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Rijnlandroute tunnel halfway complete

Rijnlandroute tunnel halfway complete

The TBM Mixshield Gaia, involved in the construction of the N434 Rijnlandroute tunnel, between the A4 at Leiden and the A44 at Wassenaar has now completed 50% of its tunnelling. The two tubes, 2 ... More Information

Works for Erjos Tunnel in Tenerife begin

Works for Erjos Tunnel in Tenerife begin

The works to complete Tenerife’s motorway ring road started on the 25th November 2019. The project, which has an investment of EUR 240.4 million and has to be completed within 48 months, is a ... More Information

Schoema at STUVA 2019

Schoema at STUVA 2019

German specialist locomotive and rolling stock manufacturer Schoema will be exhibiting at STUVA 2019 in Frankfurt between November 26th -27th . Schoema manufactures the most robust and durable ... More Information

Press release - Las Vegas Convention Center Makes History as Elon Musk’s The Boring Company Begins Tunneling

LAS VEGAS – The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) today began tunnelling the future of transportation in Las Vegas as Elon Musk’s The Boring Company (TBC) began work on ... More Information

The ITA Tunnelling awards - The winners for 2019

Since 2015, the international competition ITA Tunnelling Awards seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space use. This year the ... More Information

The Riachuelo environmental restoration update

The Riachuelo environmental restoration project is the excavation of a nearly 12 km long outfall tunnel, under the River Plate in Argentina. Lot 3 of the megaproject was devised by the government to ... More Information

Introducing The mini-HELI Antenna Range From Poynting Antennas

Poynting have an established history of providing circular polarised antennas for mine tunnels internationally. The MinePoynt (HELI) range of antennas are well established for several years ... More Information

Central Interceptor Project New Zealand

Central Interceptor Project New Zealand

The TBM that will be used for the excavation of the Central Interceptor Project has officially been ordered. The Central Interceptor is New Zealand’s largest ever wastewater tunnel, that will ... More Information

Gateway Hudson Tunnel Project - Update

The Gateway Program partners continue to advance with the engineering and design of the Hudson Tunnel Project with dozens of “geotechnical borings” to be conducted along the proposed ... More Information

TBM Coline named for Metro B extension in Lyon

TBM Coline named for Metro B extension in Lyon

The TBM, that will excavate the2.4 km extension of the metro line B of Lyon from Saint-Genis-Laval to Oullins, has been christened Coline. The machine will drive a single tube tunnel with a 8.5 m ... More Information

Systemair - Oddernes and Banehei road tunnels ventilation complete

Systemair has supplied 122 jet fans - with a 630 to 1250 mm diameter – for the Oddernes and Banehei E18 road tunnels in Norway. Due to the presence of entrance and exit ramps and to the ... More Information

Robbins and iPS Webinar postponed

The date of the Robbins and iPS Webinar on Rescuing & Refurbishing TBMs has been postponed until November 21st , 2019. For further information please visit ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBMs gear up for tunnelling on Pune Metro

TERRATEC delivers the first two of three TBMs that will be used by Gulermak-Tata Projects JV for the underground works on Line 1 of the Pune Metro, in India. TERRATEC is pleased to announce the ... More Information

Melbourne Metro update - Joan and Meg start tunnelling

Melbourne Metro have reached a major milestone with tunnelling starting on the North Melbourne to Kensington section of the Tunnel Project. Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Joan was the first to break ... More Information

Second mega borer breaks through for Sydney Metro at Martin Place

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mum Shirl has broken through a wall of rock into the new Martin Place Station in the heart of Sydney. Mum Shirl has excavated about 650,000 tonnes of rock – enough ... More Information

Zheleznitsa tunnel update

The Joint Venture working on the Struma motorway (Bulgaria) which consists of GP Group (48%), Global Construction (48%) and Via Plan (2%) has now started construction of the 2km Zheleznitsa tunnel ... More Information

Grand Paris Express – Update

Grand Paris Express – Update

Line 14 - On the 12th October 2019 during the KM7 event at the Saint-Denis Site, the name of the third TBM to be used for the  line 14 construction on the Grand Paris Express was announced. The ... More Information

New Fornebu Line from Oslo to Baerum

The  new Fornebu Railway/Fornebu line/Fornebubanen will be an 8 km extension of the Oslo Metro. This will connect the Fornebu peninsula in Baerum to the existing Majorstuen T-rail ... More Information

Press release - First tunnelling machine breaks ground on super sewer

Balfour Beatty, alongside its joint venture partners Morgan Sindall and BAM Nuttall has seen one of their two tunnelling boring machines (TBM) become the first to break through the ground to ... More Information

