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A judge investigating the $624 million cost-overrun lawsuit against the state of Washington finds out that the evidence has been thrown out. The 17,5m diameter Bertha (produced by Japan's Hitachi Zosen)  had hit a steel pipe in 2013. It...

  Total value of the project is EUR 266.88 million (RON1.27 bn) without the VAT. Read it here.  

The 13,051 feet-high Rohtang Pass on the Manali-Leh highway remains blocked due to heavy snowfall for six months. As a result, Lahaul and Spiti bordering Ladakh and Tibet is cut off from the rest of the country between November and May. The...

  Elon Musk's "Boring Company" comes up with some serious document this time, titled “Washington, DC, to Baltimore Loop Project Proposed by the Boring Company”. Boring Company plans to shorthen the hour-long car...

  Italian company Salini Impregilo's Worldwide Tunnelling Projects (major ones only):  

  The Turkish-Indian consortium 'Gulermak-Tata Projects Limited' select TERRATEC to provide "a number of" 6.61m diameter EPB TBMs for its two underground contracts on Line 1 of the Pune Metro Rail Project, in...

  India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) announces an international tender for the construction of the county’s first undersea rail tunnel. It will be 21km long twin-tunnel. It will be constructed using...

British Tunnelling Society (BTS) has started the process to update the 'Specification for Tunnelling'. The last time it was updated was in 2010. BTS has said the aim was to incorporate technical changes that have occurred since the 3rd...

  Thris Thomas reports that tunnelling has begun on Singapore PUB’s $10bn, Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) Phase 2 project. Read at the article at Tunnelling -Journal.  

The first 2 of four contracts for building the 14km-long tunnel for the Bangalore Metro Phase 2 have been awarded to Indian company Larsen & Toubro: https://bit.ly/364pjYp