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HS2 Chiltern tunnel – ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ reach 4 mile point at Chalfont St Giles

HS2 Chiltern tunnel – ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ reach 4 mile point at Chalfont St Giles

Press Release - Two enormous 2,000 tonne tunnelling machines digging HS2’s longest tunnels passed the second of five ventilation shafts this week, 4 miles into their 10 mile drive under the ... More Information

CRCHI Mega Slurry TBM "Jinghua" Assists the First Tunnel Section Breakthrough of Beijing East Sixth Ring Road Reconstruction Project

CRCHI Mega Slurry TBM "Jinghua" Assists the First Tunnel Section Breakthrough of Beijing East Sixth Ring Road Reconstruction Project

Press release  - In September 2022, the Beijing East Sixth Ring Road Reconstruction Project reported more good news. The CRCHI mega slurry TBM "Jinghua" reached the intermediate air shaft ... More Information

Message from iPS Powerful People

iPS Powerful People are very sad to hear of the tragic event in Creeslough,  County Donegal, We know many people who call Donegal home and it’s difficult to understand how they are ... More Information

Works begin on the PGDL (General drainage plan for Lisbon)

Works begin on the PGDL (General drainage plan for Lisbon)

On 03/10/2022 Carmona Rodrigues, the ex-mayor of Lisbon (CML) who in 2004 had signed the first proposal of the PGDL (General drainage plan for Lisbon), and José Silva Ferreira, general ... More Information

See you at BAUMA 2022!

See you at BAUMA 2022!

Costruzioni Elettrotecniche CEAR will be exhibiting at the 33rd Edition of BAUMA, the World's Leading Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Buildings, Mining and Construction ... More Information

Turin/Lyon - New milestone in Avrieux

With the completion of excavation of the first 10.5 km of the even-numbered tube of the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel between Saint-Martin-la-Porte and La Praz (in the direction of Paris) - the ... More Information

Innovative Riachuelo Project’s hydraulic tunnel filled

Innovative Riachuelo Project’s hydraulic tunnel filled

The innovative sub-fluvial tunnel near Buenos Aires, part of Lot 3 of the Riachuelo Environmental Restoration Project has been filled by water from the river Plate. This is a sustainable development ... More Information

The 8th edition of the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards returns this December in a digital format

Since 2015, the international competition seeks and rewards remarkable achievements in tunnelling and the underground industry. Organized by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space ... More Information

ForrestfieldAirport Link - The new Airport Line is ready for take-off

First trains on the Forrestfield-Airport Link, to be known as the Airport Line, will operate on Sunday 09 October 2022! Full services on the Airport Line commence on Monday 10 October. ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBMs ready to tackle Kanpur Metro’s 1st Underground Section in India

TERRATEC EPBMs ready to tackle Kanpur Metro’s 1st Underground Section in India

Gulermak/Sam India JV gets ready to commence tunnelling on the Corridor-1 of Kanpur. MRTS Project in India. TERRATEC celebrated the successful site acceptance testing of two 6.52m diameter Earth ... More Information

Giant HS2 TBM cutterhead’s impressive journey back to start second dig in Warwickshire

After HS2’s first tunnel breakthrough by TBM Dorothy at the south portal site in July this year, the front part of the TBM has been dismantled and transported back to the tunnel’s ... More Information

KonNx launched in the UK

Launched this year, KonNx UK is a subsidiary of AusProof Pty Ltd, the original equipment manufacturer of electrical cable couplers and components. Providing greater accessibility to the KonNx ... More Information

Cross Island Line Phase 2

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) at Singapore announced the alignment and station locations of the Cross Island Line Phase 2 (CRL2) from Bright Hill to Jurong Lake District.   CRL2 is ... More Information

Central Interceptor TBM begins historic tunnelling under Manukau Harbour

Central Interceptor TBM begins historic tunnelling under Manukau Harbour

Last week the TBM EPB Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, involved in the construction of the 14.7-km-long and 4.5m diameter wastewater tunnel from Grey Lynn to Māngere Wastewater Treatment Plant at Auckland, started ... More Information

WTC2023 – Full Paper Submission process will remain open until September 30, 2022

WTC2023 – Full Paper Submission process will remain open until September 30, 2022

The paper submission process is currently underway. Authors with accepted abstracts have already received the link for full paper submission. You may also access the online paper submission form ... More Information

Impreservice srl has expanded the EASY click SMART family

Impreservice srl has expanded the EASY click SMART family

Press  release - Impreservice srl, who were at the WTC 2022. in Copenhagen have expanded the EASY click SMART family with two new variations.    The first is the high ... More Information

Nye Veier recommends a western route for the E6 Nedgard – Toset

Nye Veier recommends a western route for the E6 Nedgard – Toset

Nye Veier - after an evaluation of several route alternatives for the E6 section Nedgard - Toset within the planning area - has chosen two preferred alignments that have been put forward for ... More Information

Sydney Metro West to tunnel under Sydney Harbour

Sydney Metro has received the green light for tunnelling between The Bays and Sydney CBD, completing plans for the 24 km of twin tunnels from Westmead to Hunter Street in the Sydney ... More Information

Rail tunnel to be extended for North East Link

Major works are underway to get ready for construction of the twin 6.5 km North East Link Tunnels to finally fix the missing link in Melbourne’s freeway network.   When North East ... More Information

SAIE 2022 - The SIG (Società Italiana Gallerie) tunnelling area

SAIE 2022 - The SIG (Società Italiana Gallerie) tunnelling area

Press release - Among the various special initiatives that uniquely characterize the SAIE 2022, the Construction, Design, Building and Plants’ Fair - in BolognaFiere from 19 to 22 October, ... More Information

