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Samoter and Asphaltica Postponed to 2021

After noting the persistent scenario of international uncertainty linked with Covid-19, the 31st edition of SaMoTer and 9th edition of Asphaltica have been postponed to March 2021. ... More Information

Robbins Free Webinar on Himalayan Geology

Robbins Free Webinar on Himalayan Geology

On August 13, 2020 at time: 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT/5 PM GMT+2 Robbins will be hosting a free webinar discussing a project they were involved in in the Himalayas. The title of the ... More Information

Progress at Chiltern tunnel site as HS2 prepares for arrival of first TBMs

Progress at Chiltern tunnel site as HS2 prepares for arrival of first TBMs

Preparation for the arrival of HS2’s first giant TBMs has passed a major milestone with the completion of the 17m high headwall and ground reinforcement at what will become the south ... More Information

Étanchéité de Tunnels

Depuis 50 ans, Sotecnisol a dominé le marché de l’étanchéité au Portugal et a développé une forte présence dans d’autres ... More Information

Ashbridges Bay Wastewater outfall tunnel

New outfall tunnel for Ashbridges Bay Wastewater The construction of the new outfall tunnel for Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant in Toronto has been a work in progress since the ... More Information

Clearwater Project in Los Angeles

Clearwater Project  in Los Angeles

Last week the virtual Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for  the Joint Water Pollution Control Plant Effluent Outfall TBM to be used for the Clearwater Project  in Los Angeles  was ... More Information

Grand Paris Express - Breakthrough for TBM Koumba

Grand Paris Express - Breakthrough for TBM Koumba

On 20/07/20 the TBM Koumba arrived at the future Europa service facility in Orly on the extension of line 14 south: click here for the video.  The TBM will resume excavation in about two ... More Information

Cross River Rail underground blasting tests begin

Cross River Rail underground blasting tests begin

Cross River Rail in Brisbane (Australia) will test underground blasting at the site of the new Albert Street underground station and the new Woolloongabba station site, in a move to speed up ... More Information

New product certificate for CEAR

New product certificate for CEAR

CEAR have finally completed the certification for their 7.2kV Ex-e MV Junction box in accordance with the Directive ATEX 2014/34/EU. This Ex-e Junction Box  is also in compliance with ... More Information

Italy/Piedmont - A Infra.To the design of Line 2 in Turin

Italy/Piedmont - A Infra.To the design of Line 2 in Turin

On 14/07/2020, the Turin City Council passed a resolution, which will then have to be approved by the City Council, which identifies Infra.To, the in-house company of the city of Turin, for the ... More Information

Seabridge Gold’s KSM Project starts geotechnical drilling

Seabridge Gold’s KSM Project starts geotechnical drilling

On the 9th of July 2020 geotechnical drilling began along the proposed route of the Mitchell Treaty Tunnels (MTT), a key infrastructure component of the KSM gold-copper project in north western ... More Information

Your new contractor for SCL Tunnelling & Mining in the UK.

Your new contractor for SCL Tunnelling & Mining in the UK.

T&M Specialists UK Ltd. A new company in the UK market but with an already extensive portfolio of previous projects. T&M Specialists started life based in Hong Kong from where they have ... More Information

New yellow metro line in Stockholm

The Stockholm metro will be expanded with the building of the new Yellow line from Odenplan in Stockholm to Arenastaden in Solna.  The new line will have three new stations (Hagastaden, Sodra ... More Information

IWMC 2021

IWMC 2021: Tabletop Booking has started - The 20th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) will take place in Warsaw (Poland) on 21st and 22nd April 2021 at the Regent Warsaw Hotel. The ... More Information

TBM Selina set to create final stretch of super sewer arrives by river in London

TBM Selina set to create final stretch of super sewer arrives by river in London

At the beginning of July TBM Selina, built to create the final 5.5km stretch of London’s new super sewer, arrived in the capital. It was delivered to Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site in ... More Information

Snowy 2.0 project - TBM factory test celebrated in Australia

The most sophisticated TBM for the construction of Snowy 2.0, the biggest renewable energy project in Australia, has passed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), making it ready to be shipped to the ... More Information

Brenner Base Tunnel project - Breakthrough

Brenner Base Tunnel project - Breakthrough

On 06/07/20 the TBM Gunther, tunnelling from Ahrental (Innsbruck) in the north completed its 16.7 km long exploratory tunnel. The TBM averaged 11 m of tunnelling per day. The breakthrough, ... More Information

Cumana Railway –Breakthrough in Monte Olibano tunnel

On the 2nd of July a break through ceremony was held in Naples for the Monte Olibano tunnel, which forms part of the project to upgrade and expansion of the Cumana Railway. The new tunnel forms ... More Information

The WestConnex in Sydney M8 is now open!

The WestConnex in Sydney M8 is now open!

