Another Turkish company is grabbed by a foreign company. Multiplan produces PVC and TPO membranes also for tunnel waterproofing. PwC facilitated for this sell out. Multiplan is now called Protan...

  Bored the Sluiskil tunnel in The Netherlands. Diameter of 11 meters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zTmqNXYEmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1qZizykUKg 75-year old Maastunnel had been in renovation work which took 2 years to complete and cost 262 million euros. The Maastunnel, a National Monument in The Netherlands is in operation since it was...

The transalpine tunnel in central Switzerland is closed to traffic at both ends due to an accident on Monday afternoon.  According to first reports, five people have been injured, and the tunnel was closed in both directions. Rescue and...

  Broomfield, Colorado: Epiroc, a leading productivity partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has donated a COP 1238K rock drill to the Excavation Engineering and Earth Mechanics Institute (EMI) at the Colorado School of...

Norwegian governments invests in a $40 billion infrastructure project to make a 1,100 kilometer journey between the southern city of Kristiansand and Trondheim "ferry-free" and shorten the 21-hour journey time in half. Vegvesen (...

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  Herrenknecht at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19YoTw8UL7o  

  The Minister of Education, Youth and Sport in Baden-Württemberg, Dr. Susanne Eisenmann, visited Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau on Wednesday. On the agenda were the topics of ensuring enough skilled workers, training and Germany’s...

  Dear people, I want to congragulate everybodys Kurban Bayramı (sacrifice fest in Islam). Happy #Bayram. Değerli Arkadaşlar, Hepimizin Kurban Bayramı'nı burada kutlamak istiyorum. Mutlu bayramlar. Erdem

Tunnelling Journal reported on 7 August 2019 that the German tunneling powerhouse Mühlhäuser hit preliminary insolvency procedures and its parts are up for sale. Journal says " SMT Scharf AG is considering in detail the acquisition...

China's CRCHI supply 6 Tunnel Boring Machines to Namma Metro’s Phase-II. "While the six TBMs for Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation’s Phase-I underground corridor were purchased from Japan, Germany, US and Italy, Phase-II will...

Updated - WINNERS are marked as WINNER in the list of finalists below! ITA Announcement The ITA Tunnelling Awards 2019 - The list of finalists disclosed Since the first edition in 2015 by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space...

  I thought Herrenknecht produce TBMs in Germany. But Australian press say "Once they are in the ground, the German boring machines - manufactured in China by Herrenknecht - will operate 24/7 and tunnel about 10 metres per day....

  Thousands of Italians continue their protests against the controversial high-speed Torino-Lyon railway link with 57,5 kilometre tunnel under the Alps. The largest of the protests were held  in Piedmont, where the tunnel for the TAV...

  Always moving forward in pipeline technology A dense pipeline network spanning over three million kilometers is the global backbone of industry and commerce. To keep supply stable, innovative pipeline companies are constantly expanding...

I cannot believe it. Indeed TÜV SÜD also certifies tunnels. Among them are very very critical tunnels. I hope they are properly checking the safety in those tunnels, considering what happened in Brazil... Their web site lists some...

  BBC reports that the mining dam which burst in Brazil killing 300 people was tested as "safe" by Germany's TÜV SÜD.  Even worse, the BBC news says ' Investigators believe there's evidence the German...

  According to a local French press `Le Creusot`, French workers of Mühlhauser NFM are not hapy because their salaries are not paid on time. French TBM company NFM was acquired by German tunneling company Mühlhauser short time...

  China Railway Engineering Equipment Group (CREG) ceremony for EPB TBM Qianjin (CREC 773) on July 15 in Zhengzhou, China factor. It is for Guiyang Metro...