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That’s a Wrap for Robbins Rock Machine ‘Driller Mike’

That’s a Wrap for Robbins Rock Machine ‘Driller Mike’

Tough TBM and Team overcome the odds with Atlanta breakthrough On October 4, 2018, onlookers watched as a 3.8 m (12.5 ft) diameter Robbins Main Beam TBM completed its epic journey. The TBM, ... More Information

EF Consult and DTS win major contracts

EF Consult and DTS win major contracts

EF Consult Asia Pte Ltd / Design & Technic Pte Ltd, will provide a full range of Compressed Air Works Services for Singapore’s DTSS Phase 2 and Circle Line 6 Tunnels. They have also ... More Information

Gaia EPB TBM

Gaia EPB TBM

Gaia, the first EPM TBM certified ''Origine France Garantie'' is ready to start digging the emergency tunnel of the Meudon railway tunnel (3350 m) on Line 977000, Invalides-Versailles Rive Gauche in ... More Information

Geologist services required for Gotthard Tunnel

Open invitation to tender, deadline 23.11.2018, for geologist services, senior project geologist for the (DP) phase, chief client geologist for the construction phase up to and including ... More Information

Consultation on Lower Thames Crossing

The Lower Thames Crossing, a major new road linking Kent, Thurrock and Essex, would nearly double road capacity across the River Thames. The multi-billion-pound project will connect communities, ... More Information

WTC 2019 - Naples

WTC 2019 - Naples

730 papers have been received by the Scientific Committee of the World Tunnel Congress 2019, the second phase of the process has now been completed. The next step will lead to a selection of ... More Information

Celebrations for CIFA’s 90th anniversary

Celebrations for CIFA’s 90th anniversary

A new creation in the form of a logo emerging from concrete has been created to represent CIFAs 90th anniversary. This is to show its established stability and longevity within the industry since it ... More Information

Super sewer team don pink for Breast Cancer Care

Super sewer team don pink for Breast Cancer Care

The team building London’s super sewer swapped their headgear for a pink number to raise money for Breast Cancer Care today (Friday, Oct 12). More than 150 Members of the Tideway construction ... More Information

Finalists for the Innovative Use of Underground Space category

ITA Tunnelling Awards 2018  3 INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS TO RECONCILE THE UNDERGROUND AND THE SURFACE   Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA Tunnelling Awards" ... More Information

TERRATEC and JIM Technology formalize relationship

TERRATEC and JIM Technology formalize relationship

TERRATEC is proud to announce the incorporation of its business partner, JIM Technology from Japan, as shareholder of the Company. Both companies have been working together for the last 8 years ... More Information

Donegal Tunnel Tigers Memorial

The @DonegalTunnelTigers are preparing to erect a memorial in honour of all Donegal miners that have died as a result of accidents while working in tunnels or those that have passed due to tunnel ... More Information

Blacklick tunnel ahead of Schedule

Blacklick tunnel ahead of Schedule

Press release from Michels - Final drive completed 3 months ahead of schedule. Congratulations to our crews, partners and customer for the successful completion of the final drive on the 4.5-mile ... More Information

Welcome to our new advertiser MineARC Systems.

Welcome to our new advertiser MineARC Systems.

MineARC is the global leader in controlled environments and safety technologies for the underground mining, tunnelling, chemical processing, disaster relief and biotechnology industries. MineARC ... More Information

Delivering Australia’s largest road infrastructure project – WestConnex

Delivering a multi-billion-dollar, multi-record-breaking infrastructure project under immense public scrutiny is no easy feat – but it’s part of the challenge for James Holbrook, ... More Information

Breakthrough under the San Martino Hospital of Genoa

Breakthrough under the San Martino Hospital of Genoa

On 8 October 2018 the joint venture between Cipa Spa (LEAD), Injectosond Srl and Paolo Barchi Srl finished the tunnel underneath the San Martino hospital in Genoa. The tunnel was created to ... More Information

Albula tunnel breakthrough

On the 2nd of October 2018 the 5860 m Albula Tunnel broke through, it is part of the Rhaetian Railway. The tunnel has been built between the Albula valley and the upper Engadine in the Canton of ... More Information

