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Brisbane Northern Link design progress

Brisbane Northern Link design progressThe authorities in the Australian city of Brisbane will rely on loans to finance the EUR1 billion, 4.7 km-long Northern Link tunnel project under design by SKM ... More Information

InnoTek solutions for underground

InnoTek solutions for undergroundInnoTek Srl was at the recent WTC 2009 conference to present a new series of products and solutions for underground works. Five product families have been developed ... More Information

Balfour Beatty to acquire Parsons Brinckerhoff

Balfour Beatty to acquire Parsons BrinckerhoffNew York City-based engineering consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff is recommending shareholder approval of its acquisition by London-based infrastructure ... More Information

Herrenknecht giants cross Yangtze river

Herrenknecht giants cross Yangtze riverA pair of 14.93 m-diameter Herrenknecht Mixshield TBMs have each successfully completed 3 km of tunnelling beneath the Yangtze river at Nanjing in Jiangsu, ... More Information

New section of Sofia metro Line 1 opens

New section of Sofia metro Line 1 opensThe 2 km section Serdika - Vasil Levski National Stadium of Sofia metro Line 1 opened on 08.09.2009, connecting the region's eastern and western boroughs and ... More Information

Traficon PR

Traficon PRTraficon of Belgium has 25 years field experience in video image processing for traffic analysis, with more than 60,000 video detection sensors operational worldwide. The company has been ... More Information

Dubai Metro - longest automated driverless train system

Dubai Metro - longest automated driverless train systemA section of Dubai Metro Red Line with 10 stations opened to the public on 10th September, 2009. Although the original planned opening date was ... More Information

Sri Lanka's Uma Oya launches forty years on

Sri Lanka's Uma Oya launches forty years onThe Uma Oya project to bring water and electricity to 500,000 parched Sri Lankans was first planned as part of the 1968 Mahaweli project, which was ... More Information

Cellular concrete white papers

Cellular concrete white papersCellular Concrete LLC has issued its fourth white paper in the Smart Foam Liquid Concentrate Solution series, which assesses alternative methods available for ... More Information

Päijänne - world's longest tunnel

Päijänne - world's longest tunnelReader Juha Huovilainen juha.huovilainen@marimils.fi has updated the tunnelbuilder Hall of Fame entry for Päijänne tunnel in Finland. After 27 years as the ... More Information

Deo Ca Pass tunnel in Central Vietnam moves forward

Deo Ca Pass tunnel in Central Vietnam moves forwardThe twin tube Deo Ca Pass highway tunnel will have a total length of 5.45 km. Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa provincial administrations are supervising ... More Information

World's longest water diversion tunnel

World's longest water diversion tunnelThe 85.3 km-long, 8 m-diameter tunnel from Hengren county to Xinbin county in East Liaoning will deliver water from Dahuofang reservoir to more than 10 million ... More Information

Art and craft

Art and craftIn Ireland, Limerick County Council is advertising for artists to create permanent outdoor artwork for their ring road and tunnel, for which they will pay EUR500 to each of the five ... More Information

Safe tunnelling in urban areas

Safe tunnelling in urban areasMeyco Global Underground Construction has announced that the BASF TBM 2009 conference will take place in Singapore from 5-7th November. The emphasis will be on EPB and ... More Information

Big 5 PMV moves to Dubai Arena

Big 5 PMV moves to Dubai ArenaBig 5 PMV, the most important event for construction plant, machinery, equipment and vehicles in the Middle East, will take place from 23-26 November, 2009 in The ... More Information

Tunnel Construction Services RFQ

Tunnel Construction Services RFQNew York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is inviting construction firms to submit a Statement of Qualifications for the provision of construction ... More Information

Recession survivors guide

Recession survivors guideOf the 14 major economies that went into recession, Japan, France and Germany have already hauled themselves out, and will progressively be followed by their peers. Most of ... More Information

Second Herrenknecht launched at Veligonda project

Second Herrenknecht launched at Veligonda projectThe 7.96 m-diameter hard rock double shield Herrenknecht TBM launched at Dornala last year on an 18.5 km water tunnel drive has been joined by a ... More Information

