Today a few hours ago we have an earthquake ın İstanbul of magnitude 5,9 in richter scale. I searched information about the tunnel safety in the area and found some article. Marmaray tunnel (Marmaray tüneli) connecting the...

  A train controlling rail tracks loose contact with rail. This is a train does regular checks on track and tunnel used for YHT (Yüksek Hızlı Tiren - high speed train). Authorities say it left track just entering tunnel hits the wall...

  Lately Dutch authorities started a feasibility study for connecting the island of Ameland with the mainland Netherlands, Amelanders' reaction was "Never nooit" (literally "Never never"). A similar study in 2008 for...

n August 2019, a small diameter Double Shield TBM made a big impact. The 2.46 m (8.07 ft) diameter Robbins machine completed 3,475 m (11,400 ft) of boring with no intermediate access, making it the longest rock tunnel ever bored by a Double Shield...

A West Bengal Minister was among over 400 persons forced to evacuate their residences and shops here in the heart of the city after more than 50 buildings developed cracks – and several collapsed – apparently due to tunnelling work for...

  Lahr. A small town in Germany. 50 thousand souls living there. In deep south-west of Germany just on the French border. It has an airport once used by Canadian occupation troops after the WWII. It brought some action to the economy of this...

I don't know if you have ever taken one of these Hidden London tours. They take you to the old tunnels frozen in time. If you are in London, you musn't miss them.  Now I read in this article that there is also a picture book of these...

https://gulfnews.com/uae/transport/10-glorious-years-of-dubai-metro-a-runaway-success-story-1.66226435

Switzerland plans to shift environment polluting truck traffic to underground. Or more correctly said, to replace the gas-guzzling trucks with environmentally-sound tunnel pods: Fleets of autonomous, unmanned vehicles working 24 hours a day. The...

Tunnel Boring Machine and TBM Cutter producer E-BERK enters the market also in the micro-TBM (<3m)  segment.  A 2,3m diameter E-BERK pipe-jacking micro TBM delivered to a GAMA project in Tunisia has recently completed the boring and...

The development consortium responsible for building Melbourne’s West Gate Tunnel has taken inadequate measures to protect workers and the public from toxic contaminants, including asbestos and perfluoralkyl substances (PFAs), according to the...

A Chinese company (China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Co. Limited (CPPE)) began construction of two main underground tunnels in Sri Lanka's Colombo metro area which will prevent the threat of floods in the...

Over 450 cubic metres of concrete mixture was injected throu ..   Read more at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/70953507.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst Over 450 cubic...

Kolkata: Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Limited (KMRCL) overlooking the fact that along with clay there may be sand pockets in the subsurface layer of the city, might have led to the disaster in Bowbazar in which several buildings developed cracks...

  Mishap tied to TBM hitting acquifer.  The seal of a vital component of a tunnel boring machine of Kolkata East-West Metro gave way because of water pressure, leading to flooding of the tunnel in Bowbazar, engineers of the project...

Turkish newspapers report that the segments used in İzmir Metrosu Narlıdere extension construction crack. Newspapers say the contractor Gülermak use Fiber Reinforced Polymer and Macro Synthetic Fiber in segments instead of steel...

  Blacksnake Creek Tunnel in St Joseph in Kansas. USA. Super Excavators reports progress despite some "setbacks" with the Chinese tunnel boring machine. "Setbacks stopped the project more than once, but Garbeth says they...

  Blacksnake Creek Tunnel in St Joseph in Kansas. USA. Super Excavators reports progress despite some "setbacks" with the Chinese tunnel boring machine. "Setbacks stopped the project more than once, but Garbeth says they...

US Appeals court rules in favour of Insurance company Maxum Indemnity Co. against The Robbins Company.  Earlier a lower court had ruled that Robbins' insurance policy did not cover Robbins' dispute initiated by a third-party, JCM...

There were two ways the city could get electrified trains through the downtown core when it was planning its east-west light rail system more than 10 years ago: build rail lines on the road surfaces or dig a rail...