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Robbins EPB and Conveyors complete complex Lot 5 at Emisor Oriente

Robbins EPB and Conveyors complete complex Lot 5 at Emisor Oriente

Powerful TBM proves itself in both soft ground and hard rock.  On February 28, 2019 a ceremony was held to mark the breakthrough of a machine proven in both soft ground and hard rock. The ... More Information

West Gate Tunnel Project Graduate Program

West Gate Tunnel Project Graduate Program

The 2020 Graduate Program is now open for the Major Transport Infrastructure Authority. If you’re looking for an opportunity to get involved in Victoria’s Big Build in Melbourne ... More Information

Stockholm Metro extension

Stockholm is one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Europe. The population is increasing by 35,000 a year. Stockholm needs more housing and better public transportation and as a result ... More Information

TELT – approves call for tenders for French side of the tunnel

On the 11th of March 2019 the board of TELT, the Italian-French company building the tunnel for the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail link, approved the call for tenders for the tunnel, on the French ... More Information

Cool Reflections for Overheating Metros!

Cool Reflections for Overheating Metros!

“Why paint trains with high-performance solar reflective paint ..... .....and fit low emissivity glass windows?” (N.B. The focus of this document is on mixed surface and sub-surface ... More Information

Bergen Point WWTP TBM ready to be shipped to New York

Bergen Point WWTP TBM ready to be shipped to New York

The existing outfall pipe at the Bergen Point Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Babylon, Suffolk County, NY, has to be replaced. A 4.33 km (14,200-foot) tunnel, with a 3.05 m (120-inch) inner ... More Information

Sanierungstunnel Belchen - Bi-Component Mixing Plant

Sanierungstunnel Belchen - Bi-Component Mixing Plant

The Belchen Tunnel, built in the 1970s, had to be rehabilitated due to damage to the tunnel support structure. In order to keep the traffic restrictions to a minimum, the Belchen rehabilitation ... More Information

Beyond Tunnelling - a manifesto for national action groups

Through the initiative of ITACUS, THINK DEEP groups have been established in recent years or are in the process of being established in several countries. These groups aim at raising awareness of ... More Information

Westgate update

Assembly is underway on the first of the two TBMs that will build the West Gate Tunnel, the Victoria’s alternative to the West Gate Bridge. It will take around 75,000 working hours to assemble ... More Information

Swiss Tunnel Database

Are you interested in finding out comprehensive information about all the tunnels that have been built in Switzerland? Use this link ... More Information

EnigmaCG’s Tunnels 10x10x10

EnigmaCG’s Tunnels 10x10x10

EnigmaCG’s Tunnels 10x10x10 The number 10, for EnigmaCG symbolises us being10 years old. For you it means the first 10 Delegates get a 10% discount for the 4th Annual Innovation in ... More Information

TELT - February

TELT - February

The excavation of the French Saint-Martin-la-Porte construction site (SMP4) with the Fedrica TBM exceeded 77% of the 9 km planned by the end of February. Also in February, the target of 30 m/day ... More Information

Crossrail update

Crossrail update

Dynamic Testing has now commenced for the Crossrail Project. Testing is being carried out through the 21 km of new tunnels under central London. Over the next 6 months all the railway’s ... More Information

EUROCK 2020 – Call for papers

EUROCK 2020, is the international symposium of the ISRM, and will be taking place at the Clarion Hotel & Congress in Trondheim from June 15th to 19th 2020. The EUROCK 2020 Program Committee ... More Information

Breakthrough for Sofia Metro Extension Project

On the 27.02.2019 the Dogus Construction-Via Group Construct-Ultrastroy Joint Venture, completed the 5978 m tunnel using a TBM for the Sofia Metro Extension Project Line3, Lot 4 in Bulgaria. The ... More Information

iPS opens offices in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain

iPS opens offices in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain

iPS – Powerful people has opened a local office in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia and in Manama, Bahrain. iPS is constantly looking for new opportunities to grow and expand our current business ... More Information

ACCIONA Press Release

ACCIONA Press Release

The high-speed rail project will connect the city of Oslo with the town of Ski via twin 19.5 km tunnels, the longest in Scandinavia. 28 February 2019- ACCIONA and Ghella have completed ... More Information

