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A submerged tunnel to be built connecting the cities of Santos and Guarujá

A submerged tunnel to be built connecting the cities of Santos and Guarujá

PPI (Investment Partnership Program) Council recommends qualification of studies for a immersed tunnel between the municipalities of Santos and Guarujá, in the state of Sao Paulo, some 80 km ... More Information

First breakthrough for the Phase 4 of Delhi MRTS

First breakthrough for the Phase 4 of Delhi MRTS

A major milestone in DMRC’s Phase 4 construction work was achieved at the end of December 2021 as the first ever tunnelling stretch of Phase-IV of Delhi MRTS was completed at Krishna Park ... More Information

News from Calgary's Green LRT line

The Green Line LRT is the largest infrastructure project in Calgary’s history, with EUR 3.44 bn (CAD4.9 bn) in unprecedented investments from the Government of Canada (33.47%), Government of ... More Information

TERRATEC secures all machines for Surat Metro Rail Project

TERRATEC secures all machines for Surat Metro Rail Project

TERRATEC delivers another EPB TBM that will be used by Gulermak-Sam India JV for the underground works on Phase I of Surat Metro Rail Project in India thus securing all the machines for Phase 1 of ... More Information

Breakthrough for the Coxwell Bypass Tunnel

On the 27/01/2022 TBM Donnie broke through into shaft NTTPT-1, completing 8,490m of the 10,339m tunnel. The construction works were awarded to the Joint Venture North Tunnel Constructors ULC ... More Information

Winning names for the Eglinton Crosstown West and Scarborough Subway Extension TBMs revealed

After thousands of votes from the community, the winning names are in for the Scarborough Subway Extension’s TBM and the two machines that will build the Eglinton Crosstown West ... More Information

Tunnelbuilder welcomes Sandvik

Tunnelbuilder welcomes Sandvik

Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering Group with about 37,000 employees with a strong commitment to enhancing customer productivity, profitability and sustainability.  Our operations ... More Information

New dates for WTC 2022

New dates for WTC 2022

The WTC2022 Organizing Committee and the ITA announce that the WTC 2022 in Copenhagen will take place from Friday September 2 to Thursday September 8, 2022, instead of April 22 to 28 at BELLA ... More Information

TBM Breakthrough on Lima metro Line 2

TBM Breakthrough on Lima metro Line 2

On the 21/01/2022 Delia, the first TBM to excavate beneath the city of Lima (Peru) and launched in July 2021, has completed the 720-m tunnel section between San Juan de Dios (E-19) and ... More Information

Mumbai Coastal Road - 1st Breakthrough of TBM Mavala

Mumbai Coastal Road - 1st Breakthrough of TBM Mavala

At the beginning of January 2022 L&T completed the 2072 m long tunnel from Priyadarshini Park to Girgaon Chowpatty/Girgaum Chowpatty/Girgaon Chaupty. It’s the first breakthrough for the ... More Information

Geothermal system from tunnel to power visitor centre

The invitation to tender for construction of electrical and lighting installations, piping, data connection cables, control units, etc. for the visitor centre at the Turin-Lyon construction site in ... More Information

First TBMs ordered for Sydney Metro West

Two 1266 tonne, 165 m long double-shield, hard rock, gripper-type TBMs have been ordered to build the city’s next metro rail tunnels as part of the Sydney Metro West project, with the first ... More Information

Progress report for the Brenner Base Tunnel

As of January 2022, 4 main construction lots are under construction: Mules 2-3, Isarco River Underpass (Italian project area); Sill gorge, Sill gorge - Pfons (Austrian project area).  In ... More Information

Breakthrough for DTSS - Phase 2

Breakthrough for DTSS - Phase 2

On the 15/01/2022 the 2nd TBM, named Yuan Ching, with a 7.56m diameter, broke through at around 60m below ground for the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Phase 2, Contract T-09. The TBM has completed its ... More Information

TBM for Pawtucket Tunnel Project passes FAT

TBM for Pawtucket Tunnel Project passes FAT

On the 14/01/22 the 10.3m Multi-Mode TBM, built by Herrenknecht for Narragansett Bay Commission's (USA) Pawtucket Tunnel Project, passed its Factory Acceptance Testing. The TBM - commissioned by the ... More Information

Canada – Latest News on Eglinton Crosstown West Extension and Scarborough Subway Extension

