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Immersion of Fehmarnbelt tunnel elements to start soon, after vessel passes tests

03/04/2026

The Fehmarnbelt project is one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects but is running around two years behind schedule after “challenges” with the ...

Betty has made it out of the tunnel six weeks later

03/04/2026

Betty the tunnel boring machine has re-emerged from a tunnel at Kirkham as part of a £5.5m project...

China's $47 billion railway into Tibet needs a tunnel borer so powerful it does not yet exist

03/04/2026

Now, a purpose-built tunnel boring machine must conquer the Himalayas to complete the most extreme railway project on Earth...

TBM launched for metro Line 11 extension in Madrid

02/04/2026

TUNNELLING work is underway on the project to extend Line 11 of the Madrid Metro network, with the launch of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that ...

TBM cutterhead lift and tunnelling risks for engineers

02/04/2026

South Australia's $15.4 billion River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) project has installed the first of three 300‑tonne tunnel boring machine ...

DP World Drives Canada's Infrastructure Build

02/04/2026

The terminal handled the arrival and offload of a custom-built Herrenknecht Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunnel boring machine from Germany – weighing ...

LA Metro approves route of K Line northern extension project to Hollywood

27/03/2026

The analysis found that modern tunneling techniques are safe with pre-construction studies, use of advanced tunnel-boring machines, mitigations and ...

Here's when first massive boring machine will start carving tunnel between New York, New Jersey

27/03/2026

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A massive tunnel boring machine is preparing to carve a tunnel between New York and New Jersey after President Donald Trump ...

Beyond the horizontal: how a next-generation TBM conquered Pingjiang's inclined shaft

27/03/2026

A variable diameter inclined shaft tunnel boring machine has completed a landmark breakthrough on China's Pingjiang pumped storage hydropower ...

CMRL begins tunnelling for Thiruvanmiyur-Indira Nagar section in phase-II metro rail project

26/03/2026

Tunnelling through hard rocks in the 650-metre stretch may take nearly six months, officials say ...

AKTOR’s Tunnels on Brașov–Sighișoara Line, among the most complex in Europe

26/03/2026

A railway infrastructure project unfolding in the heart of Transylvania has been ranked, according to an independent comparative analysis, among the most complex and ambitious railway tunnel ...

Tunnel-boring machines “Victoria” and “Natali”

26/03/2026

The tunnel-boring complexes worked in tandem on the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya Line. The tunnel-boring machine complexes (TBMs) “Natali” and “Victoria,” ...

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