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Design and Construction of the Carmel Tunnels in Israel

Design and Construction of the Carmel Tunnels in IsraelThe old part of Haifa, Israel and its major business district and port are located on a narrowish coastal promontary beneath 550 m-high ... More Information

Crossrail Gets Final Approval

Crossrail Gets Final ApprovalThe Crossrail Bill was approved by the House of Lords on 22nd July, 2008 after being amended by the House of Commons on the last day of the parliamentary session. The ... More Information

Chinese Construction Equipment Manufacturer Zoomlion Acquires CIFA

Chinese Construction Equipment Manufacturer Zoomlion Acquires CIFAA consortium led by Chinese construction machinery giant Changsha Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development Co. ... More Information

Propex Concrete Systems' Concrete Reinforcement Fibres Receive CE Marking

Propex Concrete Systems' Concrete Reinforcement Fibres Receive CE MarkingThere are new European standards relating to fibres for concrete. As of 1st June, 2008, it is now mandatory for all fibre ... More Information

New upgraded tunnelbuilder server is fast and secure

New upgraded tunnelbuilder server is fast and secureEvery July, we carry out any necessary server maintenance while bids and awards activity is low.This time around, we decided on a new server in ... More Information

DSI Rockbolts on Gautrain Project

DSI Rockbolts on Gautrain ProjectDSI South Africa, the South African subsidiary of operating construction technology group Dywidag-Systems International, secured a ZAR21 million contract last year ... More Information

Mixed Methods Move Gautrain Forward

Mixed Methods Move Gautrain ForwardSouth Africa's public rail transport system is undergoing an extensive revamp, and one of the most prominent projects is the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link. The ... More Information

First East Side Access TBM Reaches Grand Central Station in New York

First East Side Access TBM Reaches Grand Central Station in New YorkThe Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced on 2nd July, 2008 that after just eight months, the first of two ... More Information

Finnfast Subsea Tunnel Breaks Through in Norway

Finnfast Subsea Tunnel Breaks Through in NorwayMuch of Norway is covered by mountains and the western coast is gouged by deep fjords and dotted with islands. To facilitate modern communication, it ... More Information

Krolsky Tunnel Ends, Mansky Tunnel to Commence

Krolsky Tunnel Ends, Mansky Tunnel to CommenceContractor OAO Bamtonnelstroy has announced the Lovat RME375SE series 21400 TBM has broken through on the Krolsky rail tunnel, the first rail tunnel ... More Information

Newsflash: Schoema Tunnel Locomotives and Other Tunnel Equipment for Sale

Newsflash: Schoema Tunnel Locomotives and Other Tunnel Equipment for SaleThe SLCP-SELI joint venture has recently completed the Canada Line twin bored tunnels in Vancouver, Canada. The joint venture ... More Information

The Gilgel Gibe Hydropower Project in Ethiopia

The Gilgel Gibe Hydropower Project in EthiopiaIn Ethiopia, about 250 km to the southwest of Addis Abeba plateau, along the Omo river and its tributary Gibe, the planning and construction of an ... More Information

Horcajada Tunnel Breaks Through on Madrid-Valencia High Speed Line

Horcajada Tunnel Breaks Through on Madrid-Valencia High Speed LineTravel times between Madrid and Valencia are set to more than halve on completion of the high speed rail line in 2010, with trains ... More Information

Used TBM For Sale

Used TBM For SaleA year old double shield hard rock TBM is for sale in Hong Kong, available December, 2008.With an excavation diameter of 5.2 m and an erector designed for segment ID 4.5 ... More Information

TBM for sale

TBM for saleDouble shield hard rock TBM. Manufactured by Herrenknecht in 2007.Excavation diameter 5.2m. Erector designed for segment ID 4.5m.Total weight 800 tons, 238m long with ... More Information

Herrenknecht Large Diameter TBMs Set Records

Herrenknecht Large Diameter TBMs Set RecordsThe islands of Chongming, Changxing and Hengsha are separated from mainland Shanghai by the Yangtze river. They are situated northeast of Shanghai ... More Information

Immersed Tunnel under the Shannon in Ireland

Immersed Tunnel under the Shannon in IrelandThe Limerick southern ring road in the southwest of Ireland is comprised of 10 km of two lane dual carriageway, 11 bridges, four interchanges, six ... More Information

News from FiReP International AG

News from FiReP International AGAs of 1st May 2008, the company Rockbolt Systems/Weidmann took a further step in the development of an international corporate group of companies under the name of ... More Information

