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Tunneling In The Digital Age: Rethinking

Subsurface Infrastructure

By REEBA ASGHARJune 9, 2025

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Tunnel design redefined for data driven decisions and geotechnically informed infrastructure: image courtesy of Seequent Bentley

In Tunneling in the Digital Age, Bentley Systems’ Oana Crisan discusses how digital

transformation and connected workflows are helping teams mitigate risk, boost
collaboration, and drive project success below the surface

Going underground is a seemingly simple approach to the increasing pressure for infrastructure in our

fast-growing societies—but it is far from simple. Tunneling can carry enormous costs per kilometer,

with impressive (but pricey) tunnel boring machines engineered and driven with great precision but
operating in highly uncertain subsurface conditions. Any breakdown in collaboration between the

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