02/11/2015
Tunnel Boring Machines, or TBMs, are some of the most fascinating manufacturers of our infrastructure: Two-ton primary-coloured cylinders with ...
30/10/2015
North west electrification works have hit a major milestone as Britain's biggest active tunnel boring machine (TBM), the nine metre-wide Fillie, broke ...
26/10/2015
Washington post video tour of the inside....
13/10/2015
Today Veidekke Entreprenør has signed a contract with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) to rehabilitate the Høyanger tunnel on secondary road 55 in Sogn og Fjordane
13/10/2015
The Qatar Public Works Authority awarded the Paris-based construction firm Bouygues Travaux Publics two contracts Sept. 29 to design and construct sewage tunnels in the Gulf nation’s capital of Doha
30/09/2015
Robbins' tunnel-boring machines get around: India, China, Turkey, Europe and Mexico. At present, the company has 45 tunnel projects underway, ...
28/09/2015
Qatar Rail has officially been named by the Guinness World Records for “The Largest Number of Tunnel Boring Machines Operating Simultaneously in a Single Project," marking a milestone for ...
22/09/2015
Over the weekend, there were some signs of life for the planned project to build the underground extension of SkyTrain’s Millennium Line along the Broadway Corridor.
16/09/2015
About 50 percent of the 113-kilometer long tunneling works for Doha Metro has been completed with the help of 21 tunnel boring machines (TBM) that are advancing underground at full swing, said a ...
16/09/2015
Qatar Rail has awarded contracts worth QR60bn to nine joint ventures, and approximately 50 percent of the 113k tunnelling has been completed to date.
14/09/2015
Like a giant steel worm, the machine has slowly burrowed a tunnel that is 20 feet in diameter and 4.5 miles long about 200 feet beneath Columbus, making its way north from the South Side to Downtown ...
11/09/2015
Watch a tour of the tunnel project from July, 2013: