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Completion of the Trisungo Tunnel Excavation in Italy

On March 27, 2025, in Arquata, the final breakthrough of the Trisungo Tunnel (1.8 km) was completed. This tunnel is part of the SS4 Salaria variant, connecting the Trisungo and Valgarizia tunnels ... More Information

North East Link TBMs break through at Yallambie

North East Link TBMs break through at Yallambie

The 2 TBMs helping build the 6.5km North East Link twin tunnels between Watsonia and Bulleen have broken through at the Lower Plenty Road interchange site – marking a major milestone on ... More Information

Lower Thames Crossing - Government gives planning permission

On 25 March 2025 the government has given planning permission for National Highways’ A122 Lower Thames Crossing project. The decision, the recommendation made by the Examining Authority to the ... More Information

First km for TBM Futura on the Naples-Bari HS/HC railway line

The TBM Futura, with a diameter of over 12 m,  completed the excavation of the first kilometre of the Rocchetta tunnel (6.5 km). This is part of the first functional lot Apice-Hirpinia of the ... More Information

Two breakthroughs for the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag railway line in India

Two breakthroughs for the Rishikesh-Karnaprayag railway line in India

The construction works are progressing at full speed - on behalf of RVNL, Rail Vikas Nigam (the railways of India) – for the new 125 km Rishikesh-Karnaprayag railway line, 125 km long (105 ... More Information

HS2 TBM Sushila removed following Northolt tunnel excavation

HS2 TBM Sushila removed following Northolt tunnel excavation

Following its 8 km (5-mile) drive underneath the capital, HS2 lifted TBM Sushila out of the ground at the Green Park Way site in Greenford, West London.    The cutterhead, ... More Information

ITA Tunnelling Awards 2025

ITA Tunnelling Awards 2025

The international competition "the ITA Tunnelling Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space ... More Information

Romania - First TBM of Bucharest metro line 6 under assembly

In the launch pit of the future Tokyo station of the M6 line of the Bucharest metro, assembly work is proceeding at a rapid pace on the TBM that from April will dig 24/7 one of the tunnels of the ... More Information

National Grid secures planning approval for Grain to Tilbury project

National Grid has received full planning approval for the Grain to Tilbury project from Thurrock Council in Essex and Gravesham Borough Council in Kent, a key milestone in strengthening the ... More Information

Mapei workshop - Injection systems for construction repair and soil consolidation

Mapei workshop - Injection systems for construction repair and soil consolidation

Press release - On 13 March at 10:00 a.m. the 1st edition of the workshop “Injection systems for construction repair and soil consolidation” will be held at Dorcol Platz, Belgrade. ... More Information

TERRATEC celebrates breakthrough on Delhi Metro Phase-IV Project

TERRATEC celebrates breakthrough on Delhi Metro Phase-IV Project

TERRATEC's EPBM achieved a breakthrough in the Delhi Mass Rapid Transit System Project - Phase-IV, Contract DC-08 for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited in ... More Information

First kilometre for Wilma, the Austrian TBM advancing north

First kilometre for Wilma, the Austrian TBM advancing north

While Flavia is only 300 m from its final destination and Ida has already passed the Werner fault zone, the TBM Wilma reached its first kilometre of excavation at 10:40 on Sunday 2 March after ... More Information

TBM breaks through at Cat Linh Station for Hanoi Metro Line 3

TBM breaks through at Cat Linh Station for Hanoi Metro Line 3

On March 7, 2025, the TBM ‘’Thanh Toc’’ - which was launched at the end of July 2024 from the S9 - Kim Ma station at a depth of 17.8 m - reached the S10 - Cat Linh station, ... More Information

Sydney Metro West tunnels enter the final stretch as TBMs advance towards Parramatta

Two TBMs constructing the 24-km twin metro railway tunnels for Sydney Metro West have broken through solid rock walls to arrive at the junction caverns 24-m below the surface at Clyde. This latest ... More Information

WTC2026 - Call for Abstracts will be open today March 3, 2025

WTC2026 - Call for Abstracts will be open today March 3, 2025

The call for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2026, which will take place from May 15 to 21 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, open today 3 March 2025    Don’t miss the ... More Information

Stad ship tunnel: Four contractors have been prequalified

Four of the six contractors applied for prequalification to construct the Stad ship tunnel have been qualified to submit bids. The contractors advancing are:     ... More Information

HS2 - Construction milestone at Long Itchington Wood Tunnel

HS2 has announced a significant milestone at Long Itchington Wood tunnel in Warwickshire – the first deep tunnel on the high-speed route to complete its civil engineering ... More Information

BBT - TBM Flavia is getting closer to its goal

The TBM Flavia, length 200 m and weight 2750 t - launched in April 2019 – which has advanced with a driving power of 4200 kW under a rock cover of over 1200 m. The TBM has now completed the ... More Information

Excavation of the Saginara tunnel on the new AV/AC Salerno-Reggio Calabria line has begun in Italy

Today, Friday 21 February in the Municipality of Campagna (SA), the first TBM was launched for the Saginara tunnel excavation on the Battipaglia - Romagnano section (Lot 1A), This project is 35 km ... More Information

West Gate Tunnel Project - Make your mark and name your twin tunnels!

You are invited to help name the West Gate Tunnel Project’s twin tunnels that will shape the future of travel for Melbourne’s west. As part of the Tunnel naming competition, you have the ... More Information

Chinese-made TBM Exported to the Solomon Islands for the First Time

Chinese-made TBM Exported to the Solomon Islands for the First Time

On February 17th, the TBM Shuangjing No.1 with an excavation diameter of 4.48 m came off the production line at the second industrial park of China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation ... More Information

TBM Breakthrough for the parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel

TBM Breakthrough for the parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel

The Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel reached a significant milestone on Monday, January 27, 2025 when the Herrenknecht TBM Chessie - measuring 13.26 m (43.5 ... More Information

Swiss Tunnel Day

The Swiss Tunnel Day (STDay) will take place for the first time in Biel on the 12th  June 2025. This new format will allow participants to learn about and discuss the most important and recent ... More Information

Launched two TBMs  for the Second Gotthard tunnel

Launched  two TBMs  for the Second Gotthard tunnel

In Airolo (Ticino), the Marti 2TG Consortium—comprising Marti Tunnel AG, Mancini & Marti SA, and Ennio Ferrari Impresa Generale SA—launched TBM Paulina. This Single Shield TBM has a ... More Information

Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST) project

Dubai Municipality is preparing to launch the tender process for the initial two packages of the $22 billion Dubai Strategic Sewerage Tunnels (DSST) project.  According to previous reports by ... More Information

Italy/Veneto – Completion of the San Martino Buon Albergo Tunnel Excavation on the HS/HC Verona-Vicenza Line

The excavation of the San Martino Buon Albergo tunnel, a key structure on the HS/HC Verona-Vicenza railway line, has been successfully completed. The tunnel, located in San Martino Buon Albergo in ... More Information

Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport: Celebrating the completion of tunnelling and excavation

Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport (SM–WSA) has reached a significant milestone, with all major tunnelling and excavation work for the project now completed, including 9.8 kms of ... More Information

Breakthrough for Kanpur metro line 2 in India

Breakthrough for Kanpur metro line 2 in India

On 23/01/2025 the KPIL and Gulermak joint venture  achieved a significant milestone for the Kanpur metro line 2, KNPCC-11 package. The TBM EPB Gomati which is 6.6m diameter and built by ... More Information

Six contractors set to bid for Stad ship tunnel in Norway

The following six contractors - two from Norway, one from France, one from Spain/Norway, and two from China - have expressed interest in the construction of the Stad ship tunnel: Joint ... More Information

Italy/Trentino Alto Adige – Good progress on the construction of the Castelbello-Colsano ring road

The construction work on the 3.36 km Castelbello-Colsano ring road, 2,494 m of which are in tunnels, is proceeding at a rapid pace, with the aim of ensuring its completion by the end of the ... More Information

Philippines - DPWH Accelerates Davao City Bypass Construction Project

Philippines - DPWH Accelerates Davao City Bypass Construction Project

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is advancing steadily on the 45.5km Davao City Bypass Construction Project (DCBCP). The P13.230 billion DCBCP Contract Package I-1 -  awarded ... More Information

TERRATEC 3.2m Diameter Open TBM ready for CIDCO Fresh Water Tunnel Project in Maharashtra

TERRATEC 3.2m Diameter Open TBM ready for CIDCO Fresh Water Tunnel Project in Maharashtra

TERRATEC is pleased to announce that its 3.2m diameter Open TBM is ready to commence work on the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) Fresh Water Tunnel Project in Maharashtra. This ... More Information

Press release - Registration for WTC 2025 is open!

Press release -  Registration for WTC 2025 is open!

Secure your spot today and by registering before the 31st of January you can  take advantage of our early bird rates. While planning your visit, book your accommodation early and start ... More Information

BBT - New milestones for TBM Ida

BBT - New milestones for TBM Ida

Since May and June of 2023, the two TBMs Lilia and Ida have been working southwards on the Austrian H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons construction site of the BBT project. The excavation work is being ... More Information

Be a part of extending the Stockholm metro! Registration open for Supplier Day 2025

Be a part of extending the Stockholm metro! Registration open for Supplier Day 2025

Region Stockholm’s Extended Metro Administration invites you to the digital supplier day with focus on upcoming procurements in connection with the expansion of the yellow metro line, between ... More Information

Philippines – Camp Aguinaldo TBM launched for Metro Manila Subway Project

Philippines – Camp Aguinaldo TBM launched for Metro Manila Subway Project

The Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) continues to gain traction as the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) launched on January 16th the operations for the ... More Information

Tunnelling News

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

Tunnel boring machine S-639B achieves breakthrough under Kanpur Metro Phase I Project

The package KNPCC-06 involves design and construction of a tunnel through TBM, cut and cover tunnel, underground ramp from Kanpur Central end of ... More Information

Lawmakers propose construction of undersea tunnel to link Luzon and Visayas

Several lawmakers from the Visayas region are proposing the construction of an underground tunnel that will serve as a permanent land connection ... More Information

Oman-UAE rail project hits major milestone with start of tunnel excavation

Tunnel excavation has begun in Oman's Al Hajar Mountains, marking a major milestone for the cross-border Oman-UAE Railway... More Information

Engineering the depths: innovative tunnelling for hydropower projects

Major schemes in Austria, China, and Germany are applying advanced underground construction techniques for hydropower projects. More Information