Projects Huge TBMs take shape for Melbourne’s big dig The Spark consortium has begun lowering parts of two tunnel-boring machines into place for Melbourne’s US$8.36bn North East Link transport megaproject. In a few months, the TBMs will start digging…
Projects Low-emissions engineering: Battery power shifts 850-tonne concrete tunnel Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has used battery power to slide an 850-tonne concrete tunnel section into place under railway tracks in Belgium. It took less than an hour to slide the…
News Arcadis team wins role on $16bn New York transport corridor A joint venture between Dutch engineer Arcadis, British contractor Mace and American consultant Parsons has been chosen as the delivery partner for the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project. The scheme involves…
News Strabag team wins $190m Toronto tunnelling scheme Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have chosen a team led by Austrian contractor Strabag to design, build and finance a section of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto. The main…
Projects JV starts building $819m Potomac River Tunnel to curb sewage spills A joint venture of CBNA and Halmar supported by engineers Cowi and Hatch has started an $819m design-build contract for the 5.5-mile-long Potomac River Tunnel, intended to control sewage overflows…
News Germany starts laying track on its side of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun work on railways leading to the €3.5bn undersea Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link connecting Hamburg and Copenhagen. It will install 88km of track to…
News Budimex wins €34m contract for Łódź high-speed rail tunnel Polish contractor Budimex has won a €34m contract to prepare for the drilling of a 4km-long, high-speed rail tunnel in the Polish city of Łódź.
News Three teams in running for Vancouver’s $3bn Massey Tunnel The province of British Columbia has shortlisted three consortia to design and build a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel on the southern outskirts of Vancouver. The US$3bn tunnel, first…
News Vinci team picked to handle spoil from world’s longest rail tunnel A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800m contract to deal with 23 million tonnes of spoil produced in the boring of the 45km French section of the Mont Cenis base…
News Acciona, Cimic and Ghella consortium wins 16km Melbourne tunnel contract A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…
News €247m to be spent on modernising motorway between France and Italy A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…
News Skanksa completes $1.8bn LA underground rail scheme After nine years on the job, Skanska has completed the underground Regional Connector Transit project in downtown Los Angeles. The Skanska-led joint venture with Traylor Bros won the design-build contract…
News Chittagong’s pioneering road tunnel to be completed in September After four years of construction work, a 3.4km road tunnel under the Karnaphuli river in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh is nearing completion, the Dhaka Tribune reports. The…
News Besix and MT Højgaard break ground on Copenhagen’s new Nordhavn tunnel Belgium’s Besix and Denmark’s MT Højgaard broke ground last week on a €346m contract to extend the Nordhavn Tunnel in Copenhagen for the Danish Road Directorate (Vejdirektoratet). The joint venture…
News China’s 5km undersea tunnel opens to traffic The 5.1km Dalian Bay Undersea Tunnel across the mouth of Bohai Bay in northern China opened to traffic this week, China Daily reports. The tunnel in Liaoning province consists of…
News Two firms in race to build Mumbai’s 21km bullet train tunnel Two Indian companies have entered bids to build India’s first undersea tunnel for the high-speed rail line between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Indian Express reports. Larsen & Toubro and Afcons Infrastructure…
News Webuild team wins €934m rail tunnel project in Trento, Italy Webuild and consortium partners have won a €934m contract from Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) for a rail bypass at Lot 3A of a project in Trento, Italy. Webuild, which has…
News Slovakia close to greenlighting €1bn road tunnel A road tunnel that will stretch for 11km beneath the Small Carpathian mountains is being planned for Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. The twin-bore tunnel, which would be the second longest…