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Atlas Copco Launches Super-fast 30 kW Hydraulic Rock Drill COP 3038

Atlas Copco Launches Super-fast 30 kW Hydraulic Rock Drill COP 3038Atlas Copco took Bauma by storm with the unexpected announcement of the launch of its super-fast COP 3038 hydraulic rock drill. ... More Information

Bauma Mining Reflects Dynamism of Mining and Tunnelling Sectors

Bauma Mining Reflects Dynamism of Mining and Tunnelling SectorsFrom 29th March to 4th April 2004, 514 manufacturers out of a total of over 2,740 companies from 48 countries exhibited their mining ... More Information

Improved TBM Guidance System

Improved TBM Guidance Systemtacs gmbh, specialist manufacturer of TBM guidance systems, has extended its acs guidance system software to integrate the geological profile and plan view of the ... More Information

First TBM Being Assembled for SMART Scheme in KL

First TBM Being Assembled for SMART Scheme in KLThe Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) project is a flood mitigation project being implemented by the government of Malaysia. During ... More Information

Hybrid from Swellex

Hybrid from SwellexThe newly- announced Swellex Hybrid rockbolt combines the pre-tensioning capabilities of Swellex with the grouting convenience of MAI SDA to provide immediate, long-term support. ... More Information

Hsuehshan Tunnel Breaks Through

Hsuehshan Tunnel Breaks ThroughTaiwan's minister of transportation and communications Lin Ling-san pushed a button to detonate explosives, clearing away the final 2.8m of rock of the westbound tube ... More Information

AUA Awards for 2004

AUA Awards for 2004The American Underground Construction Association will present the following awards during its NAT 2004 conference in Atlanta, GA from 17th to 21st April:Outstanding Individual in ... More Information

VMT Celebrates 10th Anniversary at Bauma

VMT Celebrates 10th Anniversary at BaumaWhile Bauma celebrates its 5th decade, VMT is entering its 2nd decade, having been formed in April, 1994. The company started in survey technology, supplying ... More Information

New TBM Record at Amsteg

New TBM Record at AmstegAt end February, 2004 about 25% of all the 153 km of shafts, cross passages and tunnels have already been excavated at the Alptransit Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland.At ... More Information

Guadarrama Tunnels are 50% Complete

Guadarrama Tunnels are 50% CompleteThe four TBMs have bored half of the twin tunnels under Sierra de Guadarrama on the high speed line from Madrid to Valladolid via Segovia. At end-January 2004, ... More Information

Technical Seminar on TBMs

Technical Seminar on TBMsIIR Spain organises a technical seminar on the necessary steps in the selection of a TBM to get a maximum return on investment, estimate with a 100% accuracy the project ... More Information

Hunter Personnel - More positions on tunnelbuilder.com

Hunter Personnel - More positions on tunnelbuilder.comJoining a growing list of human resources specialists to be seen on the tunnebuilder web-site, Hunter Personnel was established in 1976, and ... More Information

Häny Grouting Systems - Simple and Reliable

Häny Grouting Systems - Simple and ReliableSwiss-based Häny is one of the best-known names in grouting, having researched and developed equipment suited to many of the current techniques. The ... More Information

Stonehenge Tunnel Inquiry Opens amid Claims for Longer Project

Stonehenge Tunnel Inquiry Opens amid Claims for Longer ProjectA public inquiry has opened on 17th February into a plan to build a road tunnel under Stonehenge, the famous circle of megalithic ... More Information

Swiss Reject Second Gotthard Road Tunnel

Swiss Reject Second Gotthard Road TunnelSwiss voters rejected on 8th February a proposal to expand roads to ease Alpine bottlenecks, including the addition of a second tunnel under the Gotthard ... More Information

Announcing Atlas Copco Drilling Solutions Division

Announcing Atlas Copco Drilling Solutions DivisionBob Fassl has been appointed President of Atlas Copco Drilling Solutions division, a newly-formed division within Atlas Copco's Construction and ... More Information

AlpTransit Rail Tunnels Exhaust Credit Line

AlpTransit Rail Tunnels Exhaust Credit LineThe construction of the two transalpine rail tunnels across the Loetschberg and St Gotthard in Switzerland will be more expensive than planned. A ... More Information

