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Construction of Perthus Tunnel Starts on Figueras-Perpignan High Speed Link

Construction of Perthus Tunnel Starts on Figueras-Perpignan High Speed LinkMagdalena Alvarez, the Spanish minister of public works, and Dominique Perben, the French minister for transport, ... More Information

Tunnelling Starts at Pajares with Herrenknecht TBM

Tunnelling Starts at Pajares with Herrenknecht TBMJose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish PM, and Magdalena Álvarez, the minister of public works, celebrated on 13th July, 2005 the launch of the ... More Information

CMC to Use Two Lovat TBMs for Algerian Water Scheme

CMC to Use Two Lovat TBMs for Algerian Water Scheme Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti (CMC) has placed and order with Lovat for twin hard rock 3.7 m-diametre TBMs, ancillary equipment and services ... More Information

ACTEURS - a Project to Study how Human Behaviour is Crucial during Fire in Tunnels

ACTEURS - a Project to Study how Human Behaviour is Crucial during Fire in TunnelsThe fire which erupted on 4th June in the 12.9 km Frejus tunnel, killing two Slovak truck drivers, recalls that ... More Information

Longest Croatian Road Tunnel Opens on Zagreb-Split Motorway

Longest Croatian Road Tunnel Opens on Zagreb-Split MotorwayThe entire 375.5 km Zagreb-Split motorway A1, which connects Croatia's north and south, was officially opened on 26th June, 2005 by Prime ... More Information

First Atlas Copco WL4C30 Drill Rig at Work in Finland

First Atlas Copco WL4C30 Drill Rig at Work in FinlandThe Vuosaari harbour rail line in Helsinki is a new 19 km-long single-track freight infrastructure to handle ten trains a day in each direction. ... More Information

Pianoro Tunnel Breakthrough on Bologna-Florence High Speed Line

Pianoro Tunnel Breakthrough on Bologna-Florence High Speed LineOn 15th June, 2005 at kilometre point 7+372 and a distance of 2,266 m from the north entrance, the Pianoro tunnel broke through. The ... More Information

Zitron Commissions New Test Bench for Fans

Zitron Commissions New Test Bench for FansThe Zitron test bench is the biggest in the world of its type. It has been built in compliance with standard 210-99 of AMCA (Association for air movement ... More Information

Robbins Double-shield TBM Breaks Through Quarry Tunnel in Italy

Robbins Double-shield TBM Breaks Through Quarry Tunnel in ItalyA 150 m-long Robbins double-shield TBM broke through on 31st May, 2005 the tunnel linking the raw material quarries with the ... More Information

Second Guadarrama Tunnel Breaks Through

Second Guadarrama Tunnel Breaks ThroughThe Ministry of public works concluded on 1st June, 2005 after almost three years of work the excavation across the Guadarrama mountain range of the second of ... More Information

Les Vaches du Viande - not for Vegetarians

Comedy of ErrorsLes Vaches du Viande - not for VegetariansOn 13th June 2005, five cows took shelter from thunderstorms in the Viande tunnel, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. Next morning, they were found ... More Information

1 Herrenknecht, 1 Lovat for Istanbul LRT and Metro

1 Herrenknecht, 1 Lovat for Istanbul LRT and MetroThe Otogar-Bagcilar LRT system project in Istanbul consists of three double-tube tunnels. The first double-tube tunnel will be constructed from ... More Information

Vietnam Opens Hai Van Tunnel

Vietnam Opens Hai Van TunnelPrime minister Phan Van Khai officially opened on 5th June, 2005 the Hai Van tunnel, which links the central province of Thua Thien Hue to the north and Da Nang City to ... More Information

Mega TBM for Madrid M-30

Mega TBM for Madrid M-30Monday 6th June saw the factory acceptance trials of the world's largest diameter TBM at the Herrenknecht home plant in Schwanau, southern Germany. Leading the client ... More Information

EuroTAP to Assess 150 Road Tunnels in Europe

EuroTAP to Assess 150 Road Tunnels in EuropeSince 1999, EuroTest, the joint test organisation of the European automobile clubs, investigates the safety level in road tunnels throughout Europe. ... More Information

Fire in Frejus Tunnel Kills Two

Fire in Frejus Tunnel Kills TwoTwo people died on Saturday 4th June, 2005 when a truck carrying tyres caught fire inside the 12.9 km-long 9 m-wide Frejus tunnel, shutting off a major route under ... More Information

Robbins TBM to Excavate Venaus Exploratory Tunnel on Lyon-Turin HSL

Robbins TBM to Excavate Venaus Exploratory Tunnel on Lyon-Turin HSLA Robbins high performance open type hard rock TBM will be used by the CMC-led JV including Strabag, Bentini Costruzioni, Cogeis ... More Information

International Congress on Safety Criteria and Innovations in Tunnels

International Congress on Safety Criteria and Innovations in TunnelsThe international congress on Safety Criteria and Innovations in Tunnels will be celebrated in the Congress Palace in Gijon, ... More Information

