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Register Now for the George A. Fox Conference

Join us on January 23, 2018 at the Graduate Center on the campus of City University in New York, NY. With its rich history of program excellence and ability to bring together some of the largest ... More Information

FCC Receives New Civil Engineer Tunnelling award for the Bolaños tunnel

FCC has been recognised for the Geotechnical Specialist Innovation of the Year at the New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Awards 2017 for its work on the Bolaños tunnel on the Madrid-Galicia ... More Information

NCE Tunnnelling Awards and the winners are…

NCE Tunnnelling Awards and the winners are…

New Civil Engineer’s hugely popular Tunnelling Awards returned for their eighth year today. Showcasing the very best in tunnelling expertise the Tunnelling Awards are now firmly established ... More Information

MST Global acquires MISOM technologies

MST Global acquires MISOM technologies

MST Global has recently acquired MISOM Technologies, based in Tucson, Arizona, for an undisclosed fee. The move is a significant step in the progression of MST's global digital transformation ... More Information

What’s Going On? A Quarterly Worldwide Jobsite Roundup

What’s Going On? A Quarterly Worldwide Jobsite Roundup

Posted by Desiree Willis | Nov 22, 2017 | From the Field At any given time, Robbins TBMs are operating at dozens of jobsites around the world.  Our dedicated Field Service personnel ... More Information

New station names announced

In August 2017 the Victorian Government launched a campaign inviting naming suggestions for the five new underground stations being built as part of the Metro Tunnel Project. By the time the public ... More Information

CREG gripper TBM sets new record

CREG gripper TBM sets new record

On 26th November, a new record was set by a CREG TBM by boring 1318.7 m/month, The Gripper TBM with 8.03 m boring diameter has reached this new record while working on the Yinsong water supply ... More Information

Optimise Output, Minimise Cost, Reduce Risk

Optimise Output, Minimise Cost, Reduce Risk

MST Global (Mine Site Technologies; “MST”) provides fit for purpose hardware combined with smart software solutions to support productivity and safety processes in ... More Information

ITA TUNNELLING AWARDS  - THE WINNERS ARE REVEALED

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

ABMEC Annual Conference: Successful and Positive

ABMEC Annual Conference: Successful and Positive

The Association of British Mining Equipment Companies hosted its 7th Annual Conference with record numbers at the Tankersley Manor near Barnsley on 16 November 2017.   Over 160 high profile ... More Information

APLITOP WEBINAR

APLITOP WEBINAR

On Thursday November 23rd ... More Information

ITACET Newsletter

ITACET Newsletter

ITACET Presidents address -  It is my great pleasure to announce that the ITACET Foundation and the IRF are joining their expertise to build a comprehensive programme of training sessions on ... More Information

FIVE 2018 - 5th International conference on Fires in vehicles

FIVE 2018 - 5th International conference on Fires in vehicles

Call for papers - 2 weeks left – P lease note that call for papers closes December 1st, if you have not yet submitted your abstract, now is the time to do so. The first FIVE ... More Information

Vote for names of Circle Line 6 Stations in Singapore

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore has invited members of the public to vote for their preferred names for three of the stations of the 4 km Circle Line 6. (CCL6): Keppel, Cantonment ... More Information

Robust Robbins EPB Completes Third Bore for Chennai Metro Project

Robust Robbins EPB Completes Third Bore for Chennai Metro Project

Expansive Metro Project Will Provide Transportation Within Rapidly Developing City. On Tuesday, October 31, 2017, a 6.65 m (21.8 ft) diameter Robbins EPB TBM broke through at Chennai Metro, making ... More Information

New Genova bypass  

The first meeting for the discussions for the detailed design of the Genova By-Pass Gronda di Genoa. began on the 11.10.2017 . The project includes 72 km of new motorways with 25 tunnels, which ... More Information

Looking for a new challenge?

Looking for a new challenge?

