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NFM focuses on Tunnelling Industry

NFM focuses on Tunnelling Industry

Lyon, February 5th, 2018 - NFM TECHNOLOGIES sells its Energy Business Unit dedicated to the design, implementation and maintenance of complex mechanical systems for the nuclear, oil & gas ... More Information

Call for Papers for IWMC 2018

The 18th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) will take place in London, UK, on the 19th and 20th of September 2018 at the Grange City Hotel. The call for papers has now been released. ... More Information

Launch of the first TBM for the Grand Paris Express

On the 03.02.2018 the first TBM for the Grand Paris Express line will be named and launched at Champigny-sur-Marne (Ile de France) at around 5.30 pm. A decisive step in the progress of the works ... More Information

R2T Global Expo

R2T Global Expo

The IRF Global Road Conference in conjuction with the Road2Tunnel Global Expo, has become the only international tradeshow of its kind dedicated to Road, Tunnel, and Bridge Construction. With over ... More Information

Drilling work at second Baikal tunnel now 95% complete

The construction of the second Baikal tunnel - the most important of the Baikal-Amur Main Line (4344 km from Siberia to the East) and Trans-Siberian modernisation programme - is nearing ... More Information

CBE Group innovates in China

CBE Group innovates in China

CBE Group recently delivered several segment moulds and a carousel to the city of Chengdu, in the Sichuan province, for an innovative technical gallery project.   The project’s ... More Information

TBM's being built for Melbourne

The biggest tunnel boring machines (TBMs) in the southern hemisphere are on their way to Melbourne, with an order now placed for the two massive machines that will build the West Gate ... More Information

International No-Dig 2018

ISTT’s 36th Annual International No-Dig Conference and Exhibition is to be held on the 8-9 October 2018 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), South ... More Information

AECOM and the Education and Skills Funding Agency Launch Unique Joint Apprenticeship

AECOM and the Education and Skills Funding Agency Launch Unique Joint Apprenticeship

  AECOM and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) have launched a unique apprenticeship programme where apprentices gain experience in client, consultant and contractor roles ... More Information

TERRATEC opens new office in Peru to service Raise Boring market

TERRATEC opens new office in Peru to service Raise Boring market

In response to c ontinued growth in the Central and South American Raise Boring Machine s demand , TERRATEC has opened a dedicated new office in Lima , Peru . At the end of last year, ... More Information

Anacostia River Tunnel Project

In March 2018 the Salini-Impregilo Group will deliver, the DC Water and Sewer Authority the Anacostia River Tunnel project. The Anacostia River Tunnel in Washington DC (USA) is part of the Clean ... More Information

Keeping all the transport flowing; the importance of modern tunnel safety inspection methods

Keeping all the transport flowing; the importance of modern tunnel safety inspection methods

Whilst improvement works and lengthy construction times can be tedious for commuters, the importance of keeping a tight check on transport tunnels is paramount. Within construction, usage, ... More Information

Robbins latest blog

Breakthroughs While Breaking Ground: The First TBM Conveyor Posted by The Robbins Company | Jan 16, 2018 | Hidden Underfoot Modern Achievements The 100th conveyor system has been refurbished ... More Information

High-Speed Rail link between Helsinki and Turku

The three major cities of Helsinki, Turku and Tampere form a triangle of economic growth and expansion. The Finnish Transport Agency has studied the prospects of passenger train traffic on the ... More Information

First innovative tunneling conference of 2018

First innovative tunneling conference of 2018

Register today for the first innovative tunneling conference of 2018! Space is limited and there will be no on-site registration, so don’t delay! The 2018 George Fox Conference ... More Information

Completed Road Tunnels under Suez Canal

Completed Road Tunnels under Suez Canal

The twin tube road tunnels of South Port Said and North Ismailia under Suez Canal have been completed. The tunnels, designed to link the Sinai Peninsula more closely to the Egyptian heartland ... More Information

A New National Record for Robbins in China!

A New National Record for Robbins in China!

In Jilin, one of the three provinces of Northeast China, a 7.9 m (26 ft) Robbins Hard Rock Main Beam TBM has achieved another national record for 7 to 8 meter (23 to 26 ft) machines! The machine ... More Information

Alaskan way update

The Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program is making great progress.  The contractor, Seattle Tunnel Partners, is finishing up construction of the double-deck road along with ... More Information

Joint efforts for fire safety

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Efectis Group has signed a mutual Memorandum of Understanding in order to jointly support sustainable fire safety and fire research in society contributing ... More Information

Success for SWEDFAN at Baihetan HEP

Success for SWEDFAN at Baihetan HEP

At the border between the two provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan in China, the worlds largest underground hydroelectric power project is under construction. The Baihetan HEP will generate 16.000 MW ... More Information

TERRATEC Double Shields head to landmark water tunnel

TERRATEC Double Shields head to landmark water tunnel

Two 4.74m diameter hard rock double shield TBMs will complete more than 15km of complex tunnelling for the Mae Tang-Mae Ngad water diversion project, in Thailand. Australian-based TBM ... More Information

