A Dutch robotics company founded last year has seen its concrete drilling robots put into active use on two major projects recently. BauBot Services, a subsidiary of international fastenings specialist…

Switzerland’s Implenia has won a €200m contract to build two rail tunnels under Frankfurt for German state rail infrastructure operator DB InfraGO. The route will run from a new S-Bahn…

Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has broken through on India’s longest railway tunnel, linking Devprayag and Janasu in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The 14.5km-long Tunnel Number 8 forms…

A breakthrough is expected today on the 4.5km-long Silkyara Bend-Barkot road tunnel in the Himalayan mountains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand as excavation teams meet in the middle.…

The Norwegian Coastal Administration has cut the number of bidders for the Stad Ship Tunnel from six to four, after two Chinese consortia failed to prequalify. The teams are competing…

CPB Contractors is celebrating a milestone in its project to build Stage 1 of Sydney’s Western Harbour Tunnel (WHT) with the completion of a triple-lane road tunnel between Rozelle and…

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, said last week that a joint commission would be set up with Iran to take forward a plan to build…

Six contractors are competing to build Norway’s Stad ship tunnel, a 1.7km long underground canal that will let ships avoid going around the Stadlandset peninsula in southern Norway. The peninsula…

A joint venture of Tutor Perini and its heavy civil engineering subsidiary, Frontier-Kemper Constructors, has won a $1.18bn contract to dig the Manhattan Tunnel, a project that prepares the ground…

German tunnel specialist Herrenknecht will study the feasibility of building a high-speed rail tunnel between Morocco and Spain, Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI) reports. Spain and Morocco have been considering…

A year after opening, Bangladesh’s $1.6bn tolled road tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong has failed to attract the volume of traffic that was projected, BDNews24 reports. The 3.4km-long…

Dallas-based engineer Aecom is to programme manage work on the Portal, an extension of San Francisco’s Caltrain service. This will include the construction of a station and a 2.1km section…

A joint venture of Lane Construction, Schiavone and Dragados has won a $466m contract to build the mile-long New Jersey section of the new Hudson River Tunnel, a twin rail…

The Canadian province of British Columbia has chosen a team led by French contractor Bouygues to design and build a replacement to the George Massey Tunnel, which carries Vancouver’s main…

Chinese contractors will drill a 16km-long tunnel through a 2.4km-deep layer of glacial ice to build a major road in the far western autonomous region of Xinjiang. The West Tianshan…

A flagship project of President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is accelerating this summer, a senior project leader tells GCR. Amtrak’s $6bn programme to…

The Japanese government is considering building a 500km-long underground conveyor system to move freight and consumer goods between Tokyo and Osaka to address a logistics crisis caused by labour shortages.…

Swiss engineers Frutiger and Implenia have won a contract worth $477m for work on the Sisikon Tunnel, which will form part of the Axenstrasse road along the shores of Lake…