The organization responsible for delivering the expansion of Stockholm’s metro system has defended its decision to award a tunneling contract to a state-owned Chinese firm. Region Stockholm, the body responsible for all...

The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha-Metro), will begin digging tunnels, for the Range Hill to Swargate metro corridor which has a 5km underground stretch, in November. According to Maha-Metro officials, a successful trial of the...

  A task force of select mayors and other representatives of Metro Vancouver has selected an eight-lane, immersed-tunnel configuration option for the future project to replace the ageing George Massey...

Hyundai E&C ( Hyundai Engineering & Construction) won an order for the 1st section of Geomdan Extension Line of Incheon Urban Railroad Line 1, which amounted to KRW 1925 billion. Hyundai E&C won the contract with Hyundai Engineering...

Bids invited from the eligible firms through the international competitive bidding (ICB) process for the design and construction of the underground tunnel under Delhi Metro...

Last week, the China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) started drilling the last tunnel as part of a project to build a 4.6-km section of the Moscow metro "Large Circle Line." The project, initiated in 2017, covering three...

   China become Tunnel boring machine superpower. The 18 manufacturers of TBMs have a combined annual output of about 1,000 units, said Song Zhenhua, of the China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA). TBMs are getting larger as...

Chinese company Sinohydro Corporation Limited has been employed to complete the remaining works related to tunnel works of Melamchi Water Supply Project, Nepal’s largest water supply project, Melamchi Water Supply Board said. After the...

  Major delays are expected for Metropolitan Express Network (REM) due to the safety concerns posed by the Mount Royal Tunnel.  This is what a150 page report by NouvLR, the consortium led by SNC-Lavalin says. NouvLR says only 41%...

A coalition of transport groups and planning experts has banded together to call on the Andrews government to prioritise a rail tunnel linking Melbourne’s north and west. The Metro 2 project was long expected to be the next rail project...

LAHORE: Planning Commission’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved Water and Sanitation Agency’s (Wasa) tunnel boring project to handle rainwater and drainage issues. The project will be completed with an estimated cost...

  Tunnel Boring Machine Mabel, named after an early 20th century nurse, breaks through Victoria Cross station, few weeks after breaking through at Crows Nest station. I found this press release from Sydney Metro and including it here...

A tunneling project closeby İstanbul causes collapse of ground. The tunnel is part of the Kuzey Anadolu Otoyolu (North Anatolian Highway). The landowner is not happy and also complains that he did not get get paid for the expropriated parts of his...

  The tunnels are built as part of the $16.8 billion WestConnex project. Although the builder says that  most of the tunnelling would occur between 30 and 60 metres underground and assure the residents they would not feel the estimated...

  A proposal to build a €1.4 billion highway underneath Helsinki, which would carry up to 40,000 cars per day, has hit a red light. The Social Democrats on Helsinki City Council have decided they won’t support the initiative,...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejects the city proposal that would have swapped two long-planned tanks with a tunnel to divert raw sewage from the Gowanus...

Oslo Municipality, Water and Wastewater Agency, has chosen TBM as the driving method for the 19 km long water supply tunnel to be operated from Holsfjorden in Lier to Huseby in Oslo with completion by the end of 2027. A water treatment plant will...

After the collapse of houses which made more than 500 people homeless, Kolkata East-West metro line drama continues. Engineers said an analysis of the samples would reveal how soft the soil had become after the accident and whether it would be...

Work began on the super sewer in 2016 and the project is expected to cost £3.8 billion, Tideway said.So far 6km of of the 25 kilometer long super sewer tunnel has been built, with four TBMs in the ground, while 1.6 million tonnes of rubble and...

Berlin Brandenburg Airport was originally supposed to open in 2011, but now planners expect the first passenger flights to take off in 2021 – a full decade later and billions of euros more than planned. Similarly, the Scottish Parliament...