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Barrie Willis appointed Manager of IPS Tunnelling Department

Barrie Willis appointed Manager of IPS Tunnelling DepartmentInterocean Personnel Services (IPS) has appointed Barrie Willis to manage its tunnelling department, strengthening its international ... More Information

Germany Signs Financing Agreement to Build Maglev Line in Munich

Germany Signs Financing Agreement to Build Maglev Line in MunichBavaria, Germany's richest state, agreed on 25th September, 2007 to build the country's and Europe's first commercial high speed ... More Information

High Speed Rail Service Begins Operating from St Pancras in London

High Speed Rail Service Begins Operating from St Pancras in LondonFaster, more frequent, and more punctual high speed Eurostar trains between London and Brussels and Paris began operating on ... More Information

Talave-Cenajo Water Tunnel Breaks Through in Spain

Talave-Cenajo Water Tunnel Breaks Through in SpainConstruction of the tunnel that links the Talave and Cenajo reservoirs in Castilla La Mancha to improve the quality of water supplied to 2.5 million ... More Information

Great challenge for a Tunnel Fire Protected with Fire Barrier 135

Great challenge for a Tunnel Fire Protected with Fire Barrier 135In two weeks time, a fire resistance system has been installed over a frost-free drainage complex in the entrance of Maurice Lemaire ... More Information

Consultants Invited to Bid for Planning of Stuttgart 21 Project in Germany

Consultants Invited to Bid for Planning of Stuttgart 21 Project in GermanyStuttgart 21, the largest railway construction project in southwest Germany in many years, is going ahead. The first tenders ... More Information

Bekaert Obtains CE Marking for Dramix® Steel Fibres

Bekaert Obtains CE Marking for Dramix® Steel FibresBekaert conforms to European Standard and product requirements. To guarantee the quality and the strength of steel fibre-reinforced concrete in ... More Information

HI-FOG® Water Mist Fire Protection System for Tunnels

HI-FOG® Water Mist Fire Protection System for TunnelsMarioff's HI-FOG® water mist fire protection system has been fire-tested extensively for use in road tunnels, most recently in Norway ... More Information

Doubling the Pfänder Tunnel on the Trans-European Road Network

Doubling the Pfänder Tunnel on the Trans-European Road NetworkThe Pfänder tunnel is part of the main highway route A14 north of Bregenz in Vorarlberg in direction to Germany. Situated on the ... More Information

Breakthrough of Katzenberg Tunnel on Main North-South European Line

Breakthrough of Katzenberg Tunnel on Main North-South European LineEngineers celebrated the breakthrough on 30th October, 2007 of the twin Katzenberg rail tunnel on the Basel-Karlsruhe line ... More Information

Amsteg-Sedrun Section of Gotthard Base Tunnel Completed Nine Months Early

Amsteg-Sedrun Section of Gotthard Base Tunnel Completed Nine Months EarlyThe 17 km west section of the Gotthard base tunnel between Amsteg and Sedrun holed through on 17th October, 2007, with ... More Information

Reference Book about Underground Mining Methods in a New Edition

Reference Book about Underground Mining Methods in a New Edition Atlas Copco has for many decades had the ambition to provide the underground mining industry with interesting and educational ... More Information

Construction of Access Adits Underway on Lyon-Turin High Speed Line

Construction of Access Adits Underway on Lyon-Turin High Speed Line First envisaged in 1990 as a mere extension of the high speed passenger network between France and Italy, the ... More Information

Normet Goes Global

Normet Goes GlobalNormet, the Finnish manufacturer of mining equipment, is reorganizing its structure in order tobecome a truly global player in the underground market. The establishment of a new ... More Information

STUVA Conference 2007 in Cologne

STUVA Conference 2007 in CologneThe economic boom in Germany and Europe also is having a positive impact on tunnel construction. According to statistics gathered in the last few years, the ... More Information

British PM Gordon Brown Gives Go-Ahead to Crossrail

British PM Gordon Brown Gives Go-Ahead to CrossrailA project to build a GBP16 billion railway across central London was finally approved on 5th October, 2007 by British Prime minister Gordon ... More Information

