The COVID-19 pandemic had halted excavations at the Lyon (France) -Turin (Italy) Base Tunnel site for several weeks. Le The publication Le Moniteur writes that now the work is slowly restarted with some hygienic precautions. Only 60% of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPbAEjwXqBM Salini Impregilo operated Tunnel Boring Machine called 'Christ' breaks through the shaft at W Street in Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT). Launched in 2018, 23 foot (7 meters) TBM Christ...

The Potomac River Tunnel project — part of DCW’s Clean Rivers Project — is estimated to reduce combined sewer overflow volume into the Potomac River by 93%, according to a news...

  In a most welcome move, government agencies get conditional approval to resume work on major infrastructure projects in Delhi. Work can resume as early as next week. It has to be 'in-situ' construction where the workers live at the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbw3dB5X9tw Construction begins for major sea crossing to link Shenzhen and Zhongshan in Greater Bay Area. It is complex tunnel-bridge crossing. 24 km long link. 8 lane undersea tunnel-bridge crossing to link...

  Expectations rise among Korean companies that infrastructure 'social overhead capital' investments focus on underground works and tunnels. According to inews24 reporter. Social overhead capital (SOC) project for employment and...

Mesta's head Marianne Bergmann Røren calls the Norwegian government to to bring the dates for expected tunnel works to earlier dates. This is in Norwegian press among others at bygg. While Marianne Bergmann Røren praises the...

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...