Delays in permitting and tunnel immersion mean the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will now open in two phases – first the road tunnels, then the rail ones. Germany’s Transport Ministry announced in…

A 50/50 joint venture between Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction and Brayman Construction Corporation has signed a $1bn contract to deliver the Ohio River Tunnel clean-water project in Pennsylvania. Located…

This week saw the sinking of the first concrete section of the 18-km-long Fehmarnbelt tunnel linking Germany and Denmark, which claims to be the world’s longest immersed combined road and…

Denmark-headquartered design and engineering consultant Cowi has won a preliminary and detailed design contract for the new Fljótagöng tunnel from Vegagerðin, Iceland’s road and coastal administration. The project will see…

The “Spark” consortium building Melbourne’s A$11bn North East Link mega road and tunnelling project has decided to use UK technology company nPlan’s AI-led project assurance and risk management platform as…

The “MPA Delivery Partners” joint venture of Mace, Parsons, and Arcadis has won a $665m, 4.5-year contract extension to keep delivering the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York. The…

The first tunnel connecting Austria and Italy under the Alps has broken through some 1.4km beneath the Brenner Pass, which forms the border between the two countries. When completed, the…

The Danish Road Directorate has hired a team of US engineer Jacobs and Denmark’s Rambøll to help build a tunnel from the country’s busiest port at Aarhus to siphon cargo…

A joint venture of Japan’s Penta-Ocean Construction Company and Singapore’s Koh Brothers Building & Civil Engineering has won a $780m contract to build connecting tunnels under terminal five at Singapore’s…

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…