Robbins Hybrid EPB TBM for Kavacik-Beykoz Wastewater Tunnels in Istanbul

Robbins Hybrid EPB TBM for Kavacik-Beykoz Wastewater Tunnels in IstanbulA 3.1 m-diameter Robbins hybrid EPB TBM in Istanbul can bore in two very different situations. The versatile machine can ... More Information

First Breakthrough on Perthus High Speed Rail Tunnel

First Breakthrough on Perthus High Speed Rail TunnelThe first, west Perthus tunnel, a major engineering project on the 44.4 km Perpignan-Figueras high speed link between France and Spain, has been ... More Information

Peter Stauffer - the face of CAT for the tunnelling industry

Peter Stauffer - the face of CAT for the tunnelling industryIn a relatively short time we at tunnelbuilder ltd came to know Peter as a great friend as well as a valued colleague. He first came ... More Information

Construction of Diabolo Project in Belgium to Start Soon

Construction of Diabolo Project in Belgium to Start SoonDiabolo, the northern connection with the Brussels-Mechelen-Antwerp route, is a next step in improving Brussels airport's accessibility by ... More Information

Monte d'Oro Tunnel Breaks Through on Road Link Between Italy and Slovenia

Monte d'Oro Tunnel Breaks Through on Road Link Between Italy and SloveniaConstruction of the motorway link between Lacotisce, in Trieste province, and the Rabuiese Pass between Italia and Slovenia ... More Information

New Low Profile Team from Atlas Copco

New Low Profile Team from Atlas CopcoThe Scooptram ST1030LP and the Minetruck MT436LP are two new vehicles designed to optimize the economic, mechanized extraction of ore in low seam ... More Information

Spain Invites Tunnelbuilder Readers to International Congress and Exhibition

Spain Invites Tunnelbuilder Readers to International Congress and ExhibitionThe Spanish Tunnelling Association (AETOS) organises an international tunnelling congress and technical exhibition in ... More Information

Herrenknecht Expands with New Plant in India and More Trainees

Herrenknecht Expands with New Plant in India and More TraineesHerrenknecht is the technology and market leader in mechanized tunnelling and the only company on the market that supplies ... More Information

Tunnelling Begins at Devil's Slide in California

Tunnelling Begins at Devil's Slide in CaliforniaDevil's Slide, a winding and precarious stretch of California's Highway 1 which soars above the Pacific Ocean, was carved into the mountain. ... More Information

Track Dualling on Milan-Lecco Rail Line

Track Dualling on Milan-Lecco Rail LineThe dualling of the Carnate Usmate-Airuno section on the Milan-Lecco rail line will improve the suburban train service provided by Line S8 from Milan via ... More Information

Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Line 9 of Beijing Metro

Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Line 9 of Beijing MetroLovat recently signed a contract to supply a new RME246SE earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine to the Beijing Urban Construction Group ... More Information

Long Pipejack in New Zealand

Long Pipejack in New ZealandA 55-tonne Herrenknecht AVND 1800 microtunnelling machine, painted in Canterbury colours and nicknamed 'Dora the Bora', completed the first underground stretch of ... More Information

Colombia Releases Pre-bidding Rules for South America's Longest Road Tunnel

Colombia Releases Pre-bidding Rules for South America's Longest Road TunnelColombia's national road and highway institute, Invias, published the pre-bidding rules for the studies, design, social and ... More Information

Second Stage of Big Walnut Interceptor Tunnel Breaks Through in Ohio

Second Stage of Big Walnut Interceptor Tunnel Breaks Through in OhioThe Big Walnut Augmentation/Rickenbacker Interceptor (BWARI) project is part of an overall programme for the City of Columbus, ... More Information

Conference on Design and Construction of Tunnels and Shafts for the DLR Woolwich Extension

Conference on Design and Construction of Tunnels and Shafts for the DLR Woolwich ExtensionThe Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Woolwich Arsenal extension is an integral part of Transport for London's ... More Information

New Life for Karahnjukar TBM at Ceneri Base Tunnel

New Life for Karahnjukar TBM at Ceneri Base TunnelTBM #1 that achieved successfully its task on the main headrace tunnel of the Kárahnjúkar hydropower project in Iceland will be the first Robbins ... More Information

First Concrete Element to be Placed on World's First Offshore Immersed Tunnel in Korea

