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Isabelle NWRL tunnel boring machine arrives

17/10/2014

The third North West Rail Link tunnel boring machine has arrived in Sydney and has been named Isabelle by tunnellers working on the North West Rail Link.

Hong Kong celebrates final breakthrough of 21km sewerage tunnel

08/10/2014

Hong Kong’s project to improve Victoria Harbour's water quality has reached a new milestone with the final breakthrough of all the tunnel sections for the Harbour Area Treatment Scheme

Vinci Construction Grands Projets to build the Shieldhall tunnel in Glasgow, Scotland

03/10/2014

Vinci Construction Grands Projets, working in a 50-50 joint venture with Costain, is to build the Shieldhall tunnel in Glasgow for Scottish Water, the publicly-owned water company in Scotland.

Tunnel company Acciona says East West Link project will go ahead

03/10/2014

The Spanish infrastructure group helping build the East West Link expects the project to go ahead despite the political wrangling over its future

Alice the tunnel-boring machine breaks through

29/09/2014

Alice has dug the country's longest road tunnel during the past 10 months and today she has broken through into daylight to reveal the wonderland beneath

Sydney TBM named after Australia’s first female engineer

29/09/2014

The second tunnel boring machine for Sydney’s North West Rail Link has arrived on site and has been named after Australia’s first female engineer and architect, Florence Mary Taylor, who was born in ...

Chennai Metro Rail set for trial runs between Egmore, Shenoy Nagar by middle of next year

24/09/2014

Chennai, September 23: On the surface, thousands of vehicles criss-cross the arterial roads of Anna Salai and Poonamallee High Road

Engineers meet challenge of Gotthard tunnel

23/09/2014

Due to open in 2016, the Gotthard base tunnel is not just a hole through a mountain.

German tunnel contract for Hochtief

16/09/2014

A project for a €122 million harbour tunnel at Bremerhaven in northern Germany will be developed by a consortium led by Hochtief.

Crossrail begins last east London tunnel

12/09/2014

Tunnel machine Ellie has started her 900 metre journey from Limmo Peninsula, near Canning Town, towards Victoria Dock Portal in east London

Bouygues lands $5.2bn Hong Kong tunnels

10/09/2014

Two Bouygues subsidiaries have won a HK$ 5.2bn (£415m) contract with MTR Corporation for tunnels on the Shatin to Central Link.

Machine reduces shaft-sinking time by 20% to 30%

05/09/2014

Mining contracting company Murray & Roberts Cementation, in partnership with tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht and Germany-based Thyssen Schachtbau,

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