The fourth mega TBM on the Snowy 2.0 project will be named after an aspiring engineer Monica Brimmer, 15 and talented Tumut High School student who scooped top prize in an Indigenous art and ...
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First cross-border underground connection in the Brenner Base Tunnel project. Representatives of the European Commission and institutional leaders from Italy and Austria attended the ceremony. ...
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On September 17, 2025, just 600 meters before reaching the municipality of Saint-Martin-la-Porte, tunnel boring machine (TBM) Viviana completed a complex 90° rotation inside the tunnel to align ...
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TBM Betty has smashed through into a cavern deep beneath Westmead to complete the first tunnel at the western end of the 24-km Sydney Metro West line, the project that will link Westmead to the ...
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The TBM Gaia is currently at work on the main tunnel of the Collettore Mediano in Turin, a strategic infrastructure for the city. The machine is excavating a 9.5 km tunnel, crossing heterogeneous ...
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A calendar highlight each year is the annual ITA Tunnelling Awards. This year 25 finalists from 13 countries representing impressive projects, transforming machines and materials, and ...
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On September 10th, the launch event for the works to secure the Campania Region's water supply system took place at the Campolattaro Dam construction site, in the province of Benevento, with the ...
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Walco Industries Ltd. was asked to complete a hydrodemolition project at a hydropower dam. The dam is located in western Canada and is one of the largest earthen dams in the world. It’s a ...
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On October 1st, 2025, the TBM (1,280 tons) will be launched — it arrived by ship from China at the Messina terminal last February.
The use of the TBM will accelerate the excavation of the 5.5 ...
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On September 23, ADIF will inaugurate the new Oural tunnel, a milestone in the comprehensive renovation and modernization of the Ourense-Monforte de Lemos-Lugo corridor (117 km), which connects to ...
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The Danish entrance to the Fehmarnbelt tunnel with its 160-m long cut-and-cover tunnel at Rødbyhavn on Lolland is almost complete. The transition between the motorway and the railway on ...
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On September 13, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., an open day will be held at the Ligerz/Gleresse tunnel, part of the track-doubling project between La Neuveville (BE) and Twann/Douanne (BE) in ...
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In mid-September 2025, TBM Barbara (85 m long and weighing 2,000 t) completed the excavation and lining—using 726 rings—of the Forch construction window (1.3 km), part of Lot 1 - ...
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The TBM Margherita is advancing at an average speed of 11 m/day, at a depth of approximately 105 m, while excavating the odd tube of the Cefalù tunnel on the Ogliastrillo-Castelbuono section, ...
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Two new TBMs in the Metrolinx family have officially been named Libby and Corkie, following a naming contest launched in June 2025 — which saw more than 900 submissions and over 1,000 votes ...
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Securing Water Resilience for Over Two Million People - Global engineering and built environment consultancy Arup has been appointed by STRABAG UK to deliver comprehensive design services for the ...
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The second test site for the renovation of the Mont Blanc Tunnel vault will be carried out from 1 September to 12 December 2025 in two sections of the tunnel, upstream and downstream of one of the ...
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TBM Ida has completed the excavation of the 8.4 km H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons section of the Brenner Base Tunnel, reaching its destination in the municipality of Navis (Wipptal), near an existing ...
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On 8 September 2025 at 3 p.m, a Services Conference will be held for the purpose of examining the final design for the doubling of the Genoa-Ventimiglia railway line: Finale Ligure – Andora ...
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The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYMTA) has awarded a $1.972 billion contract to Connect Plus Partners—a joint venture of Halmar International and FCC Construction—to ...
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TERRATEC is pleased to announce that its Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (EPBM), TERRATEC S114, has commenced excavation on Contract 3 of the MRT Purple Line (Tao Poon – Rat ...
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The expansion of Heathrow Airport has once again brought the spotlight onto one of the most complex tunnelling proposals ever considered in the UK: the realignment of the M25 motorway through a ...
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The Herrenknecht TBM EPB named “The Mighty Quinn” arrived at its destination in early August after boring a total of 5.64km under the city of Columbus, Ohio, USA. For the Lower Olentangy ...
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Snowy Hydro is now preparing for the arrival of its fourth TBM to join Snowy 2.0 – Australia’s largest renewable energy project.
The new TBM - 178-m length and 11.86 m diameter - ...
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Metrolinx is creating a second tunnel launch shaft near Gerrard Street and Carlaw Avenue which is now under construction. This will serve as the starting point for the second underground section of ...
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Scandinavian construction powerhouse Veidekke ASA has officially been awarded the contract section of Gothenburg's ambitious West Link (Västlänken) rail project.
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Work on Romania’s second metro network, in Cluj-Napoca, has entered a key new stage with the start of excavation for the tunnel boring machine (TBM) launch shaft.
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Serbian Association for Tunnels and Underground Structures in
collaboration with the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association will
host the Southeastern ...
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On August 6, 2025, Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx awarded North End Connectors a fixed-price C$1.4 billion contract to design, build, and finance the advance tunnelling phase of the Yonge ...
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Overview & Purpose - The Canyon Tunnel Project is a major $84 million regional water infrastructure initiative carried out by the South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID) in partnership ...
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On July 28, 2025 at 10h20 a.m., TBM n.1 named Than Toc (Lightning speed) - designed and manufactured by Herrenknecht, over 100 m length and 850 t weight - successfully completed its ...
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TBMs Dorothy and Betty power into Parramatta
Tunnelling for the Sydney Metro West project is nearly 90% complete, with the arrival of two TBMs at Parramatta’s metro station site. This marks a ...
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On Thursday 24 July, the TBM Marguerite de Catellan broke through at the future Côte Pavée station, Lot 4 of Toulouse Line C: click here for the video.
The TBM - launched in ...
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On Saturday 26th July, the team working on the HS2 project lifted the TBM Emily's 9.11m diameter cutterhead, front and middle shield, weighing 880 t, using a large gantry crane, at the Green Park ...
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On Saturday 19 July, production of the precast concrete segments used by the TBMs for the final lining of the line tunnels were completed at the Ahrental plant located near the Austrian H41 ...
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The Delhi Metro Rail Project marked another significant milestone as Afcons Infrastructure’s Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Disha (1264B) achieved a breakthrough at the Tughlakabad Railway Colony ...
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