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Recession recovery with tunnelbuilder.com!

Recession recovery with tunnelbuilder.com!Going daily at tunnelbuilder.com has already increased our readership by 6% year on year, with an average of 921 professional tunnelling engineers now ... More Information

Gautrain tunnels nearly complete

Gautrain tunnels nearly complete Gautrain has reported that more than 90% of the 15 km tunnel along the 80 km link between Tshwane and the OR Tambo International Airport has been completed. The ... More Information

Indian deal for NFM Technologies

Indian deal for NFM TechnologiesNFM Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Agreement with Indian company BEML to seal an exclusive strategic partnership with a view to becoming a principal supplier ... More Information

NFM Technologies EPBs for Beijing metro

NFM Technologies EPBs for Beijing metroDuring July and August this year NFM Technologies will supply China Railway Construction (B12) with two 6.28 m-diameter EPBs for line 10 of the Beijing metro. ... More Information

Robbins single shield TBM for Laos headrace

Robbins single shield TBM for Laos headraceItalian company CMC (Ravenna) will use a Robbins Single Shield TBM to construct the 5.5 km-long headrace tunnel for the Theun Hinboun expansion project on ... More Information

Recovery lessons (3)

Recovery lessons (3)Today, 28.04.2009, we are publishing the first tunnelling bid that has resulted directly from the measures announced by various governments to bring forward infrastructure ... More Information

Recovery lessons (2)

Recovery lessons (2)Improving road and tunnel safety in Italy The White Paper on transport policy in Italy requires a halving of road victims by 2010, as a result of which the automobile club ACI ... More Information

Work resumes on Cesana tunnel

Work resumes on Cesana tunnelItalian road agency ANAS has approved the technical variations needed to resume work at the 1,840 m-long Cesana tunnel on the SS 24 at Monginevro, in Turin province. ... More Information

Robit Rocktools at Intermat

Robit Rocktools at IntermatFinnish rock and ground tool supplier Robit is exhibiting the first models in its new NS casing advance system at this week's Intermat exhibition in Paris. NS stands for ... More Information

New factory and new products for Ilmeg

New factory and new products for IlmegIlmeg Products AB, the Swedish manufacturer of dust control systems for the rock excavation industry, has built a new factory to produce the newly developed ... More Information

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers to sell hard rock TBM in unreserved Los Angeles auction

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers to sell hard rock TBM in unreserved Los Angeles auctionRitchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer, is selling a single shield 450 ft-long, hard ... More Information

Recovery lessons (1)

Recovery lessons (1)Colombia to host technical seminar on tunnels The Colombian Government has approved the financing of more than 70 km of new tunnels, closing gaps in the national highway network ... More Information

IPS and Albert Lederer join forces

IPS and Albert Lederer join forcesIPS has signed a cooperation agreement for tunnelling activities with Albert Lederer of EF Consult Asia PTE Ltd to bring closer together two professional companies ... More Information

Innovative tunnelling solutions from Design & Technic in Singapore

Innovative tunnelling solutions from Design & Technic in SingaporeDesign & Technic is an independent engineering, consulting and marketing partner based in Singapore. Partners include ... More Information

Rutherford for temporary electrical equipment and cables

Rutherford for temporary electrical equipment and cablesBased in New South Wales, Australia, and with strategically located companies in Italy and Singapore, Rutherford Power is well placed to ... More Information

Seville metro operational

Seville metro operational Line 1 of Seville metro opened on 02.04.2009 with 17 of 22 stations operating, from Ciudad Expo in Mairena del Aljarafe to Condequinto station at Dos Hermanas. For ... More Information

Breakthrough in New Zealand

Breakthrough in New ZealandMcConnell Dowell & Fletcher Construction JV has reported early completion of the 2,953 m-long TBM drive for the Orakei Main Sewer Hobson Diversion (OMSHD), some 17 ... More Information

VMT expands in Australia

VMT expands in AustraliaDuring the last two years, Australia has grown into one of the key markets for VMT GmbH worldwide. Huge infrastructure projects, such as the North-South Bypass Tunnel or the ... More Information