First TERRATEC TBM breaks through on Mumbai Metro

First TERRATEC TBM breaks through on Mumbai Metro

The first of seven TERRATEC TBMs being used on Mumbai Metro’s highly anticipated 33.5km underground Line 3 corridor, in India, breaks through on its inaugural drive. In mid-February, TERRATEC ... More Information

"Victory Boogie Woogie” tunnel completed

"Victory Boogie Woogie” tunnel completed

TBM Catherina-Amalia broke through on the 10th of January 2019 to complete the Victory Boogie Woogie tunnel in the Hague. The TBM was 80 metres long and 11 meters in diameter and bored a tunnel ... More Information

Bucharest M6 metro line

In February 2019 the European Commission (EC) endorsed the EUR 517 million funding dedicated to a section of  the M6 metro line planned to link the Bucharest airport  ( Henri Coanda in ... More Information

Double breakthrough for the Follo Line

On 26.02.2019 at 14h00 Bane NOR reached an important milestone with the final double breakthrough on the Follo Line project. Anna and Magda, the last two of the 4 Follo Line TBMs broke through at ... More Information

Robbins Webinar - Rapid Excavation: How to Speed up Your TBM Tunnel

Robbins Webinar - Rapid Excavation: How to Speed up Your TBM Tunnel

In this complimentary 40-minute webinar, Robbins Engineering Director Brad Grothen and Elisa Comis, Associate at McMillen Jacobs, will discuss what rapid excavation really looks like in the field. ... More Information

M4 Metro Line breakthrough

M4 Metro Line breakthrough

On the 25.02.2019 the second of the two TBMs that are excavating the tunnels of the Western Section of the M4 in Milan reached Frattini Station. In only 22 days the TBM excavated approximately 570 ... More Information

Thames Tideway Super Sewer

Thames Tideway Super Sewer

Rachel, the TBM digging the west section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel, has been lowered 35 m down the shaft at Tideway's Carnwath Road site in Fulham. Over the coming months, she will begin her ... More Information

WTC 2019

WTC 2019

THE WORLD TUNNEL CONGRESS 2019 IN NAPLES, ITALY FROM MAY 3RD TO MAY 9TH 2019. The whole underground industry will meet in Naples to study and discuss the state of art of tunnelling in connection ... More Information

6th Breakthrough on Mumbai Metro 3

6th Breakthrough on Mumbai Metro 3

On the 20.02.2019 Mumbai Metro 3 Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ corridor achieved a 6th TBM breakthrough at Sahar Road Metro station, which is being built under Mumbai’s crucial Tansa water ... More Information

STUVA Expo 2019 - 150 exhibitors already registered!

STUVA Expo 2019 - 150 exhibitors already registered!

STUVA Expo 2019 - one of the world's leading and largest events in the tunnel. The current demand to exhibit at STUVA Expo 2019 in Frankfurt am Main again indicates a strong participation. Already ... More Information

4th TBM for the Grand Paris Express

4th TBM for the Grand Paris Express

On the 7th of February the shield for the fourth TBM, which will drive 3.4 km of the Line 15 South for the Grand Paris Express was lowered into place. The TBM will begin its journey at what will ... More Information

Press release for BBT

Press release for BBT

Breakthrough in the Tulfes–Pfons section - On February 12th, 2019, the last breakthrough by blasting took place in the Tulfes-Pfons section. On that occasion, a small ceremony was held for ... More Information

TELT update

Paris, 19 February 2019 - The Board of Directors of TELT (the public promoter entrusted by Italy and France with the construction of the cross-border section of the Lyon-Turin railway line), ... More Information

Undersea tunnel planned for Cua Luc Bay in Vietnam

Undersea tunnel planned for Cua Luc Bay in Vietnam

The People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh want to build an undersea tunnel at Cua Luc Bay. They have submitted the pre-feasibility report to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan ... More Information

Robbins Crossover TBM completes Turkey’s Longest Water Tunnel

Robbins Crossover TBM completes Turkey’s Longest Water Tunnel

Excavation of Turkey’s longest water tunnel came to an end on December 18, 2018. To get there, a 5.56 m (18.2 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM and the contractor JV of Kolin/Limak had ... More Information

ITACET Training Courses during WTC2019

ITACET Training Courses during WTC2019

Two ITACET training sessions will be organized on the 3rd and 4th of May during WTC2019. •             Tunnelling 4.0 information ... More Information

