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Köhlbrand crossing update

The operation of the Köhlbrandbrücke is no longer regarded as economically viable beyond 2030. In addition, the bridge, which was inaugurated in 1974 and has a headroom of 53 metres, no ... More Information

TBM-DiG 2019

The TBM DiGs conference series provides a specialized technological forum discussing and exchanging knowledge related to TBM works in difficult grounds. The 4th edition will be held between the ... More Information

Thames Tideway press release

Thames Tideway press release

Super sewer machine starts work as first-of-its-kind tunnelling apprenticeship launched in UK As the first machine digging London’s super sewer has started work, Tideway has announced ... More Information

Forrestfield Airport Link - Update

Forrestfield Airport Link - Update

Press release - November has seen a high volume of concrete works taking place across our construction sites. At Forrestfield the future station platform walls are being poured, Airport Central ... More Information

CEC India - TBM tender

  CEC India - TBM tender

  CEC are involved with construction of high value projects across segments like MRTS, National Highways, Bridges, Urban Roads, Railways and SEZ projects. The team includes ... More Information

Second mega TBM starts work on Sydney Metro's City Tunnels

Second mega TBM starts work on Sydney Metro's City Tunnels

On the 12.11.2018 the second of five mega TBMs started tunnelling underneath Sydney. The TBM, named ‘Mum Shirl’, has been launched at the Marrickville site to help bore 31km of tunnels ... More Information

Munich’s second S-Bahn route

Munich’s second S-Bahn route

The Munich S-Bahn system is one of Germany’s largest suburban rail networks. With 148 stations, 442 km of tracks and approximately 1,000 train journeys a day, the network extends far into ... More Information

3rd TBM for the Grand Paris Express

3rd TBM for the Grand Paris Express

On the 1st if December 2018 the third TBM for the Grand Paris Express project will be launched. The celebrations will include a light show which will be open to everyone who wants to see ... More Information

Latest VMT newsletter now available

Latest VMT newsletter now available

The Latest VMT Newsletter is now available. It is their update about all VMTs current projects, product developments and general topics that concern VMT. For further information and access to ... More Information

Big 5 Heavy

Big 5 Heavy

Over at The Big 5 Heavy team, we strive to make sure that we help our visitors deal with some of the toughest challenges in the industry. This year, sponsored by Herrenknecht, we introduce the ... More Information

Gateway Tunnel Project

Gateway Tunnel Project

On 12.11.2018 a group backing the construction of the Gateway Tunnel Project released a poll that found support for the first two projects in the program, the Port North Bridge and Hudson Tunnel ... More Information

Drammen-Kobbervikdalen project

Drammen-Kobbervikdalen project

Bane NOR is planning the construction of 10 km of double-track from Drammen to Kobbervikdalen and from Drammen to Gulskogen, as part of the ongoing modernization of the Vestfold Line. ... More Information

4th Annual Innovation in Tunnels: Construction, Maintenance, Safety & Fire Protection

The conference dates are 11th  & 12th  April 2019 and its being run by Enigma Cg. With over 25 live tenders for construction/development of new tunnels in just Spain, Switzerland ... More Information

Call for expressions of interest for speakers and sponsors

Call for expressions of interest for speakers and sponsors

Camborne School of Mines Association invites the Australasian network to submit Expressions of Interest to showcase projects and work at a one-day workshop followed by a Gala Dinner event on the ... More Information

ITA tunnelling awards 2018

The ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards took place on 07.11.2018 in Chuzhou (China) following the 20th CTUC conference (Chinese Tunnels and Underground Works Conference). The ... More Information

Lake Mead intake hydraulic tunnel, Las Vegas

Lake Mead is one of the largest artificial lakes of the Unites States. It is formed by the Hoover dam, which dams the Colorado river at a few kilometres from Las Vegas. The project involved the ... More Information

Kemano T2 Project

Kemano T2 Project

On 22.10.2018 Rio Tinto, Cheslatta Carrier and Haisla First Nations launched the 1300 t TBM named Tl'ughus (pronounced tahl-ug-us, with accent on ‘ug’). Tl’ughus is a legendary ... More Information

Master Drilling and Ghella announce creation of TunnelPro

Master Drilling and Ghella announce creation of TunnelPro

Master Drilling and Ghella have announced the creation of TunnelPro this is a Joint Venture to combine expertise and unlock key mining and civil tunnelling projects. Master Drilling, listed on the ... More Information

Pipe Jacking Association appoint new chairman, vice-chairman and secretary whilst celebrating 45yrs of service to the tunnelling sector

Pipe Jacking Association appoint new chairman, vice-chairman and secretary whilst celebrating 45yrs of service to the tunnelling sector

At its recent AGM held on the 17th October 2018, Jim Kirby, a Technical Director at consulting engineer COWI, was appointed as the new chairman of the Pipe Jacking Association. Jim Kirby has 25 ... More Information

Ground conditioning in mechanized tunnelling - New Line of Eco Foaming Agents

Ground conditioning in mechanized tunnelling - New Line of Eco Foaming Agents

In recent years, the issue of environmental impact of chemical products for construction has become increasingly relevant in every field of application. The mechanical excavation of tunnels with ... More Information

#20 Made in CIFA!

#20 Made in CIFA!

CIFA latest magazine ‘Made in CIFA’ #20 is now available please click here to read all their latest news. 44/18. More Information

Approved feasibility project for Perca Bypass

On the 25.10.2018 the Technical Committee of the Province of Bolzano expressed its approval for the technical-economic feasibility project for the Perca bypass in Italy. The study was carried out ... More Information

Tunnelbuilder welcomes CEC

Tunnelbuilder welcomes CEC

CEC are involved with construction of high value projects across segments like MRTS, National Highways, Bridges, Urban Roads, Railways and SEZ projects. The team includes International experts from ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBMs to assist Argentina’s landmark Agua Sur water tunnel project

TERRATEC EPBMs to assist Argentina’s landmark Agua Sur water tunnel project

The first of two new 4.66 m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBM s have been delivered for a 13 .5 km potable water tunnel system, in Buenos Aires , Argentina .   TERRATEC, is ... More Information

Purple Line subway extension

Purple Line subway extension

On the 15.10.2018 the TBM Soyeon, the first of two machines involved in the Purple Line Extension Phase 1,  started tunnelling 18.29 m (60 feet) below Wilshire and La Brea.  There are two ... More Information

Robbins Webinar - Tackling “Mixed Face” Conditions

Robbins Webinar - Tackling “Mixed Face” Conditions

In this complimentary 60-minute webinar, Robbins Vice President Doug Harding and Engineer Greg Michaelson will redefine the term “mixed face” within the context of both geology and ... More Information

Westgate Tunnel project update

Westgate Tunnel project update

Press release -  As the TBM 'Bella' prepares for her six-week journey to Melbourne, the team at TBM HQ in China gave our first Tunnel Boring Machine a dress rehearsal of epic proportions. ... More Information

26th Annual Microtunneling Short Course 2019

26th Annual Microtunneling Short Course 2019

Press release - The annual Microtunneling Short Course is heading to the University of Colorado Boulder February 4-7, 2019, making its way toward another quarter century of success.  The ... More Information

Herrenknecht press release - New drains for Singapore

Herrenknecht press release - New drains for Singapore

In Singapore, a Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine (EPB Shield, Ø 5,250 mm) excavated two large drains for the Stamford Diversion Canal. The challenge: winding bottlenecks and an inner-city ... More Information

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

Tunnelling News

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

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