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Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French Alps

Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French AlpsThe A41 north stretch is the missing link on the A41 between Villy-le-Pelloux / Saint-Martin-Bellevue and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in the ... More Information

Conference and Training Course on Safety in Tunnels

Conference and Training Course on Safety in TunnelsItaly today holds the world's main records regarding underground structures. Recently, risks have been increasing due to ageing tunnels while road ... More Information

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling Services

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling ServicesWith the common goal to provide optimal and thorough services to contractors and tunnelling projects in the North ... More Information

Internet Advertising Overtakes Magazines

Internet Advertising Overtakes MagazinesGuy Phillipson, CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau www.iabuk.net has reported that spending on online advertising in the first half of 2006 has ... More Information

8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground Structures

8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground StructuresThe Slovenian Society for Underground and Geotechnical Constructions, the University of Ljubljana with the Faculty ... More Information

China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway Tunnels

China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway TunnelsAccording to statistics, 7,504 railway tunnels - with a total length of 4,305 km - were already in operation in China ... More Information

Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro Expansion

Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro ExpansionAll tunnelling required as part of the 2003-2007 expansion plan of the Madrid metro ended on 27th September, 2006 on Line 7 to east of ... More Information

Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBU

Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBURobbins announces its newest trenchless product, the Motorized Small Boring Unit (MSBU). The Robbins MSBU is a technically advanced type of ... More Information

Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South Tyrol

Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South TyrolThe Bolzano province in South Tyrol, Northern Italy has adopted an active policy to guarantee a safer road access to famous valleys like Val ... More Information

Upgrading the Orte-Falconara Rail Line

Upgrading the Orte-Falconara Rail LineThe Orte-Falconara line is one of the few transversal lines on the Italian rail network. It actually crosses the central Apennines from the Marche region ... More Information

Iceland TBMs Make a Strong Finish and Tie a World Record

Iceland TBMs Make a Strong Finish and Tie a World RecordThe Kárahnjúkar hydroelectric project includes approx. 72 km of tunnels that will transfer water to a powerhouse in the Fljótsdalur ... More Information

First Breakthrough on Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare Section on Genoa-Ventimiglia Line Dualling

First Breakthrough on Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare Section on Genoa-Ventimiglia Line DuallingOn 24th September, 2006 in San Bartolomeo al mare, next to Cervo torrent valley, tunnelling ended at ... More Information

4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in Singapore

4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in SingaporeThe 4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium is organised by the Singapore National Group of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and the ... More Information

TIMBY, New Construction Process for Immersed Tunnels

TIMBY, New Construction Process for Immersed TunnelsTIMBY, which stands for Tunnel IMmersed BY Bouygues, is a new process for construction of immersed tunnels. It is based on a machine ... More Information

Tunnelling Well Advanced on Tizi Ouzou-Algiers Potable Water Scheme

Tunnelling Well Advanced on Tizi Ouzou-Algiers Potable Water SchemeTizi Ouzou is situated at a pass that culminates at 270 metres ("tizi" means pass and "ouzou" means broom in Kabylian) but it is ... More Information

Herrenknecht TBM Completes Metronorte Line in Madrid

Herrenknecht TBM Completes Metronorte Line in MadridA TBM dubbed 'Chotis' finished the Metronorte tunnel as it holed through into Marques de la Valdavia station in Alcobendas at 12:18 p.m. on 18th ... More Information

First Sections Get Under Way on Ionian Coast Road SS 106

First Sections Get Under Way on Ionian Coast Road SS 106 The SS 106 Ionian road is approximately 490 km long, of which 415 km in Calabria (85%), 37 km in Basilicata and 38 km in Puglia. It ... More Information

Zillastro Tunnel on Ionian Tyrrhenian Cross-Country Road Also Called Bagnara-Bovalino

Zillastro Tunnel on Ionian Tyrrhenian Cross-Country Road Also Called Bagnara-BovalinoThe Zillastro tunnel is the major structure on the Ionian Tyrrhenian cross-country road, called Bagnara-Bovalino, ... More Information

Robbins TBM Digs Sewer Outfall in Northwest Spain

Robbins TBM Digs Sewer Outfall in Northwest SpainThe project to clean up the Ferrol estuary represents an investment of EUR112 million, financed by the North of Spain water agency (85%) and ... More Information

