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New Record for NFM Technologies TBM

New Record for NFM Technologies TBM'Besi', the 11.95 m-diameter TBM supplied by NFM Technologies (Wirth Group) for the excavation of Line 9 of the Barcelona metro, has just established a new world ... More Information

Low Road to Orkney - a ferry story

Theatre of DreamsLow Road to Orkney - a ferry storyProposals to build a 11.2 km long subsea tunnel across the Pentland Firth linking Orkney to the Scottish mainland were presented to the Orkney ... More Information

Barcelona Metro Service Tunnel Collapses

Barcelona Metro Service Tunnel CollapsesOn 27th January a major collapse occurred on a 233 m-long service tunnel under NATM construction as part of line 5 extension to Spain's Barcelona metro, ... More Information

Testing Verifies Creep Resistance of Steel Fibre Concrete

Testing Verifies Creep Resistance of Steel Fibre ConcreteAs a world leader in steel fibre technology, Bekaert operates a fully serviced concrete laboratory capable of testing all types of fibre ... More Information

Microtunnelling System For Immediate Sale

Microtunnelling System For Immediate SaleUsed Herrenknecht AVN 500 microtunnelling system for sale with 665 mm-diameter machine and range of additional equipment, from job site in Ventspils, Latvia. ... More Information

Robbins Breakthrough in Singapore

Robbins Breakthrough in SingaporeOn 26th January, 2005 Robbins 4.3 m-diameter double shield TBM 1413-301 broke through in Singapore. This completed the excavation of the second and final tunnel on ... More Information

European Commission Grants EUR620 Million to Major Transport Infrastructure Projects

European Commission Grants EUR620 Million to Major Transport Infrastructure ProjectsThe European Commission has just granted EUR620 million for the assessment and construction of trans-European ... More Information

Atlas Copco Drill Rigs for Tunnels in Mecca

Atlas Copco Drill Rigs for Tunnels in MeccaAtlas Copco has supplied seven drill rigs for the construction of four motorway tunnels to ease the movement of the millions of pilgrims who visit Mecca ... More Information

Mont Blanc Tunnel Trial Opens

Mont Blanc Tunnel Trial OpensOn Monday 31st January, 2005 the trial is due to start in Bonneville, France that will investigate charges levelled against various people and companies as a result of ... More Information

Mixed Fortune at Gotthard

Mixed Fortune at GotthardStretching 2 x 57 km between Erstfeld and Bodio, the Gotthard base tunnel will be the longest and deepest in the world. Of the total 153.3 km of access adits, shafts and ... More Information

Koralm Tunnel Receives Financial Backing

Koralm Tunnel Receives Financial BackingThe 32,800 m Koralm rail tunnel on the Graz-Klagenfurt high speed line in Austria moved ahead in December, when a financing agreement was signed and work ... More Information

MSD - Backup for Your TBM

MSD - Backup for Your TBMMSD, a subsidiary company of Herrenknecht AG, is a leading supplier of TBM backup equipment and rolling stock for the transport of mortar, muck, segments and personnel. MSD ... More Information

Robbins Receives Order for Two TBMs for Canadian Job

Robbins Receives Order for Two TBMs for Canadian JobThe Robbins Company received an order for two hard rock TBMs from the Bilfinger Berger / Frucon JV, which will be used to drill the ... More Information

Delhi Opens First Underground Metro Section

Delhi Opens First Underground Metro SectionPrime Minister Manmohan Singh on 19th December, 2004 inaugurated the first underground section of the New Delhi metro, a move expected to cut pollution ... More Information

Spain and France Boost Rail Crossing Project across Central Pyrenees

Spain and France Boost Rail Crossing Project across Central PyreneesAt the Spanish-French summit held in Saragossa on 7th December, 2004 the rail project to cross the central Pyrenees through a base ... More Information

Sireg Geotechnical Products

Sireg Geotechnical ProductsFor nearly 70 years, Italian manufacturer Sireg has been supplying in the geotechnical field, and is now the market leader in thermoplastic-based products. These include ... More Information

Space Technology to Detect Threats to Sites on Earth

Space Technology to Detect Threats to Sites on Earth Vancouver engineers for Amec, the UK engineering services firm, began working to test a down-to-earth use for Satellite Earth Observation ... More Information