Canada – Latest News on Eglinton Crosstown West Extension and Scarborough Subway Extension

The TBMs, which will dig the tunnels for the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto, arrived at the ports of Oshawa and Hamilton in mid-December 2021. ... More Information

Excavation for the ECRL’s Genting tunnel starts March 2022

Excavation for the ECRL’s Genting tunnel starts March 2022

The Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has signed the full approval for the ECRL - East Coast Railway Link, Section C2 (ITT Gombak - Serendah - Puncak Alam  - Port Klang), ... More Information

Single Bore Tunnel Remains the Best Option for BART Silicon Valley Phase II Project

Since 2016, the 8 km (5-mile) tunnel portion of the 9.66 km (6-mile), 4-station planned BART extension through downtown San Jose to Santa Clara has been the most studied and talked about aspect of ... More Information

HS2 reveals images of first landscaped ‘green tunnels’ for Bucks and Northants

HS2 reveals images of first landscaped ‘green tunnels’ for Bucks and Northants

Press release - New images showing the green tunnel at Greatworth, Northamptonshire, with similar designs planned for Wendover and Chipping Warden Modular design set to cut embedded carbon in ... More Information

Everything I learned in a morning hiding in a tunnel under the Chilterns – by Jonn Elledge

Hi Jonn – I hope you’re well. This is just a quick note to see if you would be interested in a guided tour of one of HS2’s first two tunnelling machines (TBMs)... They are ... More Information

ISAVFT 2022 - Extended Call for Papers deadline

The ISAVFT - International Symposium on Aerodynamics, Ventilation & Fire in Tunnels will be held at Brighton (UK) between the 28-30 September 2022. The Call for Papers deadline has been extended ... More Information

Robbins Crossover holes through in the Andes

Robbins Crossover holes through in the Andes

A Robbins 4.6 m (15.1 ft) diameter Crossover machine holed through in the Andes Mountains of Chile in the last quarter of 2021. The XRE TBM bored a 3.3 km (2.1 mi) long tunnel for Chile’s Los ... More Information

Latest tunnelling updates from the Namma/Bangalore Metro

Latest tunnelling updates  from the Namma/Bangalore Metro

M/S Afcons Infrastructure LTD is working on the 3.655 Kms, between South Ramp to Rashtriya Military School (RT-01 Package), including the 3 underground stations Diary Circle, Mico Industries and ... More Information

Moscow BCL metro - All tunnels have been completed

Moscow BCL metro - All tunnels have been completed

On 29/12/2021 TBM Lilia completed the excavation of the last 1.2 km section of the BCL in Moscow,  from the Nagatinsky Zaton station to the Klenovy Boulevard: click here ... More Information

New milestones for Pedemontana Veneta construction

At the beginning of December 2021, the Northern tube of a 6 km tunnel the broke through between Castelgomberto and Malo. Which allowed for a 35 km section of road between Bassano Ovest and ... More Information

Numerical standards and certifications to increase efficiency in the development of underground infrastructure projects – BIM for tunnelling

Numerical standards and certifications to increase efficiency in the development of underground infrastructure projects – BIM for tunnelling

Numerical standards and certifications to increase efficiency in the development of underground infrastructure projects – BIM for tunnelling – written by Michel Rives from ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBMs are ready for India's first Regional Rapid Transit System - Delhi-Meerut Project

TERRATEC EPBMs are ready for India's first Regional Rapid Transit System - Delhi-Meerut Project

TERRATEC is pleased to announce the delivery of three (3) new 7.51m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System Project to ... More Information

Grand Paris Express - December updates

Grand Paris Express  - December updates

Line 15 South - The excavation of this line involved 10 TBMs, which installed 128,000 segments and 18,500 rings. In 2019 TBM Steffie-Orbival was the first machine to complete its section, followed ... More Information

Tunnelbuilder welcomes 4STREETS

Tunnelbuilder welcomes 4STREETS

4STREETS s.r.l. is a young company founded in the spring of 2016 by motivated and experienced entrepreneurs who, combining the skills they had acquired in managing numerous construction sites in the ... More Information

Breakthrough - Genoa Junction One project

Breakthrough -  Genoa Junction One project

On 21/12/21 the excavation activities for the new San Tomaso tunnel, a strategic part of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa Junction One Project, and the first of the Genoa railway junction, ... More Information

