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High-level endorsement for ES Rubber

High-level endorsement for ES Rubber

For a number of years, Ein Shemer Rubber (ES) has participated in the programme of the Office of the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy in Israel. More Information

Pedemontana update

The east tube of the Morazzone rock tunnel (GN71) is 2,089.7 m-long from P.K. 2+899.00 to P.K. 0+809.30. More Information

Legacy Way TBM reaches Kelvin Grove

Legacy Way TBM reaches Kelvin Grove

Legacy Way, or Northern Link as it was formerly known, is Brisbane City Council’s 4.6 km-long road tunnel that will connect the Western Freeway More Information

Video of San Francisco TBM

Robbins has produced its latest video of time-lapse assembly of the first of two mixed ground EPBs for San Francisco Central Subway where they will excavate tight turns under low cover More Information

Lubian tunnel start

Lubian tunnel start

On 30.04.2014 drill/blast excavation started on the1,710 m with 106 m in cut/cover right tube of the Lubian tunnel on the Madrid-Galicia high speed railway. More Information

Singapore Thomson Line poll

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) invited the public to vote for their preferred station name for 16 Thomson Line (TSL) stations earlier this year. More Information

VMT for TBM navigation and segment QC

VMT for TBM navigation and segment QC

On stand 1310 at the upcoming RETC in Washington, VMT will be showing examples of its navigation systems and segment quality control services. Apart from precision 3D measurements of segment moulds, More Information

Terratec appoints Bruce Matheson

Terratec appoints Bruce Matheson

Bruce Matheson has joined Terratec as Region Manager with a brief to expand the Australian TBM and RBM manufacturer’s activities in Africa, Middle East and Europe. More Information

CEAR solutions for tunnelling works

CEAR solutions for tunnelling works

At tunnelling sites, most attention is focused on supporting, supplying and maintaining equipment such as TBM, drill rigs and utilities, to ensure progress on the main excavation activities. More Information

Robbins presentations at RETC

Robbins presentations at RETC

The Robbins Company will be a formidable presence on stand 2103 at RETC in Washington, DC from June 23rd to June 26th 2013. More Information

Tunnel safety and fire protection

A symposium covering risk management, emergency response and fire prevention in tunnels is scheduled for Brisbane, Australia on 4th and 5th June, 2013. More Information

Continuous improvement from Sandvik

Outstanding excavation and low-risk operation are features attributed to the Sandvik DTi series of intelligent tunnelling jumbos, launched in 2008 and now working in all parts of the world. More Information

Port of Miami drives completed

At Watson Island, on 15.04.2013, the TBM Harriet completed excavation of the second of two underwater tunnels as part of the EUR770 million project connecting the Port of Miami with nearby expressways. More Information

Robbins video AMR project

The longest TBM tunnel in India, the 43.5 km AMR water transfer tunnel, is being driven with the help of a pair of 10 m-diameter Robbins double shield TBMs. Watch the video to learn about hard and abrasive rock, remote jobsites, and flash flooding. More Information

ES Rubber in Gdansk

ES Rubber in Gdansk

ES Rubber gaskets are being used in Poland to ensure a leak-free tunnel on an important new highway tunnel beneath one of the country’s major rivers. More Information

Breakthrough at Delhi Metro

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on 23.04.2013 achieved the third tunnel breakthrough of its Phase - III project. More Information

ExpoTunnel press conference

The first edition of ExpoTunnel, the new showcase dedicated to the world of tunnelling, drilling, mining, underground construction, will be presented to the press and the operators with a press conference developed as a morning of More Information

Santos GLNG tunnelling starts

Santos GLNG tunnelling starts

On 15.04.2013, contractor Thiess started construction of the 4.3 km-long, 3.4 m internal diameter segmentally-lined tunnel underneath the Narrows Crossing in Gladstone Harbour, Queensland, Australia More Information

