On April 26, TBM Elsie arrived at Arbutus Station and completed her journey from the future station Great Northern Way-Emily Carr for the Broadway subway project in Vancouver. Click here and ca/38 ...
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On April 19, another two TBMs - TBM#4 code DZ1379 and TBM#5 code DZ1380 - that will excavate Lot 3 Lercara - Caltanissetta Xirbi, in Sicily, successfully completed the FAT test in ...
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Press release - One of two twin tunnel boring machines digging the western underground segment of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension has broken through the final ...
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On 20/04/2024 the TBM Cora Coralina which is building the 7.3 km tunnels for the metro Line 2-Green extension in Sao Paulo has reached the VSE Coxim shaft. The shaft is an intermediate shaft for ...
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On 17th April 2024 TBM Mary broke through the headwall on the North Island at Hampton, completing the first of the two road tunnels for the USD 4bn HRBT expansion project in Virginia. ...
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On 15 April the Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal switched on the electric control for the breakthrough of the 2,688 m Nagdhunga tunnel connecting Sisnekhola of Dhading to Totipakha of ...
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Sydney Metro West is gearing up to build Sydney’s second under-harbour railway crossing with the final TBMs arriving on site. The two TBMs will carve out the 2.3-km twin tunnels from The Bays, ...
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On April 8th, 2024 construction of the new HS2 line has hit another major milestone with the launch of the fourth – and final – machine being used to build the Northolt tunnel, length ...
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The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension project at Toronto has hit two major milestones - Rexy, one of the TBMs has completed 6 kms of tunnelling so far. The other TBM, Renny, has completed just over ...
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Hiwa-i-te Rangi TBM has reached the 10-km mark after leaving a site next to Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant in August 2021, as she heads to Pt Erin, Herne Bay to build the 16.2-km Central ...
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TERRATEC has delivered a 3.14m Rock EPB TBM for the Mumbai Sewer Disposal Project (MSDP) Stage-II – PST2 in Mumbai, India by J Kumar and Michigan Engineers Private Ltd. (MEPL) Joint Venture ...
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On 27 March 2024, Adif AV completed excavation of the Monte Plano tunnel (1.9 km) on the Olite-Tafalla South section (7.6 km) of the high-speed rail corridor in Navarra. The tunnel - built using the ...
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Work to build the Thames Tideway Tunnel - the London’s super sewer - including its tunnels and shafts, is now fully complete following the lifting of a giant, 24m-wide circular concrete ...
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TBM Phyllis arrived at Cypress Street near the future Arbutus Station on March 20, completing her journey from the tunnel portal at the future Great Northern Way-Emily Carr Station. TBM Elsie is ...
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VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Project is excited to announce the launch of its Official TBM Naming Contest for the machine that will bore the 8.05 km (5-mile tunnel) portion of ...
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Cecilia, the second 2000 t TBM, reached northern portal of 16.09 km (10 mile) high-speed rail tunnel under Chiltern Hills completing a journey that began in June 2021: click here for the ...
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The Australian and NSW Governments are funding the EUR1.4 bn (AUD2.2 bn), 14-km Coffs Harbour bypass project in New South Wales (Australia).
The Coffs Harbour bypass project includes the following ...
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The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the expansion of the Länsisatama Oy harbour in Helsinki and the harbour tunnel has been completed.
The expansion of the western harbour and ...
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The TBM EPB - 9.28 m diameter – which will be involved in the excavation of the new Palermo-Catania railway Lot 4A (Caltanissetta Xirbi - Enna section) passed its FAT at the Changsha ...
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Press Release - Catellan's Marguerite TBM delivered - On 29 February, Catellan's Marguerite, the third TBM of Line C of the Toulouse metro, was delivered. The first parts will reach the construction ...
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The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi approved two new corridors - 20.762 km totally - of Delhi Metro's Phase-IV project which are expected to further improve the Metro ...
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On February 7, a significant breakthrough was achieved at the construction site of the Bang Pakong-south Bangkok power plant gas transmission pipeline project in Thailand. The first section of the ...
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The Broadway Subway Project Corporation (BSPC) is extending the Millennium Line from VCC Clark Station to Arbutus Street. The Project scope includes 700m of elevated guideway extending west from the ...
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TBMs Catherine and Marlene are halfway to St Marys after each building 2.4 km of tunnel for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport project. They broke through at the Claremont Meadows ...
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Press release - The first service tunnel to connect the 24-km Metro West line to a new stabling and maintenance facility at Clyde has been completed, ticking off another significant milestone for ...
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The Department of Infrastructures and Territorial Development has awarded to the joint venture comprising Typsa, Fulcrum and Tekia the EUR 5,805,580.06 (VAT included) the contract for the design of ...
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On 8 march 2024 BBT SE and H53 Consortium consisting of Porr Bau GmbH, Marti GmbH Austria and Marti Tunnel AG Switzerland completed the factory acceptance of Wilma. This will be the first of the two ...
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After more than four years of work and the use of seven TBMs, the tunnel of Grand Paris Express Line 16 is now fully excavated.
On Monday, 26 February 2024, the TBM Houda reached the Mare au ...
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On 05 March 2024 HS2 launched the last TBM to dig tunnels for the new high speed railway in the West Midlands. The 1,600 t weight and 125 m long TBM has started on its journey to dig the second bore ...
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On March 1, the joint venture Mularroya, composed of Acciona and Sacyr, celebrated the final breakthrough for the 12.6km-long water transport tunnel in the Mularroya dam project in the province of ...
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On 28 February 2024, Ferrovial on behalf of Adif completed the excavation using the drill&blast method of the new 1.9 km Oural tunnel (average advance was 5 m/day). The tunnel was built parallel ...
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In February, CRCHI (China Railway Construction Heavy Industry) completed assembly of its slurry pipe jacking machine in Changsha, China, successfully passing the acceptance inspection. This ...
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The World Tunnel Congress 2025 is excited to announce the Call for Papers for its upcoming congress to be held in Stockholm. Themed 'Tunnelling into a Sustainable Future,' the congress will ...
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The dimensions of the Stad ship tunnel are massive with a height of 50 m and a width of 36 m, in a length of 1,700 m. In total, more than three million cubic meters of solid rock must be removed ...
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On 29 February at exactly 3 p.m a further breakthrough happened in the twin tube Åstunnel in Levanger municipality, on the E6 between Kvithammar and Åsen. Nye Veier is the ...
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Piacenza Expo is already at work for the new edition of GEOFLUID, the international exhibition of technologies and equipment for the exploration, extraction and transport of underground fluids, a ...
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