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Recovery lessons (3)

Recovery lessons (3)Today, 28.04.2009, we are publishing the first tunnelling bid that has resulted directly from the measures announced by various governments to bring forward infrastructure ... More Information

Recovery lessons (2)

Recovery lessons (2)Improving road and tunnel safety in Italy The White Paper on transport policy in Italy requires a halving of road victims by 2010, as a result of which the automobile club ACI ... More Information

Work resumes on Cesana tunnel

Work resumes on Cesana tunnelItalian road agency ANAS has approved the technical variations needed to resume work at the 1,840 m-long Cesana tunnel on the SS 24 at Monginevro, in Turin province. ... More Information

Robit Rocktools at Intermat

Robit Rocktools at IntermatFinnish rock and ground tool supplier Robit is exhibiting the first models in its new NS casing advance system at this week's Intermat exhibition in Paris. NS stands for ... More Information

New factory and new products for Ilmeg

New factory and new products for IlmegIlmeg Products AB, the Swedish manufacturer of dust control systems for the rock excavation industry, has built a new factory to produce the newly developed ... More Information

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers to sell hard rock TBM in unreserved Los Angeles auction

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers to sell hard rock TBM in unreserved Los Angeles auctionRitchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world's largest industrial auctioneer, is selling a single shield 450 ft-long, hard ... More Information

Recovery lessons (1)

Recovery lessons (1)Colombia to host technical seminar on tunnels The Colombian Government has approved the financing of more than 70 km of new tunnels, closing gaps in the national highway network ... More Information

IPS and Albert Lederer join forces

IPS and Albert Lederer join forcesIPS has signed a cooperation agreement for tunnelling activities with Albert Lederer of EF Consult Asia PTE Ltd to bring closer together two professional companies ... More Information

Innovative tunnelling solutions from Design & Technic in Singapore

Innovative tunnelling solutions from Design & Technic in SingaporeDesign & Technic is an independent engineering, consulting and marketing partner based in Singapore. Partners include ... More Information

Rutherford for temporary electrical equipment and cables

Rutherford for temporary electrical equipment and cablesBased in New South Wales, Australia, and with strategically located companies in Italy and Singapore, Rutherford Power is well placed to ... More Information

Seville metro operational

Seville metro operational Line 1 of Seville metro opened on 02.04.2009 with 17 of 22 stations operating, from Ciudad Expo in Mairena del Aljarafe to Condequinto station at Dos Hermanas. For ... More Information

Breakthrough in New Zealand

Breakthrough in New ZealandMcConnell Dowell & Fletcher Construction JV has reported early completion of the 2,953 m-long TBM drive for the Orakei Main Sewer Hobson Diversion (OMSHD), some 17 ... More Information

VMT expands in Australia

VMT expands in AustraliaDuring the last two years, Australia has grown into one of the key markets for VMT GmbH worldwide. Huge infrastructure projects, such as the North-South Bypass Tunnel or the ... More Information

New hydro project for Bosnia Herzegovina

New hydro project for Bosnia HerzegovinaDMT, a provider of technology services based in Essen, Germany is contributing to the feasibility study for a new hydroelectric plant near Vrelo in Bosnia ... More Information

Recession lessons (12)

Recession lessons (12)On 21.05.2006 the people of Montenegro voted for independence from Serbia, and the country is now a sovereign state and member of the UN, with EU candidate status expected this ... More Information

World Tunnel Congress in Budapest

World Tunnel Congress in BudapestThe next ITA World Tunnel Congress (WTC 09), entitled Underground Space and Tunnelling: Planning with Vision, will be organized by the Hungarian Tunnelling ... More Information

Brenner base tunnel moves ahead

Brenner base tunnel moves aheadAt talks held at the EU in Brussels last week, EU transport commissioner Antonio Tajani, Austrian transport minister Doris Bures, Italian transport minister Altero ... More Information

Recession lessons (11)

Recession lessons (11)"The international economic stimulus packages are creating unprecedented opportunities for the tunnelling profession. Engineers understand the risks, understand the realities, ... More Information

