Bosnian civil engineering company Euro-Asfalt has signed a 57.6 million euro ($63.9 million) contract for the construction of the Ivan tunnel, part of European transport corridor Vc, road. The tunnel construction will be financed by a 50 million...
Construction of a new maglev line connecting Tokyo and Nagoya has come to a standstill, with Shizuoka Prefecture refusing to give the green light to the full-scale drilling of a tunnel under the Oi River, claiming the project could decrease the...
Finland's prominent daily Helsingin Sanomat talked with Kenny Song who has visited Finland. He is the managing director of the Chinese investment company Touchstone Capital Partners involved in the Finland-Estonia tunnel, so-called...
In late August I reported here that segments that used innovative Fiber Reinforced Polymer and Macro Synthetic Fiber in İzmir metro tunnel, Türkiye cracked.
Türkiye: Metro tunnel segments crack - "Segments use Fiber Reinforced...
İstanbul Municipality start study to judge risks for stopped subway tunnel construction. Previous İstanbul mayor (from AKP Erdoğan party) started many subway metro tunnel constructions. But money dries because of economy. And maybe because...
A collaboration between Hassell Studio, Weston Williamson and Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners will produce designs for the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project.
The project consists of twin 9km tunnels and five new underground train stations at...
For background= my earlier post: Świna Subsea Tunnel in Świnoujście in Poland gets go-ahead
The transferring the construction site to the contractors (PORR, Gülermak and Energopol Szczecin) for the tunnel connecting the islands of Usedom and...
Construction companies going for the multi-million contract to build the Gozo tunnel will make themselves known in the coming weeks, the government has revealed.
After being unanimously approved in Parliament, the government has...
İzmir is the pearl of the Aegean and Mediterranean. Now İzmir metro extend from Fahrettin Altay alanı (square) to Narlıdere.
Turkish newspaper report newly elected social democrat (CHP) mayor Tunç Soyer visit tunnel site....
MALAYSIA Rail Link Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Datuk Seri Darwis Abdul Razak is upbeat over the renewed East Coast Rail Link blueprint. He is determined to make it work to further modernize Malaysia’s public transportation...
NATM used for construction of Kuantan tunnel.
The relaunch of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project on July 25 has kick-started the construction of the longest rail tunnel along the 223km line between Dungun in Terengganu and Mentakab...
It's Europe's biggest infrastructure project, with 130 million working hours spent on it so far. As an engineering feat, it rivals the Channel Tunnel, which connects the UK to France. And it has the power to transform travel across...
President Xi Jinping of China inks 18 agreements during his state visit to Nepal. One of the agreements is the Rasuwagadhi-Chhare-Kathmandu tunnel that China to build. With this Nepal further falls into China's circle of...
Government claims that the mistakes by Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) in operation of the world's largest TBM Bertha has caused the delays not the ground water test pipe left by the local government and damaged the machine.
for background...
I think you should read this. It may sound funny but actually it is not. It is very sad. A railway route with two parallel tunnels in Rome, Italy has been abandened with its tunnel boring machines, cutter heads and everything else, just several...
Why use a tunnel boring machine instead of microtunnelling?
I read this article today in one of my favorite tunneling journals and wanted to share with you. It goes beyond `our company did this' and offers some take aways. Good read for any...
Tunnel between islands of Uznam and Wolin in Świnoujście gets go-ahead by authorities. This is reported by Polish engineering publication inżynieria.
The underwater tunnel will connect the Uznam and Wolin islands (currently only traveled by...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUXEUkAElAg
This is the horrible moment a tunnel collapses over a group of construction workers while they are comfortably filming debris falling from the roof not correctly understanding the danger.
It happened...