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Madrid's M-30 Motorway on Discovery Channel

Madrid's M-30 Motorway on Discovery ChannelMadrid's inner ring road, the M-30, is the busiest road in Spain. It is famous for its traffic jams and pollution. The chronical traffic crisis had to be ... More Information

SMART Tunnel to Open for Traffic in March

SMART Tunnel to Open for Traffic in MarchKuala Lumpur city centre is flooded by water from the Klang River with increasing frequency when it rains heavily. Traffic grinds to a standstill and ... More Information

World’s Deepest Road Tunnel Breaks Through in Norway

World’s Deepest Road Tunnel Breaks Through in Norway951 days after the first blast, the 7,765 m-long Eiksund subsea tunnel - the world’s deepest road tunnel in Møre and Romsdal county - ... More Information

Pilot Tunnel is More than 50% Completed at La Linea in Colombia

Pilot Tunnel is More than 50% Completed at La Linea in ColombiaThe La Linea tunnel project, or Segundo Centenario tunnel, crosses the central mountain range and forms part of the ... More Information

Twin Robbins TBMs Tackle Dahuofang Water Transfer Tunnels

Twin Robbins TBMs Tackle Dahuofang Water Transfer TunnelsConstruction of the 85.3 km-long Dahuofang water transfer tunnel is expected to be completed at the end of 2008. The central area of ... More Information

Tunnelling Starts at Leipzig City Tunnel

Tunnelling Starts at Leipzig City TunnelA 65 m-long 1,100-tonne shield TBM dubbed 'Leonie' and supplied by Herrenknecht was officially launched on 11th January, 2007 during an official ... More Information

World's Second Longest Road Tunnel Opens in China

World's Second Longest Road Tunnel Opens in China The Zhongnanshan (Zhongnan mountain) tunnel, which passes through the Qinling mountains in northwest China's Shaanxi province, opened ... More Information

International Symposium on Brenner Base Tunnel

International Symposium on Brenner Base TunnelThe faculty of civil engineering and faculty of geo- and atmospheric sciences of the University of Innsbruck organizes an international symposium on the ... More Information

156 Kilometres of Tunnels Planned in Istanbul

156 Kilometres of Tunnels Planned in IstanbulThe Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality targets 156 kilometres of new highway tunnels to improve the urban traffic in the city. The municipality ... More Information

Robbins Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Shanghai

Robbins Opens New Manufacturing Facility in ShanghaiRobbins recently opened a new manufacturing facility next to its offices in Shanghai, China in late 2006. The new workshop was built ... More Information

Turkey Opens Bolu Tunnel

Turkey Opens Bolu TunnelRecep Tayyip Erdogan and Romano Prodi, the prime ministers of Turkey and Italy, on 23rd January inaugurated the right carriageway (Istanbul-Ankara direction) on the ... More Information

Naples Metro Inaugurates First Section of Line 6

Naples Metro Inaugurates First Section of Line 6On 11th January, 2007 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi inaugurated in Naples the first section, running from Mergellina to Mostra ... More Information

Mitsubishi TBM Breaks Through Parbati Stage II Hydropower Shaft

Mitsubishi TBM Breaks Through Parbati Stage II Hydropower ShaftA Mitsubishi-Boretec-NFM refurbished TBM has achieved the breakthrough of the second inclined pressure shaft of the Parbati stage ... More Information

Last TBM Breakthrough at Kárahnjúkar

Last TBM Breakthrough at KárahnjúkarThe third and last Robbins TBM at the main Kárahnjúkar headrace tunnel broke through its 11.5 km section on 5th December, 2006. The breakthrough marks ... More Information

Croatia Finalizes Construction of Zagreb-Macelj Motorway

Croatia Finalizes Construction of Zagreb-Macelj MotorwayThe Zagreb-Macelj motorway forms part of the European and Croatian road network between Zagreb and the Slovenian border in Macelj, ... More Information

Construction Starts on Marconi-Lingotto Section of Turin's Metro

Construction Starts on Marconi-Lingotto Section of Turin's MetroOn Monday 8th January, 2007 construction of section 2 Marconi-Lingotto on the Porta Nuova-Lingotto section of Turin's ... More Information

Construction of Jucar-Vinalopo Water Transfer Scheme to Start Soon

Construction of Jucar-Vinalopo Water Transfer Scheme to Start Soon The Spanish government repealed four sections of the Jucar-Vinalopo water transfer scheme a year and a half ago after ... More Information

DSI Acquires Alwag and ACI

DSI Acquires Alwag and ACIDSI (DYWIDAG Systems International) consolidates its existing tunnelling activities with the newly acquired companies Alwag Tunnelausbau Ges.m.b.H. (Alwag) of Austria and ... More Information

