When the French TBM company NFM was acquired by German tunneling company Mühlhauser a year ago, there was such a hope in the air. But shortly afterwards  Mühlhauser went into troubles declaring bankruptcy. Later parts of...

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa instructs senior advisors at Ministry of Roads and Highways to identify traffic congestion areas investigate the possibility of constructing flyovers or tunnels and to explore the possibility of constructing a...

  Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) get MHA approval to assign Shanghai Tunnelling Engineering Company (STEC) for building  two sewer water tunnels, almost 10km long between Borivli and Goregaon. Giving work to Chinese...

The campaign group the Stonehenge Alliance which initiate the petition says the tunnel project would have a "catastrophic" impact on the Neolithic stone circle. The Stonehenge Alliance has collected more than 50,000 objections with the...

  After High Court permission for the KMRCL to restart East-West metro boring, the construction finally resumes. High Court judge's permission was conditional. Acting on the the recommendations of the Chief Justice's Division Bench,...

  Tunnel Boring Machines have started arriving at the Chennai port and being transported from there to Bengaluru. The Slurry Tunnel Boring Machines will be used for boring the 5.63 kilometre tunnel under the heart of Bengaluru. The TBMs...

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli said in his address to the federal parliament that  Nepal entered the age of tunnel development with the Nagdhunga tunnel construction and that the government has placed Tokha-Betrawati-Kerung tunnel construction on...

  Lack of Chinese manpower halts work at Khimti-2 Hydroelectric Project and Langtang Khola Hydroelectric Projects. This is because the Chinese workers who left for Chinese new year are unable to come back due to travel restrictions imposed...

  The Gramin Welfare Society of Samra in Chamba district urges the government to construct a tunnel beneath the Jot Pass from Chamba to link the Chowari to access to Pathankot more conveniently. The distance between the Northern Indian...

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said "We are planning to make some design changes that may include doing away with escape tunnel and instead (have) alternative tunnels to cross from one side to the other as it will be my...

  What is happening for Wellington's transport? Not much on the extra Mount Victoria Tunnel side... The new Mt Victoria tunnel and an underground bypass near the Basin Reserve are not scheduled to be built until well after...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfnd9u3dds&feature=youtu.be Work has officially begun on the site where the tunnel boring machine will begin the big drill for Auckland's $4.4 billion City Rail Link project. After a breathtaking...

  The balance act goes on between the proponents and opposers of Great Lakes tunnel 100 feed below the Straits of Mackinac where the Lake Huron meets the Lake Michigan to replace the Line 5 oil pipeline. The Labor bosses of Michigan place...

  Minister of Transport, Lucian Bode estimates that in May the Romanian government will go for the tender  for the design and execution of the planned Meseş tunnel. This is reported by Romania's Agerpres (link is at the...

Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation's (BMRCL) own geological investigation for Phase 2 boring reveals hard terrain to bore. Of the 14 kilometre route, 34% is hard and weathered rock, 46% soil and remaining 20% is mixed geology. Hard rocks...

I think they opted for the best option. A metro bridge would be ugly and more expensive. Just think of the height of the oil tankers and other ships passing through the Panama canal. A new metro line for Panama City will run through a tunnel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxhiFpJUlk The tunnel boring machine Elektra is going to bore a tunnel under the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. The 13.4 kilometer long tunnel will be in the depths of 50 to 100 meters and will be bored through the...

  One of his biggest projects, Melbourne's West Gate Tunnel construction is going through a project nightmare but Transurban CEO is talking about even more projects. I don't know what to think about...

  Swiss lay the final sleeper in the 2.7 kilometre Bözberg tunnel, the double track freight railway tunnel that does under the Jura mountain to be part of the line connecting the northern European ports and the Mediterranean. It will be...

  Metal parts fall on workers by İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen-Pendik subway construction. 4 Workers injured 2...