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Construction of Jucar-Vinalopo Water Transfer Scheme to Start Soon The Spanish government repealed four sections of the Jucar-Vinalopo water transfer scheme a year and a half ago after ...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

Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French Alps

Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French AlpsThe A41 north stretch is the missing link on the A41 between Villy-le-Pelloux / Saint-Martin-Bellevue and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in the ... More Information

Conference and Training Course on Safety in Tunnels

Conference and Training Course on Safety in TunnelsItaly today holds the world's main records regarding underground structures. Recently, risks have been increasing due to ageing tunnels while road ... More Information

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling Services

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling ServicesWith the common goal to provide optimal and thorough services to contractors and tunnelling projects in the North ... More Information

Internet Advertising Overtakes Magazines

Internet Advertising Overtakes MagazinesGuy Phillipson, CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau www.iabuk.net has reported that spending on online advertising in the first half of 2006 has ... More Information

8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground Structures

8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground StructuresThe Slovenian Society for Underground and Geotechnical Constructions, the University of Ljubljana with the Faculty ... More Information

China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway Tunnels

China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway TunnelsAccording to statistics, 7,504 railway tunnels - with a total length of 4,305 km - were already in operation in China ... More Information

Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro Expansion

Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro ExpansionAll tunnelling required as part of the 2003-2007 expansion plan of the Madrid metro ended on 27th September, 2006 on Line 7 to east of ... More Information

Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBU

Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBURobbins announces its newest trenchless product, the Motorized Small Boring Unit (MSBU). The Robbins MSBU is a technically advanced type of ... More Information

Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South Tyrol

Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South TyrolThe Bolzano province in South Tyrol, Northern Italy has adopted an active policy to guarantee a safer road access to famous valleys like Val ... More Information

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Hinkley Point C: Second offshore tunnel completed

The second of three offshore tunnels needed for Hinkley Point C’s cooling water system has been completed under the Bristol Channel... More Information

Kemano T2 Project TBM Breakthrough

In a major milestone for Rio Tinto’s Kemano T2 hydropower project in British Columbia, the tunnel boring machine has broken through to complete its journey... More Information

Innovation and sustainability along Norway’s fjords

Bridges, tunnels and viaducts: works in progress to build the highways of the future... More Information

Delta Conveyance Deep Dive: Building the Tunnel Part 1

In the first of a special two-part Deep Dive, two of the nation’s leading tunnel engineers use detailed animations to reveal the inner workings of today’s state-of-the-art of tunnel boring ... More Information

Silvertown Tunnel

This twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London will link Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula. Construction is now underway - we plan to open the new tunnel in 2025... More Information

India completes first tunnel in $1bn project to improve access to Chinese border

India has completed work on the first of four tunnels drilled through the Himalayas to connect the Indian-controlled Kashmir with its northern Ladakh region ... More Information

Hinkley Point C tunnels project wins top award

For lining tunnel construction works, the excavation of one of the two intake tunnels and launched the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Outfall Tunnel. More Information

First mile of HS2 tunnel under the Chilterns completed

‘Florence’ – the first of HS2's ten Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) has completed her first mile of tunnel for the UK’s new high speed railway. Watch this youtube fly through video... More Information

Mine Development Machine: Successful Rectangular Rock Bore in Fresnillo, Mexico

Watch the successful bore of the Mine Development Machine (MDM)5000, manufactured by Robbins for Fresnillo Plc, Mexico's oldest silver mine. The MDM5000 is ideal for underground mine ... More Information

2021 Tunnelling Festival Short List

The New Civil Engineer’s Tunnelling Festival 2021 has released its short list of companies... More Information

STUVA Conference 2021

Here you may register for STUVA Conference 2021 or log in to your already created user account... More Information

TunnelSkills at the BTS

TunnelSkills are pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the BTS Conference on Thursday 30th September and Friday 1st October... More Information

Lower Thames Crossing | Five bidders shortlisted for £1.9bn road building jobs

National Highways has announced the companies shortlisted for the road building contracts either side of the Lower Thames Crossing... More Information

Construction is underway for the Fehmarnbelt tunne

At 18.2 km, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel for both vehicles and trains. It will take only ten minutes to travel from Denmark to Germany by car and ... More Information

Rival bidders object to Gozo tunnel project shortlist

Two bidders for the Malta-Gozo tunnel project have filed objections after a single bidder was shortlisted to design and build the tunnel. More Information

Auckland tunnelling project ramps back up after five week lockdown

The majority of workers will return to Auckland’s huge City Rail Link tunnelling scheme this week as the New Zealand city finally moves out of full lockdown – but project chiefs have ... More Information

RFQ issued for Scarborough Subway Extension stations and rail package

Procurement has begun on the second major contract for the Scarborough Subway Extension project with the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and ... More Information

Take a tour inside a HS2 tunnel boring machine

Take a tour inside a HS2 tunnel boring machine (TBM) with one of our tunnelling engineers. Walk the length of this 170m long underground 'factory' and discover how it excavates the 10 mile ... More Information

The most boring job in Britain!