First Concrete Element to be Placed on World's First Offshore Immersed Tunnel in KoreaIn 2005, construction commenced on two cable-stayed bridges, with main spans of 475 m and 230 m, and a 3.2 ... More Information

Construction of Deep Flood Relief Tunnel Under Way in Mexico

Construction of Deep Flood Relief Tunnel Under Way in MexicoThroughout the years, the regional landslides that affected the banks of the Río de la Compañía in Mexico Valley reached annually ... More Information

Malaysia Invites Contractors to Prequalify for Pahang-Selangor Water Transfer Scheme

Malaysia Invites Contractors to Prequalify for Pahang-Selangor Water Transfer SchemeContractors have until 19th September, 2007 to prequalify for the construction of the first package, which is also ... More Information

Ministry of Infrastructure and City of Milan Sign Agreement for Metro Lines in Milan

Ministry of Infrastructure and City of Milan Sign Agreement for Metro Lines in MilanDuring a meeting on 31st July, 2007 between minister for infrastructure Antonio Di Pietro, mayor of Milan ... More Information

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Elon Musk's company unveils first look at the Las Vegas loop

The tunnel-way, dubbed the “Vegas loop”, is a nearly $52.5 million ... Reporters and various Las Vegas media entities were shown the project on ... More Information

Bids solicited for contract to build tunnel linking rail lines

THE TRANSPORTATION department has started seeking bidders for the tunneling works contract connecting the South Commuter Railway Project to ... More Information

Media get first glimpse of Elon Musk's people-mover tunnels

After construction crews spent months drilling, digging, mucking, paving, lining and electrifying tunnels, representatives of Las Vegas media were ... More Information

HALFWAY FOR ROZELLE INTERCHANGE TUNNELLING

Construction of Australia’s biggest road infrastructure project has reached another major milestone, with Rozelle Interchange tunnelling passing the half way mark... More Information

Western Isles to mainland Scotland tunnel to be considered

YOU ARE HERE:INNOVATIVE THINKING Western Isles to mainland Scotland tunnel to be considered 07 APR, 2021 BY CATHERINE KENNEDY A 27km tunnel linking the Western Isles and mainland ... More Information

Snøhetta begins construction on world's first ship tunnel through Norwegian coastline

Construction begins on Snøhetta's entrance for the mile-long ship tunnel which will introduce a safe passage for large vessels along the turbulent ... More Information

New design contract for the Dhaka Metro Line 5 South in Bangladesh

Egis has successfully signed the Contract Agreement with Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) for the design of the Dhaka Metro Line 5 South. Egis, leader of the consortium will work ... More Information

China's longest underwater highway tunnel to be completed

It is part of the Changzhou-Wuxi Highway which has a total length of 43.9 km. Construction of the underwater tunnel began in January 2018 in east ... More Information

The Challenge of Building a Tunnel in the Middle of the Colombian Rainforest

The La Paz tunnel is located in the La Paz mountain range in Lebrija, a municipality in the department of Santander (Colombia). This region has a warm climate with two annual periods of ... More Information

Crews prep boring machine for new sewage tunnel from Ballard to Wallingford

“Sir Digs-A-Lot” is one of five finalists out of 1,200 community suggestions for the name of Seattle’s next big underground tunnel boring machine... More Information

World's first ship tunnel to be built under Norwegian mountains

(CNN) — Norway has got the go-ahead to construct what's being billed as the world's first ship tunnel, designed to help vessels navigate the treacherous Stadhavet Sea... More Information

The Science of Tunnelling

Cross River Rail will have 5.9 kilometres of twin tunnels running deep under Brisbane. Giant underground factories... More Information

Thames Tideway completes 9th and final central London shaft

Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke joint venture has just completed excavation of the ninth and final shaft of the central section of the super sewer project... More Information

Major milestone reached on world's longest immersed tunnel

Fugro delivered the ground investigation for Femern Link Contractors, a consortium formed by Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Per Aarsleff, Wayss ... More Information

Bob Bell

For his long and distinguished career in tunnelling, dedication to the BTS and commitment to developing young tunnel engineers... More Information

World's first major ship tunnel project to take bids soon

The tunnel, originally announced in 2017, will bore through just over a mile of the peninsula at its narrowest, southern end and allow ships to avoid the ... More Information

