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Experienced TBM Operators and TBM Electricians urgently required

Experienced TBM Operators and TBM Electricians urgently required IPS is seeking experienced TBM Operators and TBM electricians for new contracts in Europe, starting as soon as possible. Contact ... More Information

Global Tunnel Conference-China 2010

Global Tunnel Conference-China 2010November 17-18 sees the Global Tunnel Conference-China event revisiting Beijing. The conference theme is based on new technologies, new equipment and new methods ... More Information

ES Rubber Industries for tailor-made sealing solutions

ES Rubber Industries for tailor-made sealing solutions ES Rubber offers the tunnelling industry tailor-made gasket solutions adjusted to specific projects. Together with Dr Werner Grabe with more ... More Information

Singapore Downtown alignment fixed

Singapore Downtown alignment fixedThe alignment of the third stage of the Downtown line connecting eastern suburbs of Singapore to Marina Bay has been revealed as 2 km longer than expected. The new ... More Information

Atkins to acquire PBSJ Corporation

Atkins to acquire PBSJ CorporationWS Atkins, the 11th largest design firm in the world, is to acquire PBSJ Corporation in an all-cash transaction, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals. ... More Information

2010 TBM conference in London

2010 TBM conference in LondonThe TBM conference takes place on 28-29th October, 2010 at One Great George Street in the centre of London. An international team of prominent experts will discuss ... More Information

Crossrail qualification shortlists announced

Crossrail qualification shortlists announcedFor Contract 315, Connaught Tunnel, Crossrail has short-listed Vinci Construction, Hochtief-Murphy JV, BAM Nuttall, and VolkerFitzpatrick Barhale JV. For ... More Information

Thu Thiem immersed section complete

Thu Thiem immersed section completeObayashi has completed the immersed tube section of the 1.49 km-long Thu Thiem tunnel beneath the Saigon river on the east-west highway in Ho Chi Minh City. Each ... More Information

Chile mine rescue hole underway

Chile mine rescue hole underwayA Strata 950 raise borer capable of reaming up to 6 m-diameter holes over lengths of up to 1 km is drilling a 38 cm-diameter pilot hole some 702 m to a safe holing ... More Information

Melbourne desalination ant tunnels underway

Melbourne desalination plant tunnels underwayTwo Herrenknecht 4.8 m-diameter TBMs equipped with VMT guidance systems are at work on the fourth, and largest, desalination plant to be built in ... More Information

Normet global spares depot opens in Netherlands

Normet global spares depot opens in NetherlandsNormet Life Time Care has opened its global distribution centre for spare parts in Maarssen, The Netherlands with the objective of speeding deliveries ... More Information

City of Austin pre-bid meeting

City of Austin pre-bid meetingAll companies interested in bidding on the Waller Creek flood control tunnel and shafts project are invited to attend a vendor conference at 10.30h on 22.09.2010 in ... More Information

Shetlands tunnel manager appointment

Shetlands tunnel manager appointmentThe Shetland Islands Council in the north of Scotland is appointing a senior manager to oversee plans for four subsea tunnels over the next 20 years. The islands ... More Information

Sruwaddacon Bay tunnel alignment moved

Sruwaddacon Bay tunnel alignment movedShell has realigned the route of the proposed Corrib gas pipeline in County Mayo in order to avoid homes in the locality, and will reduce the gas pressure in ... More Information

Thames Water invites qualification

Thames Water invites qualificationThames Water Utilities Ltd is inviting organizations to qualify for its UK construction, operational and service registers, which form the basis for contract awards ... More Information

Tunnel Design & Construction comes to Switzerland

Tunnel Design & Construction comes to SwitzerlandThe inaugural Tunnel Design & Construction Europe conference tales place at the Crowne Plaza Zurich on October 25-28, 2010 following ... More Information

Catalogue of notable tunnel failures

Catalogue of notable tunnel failuresThe Civil Engineering and Development Department of Hong Kong SAR has updated its comprehensive catalogue of reported tunnel failures between 1964 and end-2008. ... More Information