HS2’s London Tunnels programme nears launch date as first TBM’s arrive

HS2’s London Tunnels programme nears launch date as first TBM’s arrive

Press release - The start of tunnelling for HS2 in London is set to begin in 2022 and progress has been made with the delivery of two giant Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) to ... More Information

The UK’s largest Tunnel Boring Machine passes factory acceptance test and begins journey to the Silvertown Tunnel project

PRESS RELEASE - The Riverlinx Construction Joint Venture (BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant) delivering the design and build of the Silvertown Tunnel on behalf of Transport for ... More Information

Cross River Rail – Last breakthrough for the project

Cross River Rail – Last breakthrough for the project

Today TBM Merle broke through at the Northern Portal site, bringing the Cross River Rail project’s year of tunnelling to an end, click here for the video. The Cross River Rail's twin tunnels ... More Information

Construction of Sornaistentunnel approved

Construction of Sornaistentunnel approved

Helsinki City Council have approved the Sornaistentunnel project between the Sornainen coastal road and the Hermann coastal road and its implementation in stages as follows:   In the ... More Information

Clearwater Project Update

Clearwater Project Update

In October TBM Rachel began boring, stopping every 1.5 m (5 feet) to construct a ring of the tunnel wall. About 106 m (350 feet) of tunnel has been completed so far, and the pace is expected to pick ... More Information

The HRBT Expansion Project TBM Arrival Ceremony

Virginia Department of Transportation and Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) will celebrate the arrival of TBM Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021. ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

Massive $450m road project connecting Russia and Georgia with six bridges & five tunnels

Massive $450m road project connecting Russia and Georgia with six bridges & five tunnels. The new road will pass through Georgia along a trade route ... More Information

Buca Metro Tunnel Excavations Reached 50 Percent Level

Important progress is being made in the construction of the line, where four tunnel boring machines (TBMs), each 100 meters long, 7 meters wide and ... More Information

'Very promising' narrow-reef boring technology nearing rollout stage

A novel tunnel boring machine (TBM) will open up Bokoni's narrow tabular dipping PGM orebody to allow narrow-reef boring to take place, so that ... More Information

A vast undersea tunnel is being built

The 7.4 billion-euro ($7.7 billion) project is a huge undertaking, in every sense. Each section of the tunnel is colossal. These concrete structures ... More Information

National Grid gets planning permission for Grain to Tilbury upgrade with new Thames tunnel

National Grid has secured full planning approval for the Grain to Tilbury project, which includes a new power tunnel under the River Thames... More Information

Right track tunnel of Huangjialing Tunnel in NW China's Gansu drilled through

A staff member works on the construction site of the right track tunnel of the Huangjialing Tunnel in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, northwest ... More Information

Shetland Islands tunnels plan takes 'huge step forward' with sonar investigations

This phase will further inform the project's development and feasibility. The tunnel project, seen by locals as pivotal for improving ... More Information

Construction of the Tarande tunnel begins next week

On March 17th, in Vilnius district Construction of a tunnel and other related infrastructure will begin at Taranda and Bukiškis. This project aims ... More Information

Delhi Metro's Golden Line achieves major tunnel breakthrough;

The construction of Delhi Metro's Golden Line achieved a major milestone on Thursday as the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) broke through at the ... More Information

RiverRenew Tunnel Project Nearing Completion

The RiverRenew Tunnel System Project, the largest infrastructure investment in Alexandria's history, is nearing completion. More Information

Sydney Metro West tunnels enter final stretch after big breakthrough

Two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) constructing the huge Sydney Metro West tunnels have made a smashing entrance 24 metres below the surface. More Information

Chennai Metro Rail launches first tunnel boring machine for underground tunnelling in Kolathur

Corridor 5 begins at Madhavaram Milk Colony and connects through Koyambedu, Porur, Alandur and other residential/commercial areas of the city to ... More Information

Element Six, Master Drilling Announce Tunnel Development Partnership

Element Six and Master Drilling will deliver a diamond-enabled solution designed to increase tunneling development speed, reducing costs and minimize the environmental impact of tunnel ... More Information

Gateway Project Tunnel Connecting NY and NJ Moves Forward

Five Gateway contracts have been awarded so far, including one on Predergast's first day for construction on the Manhattan side of the tunnel... More Information

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