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The ITA tunnelling awards 2018

The ITA tunnelling awards 2018

ITA Tunnelling Awards 2018 in Chuzhou – One week left to submit entries Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA Tunnelling Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking ... More Information

Turn Key Tunnelling - USA Positions available

Turn Key Tunnelling - USA Positions available

Turn key tunneling are looking for the following personnel. To apply you must be eligible to work in the USA. Do not apply for these positions if you are not.     CONSTRUCTION ... More Information

NAT Conference - Register and Save Before It’s Too Late!

NAT Conference - Register and Save Before It’s Too Late!

Register by May 25 to receive the best conference rate and save! ... More Information

Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel Task Force

The report recently released about the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel Task Force chaired by the Ministry of Transport and Communications states that due to the scale and complexity of ... More Information

International Seminar in Greece

 Challenges and Innovation 9 -15 NOVEMBER 2018 THESSALONIKI, GREECE ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING THE SEMINAR IS ADDRESSED TO: Construction Engineers ... More Information

Zojila Tunnel Update

On 19.05.2018 the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, attended the Closing Ceremony of the Birth Centenary Celebration of the 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche in Leh and he unveiled a plaque to mark ... More Information

WTC 2019 - Naples

WTC 2019 - Naples

The deadline submission for the call for abstract has been postponed to June 8, 2018 Having ascertained an important response for the call, and in consideration of the fast-growing number of ... More Information

CIFA Newsletter 18

CIFA Newsletter 18

For all the latest information on CIFA and their 90 years of innovation please read their newsletter just click here! .20/18. More Information

COWI wins Singapore super sewer design contract

COWI wins Singapore super sewer design contract

In partnership with CPG Corporation, COWI has been awarded the design works for Contract T-09 of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) Phase 2. The contract was awarded by Leighton Asia, who are ... More Information

Dos Santos International – Paris tunnelling project

Dos Santos International – Paris tunnelling project

DOS SANTOS INTERNATIONAL STARTS UP FIRST OF TWO SANDWICH CONVEYORS FOR PARIS TUNNELING PROJECT Marietta, GA - Dos Santos International is now starting up one of two DSI GPS (Gently Pressed ... More Information

Robbins White Papers

Robbins White Papers

If you need more in-depth explanations of Robbins products, browse through our white papers. These downloadable and printable papers, written by Robbins employees, cover everything from disc ... More Information

Norwegian Tunnel Safety Conference 2018

Norwegian Tunnel Safety Conference 2018

NORWEGIAN TUNNEL SAFETY CONFERENCE 2018 18 - 19 June 2018 in Stavanger, Norway Welcome and listen to the Norwegian view of tunnel safety. The NTSC’s unique approach brings together tunnel ... More Information

Future Trends in Infrastructure

Future Trends in Infrastructure

On the 15.05.2018 Pietro Salini, Chief Executive of Salini Impregilo spoke during a panel discussion called “Future Trends in Infrastructure”. The panel was organised and held at the ... More Information

Swedfan ventilation in China

Swedfan ventilation in China

SWEDFAN DELIVER VENTILATION TO KASHUANG WATER TUNNEL, CHINA. In the north-west corner of China in the Xinjiang province, tunnelling works have begun. This tunnel stretches along the Mongolian ... More Information

18th International Water Mist Conference – Event Page online now

18th International Water Mist Conference – Event Page online now

The conference webpage for the 18th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) is now online if you wish book to attend! The event will take place in London, UK, on 19th and 20th September 2018. ... More Information

TfL granted powers to progress with Silvertown Tunnel

TfL granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) by the DfT "New river crossings are vital for the future prosperity of east London, and the scheme will have a substantial impact unlocking new jobs ... More Information

Two days left to enter Robbins Webinar

Two days left to enter Robbins Webinar

Event Information: Is Your TBM in A Tight Spot? How to Get Through Squeezing Ground, Rock Bursting, and More Registration is required to join this event. If you have not registered, please do so ... More Information

The 30th Annual BTS Dinner 2018

The 30th Annual BTS Dinner 2018

The BTS dinner was held at The Brewery in London, and this year was its 30th anniversary as it began in 1989. The annual dinner is a popular event within the tunnelling industry. This year the ... More Information

New appointment at AECOM

New appointment at AECOM

AECOM's Design and Consulting Services group appoints Nasri Munfah as Director of Tunneling and Underground Engineering NEW YORK, (May 10, 2018) — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated ... More Information

2018 North American Tunnelling Conference!

2018 North American Tunnelling Conference!

Register by May 25 to receive the best conference rate and save!   Don’t miss out on industry-leading FIELD TRIPS and SHORT COURSES at the 2018 North American Tunnelling Conference! ... More Information

USA - Three teams shortlisted for HRBT Extension Project

USA - Three teams shortlisted for HRBT Extension Project

Three private-sector teams will be invited to submit technical proposals and prices to design and construct improvements to the I-64 (Interstate 64) corridor between I-664 in Hampton and ... More Information

Turin/Lyon - EPSF go ahead with the preliminary safety dossier

On April 27th, the EPSF (Public Railway Safety Establishment) approved the preliminary safety file concerning the infrastructure of the cross-border section, in application of Decree 2006-1279 on ... More Information

BART to San Jose General Engineering Consultant Information Forum

BART to San Jose General Engineering Consultant Information Forum

BART to San Jose General Engineering Consultant Information Forum Date: Tuesday, May 15 Location: San Jose Convention Center 408 Almaden Blvd. San Jose, California The Santa ... More Information