IPS at Bauma

IPS at BaumaIPS, the highly-skilled personnel specialist for maintenance and operation of TBMs, handwork, NATM, separation plants and shotcreting, will be present at the Bauma exhibition, Hall 3C ... More Information

Kawasaki TBM Breaks Through CTRL Tunnel to King's Cross Station

Kawasaki TBM Breaks Through CTRL Tunnel to King's Cross StationA Kawasaki Heavy Industries tunnel boring machine broke through at King's Cross in London on 27th January, 2004 completing ahead of ... More Information

Atlas Copco at Bauma 2004

Atlas Copco at Bauma 2004 The Atlas Copco Bauma display, located in the outdoor area, Block 1110, will feature computer-controlled drilling rigs for both surface and underground work; unique ... More Information

Wirth TBM Breaks Through CTRL Tunnel Section

Wirth TBM Breaks Through CTRL Tunnel SectionOn 3rd December, 2003 the first Wirth TBM of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project broke through after record time. It took only 299 days to drive 4.7 km, ... More Information

Lovat Holes Through in Turin

Lovat Holes Through in Turin'Valentina', the first launched Lovat Earth Pressure Balance shield to excavate lot 3, between Fermi and Pozzo Strada (2,632 m), on the first metro line in Turin, Italy ... More Information

NFM Technologies TBM Breaks Through Green Heart Tunnel in the Netherlands

NFM Technologies TBM Breaks Through Green Heart Tunnel in the NetherlandsThe biggest diameter TBM ever built in the world, 14.87 m in diameter with a weight of 3,520 tons, broke through ahead of ... More Information

Lovat TBM Breaks Through High Wycombe Sewage Tunnel

Lovat TBM Breaks Through High Wycombe Sewage TunnelThe final breakthrough of a 3,295 m-long 2.85 m-diameter tunnel near Little Marlow in the UK took place on 12th January. An 80-tonne TBM, which ... More Information

DTSS Section Breaks Through in Singapore

DTSS Section Breaks Through in SingaporeOn 15th December, 2003 Penta-Ocean Construction broke through to complete 7,716 m of tunnel, the single longest drive using an earth pressure balance machine ... More Information

Lötschberg Tunnel Unveils Hidden Geologic Treasures

Lötschberg Tunnel Unveils Hidden Geologic TreasuresRare crystals have been unearthed during construction of the rail tunnel through the Lötschberg in canton Bern, Switzerland. Four of the finds ... More Information

tacs celebrates its 10th birthday

tacs celebrates its 10th birthdaytacs GmbH, the German specialist in TBM guidance, is this year celebrating its 10th birthday.Ever since its first project, a metro tunnel in Munich in 1993, tacs has ... More Information

Lovat for Seville

Lovat for SevilleSpanish construction joint venture UTE Metro de Sevilla, comprising Sacyr, Dragados, GEA 21, and Salvador Rus Construcciones JV, has ordered a new Lovat 6.5 m-diameter EPB TBM for ... More Information

Wirth TBM Breaks Through Canale Viola Tunnel

Wirth TBM Breaks Through Canale Viola TunnelA Wirth TBM model SM 360 E/TS broke through last 27th November the 18,770 m-long Canale Viola tunnel in Valtellina valley in Sondrio province, Lombardy ... More Information

Caterpillar 988G Tunnel Loader - Mucking out in Record Time in Norway

Caterpillar 988G Tunnel Loader - Mucking out in Record Time in NorwayThe NY E39 Oysand-Thamshamn road project, near Trondheim in Norway, includes six bi-directional tunnels with a total length of ... More Information

Lovat TBM Breaks Through in Turin

Lovat TBM Breaks Through in Turin'Madama Cristina', a Lovat EPB shield TBM, broke through on 9th December, 2003 completing 2.6 km of tunnel as part of lot 4 of metro line 1 in Turin. Excavation ... More Information

Spain and Morocco Revive Fixed Link Project under Gibraltar Strait

Spain and Morocco Revive Fixed Link Project under Gibraltar StraitThe project to link Spain and Morocco with a tunnel beneath the Gibraltar Strait has been revived at a recent summit held on 9th ... More Information

Happy Holidays

For your interest, we are listing below précis of our latest printed publications, each of which is available in downloadable pdf format, and makes a very good read. Underground Mining ... More Information

