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British tunneling start-up hyperTunnel has received financial investment from\u00a0VINCI<\/a>, a global leader in concessions, energy and construction businesses. The funds will be used for business expansion and to further develop and test hyperTunnel\u2019s revolutionary construction method in practical situations, said hyperTunnel in a press release<\/a>. The exact amount of the grant was not disclosed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investment comes shortly after hyperTunnel joined VINCI\u2019s innovation platform Leonard as a member of its start-up accelerator programme, Catalyst. hyperTunnel launched in 2018 and has around 30 employees.\u00a0Last week, hyperTunnel also received funding to the tune of \u20ac1.88 million from the\u00a0European Innovation Council (EIC)<\/a>to help complete its advanced swarm robotics underground construction platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tunnel construction as a climate-friendly source of energy<\/div>
When tunnels are bored through mountains, it is not the groundwater level that is an issue but the mountain water level.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

Ecologically-friendly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

hyperTunnel\u2019s technology is being designed to assist in many areas of the tunnel building process. The company places its focus mainly on surveying for interfaces and obstacles, helping in the structural assessment of a tunnel project, as well as providing a safe and ecologically-friendly excavation of a site.\u00a0This is done by building a tube structure through horizontal drilling in order to send sensors and tools that can then conduct remote surveying and structural work.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Just like Hardt Hyperloop in Groningen, Zeleros will build a hyperloop test track in Valencia<\/div>
Valencia-based Zeleros Hyperloop has completed a financing round worth more than \u20ac7 million. With this investment, the company starts a new phase in the development of their system.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201chyperTunnel\u2019s technology can be truly game-changing when it comes to improving the safety and sustainability of underground construction projects,\u201d said Guillaume Bazouin, Head of Start-up and Intrapreneurs programs at Leonard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investment comes at a time of greater interest in tunnels, mainly through the form of hyperloop infrastructure, as an effective alternative to air travel. In December 2020, the EU\u00a0made hyperloops a component of its mobility strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1760,"featured_media":523464,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[8553],"tags":[36747,8923,127962,127965],"location":[55977],"internal_archives":[],"class_list":["post-380751","selected","type-selected","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital","tag-hardt-hyperloop-en","tag-hyperloop-en","tag-hypertunnel","tag-vinci","location-united-kingdom"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brennerbasistunnel-by-BBE-SE.jpeg","coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/arnoud-cornelissen\/","display_name":"Arnoud Cornelissen"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on June 15, 2022","modified":"Updated on June 15, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 15, 2022 1:30 pm","modified":"Updated on June 15, 2022 1:30 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","tax_additional":{"category":{"linked":["Digital<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Digital<\/span>"],"slug":"category","name":"Categories"},"post_tag":{"linked":["Hardt Hyperloop<\/a>","hyperloop<\/a>","hyperTunnel<\/a>","VINCI<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Hardt Hyperloop<\/span>","hyperloop<\/span>","hyperTunnel<\/span>","VINCI<\/span>"],"slug":"post_tag","name":"Tags"},"language":{"linked":["EN<\/a>"],"unlinked":["EN<\/span>"],"slug":"language","name":"Tags"},"post_translations":{"linked":["pll_62a9c3fd3b128<\/a>"],"unlinked":["pll_62a9c3fd3b128<\/span>"],"slug":"post_translations","name":""},"location":{"linked":["United Kingdom<\/a>"],"unlinked":["United Kingdom<\/span>"],"slug":"location","name":"Locations"},"internal_archives":{"linked":[],"unlinked":[],"slug":"internal_archives","name":"Internal Archives"}},"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selected\/380751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/selected"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/selected"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380751"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=380751"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=380751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}