Torino Extends its Metro

Torino Extends its MetroConstruction of the Turin metro extension between Porta Nuova and Lingotto has entered a new stage with the official lowering on 28th February, 2008, at Marconi ... More Information

Southern Metropolitan Highway to Decongest Bilbao

Southern Metropolitan Highway to Decongest BilbaoThe A-8 motorway is integrated into the trans-European transport network (TEN) and is the main distributor backbone of the metropolitan road ... More Information

1958-2008: Putzmeister Celebrates 50 Years

1958-2008: Putzmeister Celebrates 50 YearsWith growth above average for many years, consolidated sales of over EUR1 billion and 3,900 employees, Putzmeister is today one of the most successful ... More Information

Newsflash - International Tunnelling Services to meet jobseekers in three continents

Newsflash - International Tunnelling Services to meet jobseekers in three continentsThe growing demand for experienced tunnellers is taking International Tunnelling Services MD Kevin Browning to ... More Information

Newsflash: New Books on Fundamentals of Tunnelling Machine Technology and Recommendations on Excavations

Newsflash: New Books on Fundamentals of Tunnelling Machine Technology and Recommendations on ExcavationsResearch and Markets has announced the addition of Hardrock Tunnel Boring Machines to their ... More Information

Seymour-Capilano Contract Terminated

Seymour-Capilano Contract TerminatedVancouver broadcaster News1130.com/news has reported that Metro Vancouver has terminated its contract with Bilfinger Berger to construct the Seymour-Capilano ... More Information

GIA Häggloaders Move Easily in Stockholm’s Long, Narrow Skanstull-Solberga Cable Tunnel

GIA Häggloaders Move Easily in Stockholm’s Long, Narrow Skanstull-Solberga Cable TunnelWith the increase in demand for residential housing in Stockholm’s southern suburb of Globen and the ... More Information

Sandvik Drill Rigs Tackle Brazilian Hydropower Tunnels

Sandvik Drill Rigs Tackle Brazilian Hydropower TunnelsThe Simplicio power plant will be the second largest hydroelectric power plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with a 334 MW generation ... More Information

Mexico City Invites Tenders for Two Projects to Improve Vehicular Traffic

Mexico City Invites Tenders for Two Projects to Improve Vehicular TrafficMexico City is the populous city of Mexico with 8.7 million inhabitants in 2005. Greater Mexico City, which ... More Information

Atlas Copco Upgrades Drill Rigs to Meet New Environment Directives

Atlas Copco Upgrades Drill Rigs to Meet New Environment DirectivesAtlas Copco, the global mining and construction equipment supplier, is upgrading many of its drill rigs and other equipment ... More Information

Construction of Aica-Mules Pilot Bore Starts at Brenner Base Tunnel

Construction of Aica-Mules Pilot Bore Starts at Brenner Base TunnelThe Brenner base tunnel is a key piece on the Berlin-Munich-Verona-Bologna-Palermo high speed rail corridor, which crosses ... More Information

Lerum-Partille Wastewater Tunnel in Sweden

Lerum-Partille Wastewater Tunnel in SwedenGRYAAB, the Gothenburg regional sewage agency, is responsible for wastewater purification in the region. The company is owned by the Ale, Gothenburg, ... More Information

Malmö City Tunnel Makes Breakthrough

Malmö City Tunnel Makes BreakthroughThe City tunnel project in Malmö consists of 17 km of railway connecting Malmö central station with the Öresund bridge that connects with Denmark, as ... More Information

Belfast Sewers Project Makes First Breakthrough

Belfast Sewers Project Makes First BreakthroughThe GBP100 million Belfast sewers project involves work to upgrade the existing sewer networks and the construction of a large diameter drainage ... More Information

ITA seeks Executive Director

ITA seeks Executive DirectorThe International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) has established a new position as Executive Director starting on 1st January, 2009. ITA is a ... More Information

Harbour Area Treatment Scheme Stage 2A

HARBOUR AREA TREATMENT SCHEME STAGE 2ACONSTRUCTION OF SEWAGE TUNNELSINVITATION TO APPLY FOR PREQUALIFICATION OF TENDERERS The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative ... More Information

13th Australian Tunnelling Conference Underway in Melbourne

13th Australian Tunnelling Conference Underway in MelbourneThe elite of the world's tunnelling industry is meeting in Melbourne, Australia this week from 4th to 7th May to discuss engineering in a ... More Information

Contractor Prequalification for Hong Kong HATS Stage 2A Sewage Tunnels

Contractor Prequalification for Hong Kong HATS Stage 2A Sewage TunnelsThe Government of the Hong Kong SAR invites contractors to apply for prequalification of tenders. Click here for the official ... More Information

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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

Judge rules in favor of New York and New Jersey for now in $16B tunnel fight with Trump

A federal judge ruled Friday to temporarily block the Trump administration from suspending federal disbursements for the Gateway Tunnel Project... More Information

Webuild: award for Sustainability Report for commitment to decarbonise through innovation

This includes the large tunnel-boring machines deployed on some of Europe's most complex projects: from the Salerno-Reggio Calabria ... More Information

Clearwater update reports initial entry area is 'stable and intact'

The tunnel boring machine being used in the project remains trapped underground just ahead of where the breach occurred. The ambitious, $630 ... More Information

Tunnel Boring Machine Market Size estimated at USD 7.08 Billion

The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) market is experiencing significant growth, driven by increasing urbanization, infrastructure development, ... More Information

Completing the First Section of Line 3: Tunnel Boring Machine Roars as it Emerges at Balboa

The Panama tunnel boring machine emerged and completed its first major task: the first section of the Line 3 Metro tunnel. More Information

Twin tunnel-boring titans prepare to dig new road under Sydney Harbour

Twin tunnel-boring titans are preparing to launch under Sydney Harbour to dig out a new road crossing from Birchgrove to Waverton... More Information

Monica Breaks Ground on Snowy 2.0

Monica the tunnel boring machine, with the renewable energy mega-project now more. TBM Monica is among the world's most advanced tunnel boring machines... More Information

Snowy 2.0 sets new tunnel boring machine to work, completes 46 underground concrete pours

Snowy 2.0 has set to work a fourth tunnel boring machine, a $75 million piece of drilling equipment purpose built to complete excavation of the huge pumped hydro project’s “geologically ... More Information

World's 'largest' underground assembly of tunnelling machines happening beneath Sydney

Workers are craning into place about 167 major pieces that will form the first of two giant boring machines. Once assembled like giant Meccano sets, ... More Information

Tunneling Begins on Major Water Pipeline for South Hillsborough

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Water has begun construction on a major underground pipeline project aimed at meeting rising water demand in southern Hillsborough County, where population growth ... More Information

The massive £3billion tunnel designed to connect two continents under the sea

The construction of a huge underwater multi-tiered tunnel is underway in Turkey, that will create a direct route from Asia to Europe - and is expected to carry 1.3 million passengers a ... More Information

Riederwald Tunnel in Frankfurt is further delayed

Traffic was supposed to start flowing through the controversial Riederwald Tunnel in Frankfurt in 2033. But that's unlikely to happen. The €1.5 billion project is facing further delays – ... More Information

What happens to our metro tunnel boring machines when they hit the end of the line?

These mechanical behemoths were Betty and Dorothy, the tunnel boring machines tasked with digging the Sydney Metro West tunnels. Loading. The ... More Information

The incredible £2.8bn underwater tunnel connecting Europe and Asia

A huge new tunnel will connect Europe and Asia - and construction has already started. The Great Istanbul Tunnel is a major project. It will carry ... More Information

China develops "smart brain" for tunnel boring machines to boost underground construction

A team from Hunan University in central China has collaboratively developed an intelligent operating system for tunnel boring machines, giving these massive underground giants a "smart ... More Information

How China rescued highway project under Yangtze River

The incident occurred in February 2023 during construction of the 6.4-kilometer Jiangyin–Jingjiang Yangtze River Tunnel. Midway through excavation, at ... More Information

HS2 final tunnel drive to Euston starts next week

A team from SCS will drive a 4.5-mile twin-bore tunnel linking Old Oak Common to Euston using two tunnel boring machines, Karen and Madeleine. More Information

Work begins on £48M Knutsford sewer upgrade featuring 1.8km stormwater tunnel

Sean Reid, United Utilities county business lead for wastewater in Cheshire said: “This project highlights our ongoing commitment to improving water ... More Information

$14.6M boost moves Gering–Fort Laramie Canal Tunnel project forward

After nearly six years of planning, construction is moving forward on the Gering–Fort Laramie Canal tunnels... More Information

Webuild: second breakthrough at Trebisacce Tunnel along Jonica State Road 106

Project will help transform Jonica State Road 106 into a strategic corridor linking Ionian coasts of Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia... More Information