Assembly of Millicent and Ursula nearing completion

Assembly of Millicent and Ursula nearing completion

The assembly of Tideway’s two largest Tunnel Boring Machines has reached a key milestone with their most important components now attached, as the start of tunnelling on London’s new ... More Information

Thames Tideway named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2018

Thames Tideway named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2018

Tideway, the company building London’s super sewer, has been named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2018 with its Chief Executive Officer Andy Mitchell a finalist in the Gender ... More Information

Underground Construction Prague 2019

Call of Abstracts The 14th International Conference entitled “Underground Construction Prague 2019’’ will be held at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic, on ... More Information

Upcoming railway projects in Norway

On 19.04.2018 the Bane NOR's Railway Tender Conference 2018 was held in Oslo. The conference focused on facilitating meetings between main contractors and suppliers within the field of railway and ... More Information

Remote control your Epiroc Scooptram with new automation package

Remote control your Epiroc Scooptram with new automation package

For greater safety and efficiency in underground mining, Epiroc releases a number of automation features for the Scooptram underground loader. The Scooptram Automation Regular package allows the ... More Information

Tunprotec Seminar

Tunprotec Seminar

Join our Tunnel Seminar in Spain - May 22nd to May 24th 2018 SCOPE - Recently VID Fire-Kill secured a large tunnel project in Asia, as our TUNPROTEC® System offered the technically best and ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBMs pushing the envelope in Bangkok

TERRATEC EPBMs pushing the envelope in Bangkok

TERRATEC ’s tight r adius TBMs are enabling a highly challenging project alignment for Bangkok ’s Metropolitan Electricity Authority in one of the city’s busiest downtown areas. ... More Information

Modernisation of Rokycany-Pilsen Railway Track section

Modernisation of Rokycany-Pilsen Railway Track section

In October last year the contractor Metrostav,  using a  Herrenknecht S-799 TBM, with a convertible 9,890 mm diameter multi-mode TBM completed the excavation of the 4150 m Ejpovice ... More Information

High Quality TBM Solutions from Canada made in China

High Quality TBM Solutions from Canada made in China

Dubai (UAE)/Toronto (CDN)/Liaoyang (CN), April 2018 – Founded in 1972, Lovat has been a renowned and leading TBM manufacturer for more than 45 years until now. Specialised in mixed/soft ... More Information

DAT – Press Release

DAT – Press Release

DAT INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCES DAT WIDELOG DATA LOGGER WITH NEW LARGE 18.5-INCH MONITOR DAT WideLog Eliminates Need For Multiple Data Loggers with Single Data Logger Capable Of Executing And ... More Information

Robbins Webinar: Is Your TBM in a Tight Spot? How to Get Through Squeezing Ground, Rock Bursting and More!

Robbins Webinar: Is Your TBM in a Tight Spot? How to Get Through Squeezing Ground, Rock Bursting and More!

Complimentary Webinar: Is Your TBM in a Tight Spot? How to Get Through Squeezing Ground, Rock Bursting and More - With Brad Grothen, Sindre Log Date: May 16, 2018 If you’ve ever faced ... More Information

WTC 2018 in Dubai – The Middle East consolidates its position as a powerful emergent market

WTC 2018 in Dubai – The Middle East consolidates its position as a powerful emergent market

Held in Dubai, from 21stto 26thApril by the Society of Engineers (SOE) and the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA), the World Tunnel Congress and 44th ITA ... More Information

Arna-Stanghelle project

The main objective of the Arna -Stanghelle project, joint venture by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and the Norwegian railway company Bane Nor, is to build a safer and faster rail and ... More Information

Tunnelling News

LA Metro approves route of K Line northern extension project to Hollywood

The analysis found that modern tunneling techniques are safe with pre-construction studies, use of advanced tunnel-boring machines, mitigations and ... More Information

Here's when first massive boring machine will start carving tunnel between New York, New Jersey

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A massive tunnel boring machine is preparing to carve a tunnel between New York and New Jersey after President Donald Trump ... More Information

Beyond the horizontal: how a next-generation TBM conquered Pingjiang's inclined shaft

A variable diameter inclined shaft tunnel boring machine has completed a landmark breakthrough on China's Pingjiang pumped storage hydropower ... More Information

CMRL begins tunnelling for Thiruvanmiyur-Indira Nagar section in phase-II metro rail project

Tunnelling through hard rocks in the 650-metre stretch may take nearly six months, officials say ... More Information

AKTOR’s Tunnels on Brașov–Sighișoara Line, among the most complex in Europe

A railway infrastructure project unfolding in the heart of Transylvania has been ranked, according to an independent comparative analysis, among the most complex and ambitious railway ... More Information

Tunnel-boring machines “Victoria” and “Natali”

The tunnel-boring complexes worked in tandem on the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya Line. The tunnel-boring machine complexes (TBMs) “Natali” and “Victoria,” ... More Information

Elon Musk's Boring Company plans mile-long tunnel in Dallas connecting to DART station

The Boring Company is developing a proposed mile-long tunnel in Dallas' University Hills that would link a town center to a nearby DART station, ... More Information

Hudson Tunnel Project marks major 2026 construction progress on both sides of the river

Work on the Hudson Tunnel Project in North Bergen is continuing to advance through several major construction steps reached so far this year... More Information

HS2 Ordered to Slash Costs and Construction Time in Major Government Reset

The Transport Secretary has instructed HS2 Ltd to identify options that could cut billions from the project’s cost and bring trains into service sooner, as the government pushes for a ... More Information

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