Right now companies around the world are competing in a global race to prove that a new transport revolution is just a few years away. Using high speed transit through low pressure tubes speeds of 1100km/hr per hour are theoretically possible, bringing cities closer together than ever before.

Elon Musk who kickstarted the industry naming this transit methodology Hyperloop in his 2013 white paper exploring the technology. Then in 2017 he set a challenge to the tunnelling industry to reduce the cost of tunnel construction 10 fold.

Former British Tunnelling Society chair Bill Grose has answered this challenge in a paper published this summer. In this episode we speak with Bill about how the cost of tunnelling can be reduced and challenges in making Hyperloop a reality.

GUEST
Bill Grose, former chair of The British Tunnelling Society

RESOURCES
Engineering Matter, The race to create Hyperloop
The hyperloop challenge for tunnelling: higher productivity and lower costs