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Atlas Copco Launches an Improved 10t Underground Loader - the Scooptram® ST1030

Atlas Copco Launches an Improved 10t Underground Loader - the Scooptram® ST1030An improved electrical system, an EPA Tier 3 diesel engine and a new instrument panel represent the major ... More Information

Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French Alps

Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French AlpsThe A41 north stretch is the missing link on the A41 between Villy-le-Pelloux / Saint-Martin-Bellevue and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in the ... More Information

Conference and Training Course on Safety in Tunnels

Conference and Training Course on Safety in TunnelsItaly today holds the world's main records regarding underground structures. Recently, risks have been increasing due to ageing tunnels while road ... More Information

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling Services

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling ServicesWith the common goal to provide optimal and thorough services to contractors and tunnelling projects in the North ... More Information

Internet Advertising Overtakes Magazines

Internet Advertising Overtakes MagazinesGuy Phillipson, CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau www.iabuk.net has reported that spending on online advertising in the first half of 2006 has ... More Information

8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground Structures

8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground StructuresThe Slovenian Society for Underground and Geotechnical Constructions, the University of Ljubljana with the Faculty ... More Information

China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway Tunnels

China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway TunnelsAccording to statistics, 7,504 railway tunnels - with a total length of 4,305 km - were already in operation in China ... More Information

Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro Expansion

Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro ExpansionAll tunnelling required as part of the 2003-2007 expansion plan of the Madrid metro ended on 27th September, 2006 on Line 7 to east of ... More Information

Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBU

Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBURobbins announces its newest trenchless product, the Motorized Small Boring Unit (MSBU). The Robbins MSBU is a technically advanced type of ... More Information

Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South Tyrol

Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South TyrolThe Bolzano province in South Tyrol, Northern Italy has adopted an active policy to guarantee a safer road access to famous valleys like Val ... More Information

Upgrading the Orte-Falconara Rail Line

Upgrading the Orte-Falconara Rail LineThe Orte-Falconara line is one of the few transversal lines on the Italian rail network. It actually crosses the central Apennines from the Marche region ... More Information

Iceland TBMs Make a Strong Finish and Tie a World Record

Iceland TBMs Make a Strong Finish and Tie a World RecordThe Kárahnjúkar hydroelectric project includes approx. 72 km of tunnels that will transfer water to a powerhouse in the Fljótsdalur ... More Information

First Breakthrough on Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare Section on Genoa-Ventimiglia Line Dualling

First Breakthrough on Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare Section on Genoa-Ventimiglia Line DuallingOn 24th September, 2006 in San Bartolomeo al mare, next to Cervo torrent valley, tunnelling ended at ... More Information

4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in Singapore

4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in SingaporeThe 4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium is organised by the Singapore National Group of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and the ... More Information

TIMBY, New Construction Process for Immersed Tunnels

TIMBY, New Construction Process for Immersed TunnelsTIMBY, which stands for Tunnel IMmersed BY Bouygues, is a new process for construction of immersed tunnels. It is based on a machine ... More Information

Tunnelling Well Advanced on Tizi Ouzou-Algiers Potable Water Scheme

Tunnelling Well Advanced on Tizi Ouzou-Algiers Potable Water SchemeTizi Ouzou is situated at a pass that culminates at 270 metres ("tizi" means pass and "ouzou" means broom in Kabylian) but it is ... More Information

Herrenknecht TBM Completes Metronorte Line in Madrid

Herrenknecht TBM Completes Metronorte Line in MadridA TBM dubbed 'Chotis' finished the Metronorte tunnel as it holed through into Marques de la Valdavia station in Alcobendas at 12:18 p.m. on 18th ... More Information

First Sections Get Under Way on Ionian Coast Road SS 106

First Sections Get Under Way on Ionian Coast Road SS 106 The SS 106 Ionian road is approximately 490 km long, of which 415 km in Calabria (85%), 37 km in Basilicata and 38 km in Puglia. It ... More Information

Zillastro Tunnel on Ionian Tyrrhenian Cross-Country Road Also Called Bagnara-Bovalino

Zillastro Tunnel on Ionian Tyrrhenian Cross-Country Road Also Called Bagnara-BovalinoThe Zillastro tunnel is the major structure on the Ionian Tyrrhenian cross-country road, called Bagnara-Bovalino, ... More Information

