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First Melbourne Metro Tunnel TBM is due to arrive shortly

First Melbourne Metro Tunnel TBM is due to arrive shortly

The first of 4 TBMs that will build the Melbourne Metro Tunnel is on its way to its launch site in North Melbourne. The TBMs are being engineered in Germany and built in China, before they are ... More Information

MineARC - Designing Refuge Chambers for Tunnelling

MineARC - Designing Refuge Chambers for Tunnelling

Underground construction is high risk; the extensive length and size of a tunnel build through unknown rock strata poses the continual threat of fire or rock fall. To manage this risk ... More Information

GETECH srl Centrifugal Plants

GETECH srl Centrifugal Plants

GETECH srl can count on consolidated experience, thanks to 30 years of research, development and application in the field of solid/liquid separation with Centrifugal Plant up to more than 150mc/h. ... More Information

26th Annual Microtunneling Short Course Organizers Pay It Forward to U.S. Veterans

26th Annual Microtunneling Short Course Organizers Pay It Forward to U.S. Veterans

A cause near and dear to the hearts of the 26th Annual Microtunneling Short Course organizers is helping the men and women who have served in the United States military successfully return to ... More Information

WTC 2019 information video

WTC 2019 information video

Do you want to find out what will be presented at the World Tunnelling Conference 2019? Do you want to know which topics will be the focus of the AAA sessions? Do you want to see an example of an ... More Information

PPS-Poltinger Precision Systems celebrates twenty years trading with the release of a new generation of Guidance Platform

PPS-Poltinger Precision Systems celebrates twenty years trading with the release of a new generation of Guidance Platform

Just in time for its 20th anniversary PPS has announced the newly developed guidance system platform PPS-UNP (Universal Navigation Platform). The UNP can be used for all types of underground ... More Information

West Gate Tunnel - Massive TBM arrives in Melbourne

West Gate Tunnel - Massive TBM arrives in Melbourne

Bella, the first TBM that will build the West Gate Tunnel, has arrived in Melbourne. The TBM is 90 m long, 15.6 m high and weighs 4,000 t. The hundreds of pieces that make up Bella will be ... More Information

Looking for TBM Fitters and TBM Electricians

Looking for TBM Fitters and TBM Electricians

At present IPS are recruiting TBM Fitters and TBM Electricians for a project in the UK. It will be a long term contract  on this major infrastructure project. Please contact Sam Merrick on ... More Information

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline tunnel

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline tunnel

Overnight a TBM made by Herrenknecht (mod.Avnd2000Ab) started its journey by road toward Melendugno (Le) a tunnelling site in Puglia, Italy. It  will be used to drill the Trans Adriatic ... More Information

Lucknow Metro testing commenced

Lucknow Metro testing commenced

Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) has successfully commenced signalling & integrated testing trials for the whole North-South Corridor (Phase-1A). The integrated testing and trials are for ... More Information

Tunnel and Underground Structures Committee Meeting

Please consider joining us at the Tunnel and Underground Structures Committee during the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC. The committee will meet on January 15, ... More Information

Underground Construction Prague 2019 - Early registration deadline

The early registration deadline for the Underground Construction Prague will be on the 31st of January 2019. With early registration the attendance fees are less so select your registration fee, pay ... More Information

British Columbia Trenchless Technology Road Show

The Trenchless Technology Road Show heads to western Canada to provide a platform to educate municipal, engineering and contractor personnel on the benefits of trenchless methods. The ... More Information

Gerede Water Transmission Tunnel breakthrough

Gerede Water Transmission Tunnel breakthrough

The Gerede Water Transmission Tunnel in central Turkey has been designated a national priority due to chronic drought conditions in the capital Ankara. The water supply line is 31.6 km long and ... More Information

Breakthrough for Robbins at a 45-degree angle

Breakthrough for Robbins at a 45-degree angle

The new year is off to a great start for Robbins their Double Shield Rockhead, launched in July 2018 has broken through. The TBM broke through on January 1st 2019  after boring the 640m-long ... More Information

Track the Melbourne Metro Tunnel TBMs

Track the Melbourne Metro Tunnel TBMs

Four giant Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) are needed to dig the Metro Tunnel. Lowered into the ground at North Melbourne and St Kilda Road in pieces and then assembled, they operate as moving ... More Information

New Rail Access to Terminal T1 Barcelona-El Prat airport completed

New Rail Access to Terminal T1 Barcelona-El Prat airport completed

On the 19.12.2018 the largest TBM currently working in Spain ended the excavation of the 3048 m tunnel of the new railway to Terminal T1 of the Barcelona-El Prat airport. The first phase of the ... More Information

Ott GmbH & Co KG acquired by Datwyler Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH & Co KG

Ott GmbH & Co KG acquired by Datwyler Sealing Solutions Germany GmbH & Co KG

Press release - As of the 21st  December 2018, the Germany-based company Ott GmbH & Co KG, acquired by Datwyler Holding Inc. in September 2016, officially changed its name to Datwyler ... More Information

Microtunneling Short Course 2019

For more than 25 years, the Microtunneling Short Course has trained over 3,500 professionals, ranging from contractors and engineers to owner agency representatives. The three-day intensive course ... More Information