Turin metro reaches Dante station

Turin metro reaches Dante stationAt Turin metro, during the period 07.10.2008 to 12.03.2009, TBM Caterina completed excavation of the tunnel from Marconi station to Nizza station, and the 500 m-long ... More Information

Perschling chain breakthrough by Herrenknecht TBM

Perschling chain breakthrough by Herrenknecht TBMOn 11.03.2009, after meeting serious challenges during the construction phase, the Herrenknecht S-319 12,980 mm-diameter, 3,200 Kw single shield TBM ... More Information

Schlüchterner breakthrough by Wirth-NFM TBM

Schlüchterner breakthrough by Wirth-NFM TBMOn 19.03.2009, after nearly 23 months of intensive construction work, the 4 km-long Schluechterner tunnel on the Fulda-Frankfurt/Main railway achieved ... More Information

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com1st April, 1999. The Internet bubble had popped, first generation dot.com companies had gone bust, and magazines were looking sick. Recession was the name ... More Information

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com

Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com1st April, 1999. The Internet bubble had popped, first generation dot.com companies had gone bust, and magazines were looking sick. Recession was the name ... More Information

tunnelbuilder - meet the team

tunnelbuilder - meet the teamWhether you speak English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Welsh, or most other languages, we will understand you. Our people in London, Madrid, Milan, Las ... More Information

Recruitment services in Toronto

Recruitment services in TorontoKevin Browning, Managing Director of International Tunnelling Services, is attending the 27th annual International No-Dig Show at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, ... More Information

Epping-Chatswood tunnel cracks

Epping-Chatswood tunnel cracks The New South Wales Government in Australia is undertaking electronic monitoring of the EUR1.2 billion Epping to Chatswood railway line after cracks appeared in the ... More Information

India - Robbins EPB surpasses records on New Delhi metro

India - Robbins EPB surpasses records on New Delhi metroIn February, 2009 one of two 6.52 m diameter Robbins EPBs boring India's New Delhi Metro achieved a weekly advance rate of 168 rings, or 202 ... More Information

Nororiente Motorway opened in Santiago, Chile

Nororiente Motorway opened in Santiago, ChileOn 9th March, 2009 Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, and Luis del Rivero, Chairman of Sacyr Vallehermoso, opened the 21.5 km-long Nororiente ... More Information

NCE Crossrail Conference

NCE Crossrail ConferenceWill be held on Tuesday 31st March 2009 at the Hotel Russell, London W1The conference explores an expansive range of topics from design to procurement, construction to ... More Information

Rock mechanics, stability and design of tunnels and slopes

Rock mechanics, stability and design of tunnels and slopesProf. Dr.-Ing. Walter Wittke and Dr.-Ing. Bettina Wittke-Schmitt will host the 6th annual WBI-International short course from 26.11.2009 to ... More Information

International Symposium for Shanghai

International Symposium for ShanghaiThe fourth annual symposium on tunnelling, entitled Safety and Environmental Friendliness in Tunnel and Underground Works, is scheduled for Shanghai from October ... More Information

New concept tunneljobs.com relaunched

New concept tunneljobs.com relaunchedtunnelbuilder has relaunched its tunneljobs.com website, accessible through the Jobs button in the toolbar at the top of this page. tunneljobs.com has been ... More Information

RETC 2009 to be bigger, better than ever before

RETC 2009 to be bigger, better than ever beforeFrom ABC to ZED, more than 100 exhibitors are already signed up to RETC 2009, which takes place June 14-17 at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. A fair ... More Information

Figueres tunnel excavation underway

Figueres tunnel excavation underwayWork has started on the 1.75 km-long Figueres tunnel on the 7.48 km-long Borrassa-Figueres section of the Madrid-Barcelona-French Border high-speed railway line. ... More Information

High speed from Madrid to the Atlantic

High speed from Madrid to the AtlanticThe 87.1 km-long section from Ourense to Santiago de Compostela on the Madrid-Galicia electrified high-speed line is European standard, double track. It passes ... More Information

Abu Dhabi by 2030

Abu Dhabi by 2030The Capital City District, currently under planning for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the UAE, will house 350,000 people and provide 150,000 jobs. An integrated, high capacity transit ... More Information