Struma Motorway - Lot 3.2.1 update

There have been ten offers for the design and construction of the 13.2 km Struma motorway in the 23.6 km section between Kresna and Krupnik, through the Kresna Gorge (Lot 3.2.1). The Lot 3.2.1 ... More Information

News from Australia’s longest road tunnel project

News from Australia’s longest road tunnel project

The last truck of spoil excavated from the NorthConnex tunnel was delivered to Hornsby Quarry on 25.01.2019. More than one million cubic metres of spoil was placed to partially fill the quarry, ... More Information

Bahrain Metro Project

Bahrain Metro Project

Press release-Bahrain announces consultancy tenders for phase one of its metro project. Bahrain's Ministry of Transportation has launched tenders for the appointment of a transaction advisor and ... More Information

Tunnelling News

Will Tunneling Projects Be The Next Big Thing For Mumbai's Public Transport?

During the interview, she also called tunnel boring machines the safest and one of the most efficient ways of doing tunelling. "Only the place of the ... More Information

Chipolbrok vessels deliver tunnel boring machines to Sydney and mineral bulk to Peru

Chipolbrok delivers TBMs for Sydney Metro on Chipolbrok Star and loads 29000t minerals in Peru on Taixing, showcasing fleet versatility... More Information

How Seequent's software solutions help to manage tunnelling data

The second phase of Singapore's Cross Island Line (CRL) metro project is under way, assisted by a suite of software from Seequent. Singapore's CRL is ... More Information

Muography to Transform Tunnel Safety Monitoring

Underwater bridge tunnels have become vital arteries for cities, enabling smooth vehicular passage beneath rivers, bays, and inland waterways. More than 200 of these structures operate ... More Information

10 longest tunnels in the world that reshaped global transportation

Modern tunnel construction involves sophisticated techniques, including tunnel boring machines and advanced geological surveying. The project ... More Information

Čučković: Construction of the tunnel boring machine for the Belgrade Metro in final phase

It is a good thing that we, for example, acquired these tunnel boring machines at a lower price than other countries... More Information

Serbia plans to borrow 2.5 billion EUR in 2026 for the construction of the Belgrade metro

It is also stated that two TBMs (tunnel boring machines), the so-called moles, have already been ordered and are expected to be delivered to ... More Information

VSM starts operation at Tilbury

The pioneering Vertical Shaft Sinking Machine (VSM) from Herrenknecht, named “Verena”, after Verena Holmes, a pioneering British mechanical ... More Information

Metrolinx reveals names of Ontario Line tunnel boring machines

Following a contest, Metrolinx has officially named its two massive tunnel boring machines Libby and Corkie... More Information

Montreal blue line metro tunnel boring machine has arrived, time to dig

It's basically building the backbone of the blue line extension,” said project chief Maha Clour, pointing out that crews have reached the bottom of ... More Information

Norway Unveils The World's Longest Road Tunnel In A Majestic Engineering Marvel

The construction cost broke down to about 38,000 NOK (roughly £3,500) per meter, an impressive figure considering the complexity and scale of the ... More Information

Sydney Metro West construction captured on video ahead of 2032 opening

Two giant tunnel boring machines have made their way through the deepest section of Darling Harbour as part of works on the new Metro West. More Information

Bengaluru's ₹18,000-crore tunnel road project inches closer as four major firms submit bids

Four firms bid for Bengaluru's ₹18000 crore tunnel project linking Hebbal to Silk Board, expected to ease city traffic by 2029 under a 34-year ... More Information

Webuild advances Rocchetta Tunnel excavation

Upcoming construction milestones. Webuild is preparing for the next major phase on the Apice–Hirpinia section: the launch of the reinforced concrete ... More Information

MMRDA plans 70-km underground tunnel road network across Mumbai

The project, being prepared in phases, will enhance multi-level connectivity and ease commuting. By KAILASH BABAR · Google preferences in ET Follow us ... More Information

Kathmandu-Tarai Expressway achieves 43.3% progress

The total length of the seven tunnels under the project is 10.979 km. ... Construction progress for the Chandram Bhir tunnel. (2,250 metres) has ... More Information

MMRDA plans 70-km underground tunnel road network across Mumbai

The project, being prepared in phases, will enhance multi-level connectivity and ease commuting. By KAILASH BABAR · Google preferences in ET Follow us ... More Information