Rosedale outfall commissioned

Rosedale outfall commissionedMcConnell Dowell contractors have commissioned the 3 km-long wastewater tunnel from Rosedale WWT plant to Wairangi Bay in Auckland, NZ. The 3.3 m-diameter Lovat RME131SE ... More Information

TBM tunnelling underway at Brisbane Airport Link

TBM tunnelling underway at Brisbane Airport LinkBoth Herrenknecht 12.45 m-diameter EPBs are now underway at the Airport Link tunnels in Brisbane, Australia. Starting from Clayfield in a westerly ... More Information

Bangalore Metro Rail tunnelling to start soon

Bangalore Metro Rail tunnelling to start soonWork has started on ramps and utilities diversion for the 3.4 km-long East-West underground section of Metro Rail alignment from MG Road to the Leprosy ... More Information

Self compacting concrete moulds from CBE

Self compacting concrete moulds from CBECBE Group has developed a unique method of segment production without vibration. During casting, the mould is inclined and self compacting concrete is ... More Information

CBE sponsors tunnelbuilder.com

CBE sponsors tunnelbuilder.comFrench group CBE, led by engineer Didier Lefebvre since 2005, has grown to208 employees at two major locations in Saint Avertin and L’Ile Bouchard, serving 30 ... More Information

Hindhead tunnel drivethrough

Hindhead tunnel drivethroughTen years after being let as a design/build contract, the 1.6 km-long twin tube A3 Hindhead tunnel in southeast England is set to open in summer, 2011. A ministerial ... More Information

Irish Rail names DART shortlist

Irish Rail names DART shortlistPrequalified construction consortia for Dublin's EUR2.5 billion DART underground railway have been named as BBI (Balfour Beatty Capital, BAM PPP Investments Ireland, ... More Information

EuroTAP reports on safety compliance failures in road tunnels

EuroTAP reports on safety compliance failures in road tunnelsRecent inspection of 26 tunnels in 13 countries under the European Tunnel Assessment Programme has revealed that almost 40% missed the ... More Information

Boomer arrives in style

Boomer arrives in styleRefurbishment of the Linth-Limmern hydro station is setting new standards in equipment design and delivery. Construction will take 250 workers nearly five years to complete ... More Information

International tunnel forum at InnoTrans 2010

International tunnel forum at InnoTrans 2010The international tunnel forum takes place 22-23 September, 2010 at InnoTrans, the transport technology meeting in Messe Muenchen, parallel with product ... More Information

Recovery Act funds Doyle Drive replacement

Recovery Act funds Doyle Drive replacementExcavation started this week on the first of four tunnels forming part of the Doyle Drive Replacement Project on the southwest connection to the Golden Gate ... More Information

Aker Wirth inclined TBM for Switzerland

Aker Wirth inclined TBM for SwitzerlandThe Limmern access tunnel at Tierfehd in the Swiss canton of Glarus has a diameter of 8.03 m and will rise at a constant gradient of 24% from 800 m ASL to ... More Information

Limerick tunnel opens to traffic

Limerick tunnel opens to trafficThe Limerick southern bypass is now complete, and opened to traffic last week when the 900 m-long immersed tube tunnel beneath the River Shannon was inaugurated. The ... More Information

More Google translations for tunnelbuilder

More Google translations for tunnelbuilderSpanish, Italian and Chinese have been added to our range of Google translations of tunnelbuilder.com and Newsfeed, making a total of 10 languages now ... More Information

Putzmeister worldwide market presence

Putzmeister worldwide market presencePutzmeister supplies the construction, mining and tunnelling industries with concrete, mortar and solids pumps and high-pressure cleaners in systems developed, ... More Information

Toronto opts for foot tunnel to airport

Toronto opts for foot tunnel to airportToronto Port Authority will start work in 2011 on the EUR33.5 million pedestrian tunnel beneath the Western Channel linking the Western Gap ferry docks at the ... More Information

New Robbins support system working at Qinling

New Robbins support system working at QinlingThe 16.6 km-long West Qinling rail tunnels will pass nearly 1.5 km beneath the mountain peaks, necessitating a complete rethink of the TBM support ... More Information

Happy holidays to all our readers!

