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CBT: Switzerland’s Third Largest Railway Tunnel Project

30/08/2020

The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2020 and it is the third largest railway tunnel project in Switzerland after the Gotthard and the Lötschberg Base Tunnels.

Central Interceptor Project, the TBM has received a Matariki star name

30/08/2020

The new Central Interceptor TBM has been officially named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, as one of the Matariki stars ​to which Māori send their dreams or aspirations for the new year. Students from schools along ...

Atal Rohtang Tunnel: Extreme Engineering & Construction

30/08/2020

Afcons, in a joint venture with Strabag, has constructed the world's longest motorable tunnel 3,000 m above sea level. The Atal Tunnel will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by 46km and ...

Short Lists Announced for Huge Sydney Rail Tunnel Project

30/08/2020

Three world-leading consortia have been short-listed to construct twin twenty kilometres of tunnel as part of two works packages on one of Sydney’s biggest rail tunnelling projects.

Balfour Beatty VINCI welcome its first rail freight delivery at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in Birmingham

26/08/2020

Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long-established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders, welcomed its first rail freight delivery of aggregate at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in Birmingham ...

The HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs)

24/08/2020

Early in 2021, two 2000 tonne tunnelling machines measuring over 170 metres each will be launched at a site by the M25 to bore 10 miles each underneath the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.

The Robbins Company

24/08/2020

If you missed our webinar on high-speed tunneling in the Himalayas, we've got a video for you.

Highways England publishes £14bn road building plan

24/08/2020

The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...

Megha Engineering & Infrastructure emerges L1 bidder for Zojila Tunnel project

24/08/2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in May 2018 laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,800 crore project, billed as the Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, ...

Sri Lanka marks breakthrough of flood prevention tunnel in capital city

24/08/2020

The project was first proposed in 2010, after which a feasibility study was conducted in 2013 and construction began in 2019. The New Mutwal Tunnel is ...

Rohtang Tunnel to open by September-end

19/08/2020

More than 700 men are working in shifts to complete the tunnel...

UPCOMING PROJECTS: August 2020

14/08/2020

Tunneling Business Magazine The system improvements include construction of nine tunnels to control sewer overflows. Upcoming tunneling components of Project Clear include ( ...

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