IPS Tunnel Division Wins Malmö City Tunnel Contract to Supply Personnel

IPS Tunnel Division Wins Malmö City Tunnel Contract to Supply PersonnelIPS is proud to announce that they have been awarded a contract to supply TBM specialists to the Malmö City tunnel joint ... More Information

First Breakthough at Gotthard Base Tunnel

First Breakthrough at Gotthard Base TunnelConstruction workers made the first breakthrough at the Gotthard base tunnel on 6th September, 2006 in what will be the world's longest rail tunnel, ... More Information

Austin Builds Three Water Tunnels and Has Four More in Project

Austin Builds Three Water Tunnels and Has Four More in ProjectThere are three in-use wastewater tunnels in Austin: Crosstown (1973), Onion (1978) and Govalle (1988). Crosstown delivers ... More Information

Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Croydon Cable Tunnel in the UK

Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Croydon Cable Tunnel in the UKMorgan Est has contracted with Lovat for the purposes of design and manufacture of a 3.6 m-diameter EPB TBM for the Croydon cable ... More Information

Marti Technik to Supply Conveyor Belt for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong Kong

Marti Technik to Supply Conveyor Belt for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong KongSwitzerland's Marti Technik has been contracted by Dragages Hong Kong to supply a conveyor belt for the Castle ... More Information

SELI TBM Breaks Through Dai Ninh Headrace Tunnel in Vietnam

SELI TBM Breaks Through Dai Ninh Headrace Tunnel in VietnamAfter 20 months of work on the headrace tunnel of the Dai Ninh hydropower project, Cavico Corporation announced that the tunnel has ... More Information

NFM Technologies Pockets Major Contract for Six TBMs in China

NFM Technologies Pockets Major Contract for Six TBMs in ChinaNFM Technologies, affiliated to Wirth, has won an order for the supply of six slurry Benton'air® type TBMs to China. The contract is ... More Information

BASF Acquires Degussa Construction Chemicals to Create New Innovative Potentials

BASF Acquires Degussa Construction Chemicals to Create New Innovative PotentialsBASF acquired the global construction chemicals business of Degussa, with effect from 30th June, 2006 and ... More Information

Launch Ceremony of World's Largest Hard Rock TBM at Niagara Falls in Ontario

Launch Ceremony of World's Largest Hard Rock TBM at Niagara Falls in OntarioA ceremony was held on 8th August, 2006 to celebrate the official start up of the largest hard rock TBM in existence ... More Information

NYC Completes Excavation of Third Water Tunnel

NYC Completes Excavation of Third Water TunnelMayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg turned off on 9th August, 2006 a tunnel boring machine and announced that the excavation of Stage 2, or ... More Information

Atlas Copco Secoroc Dresses in Yellow

Atlas Copco Secoroc Dresses in Yellow As of 15th August, 2006 all Atlas Copco Secoroc rock drilling tools delivered will be dressed in yellow. This is yet another step in strengthening ... More Information

Robbins TBM Starts Pinglu Tunnel in China

Robbins TBM Starts Pinglu Tunnel in ChinaA launch ceremony of a Robbins TBM was held on 12th July, 2006 in Souzhou in China's Shanxi province to celebrate the start of the 25.15 km-long Pinglu ... More Information

Herrenknecht to Supply TBM for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong Kong

Herrenknecht to Supply TBM for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong KongThe Castle Peak cable tunnel project was awarded by CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd to Dragages Hong Kong Ltd on 30th November, 2005. ... More Information

Fire Fighting Systems For Tunnel Boring Machines

Fire Fighting Systems For Tunnel Boring MachinesHall and Kay Fire Engineering Ltd have recently been awarded a major contract by Herrenknecht for fire fighting systems on a 180 m-long machine to be ... More Information

Tunnelling Ends on Metro Project in Lausanne

Tunnelling Ends on Metro Project in LausanneThe final milestone has been reached on the M2 metro line in Lausanne, Switzerland when two teams of tunnellers made the junction at a 136 m-long ... More Information

World's Biggest TBM Finishes Boring in Madrid

World's Biggest TBM Finishes Boring in Madrid 'Dulcinea', the world's biggest TBM featuring a 15.2 m diameter and a power of 22,000 kW, has completed its job in record time. Machine ... More Information