Caterpillar kills off Lovat

Caterpillar Inc has announced that it is pulling out of the tunnelling business and closing its plant in Etobicoke, Canada which it bought from Lovat Inc just five years ago. More Information

First Central Subway TBM arrives

First Central Subway TBM arrives

On 23.04.2013 the M/V Aggersborg arrived at Port of San Francisco Pier 80 Omni Terminal carrying Mom Chung, the first of two EPBs for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, More Information

SS 125 Orientale Sarda opening

SS 125 Orientale Sarda opening

On 20.03.2013 the 6.6 km-long trunk II, lot 2 section of the new SS 125 Orientale Sarda from Capo Boi junction to Terra Mala junction, in the province of Cagliari, was opened. More Information

Crossing Doha Bay

Crossing Doha Bay

Qatar's capital, Doha, is developing fast. New city districts such as Lusail and The Pearl, Doha Greater Area will experience serious traffic problems in the near future. More Information

Prado tunnel underway

Prado tunnel underway

On 26.04.2013 work started on the west portal of the Prado left tube. The tunnel alignment is beneath the towns of Vilar de Barrio and Saurreaus More Information

Three more tunnels under Suez Canal

Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) has signed an agreement with Spanish firm Getinsa Paymacotas to conduct technical studies and produce tender documents to build three new tunnels underneath the Suez Canal. More Information

Vilavella tunnel excavation complete

Vilavella tunnel excavation complete

On 29.04.2013 breakthrough was achieved on the right tube of Vilavella tunnel on the 3.8 km-long Tunnel de la Canda-Vilavella sub-section of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed line More Information

IPS successful at Bauma

IPS successful at Bauma

International tunnel recruitment specialist iPS is following up its Bauma presentation with a fortnight of intensive visits to the Middle East and Far East, where demand for personnel is on the increase. More Information

Sofia metro extension underway

Sofia metro extension underway

On 25.04.2013 construction started on Stage III of Line 1 Metro extension Mladost 1-Business Park-Mladost 4 in Sofia, Bulgaria. More Information

Poltinger sponsors tunnelbuilder.com

Poltinger sponsors tunnelbuilder.com

It is always a great day at tunnelbuilder when one of its established clients steps up to sponsor our flagship website. More Information

Robbins holes at Pahang Selangor

Robbins holes at Pahang Selangor

The first of three 5.23 m-diameter Robbins Main Beam TBMs has holed on the 44.6 km-long Pahang Selangor water transfer tunnel in Malaysia More Information

Blue Plains Tunnel TBM

On 09.04.2013 the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) named its massive Blue Plains Tunnel TBM Lady Bird, More Information

Meditunnel 2013 in Croatia

The symposium on tunnelling in the Mediterranean region takes place 7-8th May, 2013 in Porec on the Adriatic coast of Croatia More Information

ISTSS 2014 calling

Call for papers for the 6th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security, ISTSS 2014, to be held at World Trade Centre (WTC) in Marseille, France, 12-14th March, 2014. More Information

Coatzacoalcos elements immersed

Coatzacoalcos elements immersed

On 11.03.2013 and 21.03.2013 the first and second elements of the 1.6 km-long Coatzacoalcos River tunnel in Veracruz, Mexico were successfully immersed. More Information

Phyllis reaches Bond Street

On 25.03.2013 TBM Phyllis reached the south end of the new Crossrail Bond Street western ticket hall at Davies Street, having constructed 2,000 tunnel rings and completed 3.2 km of new tunnels. More Information

More safety of the Frejus trans-European tunnel

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made a tangible commitment to the cross-border Frejus Tunnel project in the form of a EUR120 million loan. It will enable a second tube to be built alongside the existing tunnel connecting Piedmont to Savoie. More Information

Gotthard Base Tunnel test runs

From April, 2013 rail tracks in both tubes of Gotthard Base Tunnel, for 20 km between Erstfeld and Sedrun, will be fully installed. More Information

