On 25.04.2013 construction started on Stage III of Line 1 Metro extension Mladost 1-Business Park-Mladost 4 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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It is always a great day at tunnelbuilder when one of its established clients steps up to sponsor our flagship website.
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The first of three 5.23 m-diameter Robbins Main Beam TBMs has holed on the 44.6 km-long Pahang Selangor water transfer tunnel in Malaysia
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On 09.04.2013 the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) named its massive Blue Plains Tunnel TBM Lady Bird,
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The symposium on tunnelling in the Mediterranean region takes place 7-8th May, 2013 in Porec on the Adriatic coast of Croatia
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Call for papers for the 6th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security, ISTSS 2014, to be held at World Trade Centre (WTC) in Marseille, France, 12-14th March, 2014.
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On 11.03.2013 and 21.03.2013 the first and second elements of the 1.6 km-long Coatzacoalcos River tunnel in Veracruz, Mexico were successfully immersed.
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On 25.03.2013 TBM Phyllis reached the south end of the new Crossrail Bond Street western ticket hall at Davies Street, having constructed 2,000 tunnel rings and completed 3.2 km of new tunnels.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made a tangible commitment to the cross-border Frejus Tunnel project in the form of a EUR120 million loan. It will enable a second tube to be built alongside the existing tunnel connecting Piedmont to Savoie.
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From April, 2013 rail tracks in both tubes of Gotthard Base Tunnel, for 20 km between Erstfeld and Sedrun, will be fully installed.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR238 million towards the construction of the 6.7 km-long central section of Warsaw’s new metro line.
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Twin 1.1 km-long, 12.2 m-diameter TBM-driven tunnels under the Vistula River in Gdansk,
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The three-day Metrorail conference opens at Hilton Madrid Airport Hotel on Tuesday, 9th April
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Some very important people will be attending Bauma in Muenchen later this month from 15-21 April.
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On 26.03.2013 the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) officially opened the northbound and southbound Highway 1-Devil’s Slide Tunnels to traffic overnight.
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The new 22 km-long double track Oslo-Ski line is part of the Follo project, which comprises 64 km of rail track. Preliminary works will start in 2013, and the contract for the 19.5 km-long twin tunnel will be tendered soon afterwards.
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The Northgate Link Extension construction began in late-2012 with demolition of the Roosevelt Station site.
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The 41 parts that comprise the world’s largest EPB, with a 17.45 m diameter and weighing 7,000 t, arrived in Seattle, US from Osaka, Japan on 02.04.2013.
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On 26.03.2013 twin Herrenknecht EPBs owned by Astaldi simultaneously reached Pozzo Parco in the CityLife area having started from San Siro Harar–Dessie in April, 2012. This completed the 3 ...
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On 25.02.2013, TBM Charlotte, diameter 10 m, length 110 m, weight 2,220 tons, broke through the second tube of the 4,020m Saverne tunnel driving east-west.
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Construction of the 3 km-long T3 section, San Giovanni - Fori Imperiali/Colosseo, Line C of the Rome metro will start in April, 2013.
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The 10.96 km-long, 8.40 m-wide, 7.39 m-high Pir Panjal railway tunnel on the Banihal-Qazigund section of J & K railway line is the India’s longest and Asia’s second largest.
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G&G Partners is a modern and dynamic company located in northern Italy, established and run by qualified managers in the ventilation field for tunnelling and mining applications.
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The iPS tunnelling team will be at Bauma, Muenchen from April 15-21 in Hall C, booth 529 to advise visitors on current and future employment
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Call for Papers for the 6th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2014), to be held at World Trade Centre (WTC) in Marseille, France, 12-14th March, 2014.
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This week saw the opening of tunnelbuilder file it/200, a landmark indicating that Italy has started more projects than any other country over the last fifteen years. During the same period, we reported 187 large projects in Norway and 171 in Spain.
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The innovative air cushion based carrier system Airmover 3000, conceived, designed and manufactured by Palmieri Group, was used for the first time to shift 3000 t TBM Martina at Sparvo
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On 05.03.2013 the 6.12 m-diameter Caterpillar TBM EPB, nicknamed Moley, broke through the headwall of Downsview extraction shaft in the city of Toronto,
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The Nepal Infrastructure Development Company (NIDC) that conducted the detailed project report (DPR) of the Kathmandu-Hetauda tunnel highway couldn’t come up with convincing plans for a concession agreement with the government.
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On 08.03.2013 CIPE approved the final design for the first phase of technological and infrastructural alignment of the Battipaglia-Reggio Calabria railway in Italy, amount EUR157.4 million.
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The JV Coestra/Bonciani/ACMAR of Florence was awarded the contract for the 1.8 km-long Line 1 metro extension from Sesto FS to Monza, in Italy.
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Conference scheduled 4-5th June, 2013 for Brisbane, Australia will examine risk management, emergency response and fire prevention in tunnels.
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The Nepal Ministry of Physical Planning, Works and Transport Management will sign the final agreement with the Nepal Purbadhar Bikas Company (NPBC)
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ExpoTunnel, scheduled for Bologna, Italy from October 17-20th, 2013 is offering favourable reservation rates until end-February on all applications received by end of business on that day
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Global mining company Rio Tinto, in cooperation with TBM manufacturers, recently developed two new tunnel boring systems (TBS) and one shaft boring system (SBS).
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The main underground structures on the new El Alto hydropower plant in Chiriqui province of Panama, in the district of Renacimiento near the Costa Rica border,
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