Tunneljobs is looking for Senior Engineers and Senior Project Managers to work on major projects in the UK. If you need to find out whether you are eligible to work in the United Kingdom please ... More Information

Stones Consult opens new branch in India

Stones Consult opens new branch in India

Stones Consult, a World leader in highly qualified Tunnelling Manpower is announcing the opening of a new branch in India. The new branch will be based in Delhi and dedicated to follow ... More Information

Follo Line Project 50% of Excavation completed

At the beginning of November the Joint Venture between Ghella/Acciona reached an important milestone on the Follo Line Project. The 4 TBMs involved have now excavated 50 percent of the tunnels. ... More Information

A 100th System for Robbins Continuous Conveyors

A 100th System for Robbins Continuous Conveyors

Landmark Conveyor revs up Akron OCIT Muck Removal On October 18, 2017, a Robbins 9.26 m (30.4 ft) diameter Crossover machine started up at the Akron Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel (OCIT) in Ohio, ... More Information

Zheleznitsa Tunnel Design Contract

The Road Infrastructure Agency launched a new open procedure for design and construction of Lot 3.1, the Zheleznitsa tunnel of Struma motorway. The indicative value of the contract is BGN 250 ... More Information

Albvorland Tunnel – update

On the 6 October 2017 the construction of the Albvorland Tunnel began, on the railway line between Stuttgart and Ulm. The first of the two tunnel drilling machines named Wanda, will carve its way ... More Information

Search Underway For Mammoth TBMs

An international search is underway for a supplier to build the four massive Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will build Victoria’s biggest ever public transport project – the Metro ... More Information

TERRATEC tight radius shield progresses in Bangkok

TERRATEC tight radius shield progresses in Bangkok

Thai contractor Nawarat Patanakarn PCL gears up for its second TBM drive on the Bangkok Metropolitan Electricity Authority’s (MEA) Phra Khanong Cable Tunnel Project. On September 22, 2017, ... More Information

BASF - Total solution approach optimally meets customers' TBM needs

BASF - Total solution approach optimally meets customers' TBM needs

The Master Builders Solutions brand from BASF has broken new ground in addressing the needs of TBM tunnel professionals. Our total solution approach brings a new dimension to this challenging ... More Information

ALGAHER launches new and improved website

ALGAHER launches new and improved website

ALGAHER would like to present  its new and improved website www.algaher.com. The usability of the site has been enhanced by creating easy to use links to their range which has been organised ... More Information

Boring the Blue Mountains: The Inside Story on the World’s Fastest TBM

Boring the Blue Mountains: The Inside Story on the World’s Fastest TBM

Over 20 years ago, a Robbins open-type machine set three world records while tunneling in the picturesque Blue Mountains in Australia. You may be asking yourself, why is this significant? Why ... More Information

LA TBM begins 2nd tunnel

LA TBM begins 2nd tunnel

The Regional Connector Transit Project in Los Angeles’ TBM Angeli, began its drive for the  second of two tunnels. The TBM was reassembled at the Little Tokyo/Arts District Station, ... More Information

IT’S CRUNCH TIME FOR INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY – CBI/AECOM

Three quarters of firms and public doubt any improvement this Parliament Despite the Government’s strong commitment to improving the UK’s infrastructure, both business and the public ... More Information

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge

On the 8th of October 2017 construction of the 55 km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) was completed.  The final fixes are now taking place and the bridge and tunnel will be fully ... More Information

Third mega-lot approved for the new SS106 in South Italy

On 12.10.2017 ANAS approved the EUR958 million project for the second 18 km section of  SS 106 Jonica (km18,863 - km37,661), between  SS534 near Sibari and Roseto Capo Spulico in ... More Information

Rohtang Tunnel update

Rohtang Tunnel update

Work started back in 2010 on the 8 km long Rohtang Tunnel in Himachal Pradesh, engineers finally broke through on the 11th October 2017. The project suffered several delays and ... More Information

Tunnel construction complete on Scotland's biggest sewer

The construction phase of Scotland’s biggest waste water tunnel, which will help tackle flooding and improve river water quality in the Glasgow area, has been completed. A ... More Information

The future of tunnelling – Martin Knights

The future of tunnelling – Martin Knights

The Changing Face of the Tunneling Industry: The Role of the ITA, Partnership, and Innovation Posted by Martin Knights on the Robbins website | The Future of Tunnelling Martin Knights graduated ... More Information