TfL unlocks Silvertown contract while legal battles continue

Transport for London (TfL) has unlocked the award of the GBP1bn Silvertown Tunnel contract, despite the ongoing legal action over its procurement. TfL now hopes to sign a contract with the ... More Information

10th International Conference Tunnel Safety and Ventilation

Between the 21st and 22nd of April 2020  the 10th International Conference of Tunnel Safety and Ventilation will be held in Graz, Austria. Technical visits will be organized on April 20th, ... More Information

TERRATEC RBM completes first shaft at Buriticá gold mine

TERRATEC RBM completes first shaft at Buriticá gold mine

TERRATEC recently celebrated the successful completion of a 300m deep, 4.1m diameter, ventilation shaft at the Buriticá mine development project, in Colombia. Peruvian mining contractor ... More Information

CIFA and Zoomlion Capital launch financial services for Europe

CIFA with Zoomlion Capital, its captive finance company, have launched a new range of financial services aimed at increasing its market presence in Europe.  This new offering, developed in ... More Information

New milestone on Mumbai Metro's Line 3.

On October 22nd the L&T-STEC JV and MMRC achieved the 21st Breakthrough for Mumbai Metro's Line 3 at Churchgate Station part of Package 1. The breakthrough of Robbins Crossover XRE TBM Surya-II ... More Information

Major Milestone for Albvorland Tunnel project

On the 29th of October 2019 TBM Wanda broke through at Wendlingen am Neck for the Albvorland southern tube. The construction of the 8,176 m Albvorland tunnel, a key section of the new 60-km-long ... More Information

CP Technology – Precast Solutions

Press release - Know Your Precast, the innovative Italian solution for the prefabrication world.  CP Technology Srl, is a company that is growing rapidly with its innovative carousel ... More Information

Construction of Sydney's Metro West to start next year

Construction of Sydney's Metro West to start next year

Construction will soon begin in Sydney on Metro West, with 7 station locations confirmed  at Westmead, Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock and the Bays ... More Information

ITA Tunnelling Awards

"Tunnels: a resilient link between past and future" was at the centre of the debates of the World Tunnel Congress 2019, held in Naples. Focusing on repair and maintenance anticipation for ... More Information

Visit TERRATEC at the following exhibitions before the end of 2019

TERRATEC are a silver sponsor the Tunnel Association Canadas Technical Workshop - which will be held at the  Delta Hotel, Winnipeg, MB, Canada from the 21st until the 22nd of October. The ... More Information

Systemair supply jet fans for Klimkovice Tunnel

Systemair supply jet fans for Klimkovice Tunnel

Systemair have manufactured jet fans for the 1km twin tube  Klimkovice tunnel on the D1 motorway in the Czech Republic.  There are 16 jet fans in total each one is 1120 mm in diameter, has ... More Information

Robbins and iPS Webinar – 30th October 2019 - Rescuing and Refurbishing TBMs - register for free today!

Robbins and iPS Webinar – 30th October 2019 - Rescuing and Refurbishing TBMs - register for free today!

Webinar Summary - Detlef Jordan, Robbins and Barrie Willis, iPS –  TBM maintenance: it’s one of the most important factors predicting project success, but it is often treated with ... More Information

Press release - New microtunneling and pipejacking solution from PPS

Press release - New microtunneling and pipejacking solution from PPS

PPS has more than 40 years of experience in the field of underground survey and guidance systems.  With our microtunneling and pipejacking solution PPS-PJ, we created an outstanding ... More Information

Sydney Metro tunnels reach Martin Place

Sydney Metro tunnels reach Martin Place

Sydney’s new twin metro railway tunnels are now 70% complete as tunnelling reaches the heart of the city deep under Martin Place. TBM Nancy has arrived at the new Martin Place Station, 28 m ... More Information

BaneNOR Railway Tender Conference 2019

Bane NOR invites suppliers to its Tender Conference where it will present upcoming plans about railway systems. The conference will be held on Wednesday, November 27th 2019, from 11.00 until 16.00, ... More Information

CIFA at the 2nd Conpaviper National Forum in Rimini

CIFA at the 2nd Conpaviper National Forum in Rimini

Press Release - CIFA and Blend are showing at the 2nd Conpaviper National Forum with EasyFloor A70 CIFA. They are at the forum with their full line of machines and solutions for the concrete sector. ... More Information

8-lane tunnel Recommended for new Massey crossing

8-lane tunnel Recommended for new Massey crossing

On October 2nd , a Metro Vancouver committee, created to provide input to the British Colombia provincial government on a new Massey crossing, has recommended that the existing 629 m George Massey ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

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