Chilean La Piramide tunnel starts construction

Chilean La Piramide tunnel starts construction

This October the drill & blast excavation of the 2km La Piramide tunnel in the Recolet municipality started . The tunnel is one of the sections of the Americo Vespucio Oriente I (AVO I) which ... More Information

First breakthrough for Mumbai’s Metro-3

On the 24.09.2018 the TBM Wainganga completed its first tunnel for the 33.5-km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz (Metro-3 line). The 1.26-km tunnel between Pali ground in Marol, Andheri (East) and the ... More Information

Palmieri Group launch new website

Palmieri Group launch new website

Palmieri Group launched its new website http://www.palmierigroup.com/ at the 22nd edition of Geofluid. Visit it the site today to see the changes that make the site easier to use and is full of ... More Information

The Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP)

The 35.6 km long Mumbai/Bombay Coastal Road will connect the southern part of Mumbai from Marine Lines with Kandivali in the north. It will have 8 lanes, two of which are reserved for the Bus ... More Information

Huge Robbins Slurry TBM makes the Cut

Huge Robbins Slurry TBM makes the Cut

On September 18, 2018, a Robbins mega-sized slurry machine, measuring 13.7 m (44.8 ft) in diameter, made its first cut into hard rock. The epic launch at an urban jobsite was made possible by Onsite ... More Information

Quito Metro tunnel completed

On Tuesday, October 2nd ,  the Metropolitan Public Company Metro de Quito informed the public that the TBM Luz de America reached the El Arbolito extraction shaft, completing the Quito Metro ... More Information

NIB finances new section of E18 motorway in Norway

NIB and the Norwegian toll-road operator Ferde AS have signed a EUR 104.5 million (NOK 1 billion) loan with a maturity of 17.5 years to finance the construction of a new 23km section of four-lane ... More Information

ISAVFT 2019 - Call for Papers is now open!

The 18th International Symposium on Aerodynamics, Ventilation and Fire in Tunnels Call for Papers is now open! ISAVFT 2019 will be taking place in Athens, Greece from the 25th -27th of September ... More Information

OSSA - verdict announced

The verdict involving Ossa and Statens Vegvesen (Norway) has been announced. The Spanish firm Ossa, a specialist in the construction of underground works, has won an appeal against SVV (Statens ... More Information

West Section of Tel Aviv Red Line Completed.

West Section of Tel Aviv Red Line Completed.

On September 20, 2018, the last CREG TBM (ø 7.54m) successfully broke through into the Carlibach Station in Tel Aviv, Israel.  The project used 6 sets of CREG EPBs and the contractor ... More Information

WTC 2019

The deadline to submit papers for WTC 2019 has been postponed until September 23rd  2018. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc) and PDF (.pdf not zipped) and according to the ... More Information

RO-KA-TECH 2019

The bi-annually German underground infrastructure trade fair will take at the Kassel Exhibition Center from May 8th  to 10th, 2019. Around 300 exhibitors are expected from around 20 ... More Information

Palermo railway link tunnel complete

Palermo railway link tunnel  complete

RFI and the Italian-Spanish consortium SIS celebrated the breakthrough of the Notarbartolo-Belgio tunnel for the Palermo railway. The Marisol TBM (diameter 9,40 m) completed the tunnel excavation ... More Information

Karavanke railway tunnel

The Karavanke tunnel between Slovenia and Austria has been undergoing maintenance and renovation work. The complete renovation of the tunnel is scheduled to be finished between 2020 and 2021. The ... More Information

Mumbai - Two new metro projects approved

On the 11th of September 2018 the Maharashtra government approved the implementation of two metro projects for Mumbai: the Dahisar-Mira Bhayander section for the metro Line 9, and the 3.17 km ... More Information

WTC 2019 - Deadline paper submission postponed

The deadline to submit papers for WTC 2019 has been postponed to September 16th 2018. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc) and PDF (.pdf not zipped) and according to the official ... More Information

Innotrans 2018

The international trade fair for Transport Technology, Innovative Components, Vehicles, Systems will be held at the Berlin Messe from the 18-21st September, 2018. The European Commissioner for ... More Information

Robbins Crossover TBM “Rosie” flexes her Muscle

Robbins Crossover TBM “Rosie” flexes her Muscle

Massive XRE Machine breaks through at Akron OCIT On August 29, 2018, a 9.26 m (30.4 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM crossed the finish line at the Akron Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel ... More Information

