw sewage and rainwater that currently overflow into the river. Once constructed, the main tunnel will have an internal diameter of 7.2m and will run from -30m at Acton, West London for over 25km under central London down to -70m at Abbey Mills in the East. It will connect 34 of the most polluting combined sewer overflows (CSOs), via transfer tunnels. The tunnel will transfer the captured sewage to the Stratford to East Ham part for onward delivery to Beckton Sewage Treatment Works.

Cameco's Cigar Lake is the world's highest grade uranium deposit. It is considered one of the world's most technically challenging uranium deposits to mine. The ore body and the ground around has to be bulk frozen prior to extraction of the ore using high pressure water jets. Development of the freeze/production cross-cuts takes place beneath the ore body in unstable, soil-like, highly weathered and anisotropic rock. A flexible shotcrete lining with longitudinal slots and special yielding elements together with systematic rock bolting were utilized to cope with squeezing ground conditions. Site presence and additional engineering and design efforts supported the mine development for tunnels and junctions.