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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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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

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