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Why The Machines That Dig Tunnels Are Always Named After Women

02/11/2015

Tunnel Boring Machines, or TBMs, are some of the most fascinating manufacturers of our infrastructure: Two-ton primary-coloured cylinders with ...

Major breakthrough as Farnworth Tunnel re-boring comes to an end

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 ...

A tour of the inside of a TBM

26/10/2015

Washington post video tour of the inside....

Veidekke ASA: To rehabilitate the Høyanger tunnel

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

Bouygues wins contracts for major sewer tunnel projects in Qatar

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

Solon company’s tunnel-boring machines could find a new home in Akron sewer project

30/09/2015

Robbins' tunnel-boring machines get around: India, China, Turkey, Europe and Mexico. At present, the company has 45 tunnel projects underway, ...

Qatar Rail Sets New Guinness World Record for Most TBMs in Action

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 ...

Soil test drilling underway for Broadway Subway

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.

Fifty percent of Doha Metro tunneling complete: official

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 ...

Qatar infrastructure kitty swells to $79bn

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.

Columbus Sewer Project Finishes

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 ...

Water authority's new straw at Lake Mead starts to fill

11/09/2015

Watch a tour of the tunnel project from July, 2013:

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