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Brazil - The South TBM of Sao Paulo’s Metro Line 6 reached Perdizes Station

Brazil - The South TBM of Sao Paulo’s Metro Line 6 reached Perdizes Station

The TBM - named Maria Leopoldina - working on the construction of Line 6 of the Sao Paulo metro, in Brazil, reached its fourth stop on the route, Perdizes station, on Friday, September 29. The TBM ... More Information

TERRATEC Rock EPBM is ready for Delhi Metro

TERRATEC Rock EPBM is ready for Delhi Metro

In late August, TERRATEC celebrated the successful Factory Acceptance Test of a new 6.61m diameter Rock Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (EPBM) destined for Delhi Mass Rapid Transit ... More Information

China's first EPB TBM Exported to South America came off the Production Line at CRCHI

China's first EPB TBM Exported to South America came off the Production Line at CRCHI

China's inaugural EPB TBM designated for South America recently rolled off the production line at CRCHI on September 27th. CRCHI, the manufacturer, holds the honour of being the first to export ... More Information

Lift off! HS2’s latest London tunnelling machine assembled 25 metres below ground

Press release - We've unveiled the names of the next pair of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will construct the high speed rail line under the capital. Following a public vote, the names Emily ... More Information

Cost and Schedule Changes for VTA's BART Project

Cost and Schedule Changes for VTA's BART Project

VTA announced the updated cost and schedule for VTA’s Phase II Project at October 20, 2023 Board of Directors meeting. These changes reflect the Project’s design progress and market ... More Information

Alignment chosen for the new railway line project Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds!

Alignment chosen for the new railway line project Neuchâtel - La Chaux-de-Fonds!

Between Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds, a new direct railway line will be built as part of the strategic development program for railway infrastructure, development stage 2035 (PRODES EA ... More Information

NCE Tunnelling Awards: Discover who the 2023 finalists are!

The shortlist has been announced for the NCE Tunnelling Awards 2023! Click here to view the 2023 shortlist. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner ceremony at the Hilton Bankside in London ... More Information

ISAVFT 2024 - Call for Papers is Now Open!

The call for papers for ISAVFT 2024  is now open. The symposium -  to be held at the Tivoli Hotel and Congress Centre in Copenhagen (Denmark) on 28-30 October 2024 - is seeking paper ... More Information

First TBM breaks through at future Oak-VGH Station

The first of two TBMs has broken through at the future Oak-VGH Station, achieving another milestone for the Broadway Subway Project.   The machine, named Phyllis, has reached the fourth ... More Information

Nye Veier announces the first tender for the E6 Ranheim-Værnes

Nye Veier announces the first tender for the E6 Ranheim-Værnes

Nye Veier has sent out the first tender information for the Ranheim-Vaernes section at the end of October/beginning of November. The first competitive dialogue will include completion of the section ... More Information

Press Release - Epiroc Powerbit X transforms ground support in Stockholm's Sofia Station

Press Release - Epiroc Powerbit X transforms ground support in Stockholm's Sofia Station

A hundred meters below ground, in the very heart of the Swedish capital Stockholm, the Epiroc Powerbit X is breaking grounds in civil construction with its diamondprotected technology by drilling an ... More Information

Turin/Lyon - New TBM live from the factory

Turin/Lyon - New TBM live from the factory

A new TELT TBM - 10.5 m diameter, 264 t weight, 180 m length, for the Lyon-Turin new line unveiled on October 6th, 2023 at the Herrenknecht AG plant! It will work on the CO6/7 site for the Mont ... More Information

National Grid’s London Power Tunnels breakthrough completes the project’s tunnelling activity

On September 30 th, 2023 the National Grid’s EUR1.15 bn (GBP1 bn) London Power Tunnels (LPT) project has achieved a major milestone with its final tunnelling breakthrough at Eltham substation ... More Information

TERRATEC delivers Tunnel Conveyors for Metro Manila Subway Project in the Philippines

The Metro Manila Subway Project commences with the implementation of TERRATEC's Continuously Advancing Tunnel Conveyors.  TERRATEC is pleased to announce the successful delivery of two ... More Information

World First - The €500MM Norwegian Ship Tunnel to Hit the Market

World First - The €500MM Norwegian Ship Tunnel to Hit the Market

Press release - The world's first ship tunnel will now go out to tender - The Stad Ship tunnel will secure ship traffic in weather-resistant Stad. It is now clear that he will go out to tender in ... More Information

HS2 – Latest Green Tunnel

HS2 – Latest Green Tunnel

HS2 has begun assembling the project’s longest ‘green tunnel’ - designed to blend the high speed railway into the rural landscape and reduce disruption for communities around ... More Information

Switzerland – Postpone the opening of the Ligerz tunnel

The Ligerz tunnel will be put into operation at the end of 2029, three years later than planned. This delay is due to objections and appeals as well as an updated construction method due to ... More Information

Second tube of Ucka tunnel on Y Istrian Motorway has been completed

On September 18, 2023 Bouygues Travaux Publics teams brokethrough for the second tube of the 5.6km Ucka tunnel on the Istria motorway. This breakthrough marks the end of the excavation work, carried ... More Information

Italy/Sicily - Second TBM for the Giampilieri-Fiumefreddo section has passed its FAT

Italy/Sicily - Second TBM for the Giampilieri-Fiumefreddo section has passed its FAT

On 11th  September 2023 the TBM EPB - diameter 9.36 m and weight of approximately 900 t - which will be used by Webuild for the construction of the Letojanni and Forza d'Agrò tunnels on ... More Information

