In London's 25km long "super sewer" Thames Tideway tunnel project, dredging the river bed at Deptford Creek has begun. The idea is to make it deep enough, so that the barges carrying TBM excavated ground can...

  İstanbul Büyükkent Belediye Başkanı (Metropolitan Municipality mayor) Ekrem İmamoğlu goes to tunnel construction site for Çavuşdere –Bülbüldere Tunnel. Construction. This tunnel was stopped during previous...

  It is a project thought about for a long time. So called `Suhr bypass` and it will better the traffic around Suhr. The tunnel is not long though. Only 800...

  Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Marina begins her journey from the Arrighi shaft in Vitry-sur-Seine towards Créteil l'Echat station for the Grand Paris Express Line 15 South. Grand Paris Express project introduces four new lines...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2RL1PFACLA The TBM has been lowered to the shaft for Cosider Travaux Publics which is responsible for extension of the Al-Cazair subway in Oued Smar, in the center of the city of Al-Cazair (Algiers). The placement...

Chinese workers of Sino Hydro company could not come back from Chinese new year celebrations because of coronavirus. Tanahun Hydropower Project of Nepal funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Asian Development Bank, European...

  Terratec Tunnel Boring Machine S-63 operated by joint venture of J Kumar Infraprojects – China Railway Tunnel Group breaks through at Dharavi station’s northern-end on Mumbai Metro’s 33.5 km Aqua Line...

  Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) decides for the Jaipur Metro phase II, proposed between Sitapura and Ambabari a non-tunnel option and to construct the line above ground for cost...

Hoban TBM announced on the 17 March 2020 that it has won the construction of the Gripper Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Dobongsan-Okjeong Metropolitan Railway Section 2. Size of contract is KRW 34.3 billion (US$ 28m). Hoban TBM is Korean...

Moscow's Big Circle Line (BCL) simultaneously launches two tunnel boring machines, each of them with a diameter of 10 meters. https://tunnelbuilder.com/News/Moscow-Western-Section-Big-Circle-Line-BCL-launches-TBMs.aspx

Consortium of Gulermak and Astaldi lowered the two TBMs to the shaft. The tunnel boring machines Anna and Maria will bore tunnels from the Bródno station to the Trock station. Maria will start her bore in begin April and Anna after about a...

On March 11, 2020, LGWM ('Let's Get Wellingron Moving') announced that Aurecon and Future Group would design and plan an extra Mt Victoria tunnel (and some other roads) supported by by local experts, from GHD and Jacobs. Press...

The Lower Thames Crossing will be a new connection between the counties of Kent and Essex. Critical part of the new route will be a twin bore tunnel crossing under the River Thames east of Gravesend and Tilbury. The crossing itself will cost...

  Despite earlier rumours for cancellation, the Stonehenge A303 tunnel is approved. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor commits to £2bn plan to divert traffic under World Heritage...

  On Tuesday 10 March, Transport for London (TfL) disclosed the contract it made with the Riverlinx Consortium in November. The big surprise is, now the projects costs are not  £1Billion, but  £1.2Billion. It is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjNWBUHuNk Salmankaş Tüneli is finished. A 3 hour journey now take half hour.  Salmankaş tunnel is one of many tunnels Türkiye buıild between Karadeniz (Blacksea) to Doğu Anadolu (East Anatolian)...

After remaining halted for about a year, the construction work on the crucial 6.5 km long Z-Morh Tunnel between Gagangeer and Sonamarg in Ganderbal district will restart from next month, officials...

  Infrastructure Ontario and Canadian public transport operator Metrolinx have published a request for qualifications for a public–private partnership to excavate a US$4bn tunnel for the Toronto...

  "Due to the challenging track conditions" and "because this line passed through the cultural preservation" phase II of Jakarta MRT from the HI Roundabout to the Kota Station is targeted for completion in 2024. Jakarta...

First expressway tunneling project with tunnel boring machine (TBM) began  expressway tunneling project for the first time in China. China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) make TBM. The 15.36-km expressway tunnel is the...