Terratec-made Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Godavari-4 finished boring the 1.5km long tunnel under the Mithi River.  Godavari-4 had started boring on August 21, 2019. The TBM bored from BKC to Dharavi. Godavari-4 bored 15-20 metres below the...

Italian district of Ticino may be warming up to the idea of a new tunnel Vallemaggia and Leventina. The original idea of a 7km long base tunnel between Fusio and Rhodes had been rejected because of cost concerns. In mid-June it had been announced...

Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) announces that the infrastructure company HNTB has been selected to manage the process of West Seattle Bridge Replacement process. This process includes deciding whether to repair the existing bridge or...

TBM Nadezhda started boring a tunnel from the Davydkovo station for the last piece of south western part of Moscow Metro's Big Circle Line (BCL). Tunnel bored is 1,45km long and double-track. It will go 35 meters below ground. It will bore...

New Civil Engineer: London Mayor Sadiq Khan has claimed that the Covid-19 pandemic has strengthened the business case for the £1.2bn Silvertown...

A very good post-mortem of Melamchi water tunnel in Napal. Although this article is is mainly on the fatal accident during hydrostatic tests which killed two tunnel inspectors after a faulty water gate broke open, it has many more information over...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJ0Wi8Rl0c&feature=emb_logo City Rail Link announces that they acceptance test phase of the TBM is over: New Zealand’s largest transport infrastructure project is celebrating a significant...

In Goa a 5 meter section of tunnel collapsed due to much rain. Train traffic effected. Repairs already started. https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-goa-part-of-tunnel-collapses-after-heavy-rain-many-trains-diverted-2275127

"The availability of redundant infrastructure is of utmost importance to ensure that a disruption would, never again, harm the rail freight industry" How not to build tunnels. How not to run projects. The worst is that there is still no...

First milestone contract for the work on a new water supply to Oslo has been signed between the Municipality of Oslo (Sewerage Authority) and Skanska in the morning of 14 August reports Akersposten. This is an indication that the construction work...

Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC)  tender notice for tunnel construction. TENDER NOTIFICATION NO. GMRC/CONS/UG-2/PKG-CS3/PH-1/2020 Design, construction and completion of Underground stations and tunnel including Finishes from Surat...

Mumbai Metro's is Ø6.65m Robbins slurry machine "Tansa-2" has been taken out of the shaft as one unit. The TBM was operated by Doğuş-Soma JV. The retrieval has been done by Freight...

Metro C SpA gives the good news that the excavation activities with TBM of the odd track line tunnel of Line C, in the section between the Fori Imperiali station and the future Piazza Venezia station is completed on 3 August 2020. Boring activities...

To solve the truck traffic problems around Bretten, a bypass is being planned. According to Badische Neueste Nachrichten, there are several options. City Council leans to the option, so-called "blue option", whçh involves building a...

To me, the news in this link below sounds like a CRCHI press release. Regardless, I think it is very impressive. Who would say that Chinese would build such tunnel boring...

The technical proposal for the Ningbo-Zhoushan Railway, 16.2-kilometer-long undersea tunnel China's first high-speed railway line with an undersea segment, has been completed, the Ningbo Evening News reported on Saturday. It will build with...

The Tunnel Boring Machine S-71 made second breakthrough for Ahmedabad Metro Phase 1 project’s 20.737 km East-West Line-1 This TBM is operated by Larsen & Toubro, one of the major construction companies of India. This breakthrough was at...

The strategically important Atal Tunnel which was previously called Rohtang Tunnel has been renamed once more. This time Atal Tunnel, Rohtang. Local population had been demanding Rohtang to be included in the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vp19pRTJ9s Norway's Minister of Transport and Communications Knut Arild Hareide (KrF) is quoted as saying Rogfast Project will be clarified in this autumn in Norwegian Parliament Stertinget, writes TU. As a...

  Xinhua news agency inform 10 Tunnels on Duba Expressway excavated. 10 tunnels 86.7% of tunnels on Dyba Expressway.   Duba Expressway important expressway project in Guangxi and China's largest expressway design and...