LAHORE: Planning Commission’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP) has approved Water and Sanitation Agency’s (Wasa) tunnel boring project to handle rainwater and drainage issues. The project will be completed with an estimated cost...

  Tunnel Boring Machine Mabel, named after an early 20th century nurse, breaks through Victoria Cross station, few weeks after breaking through at Crows Nest station. I found this press release from Sydney Metro and including it here...

A tunneling project closeby İstanbul causes collapse of ground. The tunnel is part of the Kuzey Anadolu Otoyolu (North Anatolian Highway). The landowner is not happy and also complains that he did not get get paid for the expropriated parts of his...

  The tunnels are built as part of the $16.8 billion WestConnex project. Although the builder says that  most of the tunnelling would occur between 30 and 60 metres underground and assure the residents they would not feel the estimated...

  A proposal to build a €1.4 billion highway underneath Helsinki, which would carry up to 40,000 cars per day, has hit a red light. The Social Democrats on Helsinki City Council have decided they won’t support the initiative,...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejects the city proposal that would have swapped two long-planned tanks with a tunnel to divert raw sewage from the Gowanus...

Oslo Municipality, Water and Wastewater Agency, has chosen TBM as the driving method for the 19 km long water supply tunnel to be operated from Holsfjorden in Lier to Huseby in Oslo with completion by the end of 2027. A water treatment plant will...

After the collapse of houses which made more than 500 people homeless, Kolkata East-West metro line drama continues. Engineers said an analysis of the samples would reveal how soft the soil had become after the accident and whether it would be...

Work began on the super sewer in 2016 and the project is expected to cost £3.8 billion, Tideway said.So far 6km of of the 25 kilometer long super sewer tunnel has been built, with four TBMs in the ground, while 1.6 million tonnes of rubble and...

Berlin Brandenburg Airport was originally supposed to open in 2011, but now planners expect the first passenger flights to take off in 2021 – a full decade later and billions of euros more than planned. Similarly, the Scottish Parliament...

After Rithwik Projects Pvt Ltd did not meet the progress criteria of tunnel project (they finished only 25% of the work in all that time), Indian government cancelled their contract. Now government opens a new tender. Bids accepted until 9...

Himalayan Times news says Japanese company Hazama Ando Corporation beats 5 Chínese companies to to construct the 2.69-kilometre-long Nagdhunga-Naubise Katmandu tunnel. 6 Companies bidded for the project. Japan International Cooperation...

  The shortlists for Metro Vancouver’s Broadway Subway project and the Pattullo Bridge Replacement project are both now missing a prominent name. The British Columbia government had advanced each infrastructure job to the request...

The pipeline stretches all the way from Alberta, to Washington (USA), crossing over British Columbia. It has tunnels at several places and  the report emphasizes that geologists remain concerned of the potential for active fault lines at the...

Hi, Would lt be a good idea to maintain a database of tunnel construction projects? By database, I mean a `Page` with the name, a short description of the project, who are the contractors etc. What do you think? Regards,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2FTHQPLo1s This is an important step of the Lyon-Turin shipyard and it is celebrated: Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Secretary of State for Transport, in office since September 3, is expected to witness the drilling of...

As a part of the Australia’s biggest public transport project, NSW Government awards the Oxford Properties, CPB Contractors and Grocon consortium to build the new Sydney Metro City and Southwest’s Pitt Street Station. For more...

  New İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu inagurate the start of boring. İmamoğlu named the Tunnel Boring Machine after Ms Gülseren Yurttaş. She died in a work accident in a previous tunnel project of Melen Çayı in 2007. Tunnel is 4...

The DARS (Slovenian Road Company) management has today made a decision on which of the five bidders will negotiate the procurement process for the construction of the second tube of the Karavanke tunnel, the company was told. Decisions that may be...

JINAN, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday started the shield excavation of its first tunnel across the Yellow River, according to the China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC). Located in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong...