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Turin/Lyon - The EU allocates another EUR 700 million to the cross-border section of the project

The European Commission has announced the funding distribution for projects benefiting from the third edition (2024-2027 period) of the CEF, the EU’s programme for strategic investments in ... More Information

Turin/Lyon – TELT's fifth TBM has been delivered

On February 29th, 2024  the fifth of the seven TBMs for the new Lyon-Turin railway line was delivered to the French-Italian group of companies ELYOT, consisting of Eiffage Génie civil ... More Information

Turin/Lyon - TELT's third TBM

On 27/11/ a third TBM was completed at the Herrenknecht AG plant. The TBM is 10.5 m in diameter, 2000 tonnes in weight and 180 m long. It will excavate an 8.3 km section of TELT's Turin-Lyon base ... 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

Turin/Lyon - New milestone in Avrieux

With the completion of excavation of the first 10.5 km of the even-numbered tube of the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel between Saint-Martin-la-Porte and La Praz (in the direction of Paris) - the ... More Information

Turin/Lyon - 10.5 km of the Base Tunnel completed

On the 28/04/2022 at Saint-Martin-la-Porte, in Val Maurienne, France excavation of the first 10.5 km of the Turin-Lyon base tunnel has now been completed:- click here for a video. At around 11:00 ... More Information

TELT update

Turin/Lyon - Before the end of the Summer 2018 the tenders for the French section of the base tunnel TELT will be released. The bi-national co-operation program agreed by the two European Union ... More Information

Turin/Lyon - EPSF go ahead with the preliminary safety dossier

On April 27th, the EPSF (Public Railway Safety Establishment) approved the preliminary safety file concerning the infrastructure of the cross-border section, in application of Decree 2006-1279 on ... More Information

Turin / Lyon - TBM Gea arrived in France

Turin / Lyon - TBM Gea arrived in France

The French senate has approved the bill of ratification for the start of the final phase of the Turin/Lyon tunnel project. The TBM Gea, which is building the Maddalena geognostic tunnel, has now ... More Information

Tunnelling News

Lane JV Wins Tunnel Package for Hudson River Tunnel Project Valued at $466 Million

CHARLOTTE, NC – The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has won a $466 million contract, of which Lane has a 35% share, to construct the Palisades Tunnel ... More Information

World’s biggest developers eye bids for Dublin MetroLink contracts

A consortium made up of some of the biggest infrastructure developers in the world has formed in preparation to bid for contracts to build and operate the long awaited MetroLink rail line ... More Information

The Boring Company's Prufrock-3 completes Las Vegas tunnel

The tunneling startup did not share the length of the tunnel that ... construction projects with speed and automation. This is highlighted by ... More Information

Coastal road phase 2: Mumbai's second twin tunnel to pass under rivers, mangroves

As part of phase 2 of Mumbai's Coastal Road Project, a 22.93 km high-speed corridor linking Versova with Dahisar will be created. More Information

Rock tunnel for £1.7bn Norway road scheme takes shape

The consortium responsible for the construction of a new road system in Norway has excavated approximately 500m of a new 1.9km long tunnel... More Information

Tunnel boring machine reaches halfway point on HS2's route into Birmingham

Balfour Beatty VINCI is celebrating a key milestone in the construction of HS2's gateway to Birmingham. The joint venture today (Thursday 29 ... More Information

Gateway Development Commission secures $3.8B in funding for Hudson Rail Tunnel project

The money is the final funding piece for the $16 billion project to build a new rail tunnel that will carry Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains under ... More Information

TBM Zelda starts on 6.5km Melbourne tunnel

The 4,000t machine is the first of two TBMs that will excavated a section of the project's twin road tunnels in the city's suburbs. Named after local ... More Information

Tunnels of the Future: Key Innovations and Projects at InnoTrans 2024

BBT SE, responsible for the construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel, will provide details on its ambitious project. This 55-kilometer tunnel is ... More Information

Hudson tunnel contract awarded

Webuild's Lane, ACS firms win $466 million Hudson Tunnel contract tunnels as part of the Hudson Tunnel Project in the New York City area, the Italian construction group said on Thursday. More Information

All women crew to build SRL tunnels

Crews are moving underground services and building tunnel boring machine launch sites, preparing sites for major construction. Suburban .. More Information

Officials break ground on one of world's longest underwater rail tunnels connecting 2 major cities

This tunneling project, which is part of the larger Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR corridor spanning 315.66 miles, is part of an effort to reduce the ... More Information

Severn Trent unveils huge 25m deep new storm tank to ease flooding and prevent spills

Four tunnel boring machines were used to install the new sewer pipes under the town to minimise disruption, as well as lining 1km of old brick ... More Information

Here's how downtown Toronto's first subway tunnel in over 60 years will be dug

Crews are now drilling deep into the soil around the launch shaft ... Once piling is complete and this massive pit is dug, tunnel boring machines ... More Information