Big plans for Korea traffic

Big plans for Korea trafficKorea currently has 25 expressway routes totalling 3,103 km, a figure that will increase to 4,000 km by 2010 and 6,160 km by 2020. Design work will start in 2010 on a ... More Information

IWMA to meet in London

IWMA to meet in LondonThe International Water Mist Association conference is taking place at the Hilton Hotel in Paddington, London from 23.09.2009 to 24.09.2009. Sponsored by Fogtec, Tyco, Danfoss ... More Information

Tunnel waterproofing

Tunnel waterproofingTunnel waterproofing - a new level of protection Stirling Lloyd specializes in the development, manufacture and application of high-performance waterproofing and structural ... More Information

Progress on Guang-Fo line in Guangzhou

Progress on Guang-Fo line in GuangzhouThe 32.2 km-long Guang-Fo Line is part of the Chinese government's Intercity Rapid Rail Project to link nine cities in Guangdong Province by 2015, including ... More Information

Heavy going in Albania

Heavy going in AlbaniaBechtel-Enka, the US-Turkey consortium building the 57 km-long motorway between Rreshen and Kalimash, has reported its experience on the 5.5 km-long NATM twin tube tunnel at ... More Information

First section of Duplex A86 opens west of Paris

First section of Duplex A86 opens west of ParisThe first 4.5 km section of Duplex A86, between Rueil-Malmaison and the A13 motorway interchange in Vaucresson Le Chesna opened on 01.07.2009. The ... More Information

Three new lines for Dalian metro

Three new lines for Dalian metroConstruction of 58.1 km of subway lines 1, 2 and 4 commenced on 25.07.2009 at Dalian, one of the largest cities in northeast China's Liaoning Province, where a total ... More Information

Longest Indian rail tunnel progress

Longest Indian rail tunnel progressIndian Railways has almost completed the 7.5 km stretch of its 11 km Pir Panjal tunnel project in the State of Kashmir, the longest tunnel in the country (in/36). ... More Information

Sofia metro gets underway

Sofia metro gets underwayWork began in July, 2009 on the new stretch of Sofia metro line 1 to connect the Obelisk - Serdika and Vasil Levski Stadium - Mladost 1 sections, which themselves will be ... More Information

Barcelona St Just tunnel looking good

Barcelona St Just tunnel looking goodIn November, 2008, two 5.98 m-diameter double shield TBMs, one from SELI and the other from Herrenknecht, started to bore the 11.5 km-long St Just water tunnel ... More Information

Pajares twin tunnels completed

Pajares twin tunnels completedThe second tube of the 24.6 km-long Pajares twin tunnel on the high-speed railway link between Leon and Asturias in northern Spain was completed on 11.07.2009. The ... More Information

Santa Cristina bypass opens in Val Gardena

Santa Cristina bypass opens in Val GardenaThe new 1.6 km Santa Cristina bypass opened in Bozen province on 17.07.2009. Overall cost was EUR32.1 million, of which EUR4.8 million was spent on Monte ... More Information

Two more NATM tunnels completed on the Madrid-Murcia high speed line

Two more NATM tunnels completed on the Madrid-Murcia high speed lineThe single-tube, 85 sq m section, 2.2 km-long Loma del Carrascal tunnel on the 10.9 km-long Cuenca-Olalla section of the ... More Information

Mühlhäuser catalogue goes online at tunnelbuilder.com

Mühlhäuser catalogue goes online at tunnelbuilder.comOur good friends at Mühlhäuser, who have been celebrating over 100 years in the mining and tunnelling equipment business, have entrusted ... More Information

Major HATS award to Leighton Asia JV

Major HATS award to Leighton Asia JVThe design/construct contract for a 7.5 km-long drill/blast tunnelled section of Hong Kong's latest sewage conveyance system, value EUR235 million, has been ... More Information

Mike Rispin to head Normet in North America

Mike Rispin to head Normet in North AmericaNormet, the Iisalmi, Finland based provider of underground mining and tunnelling equipment and care solutions has announced the appointment of Mike Rispin ... More Information