Sale of Herrenknecht Tunnel Boring Machine S-424

Sale of Herrenknecht Tunnel Boring Machine S-424

In the November-December 2017 period, Mtkvari HPP will finalize the construction of its 9km tunnel and due to the above-mentioned reason will announce RFP on the sale of its used Herrenknecht Tunnel Boring Machine S-424 with a diameter of 6 meters. More Information

First breakthrough - Albula Tunnel

On 17.10.2017 the New Albula Tunnel of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), the breakthrough into the reverse drive of the cavern was achieved. With this, the excavation from Preda (main lot) met the ... More Information

Tunnelling News

Australian-first Sydney tunnel fabrication facility opens

The tunnel boring machines are expected to arrive in Sydney later this year, before being assembled deep underground below Birchgrove. They will ... More Information

ECRL Breakthrough: Genting Tunnel Becomes SEA's Longest Rail Tunnel

Genting Tunnel's construction used both Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) and traditional drill-and-blast methods. The TBMs, built in China and ... More Information

4000-tonne machines dig arterial route under Melbourne's west

The West Gate Tunnel Project is in full swing beneath Melbourne's inner west, with tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Bella and Vida at the helm... More Information

Gotthard drilling machine gets no further - now it has to be blown up

Forced break in the Gotthard road tunnel: After 190 meters, the drilling machine working on the second tube has come to an end for the time being... More Information

Construction begins on 6 Cross Island Line Phase 2 stations

Tunnel Boring Machine measuring 12.8m in diameter. The machine will “bore through the ground only once for the construction of the tunnel which ... More Information

Tunnel boring machine returns after installing $22 million outfall

A 19.5 tonne tunnel-boring machine docked at Onehunga Wharf on Friday afternoon after successfully tunnelling the $22m Clarks Beach Outfall over ... More Information

Scarborough Subway Extension tunnelling progresses following maintenance stop

The remaining portion of the tunnel will be delivered by Scarborough Transit Connect, the development partner for the project's stations, rail and ... More Information

World's Deepest Underwater Tunnel to Have Cars Drive 16 Miles Under the Sea

Norway is building what is to become the longest and deepest road tunnel under the sea. The Rogfast project, measuring 26.7 kilometers (about 16.5 ... More Information

Tunnelling underway for National Grid’s 3.4km power tunnel in Snowdonia

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Buddug has commenced excavation of National Grid’s 3.4km power tunnel in Wales’ Eryri National Park, otherwise known as Snowdonia. The tunnel is part of ... More Information

CPK signs contract for construction of HSR tunnel in Łódź

The contract for the construction of a 4.6 km long, 14-metre wide High-Speed Rail (HSR) tunnel will be carried out by construction company PORR. The project is valued at approximately PLN ... More Information

Underneath the busy Baltimore streets, the Howard Street Tunnel gets its makeover

A squad of construction workers descend daily under the streets of Baltimore. They labour deep down, in the semi-secret and highly restricted ... More Information

London Power Tunnels Milestone

We're thrilled to announce that our second 2.5km high-voltage circuit between Hurst and Crayford is now live. This £1 billion project is rewiring London, strengthening energy supply, and ... More Information

U.S. Tunneling Professionals Convene in Dallas at RETC 2025

The event drew approximately 1,400 people. Another highlight of the conference was the presentation of the now annual Underground Construction ... More Information

Construction of NY and NJ GatewayTunnel hits halfway mark

People are looking down at the ground from the Highline on Manhattan's West Side. Some parts of the new train tunnel structure ... More Information

Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor

Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor for construction. Maguire told reporters during a briefing Monday morning. He noted that VTA is trying to fill a $1.2 billion ... More Information

Tunneling In The Digital Age: Rethinking Subsurface Infrastructure

But successful construction is just the start of the journey. Underground infrastructure is a long-term investment—just look at the London Underground ... More Information

Sydney Moves Forward with Final Tunnelling for Harbour Project

Sydney prepares for the arrival of the largest TBMs in the Southern Hemisphere as the Western Harbour Tunnel project enters its final tunnelling ... More Information

Metrolinx seeks help to name 2 of its massive Ontario Line tunnel digging machines

Metrolinx is now accepting names for two of its giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs), which will be used for twin 16-metre-deep and six-kilometre-long ... More Information

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