MineARC - Emergency Communication Systems in Tunnelling

MineARC - Emergency Communication Systems in Tunnelling

Good communication systems are fundamental to all aspects of a tunnelling project, including risk management and emergency response. Emergency communication systems in tunnelling are used to ... More Information

A record number of responses for Thames Crossing consultation

The Lower Thames Crossing online consultation, which closed on the 20.12.2018, has seen over 26,000 replies. The consultation is arguably the most significant that has ever been held into a UK ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBMs prepped for new Istanbul metro line

TERRATEC EPBMs prepped for new Istanbul metro line

The Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol joint venture conduct TBM testing on-site for the new Ümraniye Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro line, the latest addition to Istanbul’s transportation ... More Information

Fehmarnbelt tunnel update

On the 28.12.2018 the Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced that the planned approval for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In accordance with German regulations, Femern ... More Information

Moscow Metro Line Works

Moscow Metro Line Works

Moscow in 2018 set a record, commissioning 17 underground metro stations, building 33 km of tracks and 3 train maintenance facilities: on 22.03.2018 the 3 new stations (Okruzhnaya, Verkhnye ... More Information

Second breakthrough for Mumbai Metro 3 line

Second breakthrough for Mumbai Metro 3 line

On the 26.12.2018 the Mumbai Metro-3 (Colabata-Bandra-Seepz) Wainganga 2 TBM broke through at the future Seepz station in Andheri. The TBM was originally launched on the 23.08.2018 from Sariput ... More Information

Expansion of Stockholm’s energy supply planned

Expansion of Stockholm’s energy supply planned

Stockholm  dependence on electricity has incresed, their electricity network needs to be strengthened and renewed to meet Stockholm’s future need of secure electricity ... More Information

MineARC Blog

MineARC Blog

Common Questions About Refuge Chamber Servicing - Are you aware of the hidden risks of poor servicing? There are many common misconceptions about refuge chamber servicing, which we have briefly ... More Information

26th Annual Microtunneling Short Course

Leading Experts to Gather in Boulder, Colorado, Feb. 5-7th 2019 The agenda topics for the annual Microtunneling Short Course at the University of Colorado Boulder February 5-7, 2019, has ... More Information

STUVA Expo 2019

An invitation to attend STUVA 2019 - We cordially invite you to the STUVA Conference 2019! At this "family meeting of the tunnel industry" you will meet more than 3,000 other top-class experts. ... More Information

STUVA Tunnelling statistics 2017/2018

For 40 years STUVA has conducted an annual survey of authorities, construction companies and planners with an aim to capture the volume of tunnelling in Germany. The statistics also include a ... More Information

Construction: the foreign earnings of major construction companies soar

Construction: the foreign earnings of major construction companies soar

WTC 2019 news release - The Italian construction system continues to grow in foreign markets despite global tensions and the hardships in the market of Italian public works. The 35 "top" companies ... More Information

Robbins 2018 Highlights

Robbins 2018 Highlights

OUR Favorite moments - 2018 has been a great year for Robbins. It was a year full of breakthroughs, new developments, and record-setting bores. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a look ... More Information

ITA News #66

Message from Tarcisio Celestino -President of ITA 2016-2019 Each year, the ITA Tunnelling Awards conference brings better news. During a whole day, high-level presentations by the finalists have ... More Information

Annie gets ready to build London’s super sewer from Greenwich

Thames Tideway Press release – ON the 12th December 2018 the giant machine that will dig a 4.5km tunnel through south-east London was assembled and made ready to begin work ... More Information

Brenner Base Tunnel - European support for the project

Brenner Base Tunnel - European support for the project

Following the recent breakthrough of the southern portal of the Brenner Base Tunnel, European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, visited the BBT construction sites near Fortezza. The ... More Information

Brenner Base Tunnel Breakthrough

Brenner Base Tunnel Breakthrough

On St Barbaras day the 4th of December 2018 the southern portal of the Brenner Base tunnel near Fortezza Station broke through. 93 km of the total 230 km that will make up the Brenner Base tunnel ... More Information

Tunnelling News

SRL East TBMs arrive in Burwood

Two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have arrived in Melbourne ready for tunnelling of Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East to start this year. The TBMs ... More Information

$100 Million Allocated for Ft. Laramie Canal Tunnel Project

Laramie Canal Tunnel Project. The Department of the Interior announced the funding Tuesday as part of the $889 million for water infrastructure ... More Information

What are the benefits of using tunnel boring machines in infrastructure projects?

Ask NCE has been updated to Answers 3.0, allowing you to ask civil engineering-focused questions and receive clear, practical responses such as ... More Information

Minsk Metro, together with "Alesya," will start digging with "Mariya."

It was noted on a transport forum that parts of a second tunnel boring machine (TBM) for laying tunnels began to be brought to one of the construction sites of the third metro line... More Information

TBM for Lyon-Turin project unveiled

The first of two tunnel boring machines for the Italian section of the 57.5km Mont Cenis Base Tunnel has been unveiled... More Information

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