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Women in Tunneling Happy Hour: Digging Deeper

Women in Tunneling Happy Hour: Digging Deeper

UCA Women In Tunneling (WIT) invites you to join in conversation with some of the remarkable women in tunneling. Pour your favourite beverage and connect on Thursday, October 21st at 6:00 pm ET. ... More Information

Grand Paris Express –Line 18

On the 16/10/2021 an open day will be held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. for the launch of a new TBM for Line 18. This will be the second TBM  for Line 18, whose name will be revealed during the site ... More Information

Second Main Line in Munich - Planning documents for the eastern section are now available

Second Main Line in Munich - Planning documents for the eastern section are now available

The planning approval documents for the construction of the eastern section (PFA 3 East) between the western bank of the Isar and Leuchtenbergring  station, from km 107.853 to km 110.711, of ... More Information

iPS - Safety in tunnels and excavation

iPS - Safety in tunnels and excavation

Tunnelling is essential underground construction that creates tunnels in many different applications for the benefit of the community. Did you know there are many safety hazards and risks involved ... More Information

BCL - Breakthrough for TBM Olga

BCL - Breakthrough for TBM Olga

On 08/10/2021 the TBM Olga - diameter 6 m  - completed the right running  single-track tunnel – 500 m long - between the Kashirskaya station and the transition chamber at the Klenovy ... More Information

T & M Specialists now in Canada

T & M Specialists now in Canada

T&M Specialists Canada now offers a full range of tunnelling and mining specialist services throughout North America.   As Hong Kong based T&M Specialists nears 10 years ... More Information

CEAR introduces their pressurized and ventilated containerized substation – ATEX certified

CEAR introduces their pressurized and ventilated containerized substation – ATEX certified

Press release - Costruzioni Elettrotecniche CEAR is proud to introduce to the market the ATEX certified pressurized and ventilated containerized substation, that is suitable for Hazardous Area ... More Information

Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel - Canada

Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel - Canada

On the 04/10/2021 the joint venture  between Aecon (40%) /Traylor Bros Inc. (60%) completed for Metro Vancouver excavation of the Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel, located in North Vancouver, ... More Information

West Connex - M4-M5 Link Tunnelling update

West Connex - M4-M5 Link Tunnelling update

Construction work on the M4-M5 Link Tunnels Project  - part of WestConnex - the Australia’s largest road infrastructure project - restarted from  31 July 2021, undertaken 24 hours a ... More Information

Epiroc - Collaboration to develop an electric trolley truck system for underground mining

Epiroc, Boliden and ABB recently entered a joint collaboration to develop an electric trolley truck system for underground mining. This development project will lower CO2 emissions, improve work ... More Information

Tunnel Skills - Tunnel Vision

TunnelSkills – the national specialist training forum for the UK tunnelling industry – specialises in the application of immersive learning and new technology to improve training, ... More Information

1000th ring completed on Tideways Greenwich Connection Tunnel

The 1000th ring has been installed on the Greenwich Connection Tunnel by TBM Annie. The TBM is now 1.5km into the journey to Chambers Wharf in Bermondsey, where the Greenwich Connection ... More Information

Clearwater Project - TBM Rachel Launched

Clearwater Project - TBM Rachel Launched

On 28/09/2021  TBM Rachel started its journey towards Royal Palm Beach for the Clearwater Project: at first, she’ll go slowly while systems are tested, but soon she’ll pick up speed ... More Information

Snowy 2.0 Project Updates

Snowy 2.0 Project Updates

Following a brief pause in July to install the remaining gantries and connect the conveyor belt, Lady Eileen - the first TBM to start tunnelling - is now more than 160 m into the mountain. By ... More Information

The TBM in Swinoujscie reaches Wolin Island

The TBM in Swinoujscie reaches Wolin Island

On 19/09/2021 TBM Wyspiarka, which started the Swinoujscie tunnel construction in March this year, broke through the wall of the receiving chamber - 35 m long, 19 m wide and 18 m high - on ... More Information

Press release - Tunnel progress as HS2 completes first mile under the Chilterns

The first enormous 2,000 tonne tunnelling machine passed the one mile mark this week during the construction of the first tunnels for HS2 - Britain’s new high speed rail link between London, ... More Information

Mapei - Concrete restoration and waterproofing systems on existing tunnels

Mapei - Concrete restoration and waterproofing systems on existing tunnels

Maintenance of underground infrastructure is one of the most important issues for the construction market. Nowadays, maintenance includes priority activities, in order to maintain the value of ... More Information

Gotthard Road Tunnel update

On the 29/09/2021 in Goeschenen and Airolo the works for the second tube of the Gotthard motorway tunnel were officially opened. This was a symbolic ceremony, because the original celebration was ... More Information

hyperTunnel – tunnelling reimagined

hyperTunnel – tunnelling reimagined

Innovation born out of necessity: the launch of hyperTunnel will see tunnels built completely differently in future, for huge global societal benefit. hyperTunnel is a new British tunnelling ... More Information

Factory Acceptance Ceremony for STRABAG’s 12m EPB TBM

Factory Acceptance Ceremony for STRABAG’s 12m EPB TBM

The Factory Acceptance Ceremony for STRABAG’s 12m EPB TBM took place yesterday at the Herrenknecht AG workshop in Schwanau, Germany. The TBM will tunnel the Metrolinx & Infrastructure ... More Information

