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Highlights of 2005

Highlights of 2005The Holy City of Mecca in Saudi Arabia needed two new pedestrian tunnels in a hurry for the thousands of pilgrims arriving for Haj on 5th January, 2005. Turkish contractor SFTA ... More Information

Schöck ComBar Reinforcement Technology

Schöck ComBar Reinforcement TechnologySchöck of Baden-Baden, Germany has spent a decade developing glass fibre reinforced polymer reinforcing bar, resulting in widespread approvals for its ComBar ... More Information

Luxembourg Builds Grouft Tunnel

Luxembourg Builds Grouft TunnelWith a population of 465,000 and an area of 2,586 sq km, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a tiny country landlocked by Belgium, France and Germany. It is among the ... More Information

Hitachi TBM Completes Providence CSO Main Spine Tunnel

Hitachi TBM Completes Providence CSO Main Spine TunnelOn 1st December, 2005 an Hitachi single shield TBM reached its final destination at the bottom of a termination shaft 80 metres below the ... More Information

Lovat Appoints New Managers for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Region

Lovat Appoints New Managers for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific RegionLovat has expanded its expertise to include local support in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, by ... More Information

Drivers Do Not Know How to Face Risks in Tunnels

Drivers Do Not Know How to Face Risks in TunnelsA study entitled "Experimental psychological results from driving in tunnels - Contributions to road safety", elaborated by Segtúnel, a team from the ... More Information

Press Releases at tunnelbuilder.com

Press Releases at tunnelbuilder.comIf you are an established advertiser with tunnelbuilder, we invite you to submit your 2006 press releases to us for publication. This will bring news about your ... More Information

MEI - World Leader in Mining Equipment Supply

MEI - World Leader in Mining Equipment SupplyMining Equipment Inc, based in Durango, CO, US has built a strong legacy over the last quarter century in the supply of a huge variety of quality ... More Information

Second Stage of Izmir Light Rail Under Construction

Second Stage of Izmir Light Rail Under ConstructionThe second stage of the Izmir light rail system in Turkey is under construction by the Rail Systems Directorate of the Izmir Metropolitan ... More Information

End of Tunnelling on Apennine Section of Bologna-Florence High Speed Link

End of Tunnelling on Apennine Section of Bologna-Florence High Speed LinkThe breakthrough of the Vaglia tunnel on 21st October, 2005 marks the end of tunnelling on the Apennine section between ... More Information

Andorra Builds Dos Valires Tunnel

Andorra Builds Dos Valires TunnelThe Principality of Andorra is in southwest Europe on the Mediterranean slope of the eastern Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is a small country, maybe 35 or 40 ... More Information

Hsinchuang Line in Taiwan Marks Breakthrough of 10 km Tunnel

Hsinchuang Line in Taiwan Marks Breakthrough of 10 km TunnelA celebration was held on 19th November, 2005 to mark the breakthrough of a 10 km tunnel on Taipei mass rapid transit system's Hsinchuang ... More Information

COP 3038 Rock Drills Shape Norwegian Hydro

COP 3038 Rock Drills Shape Norwegian HydroBirkeland Entreprenørforretning is in joint venture with Spilde Entreprenør to build the first phase of the 41.8 GWh Kløvtveit project in Hordaland, ... More Information

Atlanta Builds West Area CSO Tunnels

Atlanta Builds West Area CSO Tunnels The West Area CSO tunnel in Atlanta will collect, convey and store up to 567.8 million litres of combined sewer overflow from the Clear Creek, Tanyard and North ... More Information

Two Lovat TBMs for Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnel in London

Two Lovat TBMs for Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnel in LondonAt the Underground Construction 2005 conference and exhibition held 26th-27th October, 2005 in London, J Murphy & Sons signed a contract ... More Information

Eagle's Nest Tunnel Breaks Through

Eagle's Nest Tunnel Breaks ThroughThe construction of Route 8 in Hong Kong has reached a significant milestone with the breakthrough on 19th October, 2005 of the Eagle's Nest tunnel. The tunnel ... More Information

Rushing to Meet the 2006 Winter Olympics Deadline in Turin

Rushing to Meet the 2006 Winter Olympics Deadline in TurinThe 1,055 m Craviale tunnel and the 664 m Turina tunnel along state road SS 23, 50 km northwest of Turin, Italy are currently being ... More Information

Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Wins Engineering Awards

Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Wins Engineering AwardsSingapore's Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) has won this year's Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award handed out by the Institution of ... More Information

NFM Technologies Appoints New Manager

NFM Technologies Appoints New ManagerNFM Technologies has just boosted its service activities with the arrival of Philippe Patret, who occupies the position of external services manager. A 48 ... More Information

Major Road Works in Trieste

Major Road Works in TriesteThe so-called second stretch of the third lot on Trieste's road network, northeast Italy is a new 5.5 km road alignment that connects the section of Trieste's major ... More Information

Fae Exploratory Tunnel

Fae Exploratory TunnelWork is under way to build the 2,215 m-long Fae exploratory tunnel, which forms part of the widening and improvement of road SS 43 in Non Valley between Mostizzolo and Cles, in ... More Information

New COP 1132 Rock Drill from Atlas Copco

New COP 1132 Rock Drill from Atlas CopcoAtlas Copco's new COP 1132 rock drill represents the latest trend in high speed technology in small class equipment offering users 30% more speed than its ... More Information

Start of the End for Hallandsas Tunnel

Start of the End for Hallandsas TunnelWith the safety of their miners a top priority the Skanska Vinci joint venture has ordered a CE certified rescue chamber from MineArc Systems of Australia for ... More Information

New Section Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare on Genoa-Ventimiglia Line

New Section Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare on Genoa-Ventimiglia LineThe Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare section on the Genoa-Ventimiglia railroad in Liguria, Italy will be built in the hills and moved away ... More Information

Conference

Conference "Instruments and Solutions to Guarantee Safety in Tunnels"The objective of this conference, which will take place in Milan on 16th and 17th November, 2005 is to illustrate what are the ... More Information

Strabag to Use Robbins TBM for Niagara Falls Project

Strabag to Use Robbins TBM for Niagara Falls ProjectOntario Power Generation's third Niagara Falls tunnel project involves boring a CAD985 million, 10.4 km tunnel at a depth of up to 140 metres ... More Information

Bookmark Stuva Tagung '05

Bookmark Stuva Tagung '05Germany's STUVA organises its conference and exhibition STUVA Tagung '05, on 29th-30th November and 1st December in Leipzig congress centre. The event combines an ... More Information

Two Other TBMs Start in Pajares

Two Other TBMs Start in PajaresIn mid-September 2005 the second of the five TBMs started its job at the Pajares tunnels, which form part of the Leon-Asturias high speed line. This is a NFM ... More Information

Lovat Selected for RAV Line by SNC-Lavalin and SELI

Lovat Selected for RAV Line by SNC-Lavalin and SELILovat has been selected by the SNC-Lavalin - SELI JV to supply a soft rock Earth Pressure Balance TBM, that will be used to bore 2.1 km twin ... More Information

Mitsubishi-Duro Felguera Readies Giant TBM for M-30 in Madrid

Mitsubishi-Duro Felguera Readies Giant TBM for M-30 in MadridIt is a giant machine which features a 15,010 mm nominal diameter and a 15,045 mm maximum diameter, a 14 m-long 3,600-tonne EPB shield, a ... More Information

Fourth Conference on Tunnels

Fourth Conference on TunnelsSpain's Technical Road Association organises on 26th, 27th and 28th October in Andorra the 4th conference on tunnels, under the theme "Why are tunnels safe?". The ... More Information

Wirth Tunnel Bore Extender at Uetliberg Receives Award

Wirth Tunnel Bore Extender at Uetliberg Receives AwardWirth has been chosen as the winner of this year's TTC Award for Innovation in the Large Bore Mechanised TunnelIing Machine sector. Mr Niko ... More Information

Bolu Tunnel Breaks Through in Turkey

Bolu Tunnel Breaks Through in TurkeyTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Ambassador to Turkey Carlo Marsili presided on 4th September, 2005 the breakthrough ceremony of the right ... More Information

Fire Protection in Tunnels

Fire Protection in TunnelsVdS Schadenverhütung organises on 19th-20th October in Cologne, Germany conferences on fire protection in tunnels. The fire in the Frejus tunnel in the Alps last 4th June ... More Information

