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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

Pipejacking Association updates guidance
27 March, 2024
The Pipejacking Association (PJA) has released an update to its document previously entitled ‘Tunnelling & pipejacking guidance for designers’, now ‘Pipejacking design guidance for CDM duty holders’.

Fehmarnbelt Tunnel dyke completed
27 March, 2024
A new dyke over the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel portal has been completed.

Embrace challenges as catalysts for change
27 March, 2024
Hagerbach Test Gallery recently helped to host some of the high-level discussions of the World Systemic Forum, a key theme of which was the value of underground environments, with ITACUS taking part. Antonia Cornaro, Co-Chair of ITACUS, and also Expert Underground Space with Amberg Engineering and lecturer on Planning of Underground Space at ETH Zurich, explains how such strategic discussions help collaboration for sustainable urban development and resilience planning

Turin TBM passes FAT
26 March, 2024
The 4m-diameter slurry TBM that will dig the Turin Median Collector has passed its Factory Acceptance Test.

TBM completes final drive in Vancouver
26 March, 2024
The first of two TBMs building Vancouver’s Broadway Subway has made its final breakthrough.

Shenzhen - Zhongshan Mega Sea Link
26 March, 2024
The Shen-Zhong fixed sea link is one of China’s most pivotal and challenging infrastructure undertakings, requiring a innovation in both the design and construction realms – including for the Steel-Concrete-Steel (SCS) composite structure of the long and wide immersed tube tunnel. The project is described by CHEN Weile, SONG Shengyou, LIU Jian, CHEN Yue, and JIN Wenliang of Shen-Zhong Link Management Center

ITA on immersed & floating tunnels
26 March, 2024
Two of the many reports from ITA in the last two years have focused on immersed tunnels and floating tunnels, respectively, through the efforts of the expert team in the area, Working Group 11 (WG11)

Central Interceptor TBM makes fifth breakthrough
25 March, 2024
Another breakthrough has been made on Auckland’s Central Interceptor – New Zealand’s largest bored water tunnel.

Thai-built HDD rig completes Indian river crossing
25 March, 2024
A river crossing for India’s Paradip Numaligarh Crude Pipeline project has been completed successfully using the largest HDD modular rig in Herrenknecht’s portfolio.

UK Power Networks and Barhale build tunnel to power HS2 construction to Euston
25 March, 2024
UK Power Networks has partnered with Barhale to build a micro-tunnel under the Grand Union Canal in West London to deliver power for HS2.