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NAT 2024 early registration open
16 April, 2024
Early bird registration is open for this year’s North American Tunneling Conference (NAT).

Contract awarded for Dubai road tunnel
16 April, 2024
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a contract for construction of the Al Khaleej Street Tunnel Project.

New tunnel proposed for NZ capital
15 April, 2024
The New Zealand government is considering building a 4km road tunnel under the country’s capital.

Cowi appointed technical adviser for Norwegian ship tunnel
15 April, 2024
The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) has selected Cowi as the technical adviser for the construction of the Stad Ship Tunnel.

Tunnelling set to start for Northumbrian Water
12 April, 2024
The TBM that will tunnel under the River Tees for Northumbrian Water’s Project Pipeline: County Durham and Tees Valley has arrived on site.

Tunnelling completed for LA subway extension
12 April, 2024
Tunnelling has been completed in Los Angeles for the D Line Subway Extension.

TBMs assembled for Sydney harbour rail crossing
10 April, 2024
Sydney Metro West is gearing up to build Sydney’s second under-harbour railway crossing with the final TBMs arriving on site.

Final TBM launched for HS2 Northolt Tunnel
10 April, 2024
The fourth, and final, TBM for HS2’s Northolt Tunnel beneath London, has been launched.

CREG explosion-proof EPBM ready for Sicily
10 April, 2024
An explosion-proof EPBM for Lot 4A of the Palermo-Catania railway has passed its Factory Acceptance Test.

Snowy 2.0 prepares to tunnel inclined pressure shaft
08 April, 2024
Preparations are under way to tunnel the inclined pressure shaft (IPS) for Australia’s Snowy 2.0 hydropower project.

Herrenknecht presents eighth TBM for Brenner tunnel
05 April, 2024
Herrenknecht has presented the second of two TBMs for Lot H53 on the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT).

Another TBM completed for Sicilian railway
05 April, 2024
The first of the five TBMs that will excavate Lot 3 Lercara-Caltanissetta Xirbi of Sicily’s Palermo-Catania railway has completed the Factory Acceptance test in China.

EarthCam provides updates on Tonnelle Avenue Project
04 April, 2024
The Gateway Development Commission (GDC) has installed an EarthCam on the Tonnelle Avenue Bridge and Utility Relocation Project to provide live images for the public.

Amtrak appoints delivery partner for Baltimore tunnel
04 April, 2024
Amtrak has selected Advance, a joint venture led by Aecom and Jacobs, as delivery partner for the Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program.

Porr prepares for power plant conversion tunnelling
03 April, 2024
Preparations for tunnelling to convert a storage and run-of-river power plant to a pumped storage power plant are under way in Germany.

Registration opens for 2025 Not-a-Boring Competition
03 April, 2024
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has launched the 2025 Not-a-Boring Competition.

Terratec delivers second TBM for Mumbai wastewater project
02 April, 2024
Terratec has delivered a rock EPBM for the Mumbai Sewer Disposal Project (MSDP) Stage II.

HRBT Expansion faces 18-month delay
02 April, 2024
The completion date for the Hampton Roads-Bridge Tunnel Expansion (HRBT) has been pushed back 18 months.

Tideway underground construction complete
29 March, 2024
Underground construction of London’s Tideway sewer has been completed with the lifting of a 1,200-tonne lid to cap off the project’s deepest shaft.

Arnold Dix – Interview
28 March, 2024
A tunneller with 100 million website hits? Unlikely, surely, but Arnold Dix is an unlikely tunneller. A tunneller is not supposed to be a successful barrister, a national icon, or be world famous. Dix has, accidentally, become the exception. He is, as well as all that, the current President of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES); this April he is to chair ITA’s annual Member Nations General Assembly meeting at the World Tunnel Congress (WTC 2024) in Shenzhen, China. Julian Champkin spoke to him