Boring Begins on the San Vicente Pipeline Project

Boring Begins on the San Vicente Pipeline ProjectA Robbins hard rock main beam TBM began boring a section of the San Vicente pipeline in San Diego, California on 21st June, 2006. The 3.5 ... More Information

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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

Ground preparation for Lower Thames Crossing tunnelling

Work is ongoing to overcome sub-optimal ground conditions in preparation for the start of tunnelling on the Lower Thames Crossing in late 2028, according to the project’s tunnels director... More Information

LA Metro approves massive $25B underground rail line to bypass 405 Freeway

The LA Metro Board unanimously approved an underground heavy rail line to connect the San Fernando Valley and the Westside, bypassing the congested 405 Freeway. The nearly 13-mile route, ... More Information

TUNNEL VISION Mega £7.4bn undersea tunnel connecting two CONTINENTS just got one step closer

A MAJOR £7.4 billion underwater tunnel connecting two continents has taken a step closer to construction. Experts have said the 24-mile tunnel is “technically viable”, paving the way for ... More Information

TBM breakthrough in Sydney

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Jane Starkey successfully completed her 1.2km underground journey through challenging Sydney sandstone... More Information

Hochul announces $25 million for Harlem crosstown subway tunnel design

At E. 120th St., a pair of tunnel-boring machines — currently under construction in Germany — will bore new, 8,400-foot tunnels north from the end ... More Information

Tunnelling under the Yarra River

Our two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will soon be travelling underneath the Yarra River... Approximately 300 metres of the 6.5 kilometre North East Link will be under the Yarra ... More Information

The Boring Company says its tunneling machine is 'ready to mine in Nashville'

The Music City Loop project is aimed at transporting people from Nashville International Airport to Lower Broadway in roughly 10 minutes. By Li ... More Information

Norway Is Building the World's Longest and Deepest Tunnel Beneath the Sea

The Rogfast project, short for Rogaland Fixed Link, is an underwater road tunnel being built beneath Norway's fjords as part of the E39 coastal ... More Information

Future engineers become 'TBM Captains' for Suburban Rail Loop

Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will begin work this year. The tour of the eastern tunnel entrance was part of a long-term initiative, with ... More Information

Image gallery: Civil works completed on HS2's longest tunnel

Main construction on the Buckinghamshire structure began in May 2021 with the launch of two 2,000-tonne tunnel boring machines (TBMs), named Florence ... More Information

The Boring Company Launches Free Tunnel Contest: AI Applications for Smart Infrastructure

According to Sawyer Merritt on Twitter, The Boring Company has announced a contest to build a one-mile tunnel for free, inviting proposals for ... More Information

Out of sight: spectacular HS2 tunnels offer glimmer of hope for stalling project

Despite much soul-searching over UK’s inability to build infrastructure, two sections of HS2 under Chilterns are being hailed for their engineering... More Information

HS2 January 2026 update

We’re making progress building the main infrastructure for the new line. We’ve completed 80% of tunnelling and are working on major bridges, viaducts and embankments, and HS2’s new ... More Information

Implenia Secures EUR 350 Mln Projects For Bridges, Tunnel Works In Germany

Tunnel to join motorway sections and connecting roads. The Swiss construction and real estate company said the Peene Bridge project in Wolgast, ... More Information

Incredible new $7.9bn mega rail and road tunnel to be the world's longest

The safety of our workers is of utmost importance during the construction of the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel. We will await the findings of the ... More Information

TBM launch from Rukanpura soon as metro work gains pace

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the underground network is likely to be launched from Rukanpura on Bailey Road, which falls under Corridor I ... More Information

World's largest-diameter boring machine used for Yangtze River railway tunnel

China's domestically developed, world's largest-diameter vertical shaft boring machine 'Qiming' was officially put into operation in Taicang City ... More Information

HCMC approves sea-crossing route with undersea tunnel between Can Gio and Vung Tau

Ho Chi Minh City has approved a strategic proposal by Vingroup to construct a direct sea-crossing road connecting the Can Gio coastal urban area with Vung Tau beach town, cutting travel ... More Information

Changi Airport’s new underground link to take passengers from future T5 to T2 in 4 minutes

SINGAPORE – Passengers at the future Changi Airport Terminal 5 can expect to reach Terminal 2 in four minutes via the airport’s new underground link... More Information