Conference on the Lyon-Turin Transalpine Line

Conference on the Lyon-Turin Transalpine LineURIS AR, the Regional Union of Engineers and Scientists of the Ain and Rhone departments (France), organises on 9th and 10th June, 2005 a conference on ... More Information

Cogemacoustic – ventilating the underground environment

Cogemacoustic – ventilating the underground environmentCogemacoustic, the specialist manufacturer of underground ventilation and dust extraction equipment, has developed an enviable reputation for ... More Information

Lovat TBM for Krolsky Tunnel in Siberia

Lovat TBM for Krolsky Tunnel in SiberiaRussian contractor Bamtonnelstroy of Krasnoryarsk took delivery three months ahead of schedule of their new TBM 'Martha', a 9.5 m-diameter hard rock machine ... More Information

Bolivia Inaugurates Misicuni Tunnel

Bolivia Inaugurates Misicuni TunnelThe 19.5 km trans-Andean tunnel to transport water from the Misicuni river in the Andes mountain range in Bolivia, the world's most infamous and slowest tunnel, ... More Information

Historic Tunnel Breakthrough at Loetschberg

Historic Tunnel Breakthrough at LoetschbergWorkers have blasted their way through the final metres of rock on 28th April, 2005 to pierce the 34.6 km Loetschberg rail tunnel, a key component of ... More Information

Tunnelling Equipment for Sale

Tunnelling Equipment for SaleA JV of Razel, Bouygues and Spie Batignolles TPCI sells a CSM Bessac TBM and associated equipment fabricated in 2001, used on the Blagis-Cachan sewer tunnel built for ... More Information

Two Atlas Copco L2 C Drill Rigs at Arlaban Tunnel

Two Atlas Copco L2 C Drill Rigs at Arlaban TunnelHighway AP-1 Eibar-Vitoria in Spain's Basque region spans 46.2 km, whereof 31.9 km in Gipuzkoa province and 14.3 in Alava province. The highway has ... More Information

NFM Technologies Wins Contract for 2 TBMs for Road Tunnel in Wuhan, China

NFM Technologies Wins Contract for 2 TBMs for Road Tunnel in Wuhan, ChinaNFM Technologies, part of the Wirth group, has been awarded a contract by the China Railway Tunnel Group for the design, ... More Information

Herrenknecht Extends Market Range with New Company Herrenknecht Vertical

Herrenknecht Extends Market Range with New Company Herrenknecht VerticalTo make the company ready for the future, Herrenknecht extends its technological and market range. The newly founded ... More Information

IPS to Supply TBM Specialists to Skanska Vinci JV for Hallandsas Tunnel

IPS to Supply TBM Specialists to Skanska Vinci JV for Hallandsas TunnelOn Friday 8th April, 2005, a Letter of Intent for the supply of TBM specialists has been signed between IPS and Skanska Vinci ... More Information

Third International Conference on Traffic and Safety in Road Tunnels to be Held in May

Third International Conference on Traffic and Safety in Road Tunnels to be Held in MayThe 3rd International Conference on Traffic and Safety in Road Tunnels - Developments and Trends in Equipment ... More Information

Model of Wirth TBM for Castellanza Tunnel on Exhibit at Samoter

Model of Wirth TBM for Castellanza Tunnel on Exhibit at SamoterIn Lombardy, Italy the Malpensa airport is connected to Milan by the Malpensa Express, operated by the private railway company Ferrovie ... More Information

NFM Technologies TBM Completes Tunnelling on First Metro Line in Turin

NFM Technologies TBM Completes Tunnelling on First Metro Line in Turin'Valeria', a second hand NFM Technologies TBM, broke through into Porta Nuova station on 19th March, 2005. This completes ... More Information

At last, tunnelbuilder in Italian!

At last, tunnelbuilder in Italian!Another milestone along the information superhighway has been reached with the launch of tunnelbuilder in Italian. Apart from its stand-alone status, the new ... More Information

First Boart Longyear-AMV Mining and Tunnelling Jumbos Ready for Industrial Production

First Boart Longyear-AMV Mining and Tunnelling Jumbos Ready for Industrial ProductionBoart Longyear and the Norwegian tunnelling equipment manufacturer Andersens Mek. Verksted (AMV) entered a year ... More Information

Sicily's A20 - more tunnel than motorway

Hall of FameSicily's A20 - more tunnel than motorway On 21st December, 2004 the 41.2 km Furiano-Castelbuono section was opened to complete the A20 Messina-Palermo motorway in Sicily, Italy. On the ... More Information

Full Success for CSM Bessac First EPB TBM

Full Success for CSM Bessac First EPB TBMJust less than nine months have been required to complete the last downstream section of the VL10 sewer, which will bring wastewater into the Valenton ... More Information

Italian Renaissance

Italian RenaissanceThe revival in the fortunes of the Italian tunnelling industry over the last ten years is remarkable, with some 100 projects now listed in the tunnelbuilder.com Archive. The whole ... More Information

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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

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