The most boring job in Britain! As wide as a house and 500ft long, two monster HS2 drills are chewing their way through the Chilterns. ROBERT HARDMAN hopped on board for an express ride... ... More Information

HS2 project hits 20,000 jobs landmark

It's one year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Interchange station site in Solihull to announce the formal start of construction on the London-Birmingham phase of HS2... More Information

12 biggest contract opportunities in £650bn construction pipeline

A dozen contracts with a value of more than £500M have been revealed as part of the government’s updated National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline... More Information

Construction of 9-km long Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel starts Why it is important for Georgia?

Construction of the longest tunnel in Georgia, 9-km long and 15-m in width Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel, has started today, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure... More Information

Tunneling for LADWP: Frontier-Kemper Building River Supply Conduit Improvement Upper Reach – Unit 7

The project comprises approximately 2.5 miles of 78-in. welded steel pipeline, and is being constructed by Frontier-Kemper. In addition to the 11,755 ft main line tunnel, Frontier-Kemper’s ... More Information

Winners of the Not-a-Boring Competition 2021

The Not-a-Boring Competition happened on September 12th, 2021. We will be sharing updates on all our social media channels. Please make sure to follow us there. We would like to thank our ... More Information

Norway awards biggest ever road contract to Sotra Link consortium

The project, meant to improve travel between Bergen and the island of Sotra on the west coast, includes a 900m-long suspension bridge and 12.5km of tunnels... More Information

Silvertown Tunnel contractors prepare for tunnelling with enabling works well

The project's contractor – the Riverlinx consortium – has revealed that it is getting ready to welcome the TBM to site “so we can reassemble it here ... More Information

The Boring Company prepares Prufrock 2 for test run in Texas

In a recent drone video, Prufrock-2, The Boring Company's newest tunnel boring machine (TBM), was spotted at the tunneling startup's Bastrop, TX location... More Information

First look at Metrolinx's tunnel boring machine used on Scarborough Subway Extension

Herrenknecht crews working on the lower half of the tunnel boring machine forward shield. While Metrolinx continues work in Ontario to prepare the launch shaft ... More Information

Five firms show interest in Jalori tunnel project

Five companies have shown interest in the construction of the much-awaited Jalori tunnel on the Aut-Luhri National Highway connecting Banjar and Anni in ... More Information

Sicily/Marguerite Park Flood Alleviation Project – Phase 1

Work on this major Flooding Project commenced within the grounds of Musgrave Park in April 2021. BSG Civil Engineering Ltd. has been appointed as the main contractor for this phase, with ... More Information

Bullet Train to run through undersea tunnel to save Thane creek mangroves

NHSRCL plans to get 3 TBMs for the tunnelling process. Each of the TBMs will progress at a speed of 200-300m per month.The reason for using both techniques ... More Information

Keller Norway - Oslo Folloline Documentary

Have you always wanted to know how Keller carries out a large construction site... More Information

Dubai Municipality inspects final pre-operational stage of deep tunnel project

The water tunnel project holds an estimated contract value of $353.9m (AED1.3bn). This project is considered the first of its kind in the region to drain ... More Information

Trunk Road T2 and Cha Kwo Ling Tunnel Progress

The Trunk Road T2 and the Cha Kwo Ling(CKL) Tunnel form the middle section of Route 6. They connect the Central Kowloon Route(CKR) to the west and the main tunnel of the Tseung Kwan O –Lam ... More Information

Race on to complete HS2's Chiltern Tunnels ventilation shafts

The two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that were launched earlier this year to dig the parallel northbound and southbound tunnels have now passed under the ... More Information

Tunnels: Sustainable Solutions for Major Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

As public demands for sustainable infrastructure grows, urban leaders are taking a closer look at the economic, environmental and social benefits of underground tunnels... More Information

Register to attend Cutting Edge

Don't miss this specialized annual tunneling industry event where you have the chance to share experiences and identify mutual opportunities for growth in tunneling, an industry ... More Information

Kramertunnel - Jobsite Installation

At Kramertunnel is going on a full jobsite installation process. KERN Tunneltechnik is supplying several tunnel formworks and machines for secondary lining. The project is being delivered ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) jointly with NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Final Section ... More Information