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MRS Underground Intelligence

MRS Underground IntelligenceFor 25 years, MRS has provided the tunnelling industry with advanced custom designed engineered communications and safety solutions. These are designed and implemented to ... More Information

CIFA for construction equipment

CIFA for construction equipmentHeavy investment in research, development and product quality has enhanced CIFA know-how and experience, creating a solid foundation for customers in the worldwide ... More Information

BASF MEYCO team for Crossrail

BASF MEYCO team for CrossrailThe MEYCO UK tunnel team is being doubled in size to support London's Crossrail project, where the company is supplying a whole range of solutions for sprayed concrete, ... More Information

Coentunnel elements readied for Amsterdam

Coentunnel elements readied for Amsterdam Four completed tunnel elements occupy the construction dock on the old Maas at Barendrecht, each 178 m-long x 26 m-wide. They will be individually towed by ... More Information

Central Pyrenees rail crossing invitation

Central Pyrenees rail crossing invitationCommunauté de Travail des Pyrénées (CTP) has published a second invitation, deadline 03.05.2011, requesting proposals for the rail crossing through the ... More Information

Tendering process resumes for Alpine tunnels

Tendering process resumes for Alpine tunnels The Intergovernmental Committee for the improvement of the links in the Southern Alps (CIG) held on 31.01.2011 in Paris has unlocked the tender ... More Information

Robbins TBMs underway at Pahang-Selangor

Robbins TBMs underway at Pahang-SelangorThree Robbins 5.2 m-diameter high performance main beam TBMs are being deployed to drive the tunnels of the Pahang-Selangor project that will provide water ... More Information

Shaft construction for Barcelona TBM

Shaft construction for Barcelona TBM On 01.02.2011 construction of the 25.3 m-long, 17.4 m-wide, 26.8 m-deep TBM exit shaft began at the intersection of routes Entenca and Provenca street in ... More Information

Blanka tunnel breakthrough in Prague

Blanka tunnel breakthrough in PragueThe final blast took place on 13.01.2011 in the north tube of the Blanka tunnel between Letna and Troja. The tunnel passes under the junction of Korunní and Jana ... More Information

Top job at Aker Wirth

Top job at Aker WirthAs a consequence of the recession, Aker Wirth CEO Christoph Kleuters foresees a shortage of skills that could impede recovery. He feels this can be overcome by intensive ... More Information

GIA pulls large order for Pahang Selangor

GIA pulls large order for Pahang SelangorGia Industrie AB, the Swedish manufacturer of ventilation fans, loaders, locomotives and rolling stock is supplying the Pahang Selangor water transfer ... More Information

Four weeks to Auckland conference

Four weeks to Auckland conferenceThe technical programme has been released for the 14th Australasian Tunnelling Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on 8-10th March, 2011, the theme of which is ... More Information

BASF workshop for waterproofing designers

BASF workshop for waterproofing designersMEYCO Underground Construction solutions will be the focus of a workshop in Trondheim, Norway on 15-16th March, 2011. Permanent waterproof single-shell ... More Information

Quejigares TBM excavation complete

Quejigares TBM excavation complete On 11.01.2011 TBM EPB excavation of the second tube of Quejigares tunnel was completed on the 4.9 km Arroyo de la Viñuela-Quejigares section of the ... More Information

Excavation commences on Vitoria-Bilbao-San Sebastián line

Excavation commences on Vitoria-Bilbao-San Sebastián line Conventional excavation has commenced of San Roman tunnel (778 m, section 95 sq m) and Ganzelai tunnel (1,405 m, section 85 sq m) on the ... More Information

ISTSS 2012 call for papers

ISTSS 2012 call for papers The 5th international symposium on tunnel safety and security is scheduled for the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY on March 14-16, 2012. Second call for papers has been ... More Information

Herrenknecht TBM progress at metro Line B in Lyon

Herrenknecht TBM progress at metro Line B in LyonOn 27.09.2010 Herrenknecht TBM Agata, diameter 5 m, weight 1,000 t, length 70 m, started excavation of metro B extension in Lyon. The Gerland Stadium ... More Information

