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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

Italy/Liguria - Ministry of the Environment approves VIA of the Val Fontanabuona tunnel

On January 10, 2025,  the Ministry of the Environment   approved with requirements the VIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) of the final project for the construction of the ... More Information

France – News from Toulouse metro line C

France – News from Toulouse metro line C

On Friday 20 December 2024 - in the presence of the authorities - Lise Enjalbert, the fifth and final TBM of the Toulouse metro Line C, was lowered into the shaft of the future Ponts-Jumeaux ... More Information

North East Link Tunnel Reaches The One Kilometre Mark

Tunnelling is powering ahead on the Allan Labor Government’s North East Link – with the first of two  4,000 t TBM having tunnelled more than one kilometre. The TBMs Zelda and ... More Information

AKTOR Romania Advances Brasov-Sighisoara Railway with Fourth TBM Deployment

Press release - AKTOR Romania, a subsidiary of the AKTOR Group, has activated its fourth tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Brasov-Sighisoara railway project, marking a significant advancement in ... More Information

HS2 Construction Update - 2025

Click here for the 2025 project update which highlights the progress across 350 worksites between London and the West Midlands and it provides a snapshot of the huge progress HS2 is making ... More Information

Announced planned opening date of Silvertown Tunnel

Transport for London (TfL) and Riverlinx Limited, the consortium designing, building, operating and maintaining the new tunnel, have confirmed that the Silvertown tunnel - linking Newham to the ... More Information

TERRATEC EPBM achieves final breakthrough on Agra Metro Project in India

TERRATEC EPBM achieves final breakthrough on Agra Metro Project in India

TERRATEC, a global leader of tunnel boring machine (TBM) technology, celebrates a significant milestone on the India’s Agra Metro project. The 6.61m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel ... More Information

CRCHI Large Diameter Open-type Rock TBM Rolls off the Assembly Line for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project

CRCHI Large Diameter Open-type Rock TBM Rolls off the Assembly Line for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project

On November 22, the open-type rock TBM with an excavation diameter of 11.93 meters, the largest of its kind in China, rolled off the assembly line of China Railway Construction Heavy Industry ... More Information

TBM Hiwa-i-te-Rangi breakthrough for Central Interceptor tunnel NZ

On 17th December, the Ghella Abergeldie Joint Venture (GAJV) celebrated the arrival of the massive Hiwa-i-te-Rangi TBM in the Tawariki Street shaft in Grey Lynn as part of the construction of ... More Information

HS2 - TBM Sushila completes its 8.04 km excavation of Northolt tunnel

HS2 - TBM Sushila completes its 8.04 km excavation of Northolt tunnel

On 19th December 2024,  TBM Sushila - which is 160-m in length, with a cutterhead of 9.84 m in diameters and a weight of 2,050 t, reached Green Park Way vent shaft in Ealing, breaking through ... More Information

Tenders for the construction of the Szczecin bypass with a tunnel under the Oder begin in Poland

Press Release - The Szczecin Western Bypass (ZOS) on the S6 expressway will be nearly 50 km long, including a 5 km tunnel under the Oder River in the Police area - the longest road tunnel in ... More Information

North portal completed for BBT

North portal completed for BBT

As of December 2024, the Sill Gorge construction lot, which houses the north portal of the Brenner Base Tunnel, is officially completed.  There are already numerous infrastructures in the ... More Information

Ontario Line - First downtown subway tunnel work in more than 60 years

Excavation is now underway near Exhibition Station for the Ontario Line’s TBM launch site. A 16-m deep shaft will become the starting point for two TBMs that will dig a roughly 6 km pair of ... More Information

Final Stretch of TBM Flavia’s Journey: Last Kilometre of Excavation in the Western Main Tunnel

TBM Flavia, a colossal tunnel boring machine measuring 200 meters in length, weighing 2,750 tons, and powered by 4,200 kW, is nearing the completion of its excavation journey. Launched in April 2019 ... More Information

Breakthrough at Maa Anandmayee Marg Station for DMRC in Delhi Metro Phase-IV

Breakthrough at Maa Anandmayee Marg Station for DMRC in Delhi Metro Phase-IV

On December 5, 2024 the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) achieved a significant construction milestone in Delhi Metro Phase IV, Package DC-07,  with the completion of the longest tunnel ... More Information

India - Namma/Bangalore Metro’s Phase 3A Approved by Karnataka Government

After a cabinet meeting held on 6th December, 2024, Karnataka Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs, HK Patil, announced that Bangalore Metro Phase 3A project’s Detailed Project Report ... More Information

WTC 2026 - May 15-21, Montréal, Canada

WTC 2026 - May 15-21, Montréal, Canada

On behalf of the Canadian Tunnelling Association and the 2026 World Tunnel Congress Organizing Committee, I’m pleased to extend my warmest greetings and invite you to take part in this ... More Information

TERRATEC Tunnel Conveyors drive progress for Metro Manila Subway Project in the Philippines

TERRATEC Tunnel Conveyors drive progress for Metro Manila Subway Project in the Philippines

The Metro Manila Subway Project is thriving with the implementation of TERRATEC’s Continuously Advancing Tunnel Conveyors. TERRATEC Continuously Advancing Tunnel Conveyors are currently ... More Information

India - realignment approved for twin tunnels

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities earlier this week gave its approval to shift 600 m towards the eastern side the twin tunnels of the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project, ... More Information

TBMs nearly ready to dig Victoria's longest road tunnels

The 2 TBMs that will dig the North East Link road tunnels are a step closer to starting digging. The TBM cutterheads have been lowered into place in Watsonia.  Next, the TBMs will be tested and ... More Information

10th edition of ITA Tunnelling Awards – Winners announced

 10th edition of ITA Tunnelling Awards – Winners announced

The 10th edition of the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards took place on 28th  November 2024 in Genoa at the Magazzini del Cotone, Porto Antico , and was opened by Arnold Dix, the ITA ... More Information

STUVA-Expo and STUVA Conference 2025

One of the world's leading and largest events in the tunnelling sector - 113 companies have already booked their trade fair participation. The current demand to exhibit at STUVA-Expo 2025 in Hamburg ... More Information

Progress Update: Over 50% of Tunnel Boring Completed on Hanoi Metro Line 3

Progress Update: Over 50% of Tunnel Boring Completed on Hanoi Metro Line 3

As of July 30, 2024, the Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB) has made significant progress in excavating tunnels for the Hanoi Pilot Light Metro Line 3, connecting Nhon and Hanoi ... More Information

ITA Awards day is almost here - Reserve your ticket and join the party!

ITA Awards day is almost here - Reserve your ticket and join the party!

Excitement is building towards the 2024 ITA Tunnelling Awards celebration in Genoa, Italy, on Thursday 28 November 2024  The day-long event will celebrate the 25 Finalists of ... 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