HS2 starts work on first pioneering ‘Green Tunnel’
The UK’s HS2 has announced the start of construction at the site of its first innovative ‘green tunnel’, designed to blend the high speed railway into the landscape and reduce disruption for...
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Big players bid for Victoria’s longest tunnelling contract
Suburban Rail Loop has attracted interest from global leaders in tunnelling and construction, with submissions received from 5 world-class bidders to build the twin tunnels for SRL East. Expressions of...
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hyperTunnel’s growth backed by VINCI investment
hyperTunnel has received a financial investment from VINCI which will be used for business expansion and to further develop and test hyperTunnel’s revolutionary construction method in practical...
View ArticleSaudi’s NEOM awards drill and blast contracts
Saudi’s futuristic NEOM city of the future project has awarded drill and blast tunnelling contracts – totalling 28km in length – for work on the development’s infrastructure that the developer say will...
View ArticleBAM to sell Wayss & Freytag
Royal BAM Group nv has reached agreement on the sale of the shares of the German operating company Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau to ZECH Building SE, in which all construction activities of the Zech...
View ArticleResilience on show at Philly’s NAT 2022 conference
Despite the raft of challenges facing the tunnelling industry, the mood at the North American Tunnelling (NAT) conference this week was upbeat. The event was held in Philadelphia between 19 and 22 June...
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Hochtief Murphy JV achieves first LPT2 breakthrough
The UK’s National Grid team members celebrated a landmark moment for the £1bn London Power Tunnels (LPT) project on 21st June, as the first of five drives by four TBMs was completed at Eltham. The...
View ArticlePreferred option chosen for New Zealand’s LGWM
The New Zealand Government is progressing a preferred option for Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) which will see Wellington’s transport links strengthened with light rail from Wellington Station to...
View ArticleACCIONA/YIT win world’s third longest undersea tunnel contract
HELEN, one of the largest energy companies in Finland has selected a consortium formed by ACCIONA and the local company YIT as the preferred bidder for a project to recover heat from seawater at the...
View ArticleKomatsu and Codelco to trial new Mining TBM
Komatsu Ltd through its subsidiary, Komatsu Cummins Chile Ltda has agreed with Codelco, a major state-owned mining company in Chile, to collaborate on trialing a new tunnel excavation method using...
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Tunnelling starts on Brenner’s Gola del Sill-Pfons lot
Work has officially begun on Lot H41 Gola del Sill-Pfons, one of the biggest sections of the Brenner Base Tunnel, a project that will become the world’s longest railway tunnels at 64km. Connecting...
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HS2 offers tunnelling career trial
HS2’s construction partner, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), is offering the chance to trial a new career working on the tunnelling machines that will bore beneath the ground in Warwickshire and Birmingham....
View ArticleCRL’s second Tunnel breakthrough at Karanga a Hape Station
Auckland’s $4.4bn City Rail Link has achieved another significant project milestone with the 7.15m diameter Herrenknecht TBM, Dame Whina Cooper, breaking through at Karanga a Hape Station today as it...
View ArticleHS2 reveals successful hydrogen generator trial
An HS2 construction site in London has held successful trials for two zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell-based electricity generators – cutting carbon and improving air quality for workers and the local...
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HS2 celebrates historic first tunnelling breakthrough
The UK’s HS2 Ltd is celebrating the very first tunnelling breakthrough on Europe’s largest infrastructure project. A 2,000-tonne Herrenknecht TBM has completed its 1.6km long bore under Long Itchington...
View ArticleChennai Metro takes delivery of third Terratec EPBM
TERRATEC has reported delivery of the third out of five ordered 6.61m diameter EPBMs for the Chennai Metro Rail project in India. Contractor, Tata Projects Ltd. will use these machines for its...
View ArticleBig Tex’s landmark breakthrough after diameter change
On July 25, 2022, ‘Big Tex’ a Robbins Main Beam TBM successfully broke through in Dallas, Texas, USA on the 8km long Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel. Contractor JV Southland/Mole drove the machine...
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Silvertown TBM prepares for late summer launch
The cutterhead for the TBM that will bore London’s 1.4km long twin-lane Silvertown Tunnel has been lowered into the start shaft in preparation for boring to commence on the first tube later this...
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Eglinton Crosstown West Extension’s ‘Roxy’ launches
Metrolinx and The West End Connectors team have reached another milestone on Ontario’s Eglinton Crosstown West Extension with the second TBM, ‘Roxy’ starting the journey from Renforth Drive to Scarlett...
View ArticleMinisterial endorsement for Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East
The first stage of Victoria’s biggest ever infrastructure project – Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East – is a significant step closer following Ministerial endorsement of key recommendations made by an...
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