LTA awards S$199M contract for Maju-Clementi rail tunnels and S$400M for Cross Island

Construction will use a slurry tunnel-boring machine due to the hard sedimentary rock in the area. LTA has assured that rigorous safety measures ... More Information

Northside Interceptor Tunnel named after local environmental advocate

The machine will be named “Elaine” after environmental advocate Elaine Marsh. A tunnel boring machine is used to excavate tunnels through hard ... More Information

Tunnelling works complete on NI Water's £7.8m wastewater upgrade at Meadow Lane

The 25-tonne Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) broke through to the new stormwater storage tank to complete this significant element of work. The new ... More Information

The longest railway tunnels in the world

The three rail tunnels have a diameter of 7.6 m, while the service tunnel has a diameter of 4.8 m. A total of 11 tunnel boring machines (TBM) dug the ... More Information

Reusing dirt and rock as we build the North East Link tunnels

As the TBMs dig underground, excavated dirt and rock is moved via an enclosed conveyor system that crosses high ... More Information

Nanjiao-Xichang section of tunnel

Guangzhou International Guangzhou International Recently, the right-line tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunnel of the Nanjiao-Xichang section (hereinafter referred to as the "Nanxi ... More Information

Fehmarn Belt Tunnel opening set for mid-2029

This reduces waste and simultaneously strengthens the supply security for the project by producing steel grids to size and on demand. Setting up for ... More Information

HRBT Expansion Project's first gantry extracted and lifted

Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine exited the tunnel and made her U-turn back in June. Work on the second tunnel will begin in September of this year... More Information

Gateway Board Forms Search Committee for CEO to Lead $16B Tunnel Project

The Gateway Development Commission, which leads the $16.1-billion Hudson Tunnel Project between New Jersey and New York, has launched a board ... More Information

Costain awarded £6.6m by Thames Water to upgrade Hertfordshire treatment sites

Costain, the infrastructure solutions company, has been awarded a contract with Thames Water to upgrade strategic treatment assets in Markyate and Brickendon in Hertfordshire... More Information

National Grid switches on first 2.5km circuit of £1bn London Power Tunnels 2

The LPT2 project has seen 32.5km of new tunnels bored under the capital city between Wimbledon and Crayford to host a new high voltage 275kV network. The 3m diameter tunnels were bored by ... More Information

_Goregaon-Mulund Link Road Nears Completion, Set To Cut Travel Time To 25 Minutes

The tunnels, which will be excavated using a tunnel boring machine with a diameter of approximately 14.2 metres, will be equipped with lighting ... More Information

Snowy 2.0 Tunnel Boring Machines Update

The Snowy 2.0 project continues to make significant strides with its Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) advancing the construction of critical ... More Information

Vancouver's Broadway subway tunnel boring equipment arrivin

The tunnels will serve all six stations of the Millennium Line SkyTrain extension project, from Great Northern Way to Arbutus Street. Each boring ... More Information

IN MEMORIAM - OLIVIER VION (1962-2024)

Through the past decades, the energy and foresight to lead the management of the ITA International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association has been in the hands of Olivier Vion, a man ... More Information

Amtrak awards construction contract for East River Tunnel rehabilitation

The $1.6 billion project calls for demolishing all existing tunnel systems down to the liner, then restoring both tubes. During the project, one tube ... More Information

Strabag in €110 million deal to equip transalpine tunnel

Austrian contractor Strabag has won a €110 million (US$120 million) to equip a transalpine tunnel linking Austria and Slovenia... More Information

19 tunnel boring machines for Manila subway set

A close-up of the tunnel boring machine head, with a diameter of 6.9 meters. ... The first cutter head of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM), named ... More Information

$16 billion Gateway Tunnel Project gets federal funding boost after years of delays

The $16.1 billion project includes a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey — and is set to be open by 2035 ... More Information

Preferred bidder announced for second tunnelling contract

The global consortium of WeBuild S.p.A, GS Engineering and Construction Australia and Bouygues Construction ... Tunnel Project, North East Link ... More Information

Bechtel Picked as CM for $12.7B Single-bore BART Extension

Officials with the VTA are aiming to begin major construction and tunnelling for the $12.7-billion BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Project next ... More Information

Stonehenge could be put on world heritage danger list over tunnel plan

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has recommended that Stonehenge be listed as ‘World Heritage in Danger’ due to the A303 upgrade scheme and is ... More Information

World’s longest railway tunnel to reopen after a year

The tunnel closed on 10th August last year following the derailment of a freight train, and SBB has since been pushing ahead with repair work... More Information

Afcons Infrastructure Wins Bid for Thane Tunnel Project

Afcons Infrastructure secures the L1 bid for a tunnel project in Thane, marking a significant milestone in infrastructure development. More Information

Kolkata Metro: D-Wall's Construction Work At Victoria Metro Station Is Advancing Swiftly

For the tunnelling work of the stretch from the Khidderpore to Park Street stretch of this Corridor, two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) will be deployed ... More Information