Tianxi Expressway - Weilan Tunnel Completed

On 17/09/2021 the Weilan Tunnel part of the Guangxi Tianxi Expressway project invested in and constructed by Energy China Gezhouba Group successfully achieved a full-scale break ... More Information

Brenner Base Tunnel - Update of Total Project Costs

On the 07/09/2021, after the approval of the updated construction programme, approval was also obtained for the total costs of the BBT project, which had been updated to take the following issues ... More Information

Third breakthrough for Suki Kinari hydropower project in Pakistan

Third breakthrough for Suki Kinari hydropower project in Pakistan

On the 25/09/2021 a ceremony was held to celebrate the third breakthrough of headrace tunnel for the 884 MW Suki Kinari Hydropower Project. The project  has been under construction since 2017 ... More Information

STRATA Worldwide launches new website

STRATA Worldwide launches new website

From their early beginnings in underground coal mining roof support, STRATA has evolved into a leading global provider of advanced products and technologies in multiple industries. “Our ... More Information

Namma Metro - TBM URJA Tunnel Breakthrough at Shivajinagar metro station

On 22/09/21 Urja, the first TBM for the Namma Metro's Reach 6 line made a breakthrough at Shivajinagar, after completing the north bound tunnel of 855 m from Cantonment to Shivajinagar stations: ... More Information

MineARCs - Chamber Commissioning & Everything You Need To Know About It

MineARCs - Chamber Commissioning & Everything You Need To Know About It

Purchasing a MineARC chamber is an investment in ensuring that your crew are safe in the event of a disaster, but simply purchasing a chamber is only the first step in this process. A big part of ... More Information

T&M SPECIALISTS AWARDED A PERMANENT SPRAYED CONCRETE LINING PROJECT IN HONG KONG.

T&M Specialists Limited, established in Hong Kong in 2014, are delighted to announce they have been awarded a Permanent Sprayed Concrete Lining project.  Taking part in Hong Kong’s ... More Information

iPS Powerful People at British Tunnelling Society Conference and Exhibition

iPS Powerful People at British Tunnelling Society Conference and Exhibition

Our Business Development Manager Tunnelling Barrie Willis and our Manager Tunnelling Sam Merrick will be attending the British Tunnelling Society Conference on September 30th and October 1st in ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project Financial Plan and Record of Decision

At the end of August, the Gateway Program partners submitted an updated financial plan for the Hudson Tunnel Project to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) that should improve the project's ... More Information

Boreas Tunnelling are hiring multiple TBM operators

Boreas Tunnelling are hiring multiple TBM operators

Boreas Tunnelling are recruiting multiple TBM Operators that have verifiable long term experience in operating a Herrenknecht EPB TBM (Diameter 10.0 and above) for a long term job in South East ... More Information

Slurry Treatment Plant (STP) Manager wanted

Slurry Treatment Plant (STP) Manager wanted

TunnelCraft are looking for a Slurry Treatment Plant (STP) Manager for a large UK based tunnelling project. The successful applicant will be working alongside the Tunnelling site team to ensure ... More Information

PPS and tacs join forces again

After more than 30 years of going their separate ways, Munich based guidance system suppliers PPS GmbH and tacs GmbH have announced their merger and future cooperation. "The combination of our ... More Information

HRBT Expansion Project Updates

The HRBT Expansion Project reached several milestones in August. On the South Island, construction crews completed the underground concrete walls, also known as slurry walls, for the launch pit, ... More Information

Excavation of 9 km long tunnel connecting Kobi-Kvesheti starts

Excavation of 9 km long tunnel connecting Kobi-Kvesheti starts

On the 10/09/2021 a TBM began the construction of the longest tunnel on the  Kvesheti-Kobi road project in Kobi. The event was attended by the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili, ... More Information

TLT-Turbo Fans for Road, Railway & Metro Tunnels

TLT-Turbo Fans for Road, Railway & Metro Tunnels

For over fifty years, TLT-Turbo has developed first-of-their-kind, fine-tuned, and advanced ventilation systems for road, railway and metro tunnels. TLT-Turbo focuses on the system as a whole to ... More Information

Shortlist for Washwood Heath train depot and network control centre

HS2 Ltd confirmed the shortlist of bidders in the running to build the high speed rail project’s network control centre and rolling stock maintenance depot. The contract – worth an ... More Information

Tunnelling News

NFR achieves breakthrough in Tunnel No 8 of Sivok–Rangpo railway project

Tunnel No. 8 is one of the major tunnels of the project with a total length of 4.148 km and an additional adit measuring 1.010 km. The excavation and ... More Information

Suburban Rail Loop hits tunnelling milestone as eight TBMs arrive on site

The Suburban Rail Loop has reached a major construction milestone, with eight tunnel boring machines now on site ahead of tunnelling later this year... More Information

$16bn Hudson Tunnel project could pause again 'in two to three months'

Components of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will be used for the Palisades Tunnel Project arrived at ... More Information

Hinkley Point C | TBM readied for 620m long fish return tunnel

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will excavate the fish return tunnel has been christened Sarah Guppy by local schoolchildren, in tribute to ... More Information

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