New hydro project for Bosnia Herzegovina

New hydro project for Bosnia HerzegovinaDMT, a provider of technology services based in Essen, Germany is contributing to the feasibility study for a new hydroelectric plant near Vrelo in Bosnia ... More Information

Recession lessons (12)

Recession lessons (12)On 21.05.2006 the people of Montenegro voted for independence from Serbia, and the country is now a sovereign state and member of the UN, with EU candidate status expected this ... More Information

World Tunnel Congress in Budapest

World Tunnel Congress in BudapestThe next ITA World Tunnel Congress (WTC 09), entitled Underground Space and Tunnelling: Planning with Vision, will be organized by the Hungarian Tunnelling ... More Information

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com1st April, 1999. The Internet bubble had popped, first generation dot.com companies had gone bust, and magazines were looking sick. Recession was the name ... More Information

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com1st April, 1999. The Internet bubble had popped, first generation dot.com companies had gone bust, and magazines were looking sick. Recession was the name ... More Information

tunnelbuilder - meet the team

tunnelbuilder - meet the teamWhether you speak English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Welsh, or most other languages, we will understand you. Our people in London, Madrid, Milan, Las ... More Information

Brenner base tunnel moves ahead

Brenner base tunnel moves aheadAt talks held at the EU in Brussels last week, EU transport commissioner Antonio Tajani, Austrian transport minister Doris Bures, Italian transport minister Altero ... More Information

Recession lessons (11)

Recession lessons (11)"The international economic stimulus packages are creating unprecedented opportunities for the tunnelling profession. Engineers understand the risks, understand the realities, ... More Information

Turin metro reaches Dante station

Turin metro reaches Dante stationAt Turin metro, during the period 07.10.2008 to 12.03.2009, TBM Caterina completed excavation of the tunnel from Marconi station to Nizza station, and the 500 m-long ... More Information

Perschling chain breakthrough by Herrenknecht TBM

Perschling chain breakthrough by Herrenknecht TBMOn 11.03.2009, after meeting serious challenges during the construction phase, the Herrenknecht S-319 12,980 mm-diameter, 3,200 Kw single shield TBM ... More Information

Schlüchterner breakthrough by Wirth-NFM TBM

Schlüchterner breakthrough by Wirth-NFM TBMOn 19.03.2009, after nearly 23 months of intensive construction work, the 4 km-long Schluechterner tunnel on the Fulda-Frankfurt/Main railway achieved ... More Information

Epping-Chatswood tunnel cracks

Epping-Chatswood tunnel cracks The New South Wales Government in Australia is undertaking electronic monitoring of the EUR1.2 billion Epping to Chatswood railway line after cracks appeared in the ... More Information

Recruitment services in Toronto

Recruitment services in TorontoKevin Browning, Managing Director of International Tunnelling Services, is attending the 27th annual International No-Dig Show at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, ... More Information

India - Robbins EPB surpasses records on New Delhi metro

India - Robbins EPB surpasses records on New Delhi metroIn February, 2009 one of two 6.52 m diameter Robbins EPBs boring India's New Delhi Metro achieved a weekly advance rate of 168 rings, or 202 ... More Information

Nororiente Motorway opened in Santiago, Chile

Nororiente Motorway opened in Santiago, ChileOn 9th March, 2009 Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, and Luis del Rivero, Chairman of Sacyr Vallehermoso, opened the 21.5 km-long Nororiente ... More Information

NCE Crossrail Conference

NCE Crossrail ConferenceWill be held on Tuesday 31st March 2009 at the Hotel Russell, London W1The conference explores an expansive range of topics from design to procurement, construction to ... More Information

Rock mechanics, stability and design of tunnels and slopes

Rock mechanics, stability and design of tunnels and slopesProf. Dr.-Ing. Walter Wittke and Dr.-Ing. Bettina Wittke-Schmitt will host the 6th annual WBI-International short course from 26.11.2009 to ... More Information

