National Tunnelling Day and Santa Barbara Celebrations at Coire Glas with Invergarry Primary School

Following on from our successful site visit back in October, the children were interested to learn more about tunnels and how they are safely constructed. SSER and Joe Coxson, STRABAG's senior engineer, attended the school on Monday morning, where Joe spoke to the children about the different types of projects he has worked on, the types and need for tunnels and how they are built.

In the afternoon, the children were welcomed back to site to attend a tunnel blessing ceremony with Father Danny from Roy Bridge Parish. The ceremony was held at the face of the tunnel, which is now at over 720m in to the hillside. The children had also researched Santa Barbara and shared their learnings of the story as part of the celebrations.