Periódico del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia reports great progress on 3 tunnels which are being built on the La Paz-Caranavi route. In the Cajones 1 tunnel, shotcrete is being placed in the vault and part of the gables. In the Cajones 2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvpQGa_P59w Atlanta's “Driller Mike,” bored the 5-mile, 10-foot-diameter tunnel. The Robbins TBM has been named after the Atlanta-resident famous rapper 'Killer...

eKapija write that municipality of Budva asked the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism to issue urban and technical conditions for the construction of a tunnel through the hill Spas, which would connect the main road in Jaz with the...

The final estimated cost for the east London project is now £199M, with £6M spent to date excluding the construction costs which are being incurred by the Riverlinx consortium which has a design, build, maintain and finance...

Too bad for the tree-huggers https://www.michiganadvance.com/2021/02/23/state-panel-doesnt-have-to-consider-climate-change-in-line-5-tunnel-permit-decision-judge-rules/

The feasibility of connecting multiple Irish Sea road tunnels with a roundabout beneath the Isle of Man has been played down by leading tunnelling expert Bill...

"Round and Round We Go" https://www.archpaper.com/2021/02/boris-johnson-derided-over-subterranean-traffic-roundabout-scheme-for-the-isle-of-man/

The major mobile operators in The Netherlands (T-Mobile, KPN and Vodafone) have implemented the first mobile coverage which provides the commuters traveling at high peed trains with superfast downloads in tunnel​ of Oude Maas. T-Mobile released the...

Swedish company NCC has been commissioned by Region Stockholm’s Administration for Extended Metro to construct the Hagastaden station on the new subway line to Arenastaden. The estimated order value is approximately SEK 1.2 billion. NCC is...

Cost of patching up London's aging bridges and tunnels soars by more than 700% https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/cost-of-patching-up-londons-ageing-bridges-and-tunnels-soars-by-more-than-700-25-02-2021/

  Shield Tunneling Technology in Hard-Soft Uneven Stratum and Extremely-Soft Stratum with 104 b/w illustrations Editor: Kairong Hong Publisher: Springer Singapore Copyright Holder: Shanghai Scientific and Technical...

Interesting! Being faster than a snail is truly an innovation in tunneling. TUM Boring – Innovation in Tunneling is an initiative of the Technical University of Munich consisting of 60 highly motivated students who have teamed up to...

I don't know what to make of this very "clever" proposal... https://www.ukip.org/scrap-devolution-and-build-the-stranraer-to-larne-tunnel

Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria conducts a research to make tunnels CO2-neutral. The research is conducted at Brenner Base Tunnel. Below is the media release by TU Graz (author is Christoph Pelzl). Brenner Base Tunnel as a...

The European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons has makes a series of recommendations on the way safety rules are set for the Channel Tunnel. " The Committee recommended that this bi-national approach be formalised and that new...

I've got notified by a friend over a press release of Razel-Bec. Below is the translation to English (link to original is at the bottom). PRESS RELEASE - A 100% Fayat consortium for lot 3 of line 16 of the Grand Paris Express 24 Feb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-JApGKNBUA Serbia's Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Tomislav Momirović, today, told the representatives of the contractor companies Azvirt and Povercajna that they must strictly stick...

  Tvp : Contractor Gulermak's TBM Anna breaks through at  Trocka station shaft after 650 meters of boring. It had started on January 22 from the Zacisze station. It was the shortest spring of total 2878m tunelling Also the the last...

Transport for London (TfL) has awarded five contractors places on a new framework to construct and repair its highways network, including bridges and...

  One takeaway: HS2 Boss gets paid £625000 per year, i.e. 52000 per month. Not bad. https://sputniknews.com/uk/202102221082151995-as-work-progresses-on-uks-106-bln-hs2-railway-who-is-building-the-track-stations-and-trains/