Metro Alger line 1 - first section complete

On 07/09/2022 TBM Kahina broke through into an extraction shaft: click here for the video. This goal successfully concludes the first tunnel Oued Smar –Airport section, 5808 m long, of the ... More Information

Final breakthrough for TBM Dame Whina Cooper

Final breakthrough for TBM Dame Whina Cooper

In the early evening of the 14/09/2022 TBM Dame Whina Cooper (weight 910 t, length 130m and diameter 7.15m) reached the Te Waihorotiu Station (Aotea) completing the second tunnel of the Auckland's ... More Information

Final breakthrough for TBM Dame Whina Cooper

In the early evening of the 14/09/2022 the TBM Dame Whina Cooper (weight 910 t, length 130m and diameter 7.15m) reached the Te Waihorotiu Station (Aotea) completing the second tunnel of the ... More Information

A303 Stonehenge Updates

In response to the Secretary of State’s letter dated 26 August 2022 inviting comments on the Final Report on the joint World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS / ICCROM Advisory Mission to ... More Information

TfL Press Release - Tunnelling underway for new river crossing at Silvertown

Tunnelling of the new public-transport focused river crossing at Silvertown is now underway, Transport for London (TfL) and Riverlinx have confirmed. The 1.4km Silvertown Tunnel will link ... More Information

Pr. Arnold Dix elected ITA President Copenhagen

Pr. Arnold Dix elected ITA President Copenhagen

Professor Arnold Dix has been elected as the new International Tunneling and Underground Space Association President during the association’s 48th General Assembly held in Copenhagen. He ... More Information

Tunnel to ONT Project Takes Initial Steps Forward

At a September 7th meeting, the SBCTA Board of Directors took the initial steps to move forward with the Tunnel to Ontario International Airport (ONT) project in San Bernardino County (California). ... More Information

Call for papers for PIARC’s World Road Congress 2023

The XXVIIth World Road Congress of PIARC Int’l will take place at the Prague Congress Center (PCC) from 2 to 6 October 2023. The Congress theme will be " Together on the Road again". PIARC is ... More Information

STM will be at WTC 2022 in Copenhagen

STM will be at WTC 2022 in Copenhagen

Press release - Next week, in Copenhagen, from the 2nd until the 8th September “WTC 2022” the World Tunnel Congress will take place.   We are thrilled to let you know that STM will ... More Information

First breakthrough in the Lonato tunnel on the HS/HC railway line Brescia Est - Verona

Press release - At the Desenzano del Garda (BS) construction site, TBM Martina (diameter 10 m) completed the first 4751 m of the Lonato tunnel part of the new High Speed / High Capacity railway ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBM breaks through in Thailand helping Samui Island keep its title as a top Asian tourist destination

TERRATEC EPBM breaks through in Thailand helping Samui Island keep its title as a top Asian tourist destination

TERRATEC is proud to announce the completion of Samui Island Water Tunnel Project in Thailand. The tunnel was completed using a refurbished TERRATEC 3.2m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel ... More Information

Emissions application for the E134 Oslofjord connection under consultation

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has applied for a permit under the Pollution Act for emissions during construction of the E134 - Oslofjord connection, construction stage 2.  In ... More Information

Milestones achieved on London Power Tunnel 2 project

Two months and two milestones for National Grid team members and the Hochtief Murphy Joint Venture (HMJV) for the London Power Tunnels  2 (LPT2) project.   On the 23/07/2022 the ... More Information

Innovative Design Suggestions Surface for BART Silicon Valley Phase II

On 26/08/2022 a joint committee of VTA and BART Board members will discuss the evolving design of the VTA’s BART Silicon Valley’s extension project into San Jose and Santa Clara: click ... More Information

Strata Worldwide Acquisition Boosts Its Safety and Proximity Detection Portfolio

Strata Worldwide Acquisition Boosts Its Safety and Proximity Detection Portfolio

Press Release - [ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA] – Strata Products Worldwide LLC, a global leader in industrial communication and safety products has acquired the assets and intellectual property ... More Information

Patna metro - underground works begin

This month  the Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Shri Tejasvi Yadav inaugurated the underground work for the Corridor-2 of Phase-I of the 30.91 km subway in ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

Spain to study seismic risks for Gibraltar tunnel project linking Morocco

Spain's Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility is moving forward with a seismic study for the proposed tunnel that would link Morocco and ... More Information

Excavation Progresses for the Ontario Line Project

A 16-meter-deep launch shaft marks the starting point for two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) set to create twin tunnels extending approximately 6 ... More Information

Record-breaking open-type TBM rolls off production line

An open-type rock tunnel ... tunnel diameters and numerous fault zones. The project faces multiple construction challenges, including rock bursts and ... More Information

State builders speed up undersea tunnel work

The tunnel will be 17.48 kilometers long, marking a new milestone in China's construction prowess, said Liu Aiwu, CREC4 project manager of the No ... More Information

Spain - Awarded contract for  improving energy efficiency in Pilar de la Horadada tunnel

The company San Jose SA from Tres Cantos (Spain) secured the EUR2.93 million contract, excluding VAT, for compliance with Royal Decree 635/2006 and for improving energy efficiency ... More Information

East West Rail between Bedford and Cambridge to include new tunnels

15 November, 2024 By Thames Menteth Revised proposals for the East West Rail scheme’s section between Bedford and Cambridge include a new section of railway, as well as new stations and ... More Information