International Symposium for Shanghai

International Symposium for ShanghaiThe fourth annual symposium on tunnelling, entitled Safety and Environmental Friendliness in Tunnel and Underground Works, is scheduled for Shanghai from October ... More Information

Tunnelling News

Webuild at work on the massive railway tunnel at the heart of the Northeast Corridor

After years of planning, the Hudson Tunnel Project (HTP) to improve the railway connection between New York and New Jersey has begun. The first drilling contract for the tunnels, part of ... More Information

TfL Awards Contract for Elephant & Castle Tube Station Upgrade

Transport for London (TfL) has selected Dragados UK to design and construct new passenger tunnels at Elephant & Castle Tube station. These tunnels will connect the new station box to the ... More Information

More than 10 years of transformational tunnelling

More than 23,000 workers, 11 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and an army of roadheaders and excavators are what it has taken for CPB Contractors to construct more than 80 kilometres of ... More Information

Ivy – the Newest Member of the DEME Marine Fleet on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Project

DEME have introduced “Ivy”, the newest member of their marine fleet for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel project! Specifically designed for the transport and immersion of the project’s 89 massive ... More Information

Double down: SA’s groundbreaking purchase

Up to twice the number of Tunnel Boring Machines previously anticipated will be delivered to South Australia for the landmark River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) Project, giving hope the ... More Information

CRL Tunnel Vision September 2024

This month in Tunnel Vision we’re celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! It’s been a busy month on the CRL fitting out the stations with all the technical systems needed to run and revealing ... More Information

Siddhababa tunnel achieves key breakthroughs.

The first and third cross passages of the Siddhababa Tunnel Project on the Siddhartha Highway have achieved breakthroughs. Construction of two of ... More Information

Ontario Exploring Feasibility of New Highway 401 Tunnel

Today, the Ontario government launched the technical evaluation for the construction of a new driver and transit tunnel expressway under ... More Information

National Highways unveils modernisation plans to upgrade A38 Saltash Tunnel

National Highways will be embarking on the second phase of a major modernisation upgrade of the A38 Saltash Tunnel later this autumn... More Information

Strong sustainability score for North East Link

Three mini tunnel boring machines (TBMs) moved 1.8km of the Yarra East Main Sewer to the east of Bulleen Road, beneath homes, schools and sports ... More Information

Tunneling through the Carpathians

AKTOR's innovative use of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) represents a leap forward in engineering and construction technology in the region. Here ... More Information

Suburban Rail Loop to repurpose enormous Sydney Metro machines

The Victorian government's Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is making major strides, with the first four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) now ordered and set to ... More Information

The incredible tunnel that cost £108m to build is the longest on an entire continen

Colombia's mega project will see the country honoured as having the longest tunnel in South America when completed, benefitting locals and ... More Information

Panama Excavates First Underwater Transport Tunnel

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino this week officially began construction and lining work on the first underwater transport tunnel that will ... More Information

Ningbo-Zhoushan High-Speed Railway, China

The tunnelling operation uses two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named Dinghai and Yongzhou. The two are anticipated to converge midway beneath the ... More Information

Boring on metro tunnel below Adyar river complete

The tunnel boring machines - nicknamed Kaveri and Adyar - were engaged for the work. Kaveri has successfully completed the tunnelling drive, while ... More Information

DMRC completes first twin tunnels

DMRC completes first twin tunnels breakthrough under Phase-IV construction tunnels breakthrough under Phase-IV construction. The two tunnel boring machines (TBMs), Bhoomi and Srishti, ... More Information

BART celebrates 50 years with completion of Transbay Tube retrofit

BART celebrates 50 years with completion of Transbay Tube retrofit. Tunnel project ends agency's $1.5B earthquake safety effort. Avatar photo by Bay ... More Information

US$12.2 billion for new Indian tunnels

A US$12.2 billion budget will boost tunnel construction in India. The plans from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways calls for 74 new tunnels to be built. These will measure 273km ... More Information

