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HS2 TBMs delivered to Chiltern Tunnel site
09 December, 2020
HS2’s main works contractor Align JV has announced the arrival in the UK of the first two tunnel boring machines that will start work on HS2, the UK’s high-speed rail line.

Tideway central-section tunnelling completed
03 December, 2020
Tunnelling on the central and longest section of Tideway – London’s so-called ‘super sewer’ – has been completed following the holing through of TBM Ursula into a deep shaft at Chambers Wharf in south east London.

Central Interceptor TBM arrives in Auckland
30 November, 2020
TBM Hiwa-i-te-Rangi arrived in Auckland, New Zealand recently after a month-long journey from the Herrenknecht factory in Schwanau, Germany, where it was assembled over a ten-month period. In early 2021, the machine will start to bore Watercare’s 14.7km Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel.

Brisbane Cross River Rail TBMs being readied
23 November, 2020
Two TBMs are being retrofitted in Brisbane, Australia in preparation for the city’s Cross River Rail project which has a total length of 10.2km and includes 5.9km of twin tunnels.

UK breaks record for longest hydraulically-inserted pipeline
19 November, 2020
UK energy company National Grid has completed what has been hailed as the world’s longest hydraulically-inserted pipeline, now officially recognised by Guinness World Records.

First-of-its-kind robot will reduce risk on HS2 TBMs
05 November, 2020
HS2 Ltd has unveiled a robot designed to boost safety and efficiency during the ring-build process aboard two giant TBMs that will bore the 16km (10mi) Chiltern tunnels.

Herrenknecht TBM delivered for Auckland City Rail Link
23 October, 2020
A 7.15m-diameter Herrenknecht EPB TBM has been delivered to the Link Alliance for work on New Zealand’s largest transport infrastructure project – the Auckland City Rail Link (CRL).

Caverns completed on Sydney Metro’s Martin Place
22 October, 2020
Twin mammoth caverns on Sydney’s Martin Place station have been completed six months ahead of schedule and after two years of excavation. It is the first time in 50 years that train tunnels are being built under the central business district.

Contract signed for first HS2 TBMs
09 October, 2020
HS2 Ltd has announced that main works civils contractor Skanska Costain Strabag JV has signed the contract for the first two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for London’s HS2 tunnels. The tunnels will be twin bore, each 13 miles long and roughly the same length as the Crossrail tunnels.

New milestone achieved on Tideway
28 September, 2020
Tunnelling on Tideway has now reached another significant marker with the completion of the western section of the main tunnel, which at depths of between 30-35m below ground is also the shallowest along the entire alignment.

Flooding raises questions over SMART tunnel efficacy
17 September, 2020
Questions are being asked as to why the SMART tunnel did not protect Kuala Lumpur after extremely heavy rainfall caused major flooding in the Malaysian capital recently.

Middle East to see longest-ever sea outfall
11 August, 2020
Joseph Gallagher Group, in partnership with Al Hassanain BSC, has started work on the Middle East’s longest-ever sea outfall to be undertaken by pipejacking. It is seen as one of the region’s most complex water schemes.

Tideway TBM parts lowered for assembly
30 July, 2020
Greenwich pumping station recently saw the delivery of the tail can and cutterhead of the TBM that will excavate the 4.5km-long Greenwich Connection Tunnel which will link much of southeast London to the main Tideway ‘super sewer’ currently under construction.

Largest-ever Euro TBM completes drive
21 July, 2020
TBM-maker Herrenknecht announced on July 17 that one of its TBMs – hailed as the largest ever built in Europe – had holed through in Italy in June. The 15.87m-diameter machine started tunnelling through the Apennine Mountains in June 2017 and has excavated 7.5km, with advance rates of up to 122m/week.

TBM holes through on China’s ambitious water project
16 July, 2020
Final breakthrough has been achieved in Guangzhou on a tunnel forming part of China’s Pearl River Delta Water Resources Allocation Project Trail Section. A 6.25m-diameter Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine used by the Guangdong No.2 Hydropower Engineering Company holed through to complete the 1.38km-long tunnel.

Excavation completed on Istanbul’s M9 metro
09 July, 2020
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has announced the completion of excavation on the twin tunnels of the city’s Ataköy-İkitelli M9 metro line. A ceremony to mark the end of excavation was attended at the breakthrough site by Ekrem İmamoğlu, mayor of Istanbul.

TBM breaks through on Brenner exploratory tunnel
07 July, 2020
Final breakthrough has occurred on the 16.5km-long exploratory tunnel of the Tulfes-Pfons section of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT), Austria. Following assembly inside a cavern 3.5km deep inside a mountain, the 7.9m-diameter hard rock, Herrenknecht open-gripper TBM (‘Gunther’) started mining on 26 September 2015 from Ahrental eastwards to Steinach, drilling through hard rock to break through on July 6 2020.

TBM sets new southern hemisphere record
02 July, 2020
Auckland, New Zealand has witnessed a new pipejacking record for the longest single drive in the southern hemisphere by a TBM with a diameter greater than 3m.

Ward & Burke sets new Canadian microtunnelling record
30 June, 2020
Ward & Burke has successfully completed a record microtunnelling drive of 1,132m on the York Durham Sewage System (YDSS) Forcemain Twinning Project in Newmarket, Ontario. Completed on 8 June 2020, the drive breaks the Canadian distance record and the project’s own record of 950m set four days earlier into the same reception shaft.

TBM holes through on Koralm KAT 3 contract
19 June, 2020
KORA, a 9.87m-diameter multi-mode Herrenknecht TBM, has achieved final breakthrough on the 10km north bore of Austria’s 32.9km-long (20.5 miles) Koralm Tunnel which, when completed, will be one of the world’s longest transport tunnels.