World Premiere in Tunnel Lighting with LEDs in Canada

World Premiere in Tunnel Lighting with LEDs in CanadaCanada-based Dellux Technologies certainly challenges common standards in the industry with its Intelligent Tunnel Lightingâ„¢ (ITL) system, a ... More Information

KHI Receives Order for Four Slurry TBMs for Circle Line Section in Singapore - sg/15

KHI Receives Order for Four Slurry TBMs for Circle Line Section in Singapore - sg/15Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has won an order from Taisei for four slurry-type shield TBMs for delivery between ... More Information

Mechanical Shaft Construction Uses Herrenknecht VSM

Mechanical Shaft Construction Uses Herrenknecht VSMIn Kuwait, the first Herrenknecht VSM mechanical shaftsinking rig recently completed a 25 m-deep x 8 m-diameter microtunnelling launch shaft in ... More Information

Headrace Tunnel is Completed at Tala Hydro Project

Headrace Tunnel is Completed at Tala Hydro ProjectDespite fearing yet another delay, the 23 km headrace tunnel of the Tala hydro power project in Bhutan was completed on 8th November, 2004. The ... More Information

All-weather Work at Karahnjukar with Heavy-duty Machinery

All-weather Work at Karahnjukar with Heavy-duty Machinery The Vatnajökull glacier in the northeast of Iceland is an area which can only be accessed under great difficulty. In the winter months from ... More Information

Stockholm's Southern Link Opens

Stockholm's Southern Link OpensSodra Lanken, Stockholm's south ring road, opened on 24th October. It is a 6 km infrastructure, comprising two main parallel 4.5 km tunnels and multiple access ... More Information

Madrid's Second Railway Connection to Open in June 2006

Madrid's Second Railway Connection to Open in June 2006The new railway connection for suburban lines C-3 and C-4 between Atocha and Chamartin railway stations in Madrid is mainly a 7,425 m tunnel, ... More Information

Soumagne Tunnel Breaks Through

Soumagne Tunnel Breaks ThroughBelgium's longest tunnel, between Chênée and Soumagne in Liege province, has holed through on 20th October, 2004 joining the Bay-Bonnet and Vaux-sous-Chèvremont ... More Information

MHI-Duro Felguera To Build TBM for Contract 4 of Pajares Tunnel - es/55

MHI-Duro Felguera To Build TBM for Contract 4 of Pajares Tunnel - es/55MHI-Duro Felguera, S.A., the company jointly owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Duro Felguera, clinched a contract ... More Information

Public Consultation for HATS

Public Consultation for HATSThe Hong Kong government is undertaking a public consultation exercise on the way forward for the Harbour Area Treatment Scheme (HATS) Stage 2. This consultation exercise ... More Information

Reliable hosting packages on our new tunnelbuilder servers

Reliable hosting packages on our new tunnelbuilder serversTunnelbuilder has three years experience in website hosting, and now looks after 35 client companies. Our latest Linux servers are powered ... More Information

Robbins Receives Two TBM orders for Dahuofang Water Transfer Project in China

Robbins Receives Two TBM orders for Dahuofang Water Transfer Project in ChinaIn the first half of 2004, Robbins received an order for two 8 m open TBMs for the Duhuofang water transfer in Liaoning ... More Information

Correction: Robbins Signs Cooperation Agreement with Dalian Heavy Industrial

Correction: Robbins Signs Cooperation Agreement with Dalian Heavy IndustrialThere is a correction to our piece of news regarding The Robbins Company published in E-News Weekly 40/2004, p.1 dated ... More Information

MS - separation equipment for slurry tunnelling projects

MS - separation equipment for slurry tunnelling projectsFrench manufacturer MS has been at the forefront of separation plant design and manufacture for more than 30 years, having supplied some of ... More Information

Robbins TBM Breaks Through Nancy Creek Tunnel - us/60

Robbins TBM Breaks Through Nancy Creek Tunnel - us/60A Robbins TBM has broken through on 27th September to a construction shaft, thus connecting the two sections of the 13 km Nancy Creek sewer ... More Information

MHI-Duro Felguera Receives Order for World Biggest TBM - es/104

MHI-Duro Felguera Receives Order for World Biggest TBM - es/104FCC and ACS Dragados have placed a EUR40 million order with MHI-Duro Felguera for the supply of possibly the world's biggest EPB ... More Information