Robbins TBM Digs Sewer Outfall in Northwest Spain

Robbins TBM Digs Sewer Outfall in Northwest SpainThe project to clean up the Ferrol estuary represents an investment of EUR112 million, financed by the North of Spain water agency (85%) and ... More Information

IPS Tunnel Division Wins Malmö City Tunnel Contract to Supply Personnel

IPS Tunnel Division Wins Malmö City Tunnel Contract to Supply PersonnelIPS is proud to announce that they have been awarded a contract to supply TBM specialists to the Malmö City tunnel joint ... More Information

First Breakthough at Gotthard Base Tunnel

First Breakthrough at Gotthard Base TunnelConstruction workers made the first breakthrough at the Gotthard base tunnel on 6th September, 2006 in what will be the world's longest rail tunnel, ... More Information

Austin Builds Three Water Tunnels and Has Four More in Project

Austin Builds Three Water Tunnels and Has Four More in ProjectThere are three in-use wastewater tunnels in Austin: Crosstown (1973), Onion (1978) and Govalle (1988). Crosstown delivers ... More Information

Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Croydon Cable Tunnel in the UK

Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Croydon Cable Tunnel in the UKMorgan Est has contracted with Lovat for the purposes of design and manufacture of a 3.6 m-diameter EPB TBM for the Croydon cable ... More Information

Marti Technik to Supply Conveyor Belt for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong Kong

Marti Technik to Supply Conveyor Belt for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong KongSwitzerland's Marti Technik has been contracted by Dragages Hong Kong to supply a conveyor belt for the Castle ... More Information

SELI TBM Breaks Through Dai Ninh Headrace Tunnel in Vietnam

SELI TBM Breaks Through Dai Ninh Headrace Tunnel in VietnamAfter 20 months of work on the headrace tunnel of the Dai Ninh hydropower project, Cavico Corporation announced that the tunnel has ... More Information

NFM Technologies Pockets Major Contract for Six TBMs in China

NFM Technologies Pockets Major Contract for Six TBMs in ChinaNFM Technologies, affiliated to Wirth, has won an order for the supply of six slurry Benton'air® type TBMs to China. The contract is ... More Information

BASF Acquires Degussa Construction Chemicals to Create New Innovative Potentials

BASF Acquires Degussa Construction Chemicals to Create New Innovative PotentialsBASF acquired the global construction chemicals business of Degussa, with effect from 30th June, 2006 and ... More Information

Launch Ceremony of World's Largest Hard Rock TBM at Niagara Falls in Ontario

Launch Ceremony of World's Largest Hard Rock TBM at Niagara Falls in OntarioA ceremony was held on 8th August, 2006 to celebrate the official start up of the largest hard rock TBM in existence ... More Information

NYC Completes Excavation of Third Water Tunnel

NYC Completes Excavation of Third Water TunnelMayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg turned off on 9th August, 2006 a tunnel boring machine and announced that the excavation of Stage 2, or ... More Information

Atlas Copco Secoroc Dresses in Yellow

Atlas Copco Secoroc Dresses in Yellow As of 15th August, 2006 all Atlas Copco Secoroc rock drilling tools delivered will be dressed in yellow. This is yet another step in strengthening ... More Information

Robbins TBM Starts Pinglu Tunnel in China

Robbins TBM Starts Pinglu Tunnel in ChinaA launch ceremony of a Robbins TBM was held on 12th July, 2006 in Souzhou in China's Shanxi province to celebrate the start of the 25.15 km-long Pinglu ... More Information

Herrenknecht to Supply TBM for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong Kong

Herrenknecht to Supply TBM for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong KongThe Castle Peak cable tunnel project was awarded by CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd to Dragages Hong Kong Ltd on 30th November, 2005. ... More Information

Fire Fighting Systems For Tunnel Boring Machines

Fire Fighting Systems For Tunnel Boring MachinesHall and Kay Fire Engineering Ltd have recently been awarded a major contract by Herrenknecht for fire fighting systems on a 180 m-long machine to be ... More Information

Tunnelling Ends on Metro Project in Lausanne

Tunnelling Ends on Metro Project in LausanneThe final milestone has been reached on the M2 metro line in Lausanne, Switzerland when two teams of tunnellers made the junction at a 136 m-long ... More Information