Zojila Tunnel update

The Zojila tunnel with a parallel escape tunnel has been approved by the  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The approval has been ... More Information

Works begin on the Rogfast Project

On the 4th January 2018 the first works started on the Rogfast project . This  will be the first tunnel built to replace the ferry service. The road tunnel will be  long. The EUR1.73 ... More Information

Follo Line Update Video

In Oslo, true pioneers are working all out on one of the next hard rock milestones in Scandinavia – the Follo Line. They are cracking the Norwegian hard rock with massive high-tech TBMs from ... More Information

Metro Tunnel contracts signed

The contracts to build the biggest public transport project in Victoria’s history and equip it with next-generation, high-capacity signalling have been signed. Contracts to deliver the $6 ... More Information

Purple Line Extension TBMs arrive

Over the next several weeks parts of the Purple Line extension TBMs, built by Herrenknecht (Germany), will begin arriving by Palabora and Integrity cargos from Rotterdam and Antwerp, at the ports ... More Information

TBM Angeli reaches another milestone

The TBM Angeli being used for the Regional Connector resurfaced on the 08 Dec 2017 at the future Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station. The TBM began digging the second tunnel on the project in ... More Information

Made in CIFA

Made in CIFA

CIFA have released their latest newsletter to read it please click https://www.cifa.com/static/nl/madeincifa/16/offline/download.pdf More Information

Register Now for the George A. Fox Conference

Join us on January 23, 2018 at the Graduate Center on the campus of City University in New York, NY. With its rich history of program excellence and ability to bring together some of the largest ... More Information

FCC Receives New Civil Engineer Tunnelling award for the Bolaños tunnel

FCC has been recognised for the Geotechnical Specialist Innovation of the Year at the New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Awards 2017 for its work on the Bolaños tunnel on the Madrid-Galicia ... More Information

NCE Tunnnelling Awards and the winners are…

NCE Tunnnelling Awards and the winners are…

New Civil Engineer’s hugely popular Tunnelling Awards returned for their eighth year today. Showcasing the very best in tunnelling expertise the Tunnelling Awards are now firmly established ... More Information

MST Global acquires MISOM technologies

MST Global acquires MISOM technologies

MST Global has recently acquired MISOM Technologies, based in Tucson, Arizona, for an undisclosed fee. The move is a significant step in the progression of MST's global digital transformation ... More Information

What’s Going On? A Quarterly Worldwide Jobsite Roundup

What’s Going On? A Quarterly Worldwide Jobsite Roundup

Posted by Desiree Willis | Nov 22, 2017 | From the Field At any given time, Robbins TBMs are operating at dozens of jobsites around the world.  Our dedicated Field Service personnel ... More Information

New station names announced

In August 2017 the Victorian Government launched a campaign inviting naming suggestions for the five new underground stations being built as part of the Metro Tunnel Project. By the time the public ... More Information

CREG gripper TBM sets new record

CREG gripper TBM sets new record

On 26th November, a new record was set by a CREG TBM by boring 1318.7 m/month, The Gripper TBM with 8.03 m boring diameter has reached this new record while working on the Yinsong water supply ... More Information

Tunnelling News

Ho Chi Minh City accelerates Metro Line 2 construction

With synchronized solutions and expanded use of tunnel boring machines, the Ben Thanh–Tham Luong metro project is being fast-tracked to set new ... More Information

IN PHOTOS Indias largest 1334metre TBMs Nayak and Arjuna

India's third home-grown N-sub commissioned; Rajnath also launches stealth frigate, · High-speed rail in India: DPRs for 3 bullet train ... More Information

Philippines: ₱16-billion contract for Manila subway's Airport T3 station, tunnels awarded

This project that will deliver the country's first underground mass transit system. The construction of the NAIA Terminal 3 Station and its tunnels is ... More Information

Bullet train tunnel breakthrough as Surat depot takes shape

Work is now advancing on drainage, waterproofing, and final lining inside the tunnel, while construction of a major rolling stock depot in Surat is ... More Information

Immersion of Fehmarnbelt tunnel elements to start soon, after vessel passes tests

The Fehmarnbelt project is one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects but is running around two years behind schedule after “challenges” with the ... More Information

Betty has made it out of the tunnel six weeks later

Betty the tunnel boring machine has re-emerged from a tunnel at Kirkham as part of a £5.5m project... More Information

China's $47 billion railway into Tibet needs a tunnel borer so powerful it does not yet exist

Now, a purpose-built tunnel boring machine must conquer the Himalayas to complete the most extreme railway project on Earth... More Information

TBM launched for metro Line 11 extension in Madrid

TUNNELLING work is underway on the project to extend Line 11 of the Madrid Metro network, with the launch of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) that ... More Information

TBM cutterhead lift and tunnelling risks for engineers

South Australia's $15.4 billion River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) project has installed the first of three 300‑tonne tunnel boring machine ... More Information

DP World Drives Canada's Infrastructure Build

The terminal handled the arrival and offload of a custom-built Herrenknecht Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunnel boring machine from Germany – weighing ... More Information

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