Tunnelling News

Europe's $45BN Mega Tunnels through the Alps

Discover the record-breaking network of tunnels being constructed beneath the Alps. This video explores the top 6 longest tunnels in the region, .. More Information

AFRY secures contract for Switzerland's Twann Tunnel project

Construction oversight of the Twann Tunnel in the country. The tunnel on the Lake of Bienne is intended to ease traffic congestion in Twann by ... More Information

Line 5 Tunnel Project: Public comments now open for proposal to build under Straits of Mackinac

"The purpose of the project is to facilitate the construction of a tunnel beneath Lake Michigan bottomlands to replace the Line 5 dual pipelines ... More Information

ECRL Breakthrough: Genting Tunnel Becomes SEA's Longest Rail Tunnel

Genting Tunnel's construction used both Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) and traditional drill-and-blast methods. The TBMs, built in China and ... More Information

Sydney tunnel factory creates 700 manufacturing jobs

The factory will support two of the largest tunnel boring machines (TBMs) in the Southern Hemisphere, set to arrive later this year. Once ... More Information

2.7 km Breakthrough Achieved in Bullet Train Tunnel

The tunnel also features a 7-kilometre undersea stretch beneath Thane Creek, a first of its kind in India. To ... More Information

Australian-first Sydney tunnel fabrication facility opens

The tunnel boring machines are expected to arrive in Sydney later this year, before being assembled deep underground below Birchgrove. They will ... More Information

ECRL Breakthrough: Genting Tunnel Becomes SEA's Longest Rail Tunnel

Genting Tunnel's construction used both Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) and traditional drill-and-blast methods. The TBMs, built in China and ... More Information

4000-tonne machines dig arterial route under Melbourne's west

The West Gate Tunnel Project is in full swing beneath Melbourne's inner west, with tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Bella and Vida at the helm... More Information

Gotthard drilling machine gets no further - now it has to be blown up

Forced break in the Gotthard road tunnel: After 190 meters, the drilling machine working on the second tube has come to an end for the time being... More Information

Construction begins on 6 Cross Island Line Phase 2 stations

Tunnel Boring Machine measuring 12.8m in diameter. The machine will “bore through the ground only once for the construction of the tunnel which ... More Information

Tunnel boring machine returns after installing $22 million outfall

A 19.5 tonne tunnel-boring machine docked at Onehunga Wharf on Friday afternoon after successfully tunnelling the $22m Clarks Beach Outfall over ... More Information

Scarborough Subway Extension tunnelling progresses following maintenance stop

The remaining portion of the tunnel will be delivered by Scarborough Transit Connect, the development partner for the project's stations, rail and ... More Information

World's Deepest Underwater Tunnel to Have Cars Drive 16 Miles Under the Sea

Norway is building what is to become the longest and deepest road tunnel under the sea. The Rogfast project, measuring 26.7 kilometers (about 16.5 ... More Information

Tunnelling underway for National Grid’s 3.4km power tunnel in Snowdonia

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Buddug has commenced excavation of National Grid’s 3.4km power tunnel in Wales’ Eryri National Park, otherwise known as Snowdonia. The tunnel is part of ... More Information

CPK signs contract for construction of HSR tunnel in Łódź

The contract for the construction of a 4.6 km long, 14-metre wide High-Speed Rail (HSR) tunnel will be carried out by construction company PORR. The project is valued at approximately PLN ... More Information

Underneath the busy Baltimore streets, the Howard Street Tunnel gets its makeover

A squad of construction workers descend daily under the streets of Baltimore. They labour deep down, in the semi-secret and highly restricted ... More Information

London Power Tunnels Milestone

We're thrilled to announce that our second 2.5km high-voltage circuit between Hurst and Crayford is now live. This £1 billion project is rewiring London, strengthening energy supply, and ... More Information

U.S. Tunneling Professionals Convene in Dallas at RETC 2025

The event drew approximately 1,400 people. Another highlight of the conference was the presentation of the now annual Underground Construction ... More Information

