I have been away from TunnelContact.com for a while, after the affair regarding my blog about some industry interaction. I would like to help everyone for their support. A short while ago I have read a UN report about the World...

  Finnish entrepreneur Peter Vesterbacka proposes a 100 kilometer-long Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel connecting the capitals of the Finland and Estonia. It is thought of as a part of the wider Rail Baltica...

I read this yesterday evening and I would like to share it here. It is great reading. The article (from Tunnel Business Magazine) is about the Brenner Base Tunnel, the 64 kilometers-long railway tunnel between Austria and Italy. Apperantly it...

The proposed 270km-long train link between Lyon and Turin, which would also have one of the longest rail tunnels in the world, risks being shelved following EU elections. Italy's 5-star movement is against the project due tothe cost and...

  In China's Qingdao city, a subway construction site collapses. causing the death of 5 people working in the construction. Another reminder that ours is a high-risk profession and has no room for...

  Some time ago I received a letter from a Swiss friend of mine. It was a surprise because nowadays all mails I receive are mostly from tax office and some occasional invoices. The rest is all emails. Anyways, the stamp on the envelope...

Las Vegas finally decides that Elon Musk's The Boring Company is capable of building the 1,6 kilometer long tunnel for the Las Vegas Convention Center. The project is remarkable in the sense that it is build to carry passengers in autonomous...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZmfvVMBu0 Subsea tunnel is proposed to join Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) and  Mumbai of India. It is a futuristic project. It proposes a suspended tube lowered to the sub-sea all the way from...

Having seen the ITA's press release about WTC2019 posted in some of the groups (Talk and walk?), I was thinking... There are so many tunnelling publications nowadays. Tunnel Business Magazine, Tunnelling Journal, Tunnel Talk etc. In your...

  Read the ITA's press release (their setup is a bit cumbersome. You have to downoad a PFD file from their website etc. To read on ITA's...

  News article by IndianExpress which explains in most explanatory way and in layman's terms the challenges the Mumbai metro faces: Seventeen Tunnel Boring Machines (17 TBMs) lowered by contractors of the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation...

  CREG (China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co. Ltd. - one of the Chinese TBM manufacturers) has organized a seminer called “TBM Tunneling Parameter Data Sharing and Machine Learning: Parallel Analysis Seminar.” There...

  I've seen this article about a Robbins TBM boring a water tunnel in a geology with limestone and powdery clays in Cassis, France. It hits more than once uncharted caverns hence loosing its grip. Then comes the laboursome task of...

    Elon Musk's The Boring Company is to build a 2-mile Las Vegas tunnel . But it faces some opposition. Obviously some city members do not think than Elon Musk can...

I am asking because I saw an ad whereby KPMG was selling their buy-back TBMs. Why would a management consultancy company sell it, rather than the company itself? Any info?

  From time to time, I am checking the internet for news about TBMs. And when I bing it, usually hald of the results are from those businesses trying to sell you a "Global TBM Market Research Report". They sound pretty...

  You don't see very often WTC making into mainstream news. World tunnelling congress is more like a meetup for the nerds of the tunnelling world. But WTC at Napoli seems to be an exception. Apparently AFP has serviced Mr...

Hi guys, I could not make it into world tunnel congress in naples this year. I would like to hear about it from the people who have been there. I already posted to the event entry but I think because its date has passed people do not read it. So...

A bit cliche `Top x ` article but still interesting: From the Interesting Engineering magazine: The Top 9 Longest Tunnels in the World https://interestingengineering.com/the-top-9-longest-tunnels-in-the-world imag: Svein Magne Tunli -WCC

  'Tunnel Boring Machine Market is Expected to Grow at a CAGR of 6.4% and to Reach $8.38 billion by 2025' claims a paid-for...