AGJV Press release

AGJV Press release

Celebrations as the TBMS of The Follo Line breakthrough at the same time. The tunnel excavation in the Nordic region's longest rail tunnel has just reached its target towards Oslo city ... More Information

HERRENKNECHT Rock-solid tunnelling: double breakthrough on the Follo Line

HERRENKNECHT Rock-solid tunnelling: double breakthrough on the Follo Line

Royal double breakthrough in Oslo.  After about 9 kilometers each through tough gneiss, on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 the twin tunnel boring machines from Herrenknecht "Queen Eufemia" and ... More Information

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In pics: construction site of Chongming-Taicang tunnel

A smart assembling vehicle works at "Linghang" large diameter shield tunneling machine at the construction site of the Chongming-Taicang tunnel, part of the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu ... More Information

IN PICTURES: Spectacular images of the removal of HS2's huge tunnelling machine

TBM Sushila was used to construct part of the Northolt Tunnel – an 8.4-mile tunnel ... construction/london-tunnels/progress-3/northolt-tunnel/tbm- ... More Information

Historic tunnels uncovered beneath Salisbury station during £5.3M upgrade project

Engineers from Network Rail and South Western Railway have uncovered a network of tunnels and rooms beneath Salisbury station during ongoing £5.3M upgrades to the station’s forecourt... More Information

Massive $450m road project connecting Russia and Georgia with six bridges & five tunnels

Massive $450m road project connecting Russia and Georgia with six bridges & five tunnels. The new road will pass through Georgia along a trade route ... More Information

Buca Metro Tunnel Excavations Reached 50 Percent Level

Important progress is being made in the construction of the line, where four tunnel boring machines (TBMs), each 100 meters long, 7 meters wide and ... More Information

'Very promising' narrow-reef boring technology nearing rollout stage

A novel tunnel boring machine (TBM) will open up Bokoni's narrow tabular dipping PGM orebody to allow narrow-reef boring to take place, so that ... More Information

A vast undersea tunnel is being built

The 7.4 billion-euro ($7.7 billion) project is a huge undertaking, in every sense. Each section of the tunnel is colossal. These concrete structures ... More Information

National Grid gets planning permission for Grain to Tilbury upgrade with new Thames tunnel

National Grid has secured full planning approval for the Grain to Tilbury project, which includes a new power tunnel under the River Thames... More Information

Right track tunnel of Huangjialing Tunnel in NW China's Gansu drilled through

A staff member works on the construction site of the right track tunnel of the Huangjialing Tunnel in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, northwest ... More Information

Shetland Islands tunnels plan takes 'huge step forward' with sonar investigations

This phase will further inform the project's development and feasibility. The tunnel project, seen by locals as pivotal for improving ... More Information

Construction of the Tarande tunnel begins next week

On March 17th, in Vilnius district Construction of a tunnel and other related infrastructure will begin at Taranda and Bukiškis. This project aims ... More Information

Delhi Metro's Golden Line achieves major tunnel breakthrough;

The construction of Delhi Metro's Golden Line achieved a major milestone on Thursday as the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) broke through at the ... More Information

RiverRenew Tunnel Project Nearing Completion

The RiverRenew Tunnel System Project, the largest infrastructure investment in Alexandria's history, is nearing completion. More Information

Sydney Metro West tunnels enter final stretch after big breakthrough

Two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) constructing the huge Sydney Metro West tunnels have made a smashing entrance 24 metres below the surface. More Information

Chennai Metro Rail launches first tunnel boring machine for underground tunnelling in Kolathur

Corridor 5 begins at Madhavaram Milk Colony and connects through Koyambedu, Porur, Alandur and other residential/commercial areas of the city to ... More Information

Element Six, Master Drilling Announce Tunnel Development Partnership

Element Six and Master Drilling will deliver a diamond-enabled solution designed to increase tunneling development speed, reducing costs and minimize the environmental impact of tunnel ... More Information

Gateway Project Tunnel Connecting NY and NJ Moves Forward

Five Gateway contracts have been awarded so far, including one on Predergast's first day for construction on the Manhattan side of the tunnel... More Information

HSR Xi'an – Yan'an: Completion of All Tunnels in the Project

The HSR Xi'an – Yan'an has completed the excavation of all tunnels, including the Tongchuan Tunnel. This is a key milestone in the construction ... More Information

