HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd is asking the public to choose names for the next two TBMs that will be launched in early 2024 to dig the Northolt Tunnel East travelling through Brent and Ealing. The TBMs ...
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Last week on August 8th, 2023 the giant TBMs reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft, passing the fourth of five ventilation and emergency access shafts, 75% of the way through the 16 km (10 ...
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On August 08, 2023 TBM Aurora - 100 m long, powered by 18 motors with a total power of 6.3MW - began excavation on the Grottaminarda tunnel in the Avellino Province, on the section between ...
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Jill, the TBM which is delivering the Silvertown tunnel in east London, has now completed work on the second bore.
The TBM, named in honour of Jill Viner, the first female bus driver in ...
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Almost 65 years after the original Hobsons Bay main sewer was built for carrying more than 30% of Melbourne’s wastewater to the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), tunnelling work to build ...
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On Wednesday 02/08/2023 the Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygård officially started construction for the OPS project E10/rv.85 ...
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On Wednesday, 26 July 2023 – at the Campo Marte site at Florence - excavation work began on the Florence HS rail link that will involve the city's railway underpass and the new Florence ...
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TBM Rachel, has completed 4.83 km (3 miles) of its 11 km (7-mile) journey towards Royal Palms Beach in San Pedro, California (USA) for the Clearwater Project. Click here for a video of the ...
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HS2’s first two TBMs in London, Sushila and Caroline, have completed the 1.6 km (first mile ) of the twin-bored Northolt tunnel in the capital. Since launch in November 2022, the ...
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On July 31, 2023 at 11.40 am a mechanical hammer broke through the 2 m thick diaphragm of the new Tenda tunnel between Italy and France.
The breakthrough is an important milestone in the new ...
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July marked an exciting milestone for Snowy Hydro, Snowy 2.0 and Future Generation Joint Venture - FGJV with the relaunch of TBM Lady Eileen Hudson - one of the mega project's three TBMs - at ...
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The Río Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel project in Argentina is witnessing impressive progress with the advancement of two TERRATEC Ø4.66m EPB machines.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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Press release - On June 16th, with the 230 t main machine descending down to the bottom of the foundation pit, the world's largest shaft boring machine "Dream" launched at the underground smart ...
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On July 04, 2023 TBM Peggy began its journey at the future Airport Business Park Station, carving out the first 5.5-km sections of the second tube of the twin metro tunnels towards the Aerotropolis. ...
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Tunnelcraft are recruiting experienced TBM Fitters for one of their prestigious long running HS2 projects in Northwest London. Competitive rates paid plus accommodation.
Candidates are to possess ...
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On 25/07/2023 the 1,066-t TBM Eileen reached the Airport Terminal metro station site, marking the first tunnel breakthrough for the city-shaping Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport ...
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The Norwegian Coastal Administration has started a new round of core drilling from the Kjøde side to examine the quality of the rock in the route for the Stad ship tunnel: a drilling rig ...
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Registration is now open for visitors to EXPO Ferroviaria 2023, the biennial International Exhibition of Railway Technology, Products and Systems, which will take place from 3 - 5 October 2023 in ...
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Last week a third TBM has been launched for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport project at Orchard Hills. The TBM is named after Catherine White, who has worked tirelessly to advocate ...
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Press release - The Government has given the formal green light by granting a Development Consent Order for the A303 Stonehenge scheme, which will help to unlock congestion and transform journeys ...
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The TBMs Daphne and Beatrice are driving the tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park as part of Sydney Metro West: TBM Daphne already 327 m into its 11-km journey from The Bays to Sydney ...
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On July 04, 2023 two 1,066-t TBMs Eileen and Peggy started their journeys at the future Airport Business Park Station, carving out the first 5.5-km sections of the twin metro tunnels towards the ...
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It’s a successful FAT for the TBM - 200 m long, 300 t weight and with a 7.08 m diameter - that will drive the 11.3km Rentvanns/Clear Water tunnel between Trosterud and Huseby for the NVO (Ny ...
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Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats Pvt. Ltd. is the only bidder to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the 15.6 km Gohpur – Numaligarh tunnel project in Assam. This ...
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On June 28th, the Beijing East Sixth Ring Road Reconstruction Project reported that its slurry TBM "Jinghua" had successfully made a breakthrough on the west line tunnel. This marks that the first ...
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The companies together with the public promoter witnessed the trials of the machine that will excavate the next 9 km beneath Mont Cenis.
Schwanau (DE), 7 July 2023 - The first of the ...
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Today July 7th 2023 the FAT test for the first Telt TBM S-1355 built by Herrenknecht is complete. The 10.415m TBM will drive the 9km North tube from St Martin la PORTE to La Praz, parallel to ...
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Today, Tideway unveils Loo Gardens – a magical subterranean installation – nested within the Thames Tideway Tunnel, also known as London’s ‘super ...
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From July 04, 2023 Milan’s Linate airport is now only 12 minutes away from the city centre following today’s inauguration of the San Babila Station, part of the new M4 metro line. The ...
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58 years after inaugurating Milan’s first underground railway line, six stations opened their doors last year on 26th November to passengers travelling on the city’s new line, the fifth ...
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The Gateway Development Commission (GDC) announced that it has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for two major components of the Hudson Tunnel Project:
Package EA1, the Hudson ...
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TERRATEC is pleased to announce the delivery of a 3.85m Rock Slurry Machine for the Mumbai Sewer Disposal Project (MSDP) Stage-II - PST1 in Mumbai, India J Kumar and Michigan Engineers Private Ltd. ...
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When the production of the tunnel elements for the Fehmarn Belt construction is completed, the element factory at Rodbyhavn on Lolland is scheduled to be demolished. Together with the working harbor ...
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The Ship Canal Water Quality Project has been under construction since late 2018. On June 15 at 10:18 am the 5.48 m (18-foot) diameter TBM MudHoney, completed tunneling all 4250,74 m (13,946 feet) ...
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Press release - Work to build the world's longest and deepest undersea road tunnel is well under way from Bokn in the north to Randaberg in the south. Now the third major contract has been ...
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The first images have been revealed of the huge tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will dig HS2’s Bromford Tunnel, between Water Orton in North Warwickshire and Washwood Heath in ...
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