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Cross River Rail underground blasting tests begin

Cross River Rail underground blasting tests begin

Cross River Rail in Brisbane (Australia) will test underground blasting at the site of the new Albert Street underground station and the new Woolloongabba station site, in a move to speed up ... More Information

New product certificate for CEAR

New product certificate for CEAR

CEAR have finally completed the certification for their 7.2kV Ex-e MV Junction box in accordance with the Directive ATEX 2014/34/EU. This Ex-e Junction Box  is also in compliance with ... More Information

Italy/Piedmont - A Infra.To the design of Line 2 in Turin

Italy/Piedmont - A Infra.To the design of Line 2 in Turin

On 14/07/2020, the Turin City Council passed a resolution, which will then have to be approved by the City Council, which identifies Infra.To, the in-house company of the city of Turin, for the ... More Information

Seabridge Gold’s KSM Project starts geotechnical drilling

Seabridge Gold’s KSM Project starts geotechnical drilling

On the 9th of July 2020 geotechnical drilling began along the proposed route of the Mitchell Treaty Tunnels (MTT), a key infrastructure component of the KSM gold-copper project in north western ... More Information

Your new contractor for SCL Tunnelling & Mining in the UK.

Your new contractor for SCL Tunnelling & Mining in the UK.

T&M Specialists UK Ltd. A new company in the UK market but with an already extensive portfolio of previous projects. T&M Specialists started life based in Hong Kong from where they have ... More Information

New yellow metro line in Stockholm

The Stockholm metro will be expanded with the building of the new Yellow line from Odenplan in Stockholm to Arenastaden in Solna.  The new line will have three new stations (Hagastaden, Sodra ... More Information

IWMC 2021

IWMC 2021: Tabletop Booking has started - The 20th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) will take place in Warsaw (Poland) on 21st and 22nd April 2021 at the Regent Warsaw Hotel. The ... More Information

TBM Selina set to create final stretch of super sewer arrives by river in London

TBM Selina set to create final stretch of super sewer arrives by river in London

At the beginning of July TBM Selina, built to create the final 5.5km stretch of London’s new super sewer, arrived in the capital. It was delivered to Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site in ... More Information

Snowy 2.0 project - TBM factory test celebrated in Australia

The most sophisticated TBM for the construction of Snowy 2.0, the biggest renewable energy project in Australia, has passed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), making it ready to be shipped to the ... More Information

Brenner Base Tunnel project - Breakthrough

Brenner Base Tunnel project - Breakthrough

On 06/07/20 the TBM Gunther, tunnelling from Ahrental (Innsbruck) in the north completed its 16.7 km long exploratory tunnel. The TBM averaged 11 m of tunnelling per day. The breakthrough, ... More Information

Cumana Railway –Breakthrough in Monte Olibano tunnel

On the 2nd of July a break through ceremony was held in Naples for the Monte Olibano tunnel, which forms part of the project to upgrade and expansion of the Cumana Railway. The new tunnel forms ... More Information

The WestConnex in Sydney M8 is now open!

The WestConnex in Sydney M8 is now open!

The WestConnex M8 opened on Sunday 5 July in Sydney. The new M5 East motorway has been named the M8. The 9km M8 twin tunnels run from the end of the M5 Motorway at Kingsgrove to the new St Peters ... More Information

Tideway project - TBM Charlotte completes connection tunnel drive

Tideway project - TBM Charlotte completes connection tunnel drive

At the beginning of this month TBM Charlotte completed her journey to the Carnwath Road reception chamber at Fulham, finishing a 1.1km connection tunnel, at a depth of 30 m. It will take sewage ... More Information

ITA ANNOUNCEMENT - WTC 2020 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ITA ANNOUNCEMENT - WTC 2020 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) has advised the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) that WTC 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is cancelled. The Executive ... More Information

Grand Paris Express tunnel works restarted

 Grand Paris Express tunnel works restarted

Line 15 - On 18/06/20 the TBM Amandine, who started out from the Arcueil Cachan station (Line 15, lot T3C), broke through the wall of the future Villejuif IGR (Institut Gustave Roussy) station. The ... More Information