Hong Kong West Drainage Tunnel

Arup is the consultant to the Hong Kong Drainage Services Department in carrying out the design, pre-qualification, tender and construction ... More Information

Lane JV Wins Tunnel Package for Hudson River Tunnel Project Valued at $466 Million

CHARLOTTE, NC – The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has won a $466 million contract, of which Lane has a 35% share, to construct the Palisades Tunnel ... More Information

World’s biggest developers eye bids for Dublin MetroLink contracts

A consortium made up of some of the biggest infrastructure developers in the world has formed in preparation to bid for contracts to build and operate the long awaited MetroLink rail line ... More Information

The Boring Company's Prufrock-3 completes Las Vegas tunnel

The tunneling startup did not share the length of the tunnel that ... construction projects with speed and automation. This is highlighted by ... More Information

Coastal road phase 2: Mumbai's second twin tunnel to pass under rivers, mangroves

As part of phase 2 of Mumbai's Coastal Road Project, a 22.93 km high-speed corridor linking Versova with Dahisar will be created. More Information

Rock tunnel for £1.7bn Norway road scheme takes shape

The consortium responsible for the construction of a new road system in Norway has excavated approximately 500m of a new 1.9km long tunnel... More Information

Tunnel boring machine reaches halfway point on HS2's route into Birmingham

Balfour Beatty VINCI is celebrating a key milestone in the construction of HS2's gateway to Birmingham. The joint venture today (Thursday 29 ... More Information

Gateway Development Commission secures $3.8B in funding for Hudson Rail Tunnel project

The money is the final funding piece for the $16 billion project to build a new rail tunnel that will carry Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains under ... More Information

TBM Zelda starts on 6.5km Melbourne tunnel

The 4,000t machine is the first of two TBMs that will excavated a section of the project's twin road tunnels in the city's suburbs. Named after local ... More Information

Tunnels of the Future: Key Innovations and Projects at InnoTrans 2024

BBT SE, responsible for the construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel, will provide details on its ambitious project. This 55-kilometer tunnel is ... More Information

Hudson tunnel contract awarded

Webuild's Lane, ACS firms win $466 million Hudson Tunnel contract tunnels as part of the Hudson Tunnel Project in the New York City area, the Italian construction group said on Thursday. More Information

All women crew to build SRL tunnels

Crews are moving underground services and building tunnel boring machine launch sites, preparing sites for major construction. Suburban .. More Information

Officials break ground on one of world's longest underwater rail tunnels connecting 2 major cities

This tunneling project, which is part of the larger Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR corridor spanning 315.66 miles, is part of an effort to reduce the ... More Information

Severn Trent unveils huge 25m deep new storm tank to ease flooding and prevent spills

Four tunnel boring machines were used to install the new sewer pipes under the town to minimise disruption, as well as lining 1km of old brick ... More Information

Here's how downtown Toronto's first subway tunnel in over 60 years will be dug

Crews are now drilling deep into the soil around the launch shaft ... Once piling is complete and this massive pit is dug, tunnel boring machines ... More Information

LTA awards S$199M contract for Maju-Clementi rail tunnels and S$400M for Cross Island

Construction will use a slurry tunnel-boring machine due to the hard sedimentary rock in the area. LTA has assured that rigorous safety measures ... More Information

Northside Interceptor Tunnel named after local environmental advocate

The machine will be named “Elaine” after environmental advocate Elaine Marsh. A tunnel boring machine is used to excavate tunnels through hard ... More Information

Tunnelling works complete on NI Water's £7.8m wastewater upgrade at Meadow Lane

The 25-tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) broke through to the new stormwater storage tank to complete this significant element of work. The new ... More Information

The longest railway tunnels in the world

The three rail tunnels have a diameter of 7.6 m, while the service tunnel has a diameter of 4.8 m. A total of 11 tunnel boring machines (TBM) dug the ... More Information

Reusing dirt and rock as we build the North East Link tunnels

As the TBMs dig underground, excavated dirt and rock is moved via an enclosed conveyor system that crosses high ... More Information