Despite the COVID-19 lockdown which affected all construction works, local MyRepublica write that Bheri-Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project is exempted becaue of its national importance. MyRepublica quotes Krishna Upadhyaya, information officer and...

The Andrews government's flagship rail project $11 billion Metro Tunnel has already blown out by up to $3 billion. But independent cost advisers have warned its financial backers the project could face many millions of dollars in extra costs and...

NSW government approves the segment factory for the Snowy 2.0 project. Snowy 2.0 will link the two existing Snowy Scheme dams, Tantangara and Talbingo, through underground tunnels and an underground power station with pumping capabilities. The...

Milano metro M4 project work restarted. It was suspended after COVID-19 (coronavirus disease). Already 200 workers start working for $1.8-billion Metro line 4 subway at 19 of the 56 construction sites on M4. It's much smaller than...

http://www.rzdint.ru/img2/video/M4V/New/RZD.International_LONG_MASTER_ENGLISH_HQ_WEB.m4v Right tube of the 2.2 km-long Cortanovci tunnel, part of the Stara Pazova-Novi Sad section of the railway line connecting Belgrade (Serbia) to Budapest...

A new railway tunnel is approved for city of Hong Kong in China. 500 meters but important. https://www.thestandard.com.hk/section-news/section/11/218017/Green-light-for-new-MTR-project---Tung-Chung-East-and-West-stations

Croatian state road company Hrvatske Ceste announced that Austrian contractor Strabag began with the boring of main tube of Debeli Brijeg tunnel. The Debeli Brijeg tunnel is part of Pelješac Bridge Project. The tunnel also has maintenance...

Palestine : Israel has revealed a new plan to construct an underground railway tunnel in the occupied city of Al-Quds (Jerusalem) that reaches the outskirts of the Al-Aqsa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_N9uHFzJI New South Wales (NSW) Minister for Transport & Roads Andrew Constance starts the Sydney Metro West tendering process. Government officially opens the EOI (Expressions of Interest) window for the...

Construction on the 47 tunnels on a 435-km railway linking Lhasa and Nyingchi in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region was completed Tuesday. The completion of the two tunnels has increased the total tunnel length to 216.5 km, almost half...

  Italian company SELI Overseas S.p.A. will build the Brescia-Verona high-speed railway tunnel. Almost 5 kilometers long. After some months, SELI was the only company who presented a bid for the work. SELI Overseas is a very...

  In a move which caught contractors unprepared, Seattle's Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority a.k.a. Sound Transit  tells its contractors to halt almost all construction on its system expansion projects until May 4 while...

  Minnesota Department of Transportation has less ambitious construction schedule in 2020 because of the COVID-19. MnDOT's spending will be around $1 billion this year. It includes tunnel excavation at Hwy 62 in Minnetonka and the...

  Enbridge Energy will not delay appluing for permits for the Great Lakes Tunnel Project under the Straits of Mackinac, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Tribal governments that oppose the project want Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to slow the process...

(Liafjelltunnelen (Statens vegvesen)) The Liafjell Tunnel under construction in Nordland, is now be delayed until 2021's 3rd quarter.  Now a full 2 years behind finishing date. This is still an estimate and there are fears that it can...

The second phase of the Brady Tunnel rehabilitation work worth $545.000 (US$ to be clear to my Canadian friends) goes to Francis J....

  My colleague sent me these links. A Kazakh company (Basiz https://en.bazis.kz/) gets the contract to build a tunnel in Kazakhistan. Trouble is this company is a housing development company. They build condos. However it is a short...

  Network Rail which owns and manages the most of the UK's railway infrastructure asks the tunnelling industry to come up with less disruptive, more efficient ways to renew its railway tunnels. In a Request For Information (RFI)...

Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority plans to build a 55,1 foot (~17 meter) in diameter subway tunnel for the BART Silicon Valley Phase II project. BART stands for 'Bay Area Rapid Transport'. Lengthwise it is not such a long line, about...

It's about the Channel Tunnel https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_gendler_how_the_world_s_longest_underwater_tunnel_was_built#t-138687 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNS2jj2w-GI