Lyon metro Line B extension starts

Lyon metro Line B extension startsOn 09.07.2009 the 1.7 km extension of Line B of the Lyon metro from Gerland to Oullins, with a crossing of the Rhone river, got underway. A 9.5 m diameter TBM will ... More Information

Spanish line advances towards France

Spanish line advances towards FranceOn 07.07.2009 the 649 m-long Sant Andreu tunnel on the 3.3 km Sant Julia de Ramis-Cornella del Terri subsection of the Madrid-Barcelona-French border high-speed ... More Information

Tunnelling News

HSR Xi'an – Yan'an: Completion of All Tunnels in the Project

The HSR Xi'an – Yan'an has completed the excavation of all tunnels, including the Tongchuan Tunnel. This is a key milestone in the construction ... More Information

Brazil's US$1bn underwater tunnel project making waves among potential bidders

The first underwater road tunnel project in Brazil is attracting interest from multiple potential bidders, an official familiar with the matter ... More Information

Element Six and Master Drilling Announce Strategic Partnership for Advanced Tunnel

Achieving high quality, nonexplosive tunnel construction with various aspects of value generated compared to traditional rock excavation methods is a ... More Information

Tutor Perini Wins a $1.2 Billion NYC Contract

A joint venture of Sylmar-based civil construction firm Tutor Perini Corp. and its subsidiary Frontier-Kemper Constructors has won a $1.18 billion contract to construct a pair of rail ... More Information

Milestone reached for $1.6b Auckland wastewater tunne

Watercare's Central Interceptor project has passed an historic milestone with the southern half of the 16.2 kilometre tunnel – Blockhouse Bay ... More Information

Elon Musk's 'Wormhole' Tunnel Promises To Carry 20,000 People Per Hour In Dubai

It’s been more than eight years since Elon Musk decided he was fed up with traffic and declared he’d start digging tunnels to revolutionize public transport across the United States. So ... More Information

First tender for Dubai’s $22bn tunnels due within days

Dubai Municipality is expected to tender the first two packages of the $22bn Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST) project imminently... More Information

London's Thames Tideway Tunnel now fully connected

After 10 years of construction work, the last of the 21 connections of the Thames Tideway Tunnel was made to the city's Victorian sewage system. More Information

Silvertown Tunnel

Silvertown Tunnel is the Transport for London project looking to forge a brand-new connection between Silvertown and the Greenwich Peninsula... More Information

Dubai Loop: Elon Musk to Build Huge Underground Road Network

Musk's The Boring Company, which is responsible for building a similar project in Las Vegas, aims to create 17 kilometers of tunnel capable of ... More Information

Wisconsin approves $4.5m tunnel lighting project

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has approved a $4.5m lighting systems upgrade project in various tunnels in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. More Information

$1.18bn Manhattan Tunnel contract awarded as part of $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project

The Hudson Tunnel Project is the key section of the Gateway Programme, which is a comprehensive rail infrastructure investment aimed at boosting ... More Information

North East Link continues to forge ahead towards completion

Tunnelling will soon commence on Victoria's longest twin road tunnels – the North East Link tunnels – as two massive tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are ... More Information

Africa's huge £8.5m tunnel cuts up to 26 minutes off journeys to major capital city

The tunnel is to be constructed within the next three years. This project will not only create 500 jobs in the construction ... More Information

CMRL's tunnel boring machine from Panagal Park reaches Kodambakkam station after a year

Chennai Metro Rail's Phase II Project faces delays as tunnel boring machines 'Pelican' and 'Peacock' progress towards Kodambakkam... More Information

$800-million twin-tube tunnel, longest in the Philippines, nears 'breakthrough'

A senior agency official stated on Thursday that the tunneling phase of the Davao City Bypass Construction Project will achieve a long-awaited ... More Information

The World’s Largest Immersed Tunnel Is Being Built—And It’s Done Without a Tunnel Boring Machine

When we think about groundbreaking advancements, our minds often jump to cutting-edge technology like smartphones or supercomputers. But some of the most awe-inspiring innovations are ... More Information