Hong Kong: Robotics And AI Enhance Tunnel Construction

It is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and automation to advance the Trunk Road T2 and Cha Kwo Ling Tunnel project. These ... More Information

Single-Bore Tunnel Method Chosen for BART Silicon Valley Phase II

This decision allows VTA to advance project design towards 60%, stay on a critical path to tunnel construction and meet the projected revenue service ... More Information

Boring Co. begins 'controlled blasting' for Nashville tunnel at TN capitol

The Boring Co. has started excavation work at a state-owned parking lot on Rose Parks Boulevard for the Music City Loop project Wednesday, Aug. 13, ... More Information

TBM arrives in Montreal for delayed metro extension project

A custom-built tunnel boring machine (TBM) has arrived in Canada for use on a 6km extension of the Montreal Metro... More Information

Spain Confirms Feasibility of €8.5 Billion Morocco-Europe Tunnel

The study was conducted by German company Herrenknecht, the world leader in tunnel boring machines, at the request of the Spanish government's ... More Information

TxDOT spends $748M to burrow bus-size tunnels under Central Austin

The first tunnel boring machine will be deployed near ... Industry experts say tunnel boring machines typically advance about 50 feet per day. More Information

6 TBMs on Duty on the 27-Kilometer Line in Körfezray

Two of the six Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) that will serve in the first 27-kilometer phase are actively excavating tunnels, while the ... More Information

Construction on HS2's Euston tunnel will start 'fairly soon', says rail minister

Construction on the HS2 tunnel from Old Oak Common station to Euston station will start “fairly soon”, the rail minister has said... More Information

Blue Line Extension TBM Arrives at Port of Montreal

Railway Track and Structures Construction site of the future Vertières station (Pie-IX) in June 2025. Caption and photo courtesy of STM. MONTREAL - The tunnel boring machine (TBM) ... More Information

Tunnel break through milestone for Mt Messenger Bypass project

A 110 tonne excavating machine, called Hinetūparimaunga, has broken through at the northern end of the project's 235 metre-long tunnel ... More Information

$3.9 billion tunnel and bridge link for VA

Costing around $3.9 billion, the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) upgrade Expansion project for Virginia will improve traffic flow for a key ... More Information

Extended North Tunnel Flood Mitigation Project Receives $18.2 Million in State Funding

The funding advanced by the board includes a $17.2 million loan and $1 million grant for the construction of the mile-long tunnel, which will divert ... More Information

Gateway Project faces new uncertainty amid government shutdown

Federal funding for the $16B Hudson Tunnel Project, aka Gateway, has been paused during the government shutdown, sparking political backlash. More Information

Tunnel Boring Machine Emily Passes Key Factory Test for DC Water Potomac River Tunnel Project

Tunnel boring machine (TBM), Emily. This test confirms that Emily is ready to begin excavating the southern leg of the Potomac River Tunnel — a ... More Information

Sydney Metro West achieves world-first in tunnelling technology

Sydney Metro West has achieved a world-first in tunnel construction with a Lining Erector Machine (LEM) successfully being used to line the mined ... More Information

Gateway construction continues despite Trump's claim of termination

Tutor Perini, the general contractor on the Manhattan Tunnel Project, confirmed construction activity is currently continuing as planned... More Information

Tunnelling complete for Annacis water supply project

Metro Vancouver has completed the tunnelling phase of the $450 million Annacis Water Supply Tunnel, which will complete in 2028... More Information

Santa Clara VTA confirms single tunnel plan for BART extension

With VTA now owning the tunnel boring machine, the agency assumes full responsibility for its performance, agency officials said. To manage the risk, ... More Information

Chennai: Tunnel Boring Machine Vaigai achieves breakthrough at Mandaveli Metro Station

CHENNAI: The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) on Saturday achieved a major milestone in Phase II tunnelling works, as Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ... More Information

Trump 'terminates' $16 billion Hudson River tunnel project linking N.J. and N.Y.C.

President Trump said funding for the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel project is "terminated" at a press conference. New Jersey officials said they will ... More Information

$676 million underwater tunnel for India

The project is expected to cost around $676 million, with a Detailed Project Report (DPR) having now been completed. India's road transport network is ... More Information

€1.4 billion Belgian tunnel project approved

The first phase of the €1.4 billion project for Belgium’s new Limburg Noord-Zuid link has been approved. Construction should commence in 2027 on the project, which will form a section of ... More Information