Kanpur metro - TBM Nana reaches Bada Chauraha Station

Kanpur metro - TBM Nana reaches Bada Chauraha Station

This September the Gulermak - Sam India Builtwell JV’s TBM S93 - 6.52 m diameter and 120 m length - named Nana after Nana Saheb Peshwa and built by Terratec,  reached the Bada Chauraha ... More Information

Superloads deliver North East Link's TBM parts to Watsonia

The first parts of the massive TBMs that will dig the North East Link tunnels have completed their journey by sea to the Port of Melbourne and on September 9 and 10 have been transported to their ... More Information

Sydney Metro - Two milestones on Western Sydney Airport project

Sydney Metro - Two milestones on Western Sydney Airport project

The first milestone is the launch of the fourth TBM, named after Marlene Kanga AO, and the second milestone is the breakthrough of the TBM Peggy at the Airport Terminal Station.  ... More Information

Norway - The TBM that will drill the E6 Clean water tunnel Project in Oslo has arrived

On September 4th, 2023  the twelve largest and heaviest parts of the TBM - to be used to drive the tunnel for the new main water supply line in Oslo - were unloaded at Ormsundkaia  with ... More Information

Italy/Liguria - Choose alignment for the Aurelia Bis project linking Sanremo with Ventimiglia

In September in Ventimiglia representatives of the Government, of Liguria Region, of the Province of Imperia and of local municipalities presented the EUR 1.2 bn project for the ... More Information

Press release - Discover the €1.2B Mega Project in Norway - Paving the Way North of the Arctic Circle - E6 Megården–Mørsvikbotn

In a remarkable development, the Norwegian government has earmarked a substantial investment of NOK 4 billion for the ambitious E6 highway expansion project in Sørfold, Nordland. This ... More Information

The Central Interceptor tunnel project in Auckland reaches halfway mark

On 4 September the Hiwa-i-te Rangi TBM - more than 5m diameter -has broken through into a 69m deep shaft in May Road, Mount Roskill marking the halfway point of her 14.7km journey to central ... More Information

New milestones for Phase II of Chennai city’s metro rail network development

CMRL is going to further develop the Chennai city metro rail network as part of Phase II with 3 new corridors of metro rail for a total length of 116.1 km with 119 metro stations: Corridor-3, from ... More Information

North East Link TBM machine arrives by sea

The first of two 4000 t TBMs that will dig the North East Link Tunnels has passed testing. The first parts of the TBM have completed their journey by sea to the Port of Melbourne and they will ... More Information

E39 Rogfast - Four companies apply to be prequalified for Contract E02

The project manager Sveinung Brude from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration informed Implenia Norge/Stangeland Maskin, NCC Norge and Skanska Norge from Norway and Acciona Construcción ... More Information

2023 Stuva-Expo

STUVA-Expo will take place from 8.11.2023 - 9.11.2023 and almost all the exhibition space has already been rented out. Around 200 well-known exhibitors from Germany and abroad will present products ... More Information

ZITRON at the XVII AFTES International Congress 2023 in Paris

ZITRON at the XVII AFTES International Congress 2023 in Paris

From October 2-4, 2023, Zitrón will be a part of the XVII AFTES International Congress at Paris, Congress Palace. This event provides a unique opportunity to engage with our ... More Information

Preferred bidder announced for Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East tunneling contract

The consortium Suburban Connect - including CPB Contractors, Ghella and Acciona Construction is the preferred bidder for the first Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East main works contract, with TBMs on ... More Information

India - Terratec Hard Rock Double Shield TBM commences operations for Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydropower project

India - Terratec Hard Rock Double Shield TBM commences operations for Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydropower project

TERRATEC is pleased to announce that the Ø9.86m Hard Rock Double Shield TBM has commenced the excavation for Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydropower Project in India.   The TBM is currently ... More Information

BBT - Eisack Underpass work completed

All the main works have been completed at the construction site of lot H71 “Eisack River underpass” of the Brenner Base Tunnel, and subsequently the work completion report has now been ... More Information

HS2 opens TBM naming competition

HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd is asking the public to choose names for the next two TBMs that will be launched in early 2024 to dig the Northolt Tunnel East travelling through Brent and Ealing. The TBMs ... More Information

HS2’s Tunnel progress - TBMs Florence and Cecilia reached Little Missenden

HS2’s Tunnel progress - TBMs Florence and Cecilia reached Little Missenden

Last week on August 8th, 2023 the giant TBMs reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft, passing the fourth of five ventilation and emergency access shafts, 75% of the way through the 16 km (10 ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

$800-million twin-tube tunnel, longest in the Philippines, nears 'breakthrough'

A senior agency official stated on Thursday that the tunneling phase of the Davao City Bypass Construction Project will achieve a long-awaited ... More Information

The World’s Largest Immersed Tunnel Is Being Built—And It’s Done Without a Tunnel Boring Machine

When we think about groundbreaking advancements, our minds often jump to cutting-edge technology like smartphones or supercomputers. But some of the most awe-inspiring innovations are ... More Information

Brenner Base TBM enters 'highly fractured' fault zone

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) working on the northernmost active construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel project has entered a “highly ... More Information

India building a historic Undersea Tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project

He stated, "All high-quality safety norms have been adopted in the construction of this India's first carefully designed undersea tunnel project." The ... More Information

Norway's Incredible Ship Tunnel Plan Is Back On Track

Despite pandemic-related and planning delays to the project, the Norwegian Coastal Administration is pressing ahead with plans to build the world's ... More Information

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