Tunnelling News

NHAI connects Tunnel No. 4 on Shimla bypass

NHAI PIU Shimla Project Director Anand Kumar, Bharat Construction ... The tunnel was constructed using the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM) ... More Information

Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Update: Palghar Tunnel Breakthrough Achieved

NHSRCL Bullet Train Project | India First Bullet Train Update: Last year, the Ministry of Railways achieved a breakthrough in the construction of ... More Information

Main tunnel works connecting future Changi Airport T5 to existing T2 completed

Main tunnel works connecting the future Terminal 5 to the existing Terminal 2 are completed, as the Changi East development gathers pace... More Information

Testing completed on Hudson River Tunnel boring machines

The project calls for construction of 9 miles of passenger-rail track between New York ... More Information

World's longest motorway tunnel finally opens in £3BILLION project

The Tianshan Shengli (Victory) Tunnel, located in the Tianshan Mountains of Xinjiang, China, measures some 22 kilometres – roughly 13.75 miles – and ... More Information

Cross-river tunnel of Nanjing Metro Line 4 Phase II completes tunneling

This photo taken on Dec. 27, 2025 shows the rear of the "Xinzhengcheng" tunnel boring machine at the construction site of Nanjing Metro Line 4 ... More Information

Tunnels Design and Construction Market is Going to Boom

HTF Market Intelligence projects that the global Tunnels Design and Construction market will expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.80% from 2025 to 2032, from 72 Billion in ... More Information

Longest tunnel in the world costing £7billion will connect 3 European cities

The Brenner Base Tunnel is currently under construction and will connect the countries of Austria and Italy. The impressive tunnel, which is set ... More Information

Georgian Officials Mark Completion of Railway Modernization, Hoping to Boost Transit

The works also included the construction of the 8,300-meter dual-tube tunnel near Kvishkheti, 10 bridges, six tunnels, and around 100 engineering ... More Information

Israeli municipality approves budget for new tunnel project south of Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Governorate said that the project aims to connect the Har Homa settlement, built on Jabal Abu Ghneim land, to the Begin bypass road near ... More Information

Megaprojects Under Construction Around World In 2026

Described as the largest road tunnel in the U.K., the Lower Thames Crossing will link Tilbury in Essex via a tunnel underneath the Thames with ... More Information

Delhi Metro expansion: Cabinet approved Rs 12,015 crore project

The project, planned over a construction timeline of three years, will be executed largely underground using tunnel boring machines to minimise ... More Information

World's Longest Expressway Tunnel to Open, Linking North and South Xinjiang

Engineers used innovative methods and specially designed machines called tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to dig through hard rock faster and safer than ... More Information

The huge £21bn mega-tunnel that goes right through the middle of a mountain

Huge boring machines will create a 57.5km (35.7mile) tunnel through the Alps to connect French and Italian high-speed rail networks and link Lyon ... More Information

Rome digs deep for railway that burrows beneath the Colosseum

Tunnellers used lasers to check whether ancient columns at the nearby Forum were not wobbling as their 300ft long tunnel boring machine churned ... More Information

World’s largest-diameter high-speed railway shield tunneling machine reaches milestone

The world's largest-diameter high-speed railway shield tunneling machine independently developed by China, “Linghang,” for the Chongming-Taizhou ... More Information

Third circuit on £1bn London Power Tunnels 2 project energised

Electricity has begun flowing through a new section of National Grid's London Power Tunnels 2 (LPT2) project after the energisation of a ... More Information

Westmead metro station cavern formwork the biggest in the southern hemisphere

Crews are now retrieving the 1,200-tonne Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that arrived beneath Westmead in September and October, lifting each machine ... More Information

Webuild: excavation begins on three tunnels for Salerno-Reggio Calabria HS/HC Railway

All four TBMs planned for Lot 1A Battipaglia–Romagnano section are operational with launch of latest three Joining TBM Partenope, already active, are Leucosia and Ligea, whose names were ... More Information

SELI Overseas: 75 Years of Tunneling with TBMs

From Channel Tunnel to the Brenner Tunnel: When Tunneling Is Synonymous with Innovation ... SELI TBM at work on the construction site... More Information