Brenner Base TBM enters 'highly fractured' fault zone

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) working on the northernmost active construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel project has entered a “highly ... More Information

India building a historic Undersea Tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project

He stated, "All high-quality safety norms have been adopted in the construction of this India's first carefully designed undersea tunnel project." The ... More Information

Norway's Incredible Ship Tunnel Plan Is Back On Track

Despite pandemic-related and planning delays to the project, the Norwegian Coastal Administration is pressing ahead with plans to build the world's ... More Information

PM Modi inaugurates Z-Morh tunnel in J&K

The tunnel works with the under-construction Zojila tunnel to enhance travel efficiency and road connectivity. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra ... More Information

Metro's tunnel construction on track

Meanwhile, the 'Azad' TBM is already working on the 'up-line' tunnel for the same stretch. After arriving at Transport Nagar, both TBMs were 'dragged' ... More Information

Potomac River Tunnel: Tunnel Forum Meeting

The Potomac River Tunnel project team will provide overviews of the project and the Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) 022 Construction Site located at ... More Information

Valley Water District to vote on an additional $9.69 million for Delta Tunnel

Tunnel Boring Machines would launch in both directions from each launch shaft site. ... Tunnel opponents weren't impressed with the 'refined' tunnel ... More Information

The Moles Present 2025 Outstanding Achievement Awards

Paul C. Schmall and Anthony J. Binsfeld received the Outstanding Achievement Awards by The Moles, a National Heavy Construction Industry Professional ... More Information

Silvertown Tunnel opening confirmed for April

The tunnel boring machine (TBM), Jill (named after Jill Viner ... bore the second tunnel back towards Newham - a UK engineering first. More Information

Major road tunnel between France and Italy set to reopen after ten years

Discover the reopening of the Tende Tunnel, a crucial link between France and Italy, after a decade of construction. Learn about the project's ... More Information

Opening date for new London tunnel announced

Transport for London (TfL) said construction work and “rigorous testing” of the Silvertown Tunnel are “sufficiently complete” to enable it to set out ... More Information

Meet our Women in Tunneling

Most recently, she was the project geotechnical engineer on the Pawtucket tunnel design in Rhode Island where she assisted in field exploration ... More Information

Five bids submitted to build CPK Łódź tunnel

The contractor will be required to complete the project within 46 months of contract signature. As the tunnel will run beneath densely built-up areas, ... More Information

The new £3.1bn underwater tunnel that will be world's longest and connect continents

A four-mile multi-purpose underwater tunnel is set to link the continents of Europe and Asia and cater to 1.3 million passengers when it opens in 2028... More Information

Prague-Beroun Tunnel Project: Faster Rail Travel in Czechia

The Prague-Beroun tunnel will improve rail travel in Czechia, cutting travel times and easing congestion. This transformative project promises ... More Information

The Longest Road Tunnel on Earth is a Stunning Masterpiece of Engineering

The world's longest road tunnel is a marvel of engineering, planning, and construction that connects the cities of Oslo and Bergen in Norway... More Information

United Utilities names preferred bidder for £2.5billion tunnel project

Water firm United Utilities has announced its preferred bidder to design, build, finance and maintain the replacement of six tunnel sections of ... More Information

World's longest expressway tunnel built in Xinjiang, China

The use of new technologies helped reduce the construction time from 10 years to just over four years... More Information

Procurement kicks off for Norway ship tunnel main contract

The Norwegian Coastal Administration has put out a tender for the £247M main construction contract for the Stad ship tunnel... More Information

The $20-Trillion Tunnel That Could Link New York and London

With the two global cities being over 3,000 miles apart, construction would take several years—the 23.5-mile Channel Tunnel linking .. More Information

HS2 reveals two giant tunnelling machines preparing to dig Euston Tunnel

Engineers have started assembling two massive tunnelling machines that will excavate the final 4.5 miles of underground high-speed railway, connecting HS2 di... More Information

Around 75 tunnel projects worth Rs 49K cr under construction in India

Around 75 tunnel NHAI projects entailing investment of Rs 49,000 crore are under construction in the country, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said. More Information