See You at IUT' 08 Live Fair

See You at IUT' 08 Live FairThe IUT' 05 Live Fair held on 14th-16th September in Switzerland has been one of the most special and popular tunnelling events this year. It is always received with ... More Information

Herrenknecht Breakthrough on Circle Line Stage 3 in Singapore

Herrenknecht Breakthrough on Circle Line Stage 3 in SingaporeOn 25th August, 2005, a Herrenknecht TBM brought down an 80 cm-thick retaining wall, into the tunnel at Lorong Chuan station on Stage 3 ... More Information

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ECRL Breakthrough: Genting Tunnel Becomes SEA's Longest Rail Tunnel

Genting Tunnel's construction used both Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) and traditional drill-and-blast methods. The TBMs, built in China and ... More Information

Sydney tunnel factory creates 700 manufacturing jobs

The factory will support two of the largest tunnel boring machines (TBMs) in the Southern Hemisphere, set to arrive later this year. Once ... More Information

2.7 km Breakthrough Achieved in Bullet Train Tunnel

The tunnel also features a 7-kilometre undersea stretch beneath Thane Creek, a first of its kind in India. To ... More Information

Australian-first Sydney tunnel fabrication facility opens

The tunnel boring machines are expected to arrive in Sydney later this year, before being assembled deep underground below Birchgrove. They will ... More Information

ECRL Breakthrough: Genting Tunnel Becomes SEA's Longest Rail Tunnel

Genting Tunnel's construction used both Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) and traditional drill-and-blast methods. The TBMs, built in China and ... More Information

4000-tonne machines dig arterial route under Melbourne's west

The West Gate Tunnel Project is in full swing beneath Melbourne's inner west, with tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Bella and Vida at the helm... More Information

Gotthard drilling machine gets no further - now it has to be blown up

Forced break in the Gotthard road tunnel: After 190 meters, the drilling machine working on the second tube has come to an end for the time being... More Information

Construction begins on 6 Cross Island Line Phase 2 stations

Tunnel Boring Machine measuring 12.8m in diameter. The machine will “bore through the ground only once for the construction of the tunnel which ... More Information

Tunnel boring machine returns after installing $22 million outfall

A 19.5 tonne tunnel-boring machine docked at Onehunga Wharf on Friday afternoon after successfully tunnelling the $22m Clarks Beach Outfall over ... More Information

Scarborough Subway Extension tunnelling progresses following maintenance stop

The remaining portion of the tunnel will be delivered by Scarborough Transit Connect, the development partner for the project's stations, rail and ... More Information

World's Deepest Underwater Tunnel to Have Cars Drive 16 Miles Under the Sea

Norway is building what is to become the longest and deepest road tunnel under the sea. The Rogfast project, measuring 26.7 kilometers (about 16.5 ... More Information

Tunnelling underway for National Grid’s 3.4km power tunnel in Snowdonia

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Buddug has commenced excavation of National Grid’s 3.4km power tunnel in Wales’ Eryri National Park, otherwise known as Snowdonia. The tunnel is part of ... More Information

CPK signs contract for construction of HSR tunnel in Łódź

The contract for the construction of a 4.6 km long, 14-metre wide High-Speed Rail (HSR) tunnel will be carried out by construction company PORR. The project is valued at approximately PLN ... More Information

Underneath the busy Baltimore streets, the Howard Street Tunnel gets its makeover

A squad of construction workers descend daily under the streets of Baltimore. They labour deep down, in the semi-secret and highly restricted ... More Information

London Power Tunnels Milestone

We're thrilled to announce that our second 2.5km high-voltage circuit between Hurst and Crayford is now live. This £1 billion project is rewiring London, strengthening energy supply, and ... More Information

U.S. Tunneling Professionals Convene in Dallas at RETC 2025

The event drew approximately 1,400 people. Another highlight of the conference was the presentation of the now annual Underground Construction ... More Information

Construction of NY and NJ GatewayTunnel hits halfway mark

People are looking down at the ground from the Highline on Manhattan's West Side. Some parts of the new train tunnel structure ... More Information

Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor

Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor for construction. Maguire told reporters during a briefing Monday morning. He noted that VTA is trying to fill a $1.2 billion ... More Information

