News Bouygues-led team picked for $3bn Vancouver tunnel 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…
News China’s Xinjiang highway will have a 16km ice tunnel 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…
Projects Amtrak’s biggest-ever upgrade is set to unblock America’s busiest railroad 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…
News Japan mulls 500km Tokyo-Osaka conveyor tunnel 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.…
News Implenia team wins $477m contract for Switzerland’s Sisikon Tunnel 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…
News Tunnel boring machines spend two years excavating Toronto light rail connection Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named Rexy and Renny have completed their two-year stint digging two 6.3km paths for the extension of the Eglinton Crosstown rail line in Toronto. The 750…
News Queens, New York gets six miles of new storm sewers The NYC Departments of Environmental Protection, Transportation and Design and Construction have completed two infrastructure projects totalling $128m in Whitestone, Queens that added nearly six miles of new storm sewers…
News Implenia lands deep and complex Norwegian tunnel project Swiss tunnelling specialist Implenia (77%) and Norwegian engineer Stangeland Maskin (23%) have won a $600m road tunnelling project under an island in southern Norway. The complex Rogfast scheme consists of…
News Robotic factory to make 160 ashlar blocks a day for Turin-Lyon tunnel Webuild is setting up France’s first robotic ashlar-block factory to line the inside of Lot 2 of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail tunnel. The company said the plant’s intensive automation will…
News ‘Site of the century’: Crews square up to Antwerp’s tunnel-under-a-canal A joint venture of contractors last week started the complex job of building a double-deck road tunnel under the Albert Canal in Antwerp, Belgium. It will consist of a pair…
News Chinese engineers test world’s first boring-and-blasting machine Engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing and China Railway Science and Industry Group have developed a prototype tunnel boring machine (TBM) that also blasts rock. The unit has passed tunnelling…
News The pressure’s on for tunnellers pioneering hyperbaric excavation in Italy In a first for Italy, contractor Webuild is using increased air pressure to create a hyperbaric atmosphere in a section of tunnel it’s building under Naples for the Naples-Bari high-speed-high…
News China’s new undersea rail tunnel to meet in the middle Work began yesterday on a 16.2km tunnel between Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and the island of Zhoushan, China Daily reports.
News Webuild to construct factory in Italy to repair and upgrade tunnel boring machines Italian contractor Webuild has announced plans to build a factory in Terni, Umbria, to repair its 58 tunnel boring machines (TBM). The machines will be serviced after they finish a…
News Spain and Morocco said to be considering Gibraltar tunnel for World Cup Spain and Morocco are considering building a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar in time for the 2030 World Cup Finals, Moroccan news site SNRT reports. It said the plans…
News Worker on Fehmarnbelt Tunnel dies after site accident A worker on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark has died after being struck on the head by an excavator shovel on Monday afternoon. The 41-year-old Polish worker was…
News World’s ‘biggest, fastest’ tunnel machine completes 9km dig The world’s biggest tunnel-boring machine has dug the 9km-long Gudauri tunnel in the mountains of the Caucasus state of Georgia. It’s part of the 23km “KK Highway” linking the cities…
News Cowi to advise Norway on world’s first ship tunnel The Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket) has picked Danish consulting engineer Cowi as technical adviser for the world’s first ship tunnel. The 1.7km-long Stad Ship Tunnel will cut through the mountainous,…