World's Fifth Longest Road Tunnel Breaks Through in Taiwan - tw/14

World's Fifth Longest Road Tunnel Breaks Through in Taiwan - tw/14Taiwan on 16th September, 2004 celebrated the final breakthrough, the eighth of its kind since 2000, of what is the world's 5th ... More Information

Atlas Copco Completes Acquisition of Baker Hughes Mining Tools

Atlas Copco Completes Acquisition of Baker Hughes Mining ToolsAtlas Copco North America Inc. has completed its acquisition of Baker Hughes Mining Tools, a division of Hughes Christensen, a division ... More Information

British Tunnel Projects Face Long Road Ahead

British Tunnel Projects Face Long Road AheadThree major British tunnel projects have been slowed by extensive environmental requirements and funding issues.A public inquiry into the GBP150 million ... More Information

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Deutsche Bahn awards contract for Munich S-Bahn project

The contract involves structural works for the expansion, including the construction of tunnels and an underground station. The Tunnel Ostbahnhof JV, ... More Information

Excavation completed on Italian side of Brenner Base Tunnel

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) named “Flavia” successfully bored through the Alps beneath the Mules 2–3 section, reaching the Austrian border. More Information

Giant tunnel borer set for Shantou Bay project

A giant tunnel boring machine has been installed for tunnelling under Shantou Bay in Shantou, South China's Guangdong province. [Photo provided to ... More Information

€0.4bn road and tunnel project in Georgia

Work is proceeding on the Kvesheti-Kobi road and tunnel scheme in Georgia. The scheme is part of a larger project, being carried out with Chinese ... More Information

Lahore to transform with Rs49 billion tunnel boring project

Pakistan, April 27 -- The federal government has approved Lahore's Rs49 billion Tunnel Boring Project, marking a major development for the city... More Information

Construction at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

The 2,100-foot-long tunnel connects the terminal to parking facilities and the tramway leading to the RTA public rail line. During the project, two of ... More Information

AFFHOLDER AND J.F. SHEA TEAM UP ON $700 MILLION CONTRACT

The tunneling subsidiary, Affholder LLC, will lead a joint venture with J.F. Shea Construction, Inc., to build the I-35 Capital Express Central ... More Information

Factory Testing Complete on DC Water's first tunnel boring machine for the Potomac River

Mary passed all the necessary requirements and is one of two TBM's on the project. The tunnel is part of DC Water's Clean Rivers Project, to ... More Information

Work on Chennai Metro tunnel racing to a finish

The machine Flamingo, which started boring in 2023 for the tunnel linking Light House with Thirumayilai, is expected to reach the other end in ... More Information

CPK awards contract to build high-speed rail tunnel in Lodz, Poland

The tunnel, to be constructed using a tunnel boring machine (TBM), will have a ... More Information

Inside HS2: Meet London's miners working on the Northolt tunnels

We are on a tunnel boring machine (TBM) inside High Speed Two's huge Northolt tunnels. These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling ... More Information

Ontario Begins Construction Of Last Tunnel Segment Of The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension

The remaining eastern portion of tunnel construction (500-meter twin tunnels) will use the sequential excavation method, with daily progress of ... More Information

Norway is building the world's longest and deepest subsea road beneath its fjords

We have subsea road tunnels which have that construction. And the new tunnel between Germany and Denmark, there they are laying down cases and put ... More Information

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

The estimated cost of construction of the FCC electron–positron stage, including the tunnel and all the infrastructure, is 15 billion Swiss francs... More Information

TBM break through on Auckland's £915M wastewater megaproject completes 16.2km tunnel

Auckland's major wastewater infrastructure project, the Central Interceptor, has reached a significant milestone with the final breakthrough of ... More Information

In pics: construction site of Chongming-Taicang tunnel

A smart assembling vehicle works at "Linghang" large diameter shield tunneling machine at the construction site of the Chongming-Taicang tunnel, part of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu ... More Information

IN PICTURES: Spectacular images of the removal of HS2's huge tunnelling machine

TBM Sushila was used to construct part of the Northolt Tunnel – an 8.4-mile tunnel ... construction/london-tunnels/progress-3/northolt-tunnel/tbm- ... More Information

Historic tunnels uncovered beneath Salisbury station during £5.3M upgrade project

Engineers from Network Rail and South Western Railway have uncovered a network of tunnels and rooms beneath Salisbury station during ongoing £5.3M upgrades to the station’s forecourt... More Information