Happy holidays to all our readers!All at tunnelbuilder wish you a great holiday! This year, more than ever, you have earned it! The industry has survived the recession in great shape, a tribute to ... More Information

Swedvent introduces new quiet fans

Swedvent introduces new quiet fansA new generation of Swedvent ventilation fans and ducting for tunnel construction has been announced by the Swedish manufacturer. Design changes have resulted in ... More Information

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Immersion of Fehmarnbelt tunnel elements to start soon, after vessel passes tests

The Fehmarnbelt project is one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects but is running around two years behind schedule after “challenges” with the ... More Information

Betty has made it out of the tunnel six weeks later

Betty the tunnel boring machine has re-emerged from a tunnel at Kirkham as part of a £5.5m project... More Information

China's $47 billion railway into Tibet needs a tunnel borer so powerful it does not yet exist

Now, a purpose-built tunnel boring machine must conquer the Himalayas to complete the most extreme railway project on Earth... More Information

TBM launched for metro Line 11 extension in Madrid

TUNNELLING work is underway on the project to extend Line 11 of the Madrid Metro network, with the launch of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that ... More Information

TBM cutterhead lift and tunnelling risks for engineers

South Australia's $15.4 billion River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) project has installed the first of three 300‑tonne tunnel boring machine ... More Information

DP World Drives Canada's Infrastructure Build

The terminal handled the arrival and offload of a custom-built Herrenknecht Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunnel boring machine from Germany – weighing ... More Information

LA Metro approves route of K Line northern extension project to Hollywood

The analysis found that modern tunneling techniques are safe with pre-construction studies, use of advanced tunnel-boring machines, mitigations and ... More Information

Here's when first massive boring machine will start carving tunnel between New York, New Jersey

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A massive tunnel boring machine is preparing to carve a tunnel between New York and New Jersey after President Donald Trump ... More Information

Beyond the horizontal: how a next-generation TBM conquered Pingjiang's inclined shaft

A variable diameter inclined shaft tunnel boring machine has completed a landmark breakthrough on China's Pingjiang pumped storage hydropower ... More Information

CMRL begins tunnelling for Thiruvanmiyur-Indira Nagar section in phase-II metro rail project

Tunnelling through hard rocks in the 650-metre stretch may take nearly six months, officials say ... More Information

AKTOR’s Tunnels on Brașov–Sighișoara Line, among the most complex in Europe

A railway infrastructure project unfolding in the heart of Transylvania has been ranked, according to an independent comparative analysis, among the most complex and ambitious railway ... More Information

Tunnel-boring machines “Victoria” and “Natali”

The tunnel-boring complexes worked in tandem on the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya Line. The tunnel-boring machine complexes (TBMs) “Natali” and “Victoria,” ... More Information

Elon Musk's Boring Company plans mile-long tunnel in Dallas connecting to DART station

The Boring Company is developing a proposed mile-long tunnel in Dallas' University Hills that would link a town center to a nearby DART station, ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project marks major 2026 construction progress on both sides of the river

Work on the Hudson Tunnel Project in North Bergen is continuing to advance through several major construction steps reached so far this year... More Information

HS2 Ordered to Slash Costs and Construction Time in Major Government Reset

The Transport Secretary has instructed HS2 Ltd to identify options that could cut billions from the project’s cost and bring trains into service sooner, as the government pushes for a ... More Information

SRL East TBMs arrive in Burwood

Two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have arrived in Melbourne ready for tunnelling of Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East to start this year. The TBMs ... More Information

$100 Million Allocated for Ft. Laramie Canal Tunnel Project

Laramie Canal Tunnel Project. The Department of the Interior announced the funding Tuesday as part of the $889 million for water infrastructure ... More Information

What are the benefits of using tunnel boring machines in infrastructure projects?

Ask NCE has been updated to Answers 3.0, allowing you to ask civil engineering-focused questions and receive clear, practical responses such as ... More Information

Minsk Metro, together with "Alesya," will start digging with "Mariya."

