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Network Rail to hold Transpennine market engagement
20 March, 2024
Network Rail is to hold a market engagement event for the supply chain for the Transpennine Route Upgrade, including tunnels.

Cambridge establishes net zero infrastructure centre
20 March, 2024
The University of Cambridge Civil Engineering Division has been successful in its bid to create a doctoral centre for net zero infrastructure.

VTA launches TBM naming contest
19 March, 2024
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has launched a competition to name the TBM for the BART Silicon Valley Phase II Project (BSVII).

Lesotho Highlands Tunnel to close for maintenance
19 March, 2024
The transfer and delivery tunnels of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project are to undergo maintenance later this year.

Metro West station cavern excavation making progress
18 March, 2024
Excavation of Sydney Metro West’s Hunter Street Station is 30 per cent complete.

TBM breaks through on Virginia water project
18 March, 2024
Tunnelling for RiverRenew, a wastewater project in Alexandria, Virginia, has been completed.

Broadway Subway Project TBMs on final leg
15 March, 2024
Preparations are under way on Vancouver’s Broadway Subway Project to disassemble the two TBMs.

North East Link TBM assembly under way
15 March, 2024
The first TBM is being assembled for Melbourne’s North East link twin road tunnels.

Lower Thames Crossing awarded Carbon Literacy Gold
14 March, 2024
The Lower Thames Crossing has been awarded Gold level accreditation by the Carbon Literacy Project, the first major UK infrastructure project to achieve the level.

BTS April lecture focuses on Kilsby Tunnel groundwater
13 March, 2024
A historic tunnel is the subject of the British Tunnelling Society’s April lecture.

WTC2024 Shenzhen Awaits Delegates From the world over
13 March, 2024
Underground engineering is our career-defining profession. With urban populations expanding, and as connectivity, renewable energy and environmental protection regulations taking on higher profiles, the demand for new subsurface infrastructure is increasing exponentially.

International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association turns 50 this year !
13 March, 2024
Unprecedented Gathering of Distinguished ITA Past Presidents at WTC2024, Shenzhen, China

Dismantling gantry for HS2 passes FAT
12 March, 2024
A service dismantling gantry for HS2 has completed its Factory Acceptance Test at Kern Tunneltechnik’s facility in Switzerland.

DNA research to reveal marine impact of Fehmarnbelt tunnel construction
12 March, 2024
Research organisation DHI and state-owned Danish infrastructure company Sund & Bælt are mapping marine life near the construction site of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel to learn how the environment adapts to changes from human activities.

Tunnelling completed on Paris metro Line 16
11 March, 2024
Webuild and its French partner, NGE, have completed excavation on Lot 2 of Paris’s new metro line.

Work starts on Genoa’s immersed tunnel
11 March, 2024
Construction works have started in Genoa on Italy’s first undersea road tunnel, set to become Europe’s largest immersed tunnel.

Subsidence halts tunnelling on Sydney’s M6
11 March, 2024
Tunnelling has halted on Sydney’s M6 Stage 1 project after a second sinkhole developed.

Herrenknecht hands over seventh TBM for Brenner Base Tunnel
08 March, 2024
Herrenknecht yesterday presented the first of two double shield TBMs for Lot H53 Pfons-Brenner on the Brenner Base Tunnel.

Local businesses to receive Stad ship tunnel rock
08 March, 2024
The Norwegian Coastal Administration and local authorities have agreed a priority list of commercial initiatives that could receive stone excavated from the Stad ship tunnel.

HS2 green tunnel receives planning approval
07 March, 2024
HS2 has received planning permission from Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council for the design of the green tunnel at Burton Green.