The WestConnex M8 opened on Sunday 5 July in Sydney. The new M5 East motorway has been named the M8. The 9km M8 twin tunnels run from the end of the M5 Motorway at Kingsgrove to the new St Peters ... More Information

Tideway project - TBM Charlotte completes connection tunnel drive

Tideway project - TBM Charlotte completes connection tunnel drive

At the beginning of this month TBM Charlotte completed her journey to the Carnwath Road reception chamber at Fulham, finishing a 1.1km connection tunnel, at a depth of 30 m. It will take sewage ... More Information

ITA ANNOUNCEMENT - WTC 2020 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ITA ANNOUNCEMENT - WTC 2020 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) has advised the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) that WTC 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is cancelled. The Executive ... More Information

Grand Paris Express tunnel works restarted

 Grand Paris Express tunnel works restarted

Line 15 - On 18/06/20 the TBM Amandine, who started out from the Arcueil Cachan station (Line 15, lot T3C), broke through the wall of the future Villejuif IGR (Institut Gustave Roussy) station. The ... More Information

Fehmarn tunnel

Boskalis and joint venture partner Van Oord have started work on the construction of what will be the largest port in Europe for the Fehmarnbelt project in Robyhavn.  The working harbour ... More Information

Terratec - Argentina’s President kicks-off landmark Agua Sur tunnel

Terratec - Argentina’s President kicks-off landmark Agua Sur tunnel

CMC di Ravenna recently marked the commencement of the Río Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel, in Argentina, with a cutterhead lowering ceremony that was attended by the country’s President Alberto ... More Information

EU special infrastructures report: more speed needed in megaproject implementation

EU special infrastructures report: more speed needed in megaproject implementation

The ECA (European Court of Auditors) audited the Commission’s management of the following 8 cross-border transport megaprojects in thirteen Member States: 1) Rail Baltica: a rail line ... More Information

Feedback for Sydney Metro West EIS

The Sydney Metro West EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) went on exhibition 30th  April and the community has until 26/06/2020 to provide feedback. This is one of three EISs for the project ... More Information

Final Koralm tunnel breakthrough

Final Koralm tunnel breakthrough

On June 17th 20202 the final breakthrough in the north tube of the Koralm tunnel took place. Since 2014, tunnellers have dug through the mountain from Carinthian Lavanttal with the TBM Kora. After ... More Information

Warsaw metro Line 2 update

Warsaw metro Line 2 update

On the 12/06/2020 TBM Maria  broke through at the C20 Kondratowicza station. The TBM completed the first part of the right tunnel on the north-east section of metro Line 2 in Warsaw. The ... More Information

Tideway Sewer updates

Tideway Sewer updates

Tideway is building a new 25km super sewer,  deep beneath the Thames, where around two million tonnes of sewage overflowing from the pumping station and into the River every year, will be ... More Information

New images of 1ST Chiltern tunnels launch site

New images of 1ST Chiltern tunnels launch site

The excavation of the TBMs launch site and the construction of the concrete precast plant for the Chiltern tunnels on the London to Birmingham high speed rail line, HS2 First Phase project has now ... More Information

Zitron carries out successful test of axial fan

Zitron carries out successful test of axial fan

On the 04/06/2020 Zitron successfully carried out the most challenging high temperature test to date on a tunnel axial fan: 600 ºC for 120 minutes. These fans will be installed at the ... More Information

Successful passage of TBM Gaia under the Rhine-Schie canal

Successful passage of TBM Gaia under the Rhine-Schie canal

On the 16th of June comol5 celebrated a major milestone by successfully drilling under the Rhine-Schie Canal for the second time. It was the most difficult and exciting part of the drilling ... More Information

Green light from Michigan Court of Appeals for the Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel

On the  11/06/2020 the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that legislators did not violate the state constitution by allowing construction of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two ... More Information

Geofluid 2021

Geofluid 2021

Piacenza Expo has decided to postpone the GEOFLUID exposition until 2021. The new date for your diaries will be the 15th  to the 18th of  September 2021 at the exhibition centre ... More Information

A1 Santa Lucia tunnel breakthrough

On the 08/06/2020 the TBM EPB S-900 Herrenknecht (diameter 15.87 m) completed the excavation of the 7551 m Santa Lucia tunnel on Barberino di Mugello - Calenzano section, A1 Motorway in Italy. ... More Information

Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System

ELAPAS (Empresa Local de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Sanitario) from the city of Sucre, Bolivia, has published the Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System (Lot ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

HCMC approves sea-crossing route with undersea tunnel between Can Gio and Vung Tau

Ho Chi Minh City has approved a strategic proposal by Vingroup to construct a direct sea-crossing road connecting the Can Gio coastal urban area with Vung Tau beach town, cutting travel ... More Information

Changi Airport’s new underground link to take passengers from future T5 to T2 in 4 minutes

SINGAPORE – Passengers at the future Changi Airport Terminal 5 can expect to reach Terminal 2 in four minutes via the airport’s new underground link... More Information