Simultaneous pipejacking innovation to fast track London heat and power scheme

Two Iseki 1200 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named after two deities – the Norse goddess Freya and the Greek goddess Artemis – will complete ... More Information

Bids in for major Bulgarian road contract

The scope of work in the project includes the construction of a 10.5km highway, plus five tunnels with a combined length of 4km. The longest of these ... More Information

WSP USA Projects Win Nine 2020 ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recognized nine WSP USA projects for Engineering Excellence.. More Information

HCMC river tunnel to get $4.1-mln automatic firefighting system

Vehicles travel through the Saigon River Tunnel that links District 1 and Thu Duc City, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen... More Information

A message from the ATS2020+1 Organising Committee

The Australasian Tunnelling Conference (ATS2020+1), our premier industry event, will be held in Melbourne on the 10th – 13th May 2021 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre ... More Information

Trackers let people see where machines are beneath Brisbane River

Tracking devices have been clamped on two 165-metre long boring machines digging the first rail tunnels beneath the Brisbane River. The two giant ... More Information

Tunnel construction as a climate-friendly source of energy

Tunnel construction as a climate-friendly source of energy. The Brenner Base Tunnel will relieve transit traffic between Italy and Austria and, incidentally, ... More Information

20 TBMS to Work on Paris Metro Expansion

More than 20 tunnel boring machines have been put to work to date to build lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 as part of a Grand Paris Express metro expansion ... More Information

Civil Contract Awarded for Cross Island Line Phase 1 in Singapore

For the first time, LTA will use a large-diameter tunnel boring machine to construct a single tunnel with two tracks in it. CRL1 is slated to commence ... More Information

Normet upgrades its TBM soil conditioner for maximum efficiency

True to its dedication to strive for innovation and sustainability, Normet has continued to develop and optimise its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ... More Information

Sydney Metro West Receives Two Major Planning Approvals

... two major planning approvals in readiness for the tunnel boring machines to start ... The first tunnelling contracts are likely to be issued in mid-2021. More Information

TUNNEL VISION: Episode 2 - Trailer

Watch the trailer for episode 2 of Tideway’s brand new web series - Tunnel Vision... More Information

Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade

Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade site... More Information

HS2 sets construction start date to take line north

HS2 Ltd has set a construction start date of Spring 2024 for Phase 2a of the project. The target date for the start of earthworks is revealed in board minutes from December but just ... More Information

University of Warwick: Warwick students qualify into finals of Elon Musk's tunnelling competition

They will build their tunnelling machine and test it against competitors to get top spot.Caption: A render of the Warwick Boring Team's tunnelling device ... More Information

M4-M5 Link Tunnels project

The M4-M5 Link Tunnels is the first stage of the M4-M5 Link which is being delivered in two stages... More Information

Yokohama Circular Northwest Line

The Yokohama Loop Northwest Route is a 7.1km-long motorway that connects the Tomei Expressway and the Daisan Keihin Road... More Information

TUNNEL VISION: Episode 1 – Cleaning up the Thames in Blackfriars, London

Tunnel Vision is a new web series from Tideway that will take a closer-then-ever look at the two dozen construction sites that make up the project, its amazing engineering and the people ... More Information

Consortia shortlisted for NSW tunnelling works

The NSW Government expects the first of four large tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be in the ground by mid-2023. For more information visit the ... More Information

First Tunnel of Narlıdere Metro Line

Uninterrupted connection was provided in the first tunnel of the Fahrettin Altay-Narlıdere metro line, which is under construction by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality... More Information

Irish Sea crossing | Two past ICE presidents to officially assess feasibility of link

Two former ICE presidents have been brought in to carry out an official feasibility study of a possible Irish Sea crossing... More Information

London Underground upgrades to Northern line and Bank station gather pace

Upgrades on the London Underground continue to gather pace, with work progressing on the capacity upgrade at Bank station and the Northern Line Extension programme... More Information

Granite Awarded $267 Million Tunnel Project in Ohio

... LOT main tunnel will consist of approximately 17,000 feet of 144-inch hand-mined diameter tunnel and will be mined with a tunnel boring machine ... More Information