Fibre Reinforcement from SI Concrete Systems

Fibre Reinforcement from SI Concrete SystemsFibermesh and Novocon are two of the best-known brand names in fibre reinforcement for shotcrete, and both come from SI Concrete Systems. By manufacturing ... More Information

Phoenix - Seals and Conveyor Belts

Phoenix - Seals and Conveyor BeltsPhoenix AG of Hamburg, Germany is a specialist producer of rubber-based products for mining, tunnelling and industrial use. For decades, the company has ... More Information

Marti Technics to Supply TBM for San Pedro Tunnel

Marti Technics to Supply TBM for San Pedro TunnelSwiss logistics and engineering specialist Marti Technics Ltd will supply a TBM to UTE San Pedro, a JV set up by Sando, Aldesa, Tapusa and Copasa, to ... More Information

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Bhopal Metro's Orange Line Tunnelling Begins

The Bhopal Metro project has recently reached an important milestone as tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have been positioned to begin digging work on ... More Information

A Chinese team rescued a $50M tunnel machine stuck 177 feet underground

Chinese engineers have pulled off a stunning rescue, saving a tunnel boring machine (TBM) stuck 177 feet underground beneath the Yangtze River. More Information

Fort Smith named finalist in Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnel challenge

The company selected Fort Smith's proposal from 487 applicants. The company says the winning project will receive construction of a one-mile tunnel ... More Information

Bengaluru: Four infrastructure firms bid for Hebbal short tunnel

Bengaluru infrastructure: Four firms, including Dilip Buildcon and Max Infra, bid for BDA's Rs 1086 crore Hebbal short tunnel project... More Information

TBM readied for Montreal's Blue Line extension

A custom-made 9.7m-diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been assembled and lowered ready to excavate the tube from the future Vertières stop to ... More Information

$11.5B Brenner Base Tunnel Nears End of TBM Excavation

With TBMs Olga and Wilma closing in, the 55-km rail project shifts from excavation to systems integration ahead of its planned 2028 opening beneath ... More Information

$6.75 Billion Unlocked for Turkey's Bosphorus Rail Project

Multiple Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will need to be mobilized to carve out the subterranean corridors leading up to ... More Information

Tunneling for Nashville's underground Tesla project has begun

The Boring Company said that the first three weeks of the project will consist of the Prufrock-MB1, a machine that will help carve out the tunnel, ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project construction resumes

I look forward to celebrating the launch of our tunnel boring machines through the Palisades once GDC has assurance it will receive the steady flow ... More Information

Lower Thames Crossing

British suppliers could meet 90% of low carbon steel requirements. The proposed machine would be 16.4m in diameter, large enough to create a three‑lane tunnel bore, and is intended to dig ... More Information

Inside the Tunnel Boring Machine, Southampton Link Main project

A six-tonne tunnel boring machine is digging deep below the ground in Hampshire to help keep the county's taps and rivers flowing... More Information

TBM maestro inspects sites ahead of massive tunnel drive

The first machine components have arrived for the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be deployed on the Suburban Connect sites in Melbourne. More Information

Metrolinx provides major updates on subway and LRT projects across the GTA

Tunnel boring is advancing on multiple projects, with Scarborough's TBM ... Metrolinx says “Diggy Scardust,” the project's tunnel boring machine, is now ... More Information

Work in Progress: High-tech TBMs ready to carve underground corridor

The Bhopal Metro Rail Project is transitioning into its most challenging and sophisticated phase as two state-of-the-art Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) ... More Information

Sarens helps extract TBM at BC water supply project

The Annacis Water Supply Tunnel Project aims to increase the reliability and capacity of the water supply system in New Westminster, British Columbia. When complete, the tunnel will ... More Information

Judge rules in favor of New York and New Jersey for now in $16B tunnel fight with Trump

A federal judge ruled Friday to temporarily block the Trump administration from suspending federal disbursements for the Gateway Tunnel Project... More Information

Webuild: award for Sustainability Report for commitment to decarbonise through innovation

This includes the large tunnel-boring machines deployed on some of Europe's most complex projects: from the Salerno-Reggio Calabria ... More Information

Clearwater update reports initial entry area is 'stable and intact'

The tunnel boring machine being used in the project remains trapped underground just ahead of where the breach occurred. The ambitious, $630 ... More Information

Tunnel Boring Machine Market Size estimated at USD 7.08 Billion

The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) market is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing urbanization, infrastructure development, ... More Information