Fehmarn tunnel

Boskalis and joint venture partner Van Oord have started work on the construction of what will be the largest port in Europe for the Fehmarnbelt project in Robyhavn.  The working harbour ... More Information

Terratec - Argentina’s President kicks-off landmark Agua Sur tunnel

Terratec - Argentina’s President kicks-off landmark Agua Sur tunnel

CMC di Ravenna recently marked the commencement of the Río Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel, in Argentina, with a cutterhead lowering ceremony that was attended by the country’s President Alberto ... More Information

EU special infrastructures report: more speed needed in megaproject implementation

EU special infrastructures report: more speed needed in megaproject implementation

The ECA (European Court of Auditors) audited the Commission’s management of the following 8 cross-border transport megaprojects in thirteen Member States: 1) Rail Baltica: a rail line ... More Information

Feedback for Sydney Metro West EIS

The Sydney Metro West EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) went on exhibition 30th  April and the community has until 26/06/2020 to provide feedback. This is one of three EISs for the project ... More Information

Final Koralm tunnel breakthrough

Final Koralm tunnel breakthrough

On June 17th 20202 the final breakthrough in the north tube of the Koralm tunnel took place. Since 2014, tunnellers have dug through the mountain from Carinthian Lavanttal with the TBM Kora. After ... More Information

Warsaw metro Line 2 update

Warsaw metro Line 2 update

On the 12/06/2020 TBM Maria  broke through at the C20 Kondratowicza station. The TBM completed the first part of the right tunnel on the north-east section of metro Line 2 in Warsaw. The ... More Information

Tideway Sewer updates

Tideway Sewer updates

Tideway is building a new 25km super sewer,  deep beneath the Thames, where around two million tonnes of sewage overflowing from the pumping station and into the River every year, will be ... More Information

New images of 1ST Chiltern tunnels launch site

New images of 1ST Chiltern tunnels launch site

The excavation of the TBMs launch site and the construction of the concrete precast plant for the Chiltern tunnels on the London to Birmingham high speed rail line, HS2 First Phase project has now ... More Information

Zitron carries out successful test of axial fan

Zitron carries out successful test of axial fan

On the 04/06/2020 Zitron successfully carried out the most challenging high temperature test to date on a tunnel axial fan: 600 ºC for 120 minutes. These fans will be installed at the ... More Information

Successful passage of TBM Gaia under the Rhine-Schie canal

Successful passage of TBM Gaia under the Rhine-Schie canal

On the 16th of June comol5 celebrated a major milestone by successfully drilling under the Rhine-Schie Canal for the second time. It was the most difficult and exciting part of the drilling ... More Information

Green light from Michigan Court of Appeals for the Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel

On the  11/06/2020 the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that legislators did not violate the state constitution by allowing construction of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two ... More Information

Geofluid 2021

Geofluid 2021

Piacenza Expo has decided to postpone the GEOFLUID exposition until 2021. The new date for your diaries will be the 15th  to the 18th of  September 2021 at the exhibition centre ... More Information

A1 Santa Lucia tunnel breakthrough

On the 08/06/2020 the TBM EPB S-900 Herrenknecht (diameter 15.87 m) completed the excavation of the 7551 m Santa Lucia tunnel on Barberino di Mugello - Calenzano section, A1 Motorway in Italy. ... More Information

Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System

ELAPAS (Empresa Local de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Sanitario) from the city of Sucre, Bolivia, has published the Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System (Lot ... More Information

WTC 2021 - deadline for abstracts extended

ITA-AITES and the Danish Society for Tunnels and Underground Works (DFTU) call for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2021 in Copenhagen 16-19 May 2021 has been extended to the 16 June 2020. ... More Information

The Big 5 in Dubai postponed

The Big 5, the annual trade event connecting the global construction community in Dubai, is moving dates from 23-26 November 2020 and will be held next on 12-15 September 2021, at the Dubai World ... More Information

A Virtual visit to the Robbins booth at NAT

Don't forget to stop by the Robbins booth at the North American Tunnelling (NAT) virtual trade show, where you can view a curated selection of Robbins latest news, white papers, videos and ... More Information

NAT week is almost here!

Are you ready for the North American Tunnelling (NAT) Virtual Conference? Register and get a week full of informative talks on intriguing topics from June 8-12. Visit  ... More Information

The ITA tunnelling awards 2020

The call for entries has been extended until the 23rd  June 2020 for the 6th edition of the international tunnelling and underground space awards. The ITA Awards  will take place at the ... More Information

First two tenders for the Ontario Line

First two tenders for the Ontario Line

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for the Ontario Line project.  The Ontario Line is a 15.5-km stand-alone rapid transit line that ... More Information

TBMs for Bangalore Metro Line-4

On 28/05/20 Larsen & Toubro began lowering parts of TBM DZ669 (named Avni) and DZ671 (named Vindhya) into the Shivajinagar and Cantonment stations, respectively, for driving tunnels on the ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

Amtrak's $1.6B East River Tunnel Rehab Work Contractors Get Notice to Proceed

Amtrak's $1.6-billion East River Tunnel Rehabilitation Project in New York is advancing after construction manager STV Inc./Naik Consulting Group ... More Information

Tunnel Boring Machine for National Grid's VIP project in Eryri set to arrive in North Wales

National Grid is reaching a major milestone on the Eryri Visual Impact Provision (VIP) scheme with the arrival of its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) to ... More Information

Tunnel boring machine hits major milestone on Snowy 2.0 project

The Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro megaproject recently marked a significant milestone, with one of three tunnel boring machines (TBM), Lady Eileen Hudson ... More Information

Morocco-Spain Underwater Tunnel Plans Move Forward with Renewed Focus

Discover the ambitious Morocco-Spain Underwater Tunnel project, set to connect continents in under 30 minutes and revolutionize travel between ... More Information

Alaska Transportation Department to spend $1 million on Knik Arm tunnel study

The results of the feasibility study will give us a better picture of how the project could be constructed, potential costs, and financing options,” ... More Information

Extra tunnels included in £6bn East West Rail scheme

Bowing to pressure to reduce the project's environmental impact two tunnels are now proposed for the new stretch of railway in Cambridgeshire. Design ... More Information

Balfour Beatty VINCI reaches halfway point on key HS2 'green tunnel'

As well as Burton Green, green tunnels will be constructed at Copthall in Hillingdon, Wendover in Buckinghamshire and Chipping Warden and Greatworth, ... More Information

Webuild-led consortium confirmed for US$1.1 billion tunnelling work

Webuild-led consortium confirmed for US$1.1 billion tunnelling work (US$1.1 billion) tunnelling package on the Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East public transport project to a consortium of ... More Information

Balfour Beatty snares $746M I-35 rebuild in Texas

The London-based contractor will reconstruct 2.5 miles of the highway through downtown Austin and build a link to the future light rail line. AECOM-Jacobs JV signs on to $6B Amtrak tunnel ... More Information

Metro Vancouver digs water tunnel designed to withstand 'the big one' under Fraser River

Crews have begun construction on a new $450-million water supply tunnel between New Westminster and Surrey designed to withstand a major earthquake. More Information

Longest tunnel in Poland begins construction

The project, managed by the Polish company Budimex and Turkish Gülermak, includes 10 viaducts and 12 bridges. This unprecedented investment will ... More Information

Watercare Passes Key Milestone On $300M Programme To Improve Wastewater Services

Watercare and McConnell Dowell celebrate Piper's final breakthrough. On Sunday (subs note: November 10), Piper – a tunnel-boring machine – completed ... More Information

Tutor Perini Scores Contracts

The tunnel project includes the construction of two new shafts connecting to the surface and the use of a tunnel boring machine. The completed ... More Information

Bengaluru Metro completes tunnelling for longest underground line

The final breakthrough came from Bhadra, the last Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) deployed, which completed a 937-meter stretch from K G Halli to Nagawara ... More Information