Arlaban Tunnel Breakthrough Unites Basque Provinces in Spain

Arlaban Tunnel Breakthrough Unites Basque Provinces in SpainBoring of the 3,377 m-long Arlaban tunnel (now named Isuzkitza) was completed on 28th December, 2006 thus uniting 1,300 metres that ... More Information

Sentvid Tunnel Nears Completion in Slovenia

Sentvid Tunnel Nears Completion in SloveniaThe Sentvid tunnel, which is currently under construction in Ljubljana, Slovenia is a section of the future highway between the Karavanke tunnel ... More Information

Construction in Full Swing at Malmö City Tunnel

Construction in Full Swing at Malmö City TunnelThe Öresund connection between Sweden and Denmark, a combination comprising both bridge and tunnel structures, was officially opened in July ... More Information

Longest Tunnel Breaks Through on Sweden's Bothnia Line

Longest Tunnel Breaks Through on Sweden's Bothnia LineThe 5.6 km Namntall tunnel, one of 16 such constructions on the Bothnia line and Sweden's longest railway tunnel, broke through on 30th ... More Information

Tunnelling Ends on the M-30 South Bypass in Madrid

Tunnelling Ends on the M-30 South Bypass in Madrid'Tizona', the world's biggest TBM with its twin 'Dulcinea', finished its job on 30th October, 2006 in the eastbound, south tunnel on the south ... More Information

Moutier Tunnel Breaks Through during Saint Barbara Day

Moutier Tunnel Breaks Through during Saint Barbara DayThe Moutier tunnel holed through on Monday 4th December, 2006 after a mass celebrated in honor of Saint Barbara, the patron saint of ... More Information

Steady Progress at Hallandsås

Steady Progress at HallandsåsAt the southern tunnel portal in Förslöv, commissioning of the 250 m-long TBM and its ancillary installations has been in progress since autumn 2005. ... More Information

2012 Olympic Games Powerline Tunnel Breaks Through in London

2012 Olympic Games Powerline Tunnel Breaks Through in LondonTunnelling work took a significant step forward with a scheduled breakthrough in one of the two tunnels being built to underground ... More Information

Lovat Readies TBM for Bosphorus Railway Tube Crossing in Istanbul

Lovat Readies TBM for Bosphorus Railway Tube Crossing in IstanbulThe Marmaray project in Istanbul will provide a fully upgraded commuter rail line, connecting Halkali on the European side with ... More Information

Second Tunnel Breakthrough at Castellanza

Second Tunnel Breakthrough at CastellanzaOn 18th November, 2006 the second tunnel for the project to sink underground the railway operated by Ferrovie Nord Milano through Castellanza, on the ... More Information

First TBM Breaks Through Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension in Los Angeles

First TBM Breaks Through Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension in Los AngelesA Herrenknecht machine dubbed 'Lola' has completed a 2.75 km tunnel for the USD898 million eastside extension of the ... More Information

BWARI Tunnel Breaks Through

BWARI Tunnel Breaks ThroughOn 25th October, 2006 the Jay Dee-Michels Pipeline Construction-Traylor joint venture broke through on the Big Walnut Augmentation/Rickenbacker Interceptor (BWARI) ... More Information

Second South Gotthard TBM Arrives in Faido

Second South Gotthard TBM Arrives in Faido Three years and eight months after starting out from Bodio in February 2003 and driving some 13.5 km of the west Gotthard base tunnel, the ... More Information

Third WBI International Short Course on Rock Mechanics, Stability and Design of Tunnels and Slopes

Third WBI International Short Course on Rock Mechanics, Stability and Design of Tunnels and SlopesAfter two successful events in the past two years, WBI International organizes on 23rd and 24th ... More Information

GBP371 Million Hindhead Tunnel Gets Green Light… at Last

GBP371 Million Hindhead Tunnel Gets Green Light… at LastThe long-running A3 tunnel saga may finally be drawing to a close after the Highways Agency revealed work could start next year and be ... More Information

Orica Buys Minova

Orica Buys MinovaExplosives, paint and chemicals firm Orica from Australia said it had signed an agreement to acquire UK-based chemical products maker Minova for a purchase price of AUD857 million ... More Information

Robbins TBM Will Challenge New Heights in the Andes

Robbins TBM Will Challenge New Heights in the AndesAssembly of a Robbins 5 m-diameter main beam TBM was completed in September 2006 for the Olmos trans-Andean project in Peru. Odebrecht ... More Information

Atlas Copco Launches an Improved 10t Underground Loader - the Scooptram® ST1030

Atlas Copco Launches an Improved 10t Underground Loader - the Scooptram® ST1030An improved electrical system, an EPA Tier 3 diesel engine and a new instrument panel represent the major ... 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