IPS powerful people update

IPS powerful people updateInternational personnel recruitment company iPS has revised and updated its website to a more user-friendly format for both jobseekers and employers. 03/11. More Information

Robbins TBM makes history in Laos

Robbins TBM makes history in LaosA 7.6 m-diameter Robbins single shield TBM has completed the first mechanically-driven tunnel in Laos at Theun Hinboun hydro project. The 5.5 km-long drive for the ... More Information

Australia and New Zealand to host Auckland conference

Australia and New Zealand to host Auckland conferenceThe 14th Australasian Tunnelling Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand on 8-10th March, 2011. The theme "Development in Underground ... More Information

City Tunnel opens in Malmo

City Tunnel opens in MalmoThe Malmo City Tunnel was officially opened last month by King Carl Gustav XVI of Sweden. The 17 km-long project is the final section of the direct link between Denmark and ... More Information

Ras Adjir-Emsaad highway Libya award

Ras Adjir-Emsaad highway Libya awardAn Italian consortium of Anas SpA, Progetti Europa & Global SpA and Italsocotec SpA has won a EUR125.5 million deal for the Ras Adjir-Emsaad highway in Libya. ... More Information

The advantages of legacy

The advantages of legacyWelcome to a New Year in which the fittest have survived, and fortunes will be made out of the accelerating financial recovery. Our clients have applied their accumulated ... More Information

CBE laser tracker saves time, improves safety

CBE laser tracker saves time, improves safetyFrench group CBE has celebrated the New Year with the launch of the latest generation of its Faro Laser Tracker Ion for three-dimensional control of ... More Information

Second breakthrough at A Luoi hydro

Second breakthrough at A Luoi hydro On 27.12.2010 Cavico Bridge and Tunnel, the Cavico Corporation subsidiary based in Vietnam, broke through a second sub-tunnel at the A Luoi hydropower project. ... More Information

iPS recruiting senior staff for Indian tunnel project

iPS recruiting senior staff for Indian tunnel projectIn February, 2011 India is to start work on a four-year drill/blast tunnel using NATM techniques. iPS is currently recruiting a Tunnel ... More Information

Variante di Valico base tunnel completed

Variante di Valico base tunnel completed On 21.12.2010 the base tunnel on the Variante di Valico project between Florence and Bologna holed through. It is the largest highway tunnel in Italy with ... More Information

Long headrace for Song Bung 2 in Vietnam

Long headrace for Song Bung 2 in VietnamConstruction of the 100 MW Song Bung 2 hydro plant project in Quang Nam province has been awarded to Cavico. The contract includes surge tank, powerhouse and ... More Information

Herrenknecht delivers world's largest EPB

Herrenknecht delivers world's largest EPBThe 15.62 m-diameter EPB designed and manufactured by Herrenknecht at Schwanau has been accepted by the customer this week. It will now be partially ... More Information

2012 Symposium on tunnel safety for New York

2012 Symposium on tunnel safety for New YorkThe fifth ISTSS conference will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, NY on 14-16 March, 2012 with three days of presentations and exhibits. This ... More Information

Galong La tunnel holes through in Tibet

Galong La tunnel holes through in TibetThe 3.3 km-long Galong La tunnel holed through today, linking Tibet's remote Metok county with the outside world. The tunnel alignment passed through 11 major ... More Information

Second Sangaldam breakthrough

Second Sangaldam breakthroughWork is progressing well on the Katra-Qazigund section of the Kashmir railway, with the second tunnel breaking through at Sangaldam in the Ramban district of the valley. ... More Information

iPS recruits for tunnel project in India

iPS recruits for tunnel project in IndiaIn February, 2011 India is to start work on a four-year drill/blast tunnel using NATM techniques. iPS is currently recruiting a Tunnel Superintendent and ... More Information

UK high speed railway route published

UK high speed railway route publishedThe proposed route for HS2 high speed railway from London to Birmingham has been revealed to the British parliament by the Minister for Transport. More, ... More Information

