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TBM to launch on São Paulo Metro Line 2 extension
São Paulo Metro is preparing to launch its 11.67m-diameter TBM Hebe Camargo on 16 October, marking the start of mechanised excavation on the Penha–Dutra extension of Line 2-Green towards Guarulhos....
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Amentum wins £22.3m Sizewell C marine tunnelling design contract
Amentum has been awarded a £22.3M contract to lead the design of marine and tunnelling works for the Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk, including three 3.5km offshore tunnels. The contract,...
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Balfour Beatty sells Gammon stake to Jardine Matheson for £250M
Balfour Beatty has sold its 50% stake in Hong Kong-based construction contractor Gammon to joint venture partner Jardine Matheson for £250M, ending a 22-year partnership. The transaction, completed on...
View ArticleLane completes Seattle Ship Canal storage tunnel
Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has completed the $255M Ship Canal Water Quality Project in Seattle, Washington, including a 4.3km-long storage tunnel designed to significantly reduce combined sewer...
View ArticleTBM completes challenging Hangzhou Metro Line 15 drive
China Railway Seventh Group has completed an 801m TBM drive on Hangzhou Metro Line 15, following a challenging undercrossing of an operational high-speed railway viaduct that required the machine to...
View ArticleSTRABAG consortium wins €219m North Macedonia motorway contract
A consortium led by STRABAG has been awarded a €219M contract to construct an 11.5km section of motorway in North Macedonia, including a 370m-long twin-tube tunnel, two viaducts and five bridges. The...
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Port Polska seeks €30m EU funding for Łódź HSR tunnel
Poland’s Port Polska has applied for €30M in European Union funding towards construction of the 4.6km Łódź high-speed rail tunnel, where contractor PORR is preparing to begin excavation with a...
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Cyber incident hits Fehmarnbelt tunnel contractor
Femern Link Contractors (FLC), the main consortium constructing the Fehmarnbelt immersed tunnel between Denmark and Germany, has reported a cybersecurity incident. Project owner Femern A/S said on 13...
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Cairo Metro TBM relaunches for final Line 4 drive
A 6.73m-diameter slurry TBM has resumed excavation on Cairo Metro Line 4 following a two-month relocation and reassembly operation at El Remaya station. The 700t, 100m-long machine is now undertaking a...
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TfL advances twin-bore Thames tunnel for DLR extension
Transport for London is pressing ahead with plans for a twin-bore tunnel beneath the River Thames as part of the proposed Docklands Light Railway extension to Beckton Riverside and Thamesmead. TfL...
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Double-shield TBM relaunches on 6.4km Xinjiang tunnel
CREG double-shield TBM Ping’an has begun its second drive on the Guozigou Pipeline Project in Xinjiang, China, launching on the 6.38km-long Tunnel No.4. The tunnelling works are being carried out by...
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Registration opens for WTC 2027 in Antwerp
Registration has opened for the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) World Tunnel Congress 2027, which will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, from 23–29 April, with early-bird...
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Abu Dhabi signs agreement with The Boring Company
Abu Dhabi Projects and Infrastructure Centre (ADPIC) has signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s The Boring Company to explore the development of advanced underground transport and utility infrastructure...
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Central section of HS2 Wendover green tunnel completed
Construction of the central section of HS2’s 1.4km-long Wendover green tunnel in Buckinghamshire has been completed, with work now focusing on the tunnel portals, internal fit-out and backfilling. The...
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Caroline completes Thames crossing ahead of schedule
The UK’s National Grid has completed tunnelling on its Grain to Tilbury electricity infrastructure project following the breakthrough of a 4.73m-diameter Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM beneath the River...
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Hinkley Point C fish return tunnel completed
Joseph Gallagher Limited (JGL) has completed tunnelling works for the Fish Return System at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, following the successful recovery of a Herrenknecht...
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TBM breakthrough on Qingdao’s second Jiaozhou Bay Tunnel
Shield tunnelling has been completed on China’s 17.48km Qingdao Second Jiaozhou Bay Tunnel project following the breakthrough of the 8.18m-diameter TBM Guoxin on the central service tunnel, marking the...
View ArticleWebuild raises stake in Trevi as takeover intensifies
Webuild has acquired a 13.916% stake in specialist ground engineering contractor Trevi Finanziaria Industriale. The infrastructure group said it had acquired 9,125,702 Trevi shares at €5.165/share....
View ArticleSofia TBM Vitosha enters final 900m of Slatina drive
Herrenknecht EPBM Vitosha has reached the future Sitnyakovo station on Sofia Metro’s Line 3 Slatina extension, leaving approximately 900m of tunnelling before completion of the mechanised drive....
View ArticleBoring Company targets four-TBM operation in Nashville
The Boring Company is targeting four TBMs operating simultaneously on its Music City Loop project in Nashville by the end of the year. The company said Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2 are now tunnelling...
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