Road realignment is major step for HS2, says firm

HS2 Ltd A view of the realigned B4525 on an overcast day. · HS2 Ltd An aerial view of the construction of Greatworth tunnel showing major earthworks ... More Information

Amtrak has made real progress in East River Tunnel rehabilitation

The tunnel has been stripped down to the concrete liner. Westbrook was told the project isn't just about modernizing and replacing what was, but also ... More Information

Madrid invests EUR 123 million in new metro stations on Line 11

TBM Mayrit enters into action in 2026 · November 2025 – February 2026: assembly of the tunnel boring machine in Comillas Park (Carabanchel district) ... Facebook Twitter Flag as ... More Information

Jerusalem Light Rail Construction Advances Ahead of Major Tunnel Work

Local reporting on city project materials notes that “the plan calls for a 2-km underground tunnel to be built beneath the city center, including ... More Information

Why and how the Civil Works Alliance changed Sizewell C tunnel designs from Hinkley Point C

Ground conditions around Sizewell C have required intense collaboration between the project’s contractors alliance to come up with new outfall and intake tunnel design solutions... More Information

AI planning of the first railway tunnel through challenging terrain

AI plans first rail tunnel through tough terrain. Artificial Intelligence China Uses AI for the Construction of Railway Tunnels. 2025-12-08 ... More Information

Will Tunneling Projects Be The Next Big Thing For Mumbai's Public Transport?

During the interview, she also called tunnel boring machines the safest and one of the most efficient ways of doing tunelling. "Only the place of the ... More Information

Chipolbrok vessels deliver tunnel boring machines to Sydney and mineral bulk to Peru

Chipolbrok delivers TBMs for Sydney Metro on Chipolbrok Star and loads 29000t minerals in Peru on Taixing, showcasing fleet versatility... More Information

How Seequent's software solutions help to manage tunnelling data

The second phase of Singapore's Cross Island Line (CRL) metro project is under way, assisted by a suite of software from Seequent. Singapore's CRL is ... More Information

Muography to Transform Tunnel Safety Monitoring

Underwater bridge tunnels have become vital arteries for cities, enabling smooth vehicular passage beneath rivers, bays, and inland waterways. More than 200 of these structures operate ... More Information

10 longest tunnels in the world that reshaped global transportation

Modern tunnel construction involves sophisticated techniques, including tunnel boring machines and advanced geological surveying. The project ... More Information

Čučković: Construction of the tunnel boring machine for the Belgrade Metro in final phase

It is a good thing that we, for example, acquired these tunnel boring machines at a lower price than other countries... More Information

Serbia plans to borrow 2.5 billion EUR in 2026 for the construction of the Belgrade metro

It is also stated that two TBMs (tunnel boring machines), the so-called moles, have already been ordered and are expected to be delivered to ... More Information

VSM starts operation at Tilbury

The pioneering Vertical Shaft Sinking Machine (VSM) from Herrenknecht, named “Verena”, after Verena Holmes, a pioneering British mechanical ... More Information

Metrolinx reveals names of Ontario Line tunnel boring machines

Following a contest, Metrolinx has officially named its two massive tunnel boring machines Libby and Corkie... More Information

Montreal blue line metro tunnel boring machine has arrived, time to dig

It's basically building the backbone of the blue line extension,” said project chief Maha Clour, pointing out that crews have reached the bottom of ... More Information

Norway Unveils The World's Longest Road Tunnel In A Majestic Engineering Marvel

The construction cost broke down to about 38,000 NOK (roughly £3,500) per meter, an impressive figure considering the complexity and scale of the ... More Information

Sydney Metro West construction captured on video ahead of 2032 opening

Two giant tunnel boring machines have made their way through the deepest section of Darling Harbour as part of works on the new Metro West. More Information

Bengaluru's ₹18,000-crore tunnel road project inches closer as four major firms submit bids

Four firms bid for Bengaluru's ₹18000 crore tunnel project linking Hebbal to Silk Board, expected to ease city traffic by 2029 under a 34-year ... More Information