Construction of NY and NJ GatewayTunnel hits halfway mark

People are looking down at the ground from the Highline on Manhattan's West Side. Some parts of the new train tunnel structure ... More Information

Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor

Silicon Valley BART extension seeks new tunneling contractor for construction. Maguire told reporters during a briefing Monday morning. He noted that VTA is trying to fill a $1.2 billion ... More Information

Tunneling In The Digital Age: Rethinking Subsurface Infrastructure

But successful construction is just the start of the journey. Underground infrastructure is a long-term investment—just look at the London Underground ... More Information

Sydney Moves Forward with Final Tunnelling for Harbour Project

Sydney prepares for the arrival of the largest TBMs in the Southern Hemisphere as the Western Harbour Tunnel project enters its final tunnelling ... More Information

Metrolinx seeks help to name 2 of its massive Ontario Line tunnel digging machines

Metrolinx is now accepting names for two of its giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs), which will be used for twin 16-metre-deep and six-kilometre-long ... More Information

Deutsche Bahn awards contract for Munich S-Bahn project

The contract involves structural works for the expansion, including the construction of tunnels and an underground station. The Tunnel Ostbahnhof JV, ... More Information

Excavation completed on Italian side of Brenner Base Tunnel

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) named “Flavia” successfully bored through the Alps beneath the Mules 2–3 section, reaching the Austrian border. More Information

Giant tunnel borer set for Shantou Bay project

A giant tunnel boring machine has been installed for tunnelling under Shantou Bay in Shantou, South China's Guangdong province. [Photo provided to ... More Information

€0.4bn road and tunnel project in Georgia

Work is proceeding on the Kvesheti-Kobi road and tunnel scheme in Georgia. The scheme is part of a larger project, being carried out with Chinese ... More Information

Lahore to transform with Rs49 billion tunnel boring project

Pakistan, April 27 -- The federal government has approved Lahore's Rs49 billion Tunnel Boring Project, marking a major development for the city... More Information

Construction at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

The 2,100-foot-long tunnel connects the terminal to parking facilities and the tramway leading to the RTA public rail line. During the project, two of ... More Information

AFFHOLDER AND J.F. SHEA TEAM UP ON $700 MILLION CONTRACT

The tunneling subsidiary, Affholder LLC, will lead a joint venture with J.F. Shea Construction, Inc., to build the I-35 Capital Express Central ... More Information

Factory Testing Complete on DC Water's first tunnel boring machine for the Potomac River

Mary passed all the necessary requirements and is one of two TBM's on the project. The tunnel is part of DC Water's Clean Rivers Project, to ... More Information

Work on Chennai Metro tunnel racing to a finish

The machine Flamingo, which started boring in 2023 for the tunnel linking Light House with Thirumayilai, is expected to reach the other end in ... More Information

CPK awards contract to build high-speed rail tunnel in Lodz, Poland

The tunnel, to be constructed using a tunnel boring machine (TBM), will have a ... More Information

Inside HS2: Meet London's miners working on the Northolt tunnels

We are on a tunnel boring machine (TBM) inside High Speed Two's huge Northolt tunnels. These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling ... More Information

Ontario Begins Construction Of Last Tunnel Segment Of The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension

The remaining eastern portion of tunnel construction (500-meter twin tunnels) will use the sequential excavation method, with daily progress of ... More Information

Norway is building the world's longest and deepest subsea road beneath its fjords

We have subsea road tunnels which have that construction. And the new tunnel between Germany and Denmark, there they are laying down cases and put ... More Information

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

The estimated cost of construction of the FCC electron–positron stage, including the tunnel and all the infrastructure, is 15 billion Swiss francs... More Information

TBM break through on Auckland's £915M wastewater megaproject completes 16.2km tunnel

Auckland's major wastewater infrastructure project, the Central Interceptor, has reached a significant milestone with the final breakthrough of ... More Information