It was noted on a transport forum that parts of a second tunnel boring machine (TBM) for laying tunnels began to be brought to one of the construction sites of the third metro line... More Information

TBM for Lyon-Turin project unveiled

The first of two tunnel boring machines for the Italian section of the 57.5km Mont Cenis Base Tunnel has been unveiled... More Information

NFR achieves breakthrough in Tunnel No 8 of Sivok–Rangpo railway project

Tunnel No. 8 is one of the major tunnels of the project with a total length of 4.148 km and an additional adit measuring 1.010 km. The excavation and ... More Information

Suburban Rail Loop hits tunnelling milestone as eight TBMs arrive on site

The Suburban Rail Loop has reached a major construction milestone, with eight tunnel boring machines now on site ahead of tunnelling later this year... More Information

$16bn Hudson Tunnel project could pause again 'in two to three months'

Components of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will be used for the Palisades Tunnel Project arrived at ... More Information

Hinkley Point C | TBM readied for 620m long fish return tunnel

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will excavate the fish return tunnel has been christened Sarah Guppy by local schoolchildren, in tribute to ... More Information

Bhopal Metro's Orange Line Tunnelling Begins

The Bhopal Metro project has recently reached an important milestone as tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have been positioned to begin digging work on ... More Information

A Chinese team rescued a $50M tunnel machine stuck 177 feet underground

Chinese engineers have pulled off a stunning rescue, saving a tunnel boring machine (TBM) stuck 177 feet underground beneath the Yangtze River. More Information

Fort Smith named finalist in Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnel challenge

The company selected Fort Smith's proposal from 487 applicants. The company says the winning project will receive construction of a one-mile tunnel ... More Information

Bengaluru: Four infrastructure firms bid for Hebbal short tunnel

Bengaluru infrastructure: Four firms, including Dilip Buildcon and Max Infra, bid for BDA's Rs 1086 crore Hebbal short tunnel project... More Information

TBM readied for Montreal's Blue Line extension

A custom-made 9.7m-diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been assembled and lowered ready to excavate the tube from the future Vertières stop to ... More Information

$11.5B Brenner Base Tunnel Nears End of TBM Excavation

With TBMs Olga and Wilma closing in, the 55-km rail project shifts from excavation to systems integration ahead of its planned 2028 opening beneath ... More Information

$6.75 Billion Unlocked for Turkey's Bosphorus Rail Project

Multiple Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will need to be mobilized to carve out the subterranean corridors leading up to ... More Information

Tunneling for Nashville's underground Tesla project has begun

The Boring Company said that the first three weeks of the project will consist of the Prufrock-MB1, a machine that will help carve out the tunnel, ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project construction resumes

I look forward to celebrating the launch of our tunnel boring machines through the Palisades once GDC has assurance it will receive the steady flow ... More Information

Lower Thames Crossing

British suppliers could meet 90% of low carbon steel requirements. The proposed machine would be 16.4m in diameter, large enough to create a three‑lane tunnel bore, and is intended to dig ... More Information

Inside the Tunnel Boring Machine, Southampton Link Main project

A six-tonne tunnel boring machine is digging deep below the ground in Hampshire to help keep the county's taps and rivers flowing... More Information

TBM maestro inspects sites ahead of massive tunnel drive

The first machine components have arrived for the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be deployed on the Suburban Connect sites in Melbourne. More Information

Metrolinx provides major updates on subway and LRT projects across the GTA

Tunnel boring is advancing on multiple projects, with Scarborough's TBM ... Metrolinx says “Diggy Scardust,” the project's tunnel boring machine, is now ... More Information

Work in Progress: High-tech TBMs ready to carve underground corridor

The Bhopal Metro Rail Project is transitioning into its most challenging and sophisticated phase as two state-of-the-art Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) ... More Information

Sarens helps extract TBM at BC water supply project

The Annacis Water Supply Tunnel Project aims to increase the reliability and capacity of the water supply system in New Westminster, British Columbia. When complete, the tunnel will ... More Information