A sinkhole roughly 8–10 m wide and several metres deep has opened on the AJ Burkitt Reserve sporting oval in Heidelberg, directly adjacent to the North East Link tunnel alignment in Melbourne’s northeast. Victorian Infrastructure Delivery Authority has confirmed the “surface hole” is in the vicinity of active tunnelling operations, leading to a work pause while engineers and emergency crews carry out geotechnical investigations and monitoring. No injuries or structural damage have been reported, but the area remains fully cordoned off pending cause determination and stability assessment.

The derailment of a freight train on a bridge in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, on 6 September 2024 was caused by failure of screws securing the rails to a timber support system, according to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. The incident occurred on a bridge structure where the track was fastened to timber rather than conventional concrete or steel bearers, and the screw fixings did not maintain adequate restraint. The findings point to the need for closer inspection regimes and design checks for timber-supported track, particularly at bridge locations with high dynamic loading.

Mineração Morro do Ipê (MMI) has installed 19 HÖRMANN Warnsysteme electronic sirens as an automated warning system for communities in the tailings dam impact zone. The sirens are linked to dam monitoring sensors and are configured to trigger automatically in the event of a breach, removing reliance on manual activation during fast‑developing failures. For geotechnical and emergency planners, the project illustrates integration of real‑time instrumentation with public alerting infrastructure as part of Brazilian post‑Brumadinho tailings risk management practice.