Massive $450m road project connecting Russia and Georgia with six bridges & five tunnels

Massive $450m road project connecting Russia and Georgia with six bridges & five tunnels. The new road will pass through Georgia along a trade route ... More Information

Buca Metro Tunnel Excavations Reached 50 Percent Level

Important progress is being made in the construction of the line, where four tunnel boring machines (TBMs), each 100 meters long, 7 meters wide and ... More Information

'Very promising' narrow-reef boring technology nearing rollout stage

A novel tunnel boring machine (TBM) will open up Bokoni's narrow tabular dipping PGM orebody to allow narrow-reef boring to take place, so that ... More Information

A vast undersea tunnel is being built

The 7.4 billion-euro ($7.7 billion) project is a huge undertaking, in every sense. Each section of the tunnel is colossal. These concrete structures ... More Information

National Grid gets planning permission for Grain to Tilbury upgrade with new Thames tunnel

National Grid has secured full planning approval for the Grain to Tilbury project, which includes a new power tunnel under the River Thames... More Information

Right track tunnel of Huangjialing Tunnel in NW China's Gansu drilled through

A staff member works on the construction site of the right track tunnel of the Huangjialing Tunnel in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, northwest ... More Information

Shetland Islands tunnels plan takes 'huge step forward' with sonar investigations

This phase will further inform the project's development and feasibility. The tunnel project, seen by locals as pivotal for improving ... More Information

Construction of the Tarande tunnel begins next week

On March 17th, in Vilnius district Construction of a tunnel and other related infrastructure will begin at Taranda and Bukiškis. This project aims ... More Information

Delhi Metro's Golden Line achieves major tunnel breakthrough;

The construction of Delhi Metro's Golden Line achieved a major milestone on Thursday as the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) broke through at the ... More Information

RiverRenew Tunnel Project Nearing Completion

The RiverRenew Tunnel System Project, the largest infrastructure investment in Alexandria's history, is nearing completion. More Information

Sydney Metro West tunnels enter final stretch after big breakthrough

Two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) constructing the huge Sydney Metro West tunnels have made a smashing entrance 24 metres below the surface. More Information

Chennai Metro Rail launches first tunnel boring machine for underground tunnelling in Kolathur

Corridor 5 begins at Madhavaram Milk Colony and connects through Koyambedu, Porur, Alandur and other residential/commercial areas of the city to ... More Information

Element Six, Master Drilling Announce Tunnel Development Partnership

Element Six and Master Drilling will deliver a diamond-enabled solution designed to increase tunneling development speed, reducing costs and minimize the environmental impact of tunnel ... More Information

Gateway Project Tunnel Connecting NY and NJ Moves Forward

Five Gateway contracts have been awarded so far, including one on Predergast's first day for construction on the Manhattan side of the tunnel... More Information

HSR Xi'an – Yan'an: Completion of All Tunnels in the Project

The HSR Xi'an – Yan'an has completed the excavation of all tunnels, including the Tongchuan Tunnel. This is a key milestone in the construction ... More Information

Brazil's US$1bn underwater tunnel project making waves among potential bidders

The first underwater road tunnel project in Brazil is attracting interest from multiple potential bidders, an official familiar with the matter ... More Information

Element Six and Master Drilling Announce Strategic Partnership for Advanced Tunnel

Achieving high quality, nonexplosive tunnel construction with various aspects of value generated compared to traditional rock excavation methods is a ... More Information

Tutor Perini Wins a $1.2 Billion NYC Contract

A joint venture of Sylmar-based civil construction firm Tutor Perini Corp. and its subsidiary Frontier-Kemper Constructors has won a $1.18 billion contract to construct a pair of rail ... More Information

Milestone reached for $1.6b Auckland wastewater tunne

Watercare's Central Interceptor project has passed an historic milestone with the southern half of the 16.2 kilometre tunnel – Blockhouse Bay ... More Information

Elon Musk's 'Wormhole' Tunnel Promises To Carry 20,000 People Per Hour In Dubai

It’s been more than eight years since Elon Musk decided he was fed up with traffic and declared he’d start digging tunnels to revolutionize public transport across the United States. So ... More Information

First tender for Dubai’s $22bn tunnels due within days

Dubai Municipality is expected to tender the first two packages of the $22bn Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST) project imminently... More Information