Melbourne's West Gate Tunnel builders had no road map for big dig dump plan Leaked documents from the West Gate builders (John Holland, CPB Contractors) show they had not settled on a transport plan or a dump site for the 2.3 million tonnes...

  Sydney metro rail project, despite all that fanfare of TBM breakthroughs, is a badly managed project. It is a whopping $4.3 billion (not million) over budget. Premier Gladys Berejiklian 's under fire for her (lack of) management...

  New İstanbul mayor İmamoğlu restarts the construction of the Kaynarca-Pendik-Tuzla Subway tunnel. The previous mayor from ruling Akparti (or AKP) mismanage and at end had to stop the project. The new mayor is of social democrat CHP politic...

Turkish minister for transportation and infrastructure C.Turhan say, tender for BİT (Büyük İstanbul Tüneli - grand istanbul tunnel) is planned for 2020. Minister say they plan to do it with Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZLvjrtRE1c Gaia, the tunnel boring machine, has seen the daylight after completing the boring of the first tube in RijnlandRoute. The 11 meter diameter tunnel boring machine will de de-assembled and and then...

Town council of Bruchsal (south west Germany) votes on January 28th to have an inner city road tunnel instead of a new B35 bypass in the north of the town. The municipal council decided on a tunnel between the en Schnabel-Henning-Straße and...

Rogelio Jiménez Pons, the director of Mexico's National Fund for Tourism Promotion (Fonatur) announced that the federal government wil build a railway tunnel from Mérida-Cancún highway (near Hacienda Teya), to La Plancha, in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg0uRxgxigs Prof. Dr. Uğur Doğan says they have discovered a few years ago that Palu railroad tunnel in Elazığ is on top of the Doğu Anadolu (Eas Anatolian) fault line. Because of this they placed fault monitor...

  TBMM (Turkish parliament) planning and budgeting commission head Lütfi Elvan announce that between Antalya and İçel 5 new tunnels open this year. Also 2 viaducts. They are under constructıon  now. With this it will be 7...

  Draft plan proposes a rail link between Vizhinjam International Seaport on Kerala's southern coast. The length of rail link is 10,7 kilometers and most of it is a tunnel: 9,02 kilometer long tunnel. The drat plan has been proposed...

At a Jan. 14 work session, Austin's transit board heard the proposals for a new transportation  system in the city. One of them is a 1.6-mile downtown tunnel to connect an elevated north-south downtown line to a line out to Austin Bergstrom...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mZCLrkX58 The Hranjen tunnel between Gorazde-Sarajevo is commissioned by Public Enterprise Motorways of FBiH to decrease the distance between two cities from current 95.6 kilometers to 56 kilometers. Tunnel...

  West Gate tunnel contractors CPB Contractors and John Holland have walked away from the contract claiming a “force majeure termination event”. It means the contamination was beyond the reasonable expectations and their means to...

Sacyr Infrastructures and Engineering has begun construction work on lot 1 of line 2, also known as the green line, between Vila Prudente and Dutra.  The 7.3 km.-long section is being built for the company Metropolitano de Sâo Paulo,...

Slovenia's DARS and Turkish builder Cengiz signed the contract for the construction of the second tube of the Karavanke tunnel. Work will start in spring "whether permitting". Cengiz has 20 business days to submit a EUR 12 million...

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has approved Rs 15.594 million for establishment, operational and maintenance of Nahqi Tunnel at Tribal District Bajaur https://pakobserver.net/rs16m-for-nahqi-tunnel-project-approved/

Colombia’s national roads institute (Invias) to pay $ 9,346 million to the Consorcio Conlinea Tres consortium (Constructora Conconcreto, CSS Constructores and Estyma Estudios y Manejosfor) the La Linea tunnel project cost overruns. This comes...

  Tender for İzmir's Üçyol - Buca subway project is announced. İzmir is the 3rd largest city in Türkiye. It is 13,5 kilometers deep tunnel with 11 stations. The line starts at Üçyol close to Ege sea shore...

  Thanks to a special structure in a 63-metre wide shaft 55 metres below the Gustave Roussy Institute, the tunnel boring machine 'Allison; boring the line 14 South crossed over the future Line 15.  Thanks to this, Allison can...

  NSW Government releases the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Western Harbor Tunnel. https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2020/01/29/western-harbor-tunnel-eis-available/ p.s. some info if you have not heard about it (from NSW...