For more from Made in Germany go to http://www.dw.com/en/tv/made-in-germany/s-3066Hong Kong is building a new twin-tube undersea highway tunnel to the airport that is almost 5 kilometers long. A huge tunnel-boring machine in use there was made in...
Tunnelling for Australia’s biggest public transport project is about 50 per cent complete after another mega boring machine broke through into the new Crows Nest Station site.
Only four weeks after Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Wendy arrived, TBM...
In this fourth and final installment, the Mexican government takes ownership of the Herrenknecht drilling machines. But first the machines have to prove that they are up for the job.And engineers on both sides are involved lively discussions about...
The China Railway Group (CREC) on Thursday announced its completion of a huge tunnel boring machine (TBM) with advanced capabilities for drilling in wet conditions, a breakthrough which the company sees as a demonstration of its world-leading...
I think a good deal of the tunnel under the English channel has been dug with TBMs. But these last points were dug manually and there you go! Two sides meet each other under the sea!
Robbins Crossover TBMs are the adaptable solution to the world’s most challenging tunnel projects. This video explains how Robbins Crossover XREs, a hybrid of Hard Rock and EPB TBMs, work and why they are the solution for mixed ground tunnels...