World's Biggest TBM Finishes Boring in Madrid

World's Biggest TBM Finishes Boring in Madrid 'Dulcinea', the world's biggest TBM featuring a 15.2 m diameter and a power of 22,000 kW, has completed its job in record time. Machine ... More Information

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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

Nanjiao-Xichang section of tunnel

Guangzhou International Guangzhou International Recently, the right-line tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunnel of the Nanjiao-Xichang section (hereinafter referred to as the "Nanxi ... More Information

Fehmarn Belt Tunnel opening set for mid-2029

This reduces waste and simultaneously strengthens the supply security for the project by producing steel grids to size and on demand. Setting up for ... More Information

HRBT Expansion Project's first gantry extracted and lifted

Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine exited the tunnel and made her U-turn back in June. Work on the second tunnel will begin in September of this year... More Information

Gateway Board Forms Search Committee for CEO to Lead $16B Tunnel Project

The Gateway Development Commission, which leads the $16.1-billion Hudson Tunnel Project between New Jersey and New York, has launched a board ... More Information

Costain awarded £6.6m by Thames Water to upgrade Hertfordshire treatment sites

Costain, the infrastructure solutions company, has been awarded a contract with Thames Water to upgrade strategic treatment assets in Markyate and Brickendon in Hertfordshire... More Information

National Grid switches on first 2.5km circuit of £1bn London Power Tunnels 2

The LPT2 project has seen 32.5km of new tunnels bored under the capital city between Wimbledon and Crayford to host a new high voltage 275kV network. The 3m diameter tunnels were bored by ... More Information

_Goregaon-Mulund Link Road Nears Completion, Set To Cut Travel Time To 25 Minutes

The tunnels, which will be excavated using a tunnel boring machine with a diameter of approximately 14.2 metres, will be equipped with lighting ... More Information

Snowy 2.0 Tunnel Boring Machines Update

The Snowy 2.0 project continues to make significant strides with its Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) advancing the construction of critical ... More Information

Vancouver's Broadway subway tunnel boring equipment arrivin

The tunnels will serve all six stations of the Millennium Line SkyTrain extension project, from Great Northern Way to Arbutus Street. Each boring ... More Information

IN MEMORIAM - OLIVIER VION (1962-2024)

Through the past decades, the energy and foresight to lead the management of the ITA International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association has been in the hands of Olivier Vion, a man ... More Information

Amtrak awards construction contract for East River Tunnel rehabilitation

The $1.6 billion project calls for demolishing all existing tunnel systems down to the liner, then restoring both tubes. During the project, one tube ... More Information

Strabag in €110 million deal to equip transalpine tunnel

Austrian contractor Strabag has won a €110 million (US$120 million) to equip a transalpine tunnel linking Austria and Slovenia... More Information

19 tunnel boring machines for Manila subway set

A close-up of the tunnel boring machine head, with a diameter of 6.9 meters. ... The first cutter head of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM), named ... More Information

$16 billion Gateway Tunnel Project gets federal funding boost after years of delays

The $16.1 billion project includes a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey — and is set to be open by 2035 ... More Information

Preferred bidder announced for second tunnelling contract

The global consortium of WeBuild S.p.A, GS Engineering and Construction Australia and Bouygues Construction ... Tunnel Project, North East Link ... More Information

Bechtel Picked as CM for $12.7B Single-bore BART Extension

Officials with the VTA are aiming to begin major construction and tunnelling for the $12.7-billion BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Project next ... More Information

Stonehenge could be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel plan

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recommended that Stonehenge be listed as ‘World Heritage in Danger’ due to the A303 upgrade scheme and is ... More Information

World’s longest railway tunnel to reopen after a year

The tunnel closed on 10th August last year following the derailment of a freight train, and SBB has since been pushing ahead with repair work... More Information

Afcons Infrastructure Wins Bid for Thane Tunnel Project

Afcons Infrastructure secures the L1 bid for a tunnel project in Thane, marking a significant milestone in infrastructure development. More Information

Kolkata Metro: D-Wall's Construction Work At Victoria Metro Station Is Advancing Swiftly

For the tunnelling work of the stretch from the Khidderpore to Park Street stretch of this Corridor, two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) will be deployed ... More Information

K2D Skøyen – Vækerø

Implenia has been awarded the contract for section K2D Skøyen - Vækerø, which is part of the entire Fornebu line that will be completed in 2030... More Information