Tunneling In The Digital Age: Rethinking Subsurface Infrastructure

But successful construction is just the start of the journey. Underground infrastructure is a long-term investment—just look at the London Underground ... More Information

Sydney Moves Forward with Final Tunnelling for Harbour Project

Sydney prepares for the arrival of the largest TBMs in the Southern Hemisphere as the Western Harbour Tunnel project enters its final tunnelling ... More Information

Metrolinx seeks help to name 2 of its massive Ontario Line tunnel digging machines

Metrolinx is now accepting names for two of its giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs), which will be used for twin 16-metre-deep and six-kilometre-long ... More Information

Deutsche Bahn awards contract for Munich S-Bahn project

The contract involves structural works for the expansion, including the construction of tunnels and an underground station. The Tunnel Ostbahnhof JV, ... More Information

Excavation completed on Italian side of Brenner Base Tunnel

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) named “Flavia” successfully bored through the Alps beneath the Mules 2–3 section, reaching the Austrian border. More Information

Giant tunnel borer set for Shantou Bay project

A giant tunnel boring machine has been installed for tunnelling under Shantou Bay in Shantou, South China's Guangdong province. [Photo provided to ... More Information

€0.4bn road and tunnel project in Georgia

Work is proceeding on the Kvesheti-Kobi road and tunnel scheme in Georgia. The scheme is part of a larger project, being carried out with Chinese ... More Information

Lahore to transform with Rs49 billion tunnel boring project

Pakistan, April 27 -- The federal government has approved Lahore's Rs49 billion Tunnel Boring Project, marking a major development for the city... More Information

Construction at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

The 2,100-foot-long tunnel connects the terminal to parking facilities and the tramway leading to the RTA public rail line. During the project, two of ... More Information

AFFHOLDER AND J.F. SHEA TEAM UP ON $700 MILLION CONTRACT

The tunneling subsidiary, Affholder LLC, will lead a joint venture with J.F. Shea Construction, Inc., to build the I-35 Capital Express Central ... More Information

Factory Testing Complete on DC Water's first tunnel boring machine for the Potomac River

Mary passed all the necessary requirements and is one of two TBM's on the project. The tunnel is part of DC Water's Clean Rivers Project, to ... More Information

Work on Chennai Metro tunnel racing to a finish

The machine Flamingo, which started boring in 2023 for the tunnel linking Light House with Thirumayilai, is expected to reach the other end in ... More Information

CPK awards contract to build high-speed rail tunnel in Lodz, Poland

The tunnel, to be constructed using a tunnel boring machine (TBM), will have a ... More Information

Inside HS2: Meet London's miners working on the Northolt tunnels

We are on a tunnel boring machine (TBM) inside High Speed Two's huge Northolt tunnels. These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling ... More Information

Ontario Begins Construction Of Last Tunnel Segment Of The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension

The remaining eastern portion of tunnel construction (500-meter twin tunnels) will use the sequential excavation method, with daily progress of ... More Information

Norway is building the world's longest and deepest subsea road beneath its fjords

We have subsea road tunnels which have that construction. And the new tunnel between Germany and Denmark, there they are laying down cases and put ... More Information

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

The estimated cost of construction of the FCC electron–positron stage, including the tunnel and all the infrastructure, is 15 billion Swiss francs... More Information

TBM break through on Auckland's £915M wastewater megaproject completes 16.2km tunnel

Auckland's major wastewater infrastructure project, the Central Interceptor, has reached a significant milestone with the final breakthrough of ... More Information

In pics: construction site of Chongming-Taicang tunnel

A smart assembling vehicle works at "Linghang" large diameter shield tunneling machine at the construction site of the Chongming-Taicang tunnel, part of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu ... More Information

IN PICTURES: Spectacular images of the removal of HS2's huge tunnelling machine

TBM Sushila was used to construct part of the Northolt Tunnel – an 8.4-mile tunnel ... construction/london-tunnels/progress-3/northolt-tunnel/tbm- ... More Information

Historic tunnels uncovered beneath Salisbury station during £5.3M upgrade project

Engineers from Network Rail and South Western Railway have uncovered a network of tunnels and rooms beneath Salisbury station during ongoing £5.3M upgrades to the station’s forecourt... More Information