Brazil's US$1bn underwater tunnel project making waves among potential bidders

The first underwater road tunnel project in Brazil is attracting interest from multiple potential bidders, an official familiar with the matter ... More Information

Element Six and Master Drilling Announce Strategic Partnership for Advanced Tunnel

Achieving high quality, nonexplosive tunnel construction with various aspects of value generated compared to traditional rock excavation methods is a ... More Information

Tutor Perini Wins a $1.2 Billion NYC Contract

A joint venture of Sylmar-based civil construction firm Tutor Perini Corp. and its subsidiary Frontier-Kemper Constructors has won a $1.18 billion contract to construct a pair of rail ... More Information

Milestone reached for $1.6b Auckland wastewater tunne

Watercare's Central Interceptor project has passed an historic milestone with the southern half of the 16.2 kilometre tunnel – Blockhouse Bay ... More Information

Elon Musk's 'Wormhole' Tunnel Promises To Carry 20,000 People Per Hour In Dubai

It’s been more than eight years since Elon Musk decided he was fed up with traffic and declared he’d start digging tunnels to revolutionize public transport across the United States. So ... More Information

First tender for Dubai’s $22bn tunnels due within days

Dubai Municipality is expected to tender the first two packages of the $22bn Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST) project imminently... More Information

London's Thames Tideway Tunnel now fully connected

After 10 years of construction work, the last of the 21 connections of the Thames Tideway Tunnel was made to the city's Victorian sewage system. More Information

Silvertown Tunnel

Silvertown Tunnel is the Transport for London project looking to forge a brand-new connection between Silvertown and the Greenwich Peninsula... More Information

Dubai Loop: Elon Musk to Build Huge Underground Road Network

Musk's The Boring Company, which is responsible for building a similar project in Las Vegas, aims to create 17 kilometers of tunnel capable of ... More Information

Wisconsin approves $4.5m tunnel lighting project

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has approved a $4.5m lighting systems upgrade project in various tunnels in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. More Information

$1.18bn Manhattan Tunnel contract awarded as part of $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project

The Hudson Tunnel Project is the key section of the Gateway Programme, which is a comprehensive rail infrastructure investment aimed at boosting ... More Information

North East Link continues to forge ahead towards completion

Tunnelling will soon commence on Victoria's longest twin road tunnels – the North East Link tunnels – as two massive tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are ... More Information

Africa's huge £8.5m tunnel cuts up to 26 minutes off journeys to major capital city

The tunnel is to be constructed within the next three years. This project will not only create 500 jobs in the construction ... More Information

CMRL's tunnel boring machine from Panagal Park reaches Kodambakkam station after a year

Chennai Metro Rail's Phase II Project faces delays as tunnel boring machines 'Pelican' and 'Peacock' progress towards Kodambakkam... More Information

$800-million twin-tube tunnel, longest in the Philippines, nears 'breakthrough'

A senior agency official stated on Thursday that the tunneling phase of the Davao City Bypass Construction Project will achieve a long-awaited ... More Information

The World’s Largest Immersed Tunnel Is Being Built—And It’s Done Without a Tunnel Boring Machine

When we think about groundbreaking advancements, our minds often jump to cutting-edge technology like smartphones or supercomputers. But some of the most awe-inspiring innovations are ... More Information

Brenner Base TBM enters 'highly fractured' fault zone

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) working on the northernmost active construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel project has entered a “highly ... More Information

India building a historic Undersea Tunnel for Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project

He stated, "All high-quality safety norms have been adopted in the construction of this India's first carefully designed undersea tunnel project." The ... More Information

Norway's Incredible Ship Tunnel Plan Is Back On Track

Despite pandemic-related and planning delays to the project, the Norwegian Coastal Administration is pressing ahead with plans to build the world's ... More Information

PM Modi inaugurates Z-Morh tunnel in J&K

The tunnel works with the under-construction Zojila tunnel to enhance travel efficiency and road connectivity. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra ... More Information

Metro's tunnel construction on track

Meanwhile, the 'Azad' TBM is already working on the 'up-line' tunnel for the same stretch. After arriving at Transport Nagar, both TBMs were 'dragged' ... More Information