Completing the First Section of Line 3: Tunnel Boring Machine Roars as it Emerges at Balboa

The Panama tunnel boring machine emerged and completed its first major task: the first section of the Line 3 Metro tunnel. More Information

Twin tunnel-boring titans prepare to dig new road under Sydney Harbour

Twin tunnel-boring titans are preparing to launch under Sydney Harbour to dig out a new road crossing from Birchgrove to Waverton... More Information

Monica Breaks Ground on Snowy 2.0

Monica the tunnel boring machine, with the renewable energy mega-project now more. TBM Monica is among the world's most advanced tunnel boring machines... More Information

Snowy 2.0 sets new tunnel boring machine to work, completes 46 underground concrete pours

Snowy 2.0 has set to work a fourth tunnel boring machine, a $75 million piece of drilling equipment purpose built to complete excavation of the huge pumped hydro project’s “geologically ... More Information

World's 'largest' underground assembly of tunnelling machines happening beneath Sydney

Workers are craning into place about 167 major pieces that will form the first of two giant boring machines. Once assembled like giant Meccano sets, ... More Information

Tunneling Begins on Major Water Pipeline for South Hillsborough

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Water has begun construction on a major underground pipeline project aimed at meeting rising water demand in southern Hillsborough County, where population growth ... More Information

The massive £3billion tunnel designed to connect two continents under the sea

The construction of a huge underwater multi-tiered tunnel is underway in Turkey, that will create a direct route from Asia to Europe - and is expected to carry 1.3 million passengers a ... More Information

Riederwald Tunnel in Frankfurt is further delayed

Traffic was supposed to start flowing through the controversial Riederwald Tunnel in Frankfurt in 2033. But that's unlikely to happen. The €1.5 billion project is facing further delays – ... More Information

What happens to our metro tunnel boring machines when they hit the end of the line?

These mechanical behemoths were Betty and Dorothy, the tunnel boring machines tasked with digging the Sydney Metro West tunnels. Loading. The ... More Information

The incredible £2.8bn underwater tunnel connecting Europe and Asia

A huge new tunnel will connect Europe and Asia - and construction has already started. The Great Istanbul Tunnel is a major project. It will carry ... More Information

China develops "smart brain" for tunnel boring machines to boost underground construction

A team from Hunan University in central China has collaboratively developed an intelligent operating system for tunnel boring machines, giving these massive underground giants a "smart ... More Information

How China rescued highway project under Yangtze River

The incident occurred in February 2023 during construction of the 6.4-kilometer Jiangyin–Jingjiang Yangtze River Tunnel. Midway through excavation, at ... More Information

HS2 final tunnel drive to Euston starts next week

A team from SCS will drive a 4.5-mile twin-bore tunnel linking Old Oak Common to Euston using two tunnel boring machines, Karen and Madeleine. More Information

Work begins on £48M Knutsford sewer upgrade featuring 1.8km stormwater tunnel

Sean Reid, United Utilities county business lead for wastewater in Cheshire said: “This project highlights our ongoing commitment to improving water ... More Information

$14.6M boost moves Gering–Fort Laramie Canal Tunnel project forward

After nearly six years of planning, construction is moving forward on the Gering–Fort Laramie Canal tunnels... More Information

Webuild: second breakthrough at Trebisacce Tunnel along Jonica State Road 106

Project will help transform Jonica State Road 106 into a strategic corridor linking Ionian coasts of Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia... More Information

Ground preparation for Lower Thames Crossing tunnelling

Work is ongoing to overcome sub-optimal ground conditions in preparation for the start of tunnelling on the Lower Thames Crossing in late 2028, according to the project’s tunnels director... More Information

LA Metro approves massive $25B underground rail line to bypass 405 Freeway

The LA Metro Board unanimously approved an underground heavy rail line to connect the San Fernando Valley and the Westside, bypassing the congested 405 Freeway. The nearly 13-mile route, ... More Information

TUNNEL VISION Mega £7.4bn undersea tunnel connecting two CONTINENTS just got one step closer

A MAJOR £7.4 billion underwater tunnel connecting two continents has taken a step closer to construction. Experts have said the 24-mile tunnel is “technically viable”, paving the way for ... More Information

TBM breakthrough in Sydney

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Jane Starkey successfully completed her 1.2km underground journey through challenging Sydney sandstone... More Information