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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Work began yesterday on a 16.2km tunnel between Ningbo, south of Shanghai, and the island of Zhoushan, China Daily reports.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

A team led by US engineers Aecom and Jacobs has won Amtrak’s first ever “delivery partner” contract, which will tackle a $6bn upgrade of a rail corridor in Baltimore, Maryland.…

Italy’s Trevi Group, with joint venture partner Wagstaff Piling, have landed a groundworks role on Melbourne’s US$8.36bn North East Link transport megaproject, Trevi told GCR today. The JV is building…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…