Marathon Robbins TBM completes Pinglu

Marathon Robbins TBM completes PingluOn 14.11.2010 a veteran Robbins Double Shield completed one of the world's longest single-drive TBM tunnels, the 25.4 km Pinglu section of the Yellow River water ... More Information

Adfil Construction Fibres - leading through innovation

Adfil Construction Fibres - leading through innovationSpanning four decades, ADFIL Construction Fibres has been manufacturing and marketing an extensive range of innovative construction fibres. The ... More Information

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Assam's first underwater tunnel: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma says DPR nears completion

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that the Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the Gohpur-Numaligarh tunnel project is almost ... More Information

The Tunnel Vision: A look at California's $20B plan to solve to the state's water crisis

Minassian describes the process, locations and implications of the operation using four tunnel boring machines. READ STORY | HEAR PODCAST. PART 3 ... More Information

Ruby deployed for final Metro West tunnel beneath Sydney Harbour

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Ruby has begun carving out the final section of tunnel for the Sydney Metro West project. More Information

Photos: Inside the $250 Million Tunnel Being Constructed Under Columbus

Located at an average depth of 50 feet underground, the 12-foot-diameter tunnel has been under construction since early 2021. By the time it is ... More Information

Tideway: £4.5bn ‘super sewer’ begins to protect Thames as first 4 sites activated

The Thames Tideway Tunnel has commenced operation as the first four of 21 sites have been switched on. This means that, after eight years of construction, the 25km £4.5bn “super sewer” has ... More Information

Lowest bidder emerges for Dubai Metro Blue line

Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) opened bids from contractors for the contract to design and build Dubai Metro’s Blue Line on 8 October. The group of China Tiesiju Civil ... More Information

Sanya River estuary passage project makes steady progress

A drone photo shows the construction site of the Sanya River estuary passage project in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, Oct. 12, 2024. The Sanya River estuary passage project ... More Information

Mumbai Metro 3: Breaking Ground, Defying Odds

Two tunnels for the 33.5-km corridor (Colaba to Aarey), totalling 55 km, were carved out, using 17 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs). Certain sections ... More Information

VIDEO: Drone fly through inside new HRBT tunnel

We can't fly you to the moon, but we can fly you through the new #HRBTExpansion tunnel. Drone video gives you a quick glimpse into the... More Information

Skanska receives Innovate UK funding to accelerate decarbonisation of concrete

Our Skanska Costain STRABAG JV has secured funding to trial repurposed London Clay as a low carbon alternative to cement... More Information

Longest Tunnel in the World Entering Final Phase Underneath Newburgh

Repair Plans for the Delaware Aqueduct in Wawarsing and Newburgh, NY. The plan for repairs involved the construction of a 2.5 mile bypass tunnel ... More Information

Two TBM's break through

Two TBM's break through. Joshua Farrell ... tunnelling segments to line the new tunnel walls. Work inside the ... More Information

Texas A&M eyes Elon Musk's Boring Company for tunnel system

A&M officials have conducted a feasibility study with positive results, but they have yet to talk with Musk about the project, Chief Operating Officer ... More Information

Construction Begins on £1.8bn Underwater Tunnel Under Panama Canal

The tunnel is part of Panama's Metro Line 3 monorail project, designed to ease traffic congestion in the metropolitan area. tunnel boring machine... More Information

Webuild at work on the massive railway tunnel at the heart of the Northeast Corridor

After years of planning, the Hudson Tunnel Project (HTP) to improve the railway connection between New York and New Jersey has begun. The first drilling contract for the tunnels, part of ... More Information

TfL Awards Contract for Elephant & Castle Tube Station Upgrade

Transport for London (TfL) has selected Dragados UK to design and construct new passenger tunnels at Elephant & Castle Tube station. These tunnels will connect the new station box to the ... More Information

More than 10 years of transformational tunnelling

More than 23,000 workers, 11 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and an army of roadheaders and excavators are what it has taken for CPB Contractors to construct more than 80 kilometres of ... More Information

Ivy – the Newest Member of the DEME Marine Fleet on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Project

DEME have introduced “Ivy”, the newest member of their marine fleet for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel project! Specifically designed for the transport and immersion of the project’s 89 massive ... More Information

Double down: SA’s groundbreaking purchase

Up to twice the number of Tunnel Boring Machines previously anticipated will be delivered to South Australia for the landmark River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) Project, giving hope the ... More Information

CRL Tunnel Vision September 2024

This month in Tunnel Vision we’re celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Māori! It’s been a busy month on the CRL fitting out the stations with all the technical systems needed to run and revealing ... More Information

Siddhababa tunnel achieves key breakthroughs.

The first and third cross passages of the Siddhababa Tunnel Project on the Siddhartha Highway have achieved breakthroughs. Construction of two of ... More Information

Ontario Exploring Feasibility of New Highway 401 Tunnel

Today, the Ontario government launched the technical evaluation for the construction of a new driver and transit tunnel expressway under ... More Information

National Highways unveils modernisation plans to upgrade A38 Saltash Tunnel

National Highways will be embarking on the second phase of a major modernisation upgrade of the A38 Saltash Tunnel later this autumn... More Information

Strong sustainability score for North East Link

Three mini tunnel boring machines (TBMs) moved 1.8km of the Yarra East Main Sewer to the east of Bulleen Road, beneath homes, schools and sports ... More Information

Tunneling through the Carpathians

AKTOR's innovative use of Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) represents a leap forward in engineering and construction technology in the region. Here ... More Information

Suburban Rail Loop to repurpose enormous Sydney Metro machines

The Victorian government's Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is making major strides, with the first four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) now ordered and set to ... More Information

The incredible tunnel that cost £108m to build is the longest on an entire continen

Colombia's mega project will see the country honoured as having the longest tunnel in South America when completed, benefitting locals and ... More Information

Panama Excavates First Underwater Transport Tunnel

Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino this week officially began construction and lining work on the first underwater transport tunnel that will ... More Information

Ningbo-Zhoushan High-Speed Railway, China

The tunnelling operation uses two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named Dinghai and Yongzhou. The two are anticipated to converge midway beneath the ... More Information

Boring on metro tunnel below Adyar river complete

The tunnel boring machines - nicknamed Kaveri and Adyar - were engaged for the work. Kaveri has successfully completed the tunnelling drive, while ... More Information

DMRC completes first twin tunnels

DMRC completes first twin tunnels breakthrough under Phase-IV construction tunnels breakthrough under Phase-IV construction. The two tunnel boring machines (TBMs), Bhoomi and Srishti, ... More Information

BART celebrates 50 years with completion of Transbay Tube retrofit

BART celebrates 50 years with completion of Transbay Tube retrofit. Tunnel project ends agency's $1.5B earthquake safety effort. Avatar photo by Bay ... More Information

US$12.2 billion for new Indian tunnels

A US$12.2 billion budget will boost tunnel construction in India. The plans from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways calls for 74 new tunnels to be built. These will measure 273km ... More Information

Hong Kong West Drainage Tunnel

Arup is the consultant to the Hong Kong Drainage Services Department in carrying out the design, pre-qualification, tender and construction ... More Information

Lane JV Wins Tunnel Package for Hudson River Tunnel Project Valued at $466 Million

CHARLOTTE, NC – The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has won a $466 million contract, of which Lane has a 35% share, to construct the Palisades Tunnel ... More Information

World’s biggest developers eye bids for Dublin MetroLink contracts

A consortium made up of some of the biggest infrastructure developers in the world has formed in preparation to bid for contracts to build and operate the long awaited MetroLink rail line ... More Information

The Boring Company's Prufrock-3 completes Las Vegas tunnel

The tunneling startup did not share the length of the tunnel that ... construction projects with speed and automation. This is highlighted by ... More Information

Coastal road phase 2: Mumbai's second twin tunnel to pass under rivers, mangroves

As part of phase 2 of Mumbai's Coastal Road Project, a 22.93 km high-speed corridor linking Versova with Dahisar will be created. More Information

Rock tunnel for £1.7bn Norway road scheme takes shape

The consortium responsible for the construction of a new road system in Norway has excavated approximately 500m of a new 1.9km long tunnel... More Information