Items Tagged with 'TBM'

Crews are advancing a 15.5-km underground corridor beneath challenging creek-side geology.

With federal funding restored, the rail megaproject's first pair of tunnel boring machines are nearly ready for assembly and launching.

With fewer than 6 km left on the final Alpine drives, the $11.5-billion Brenner Base Tunnel shifts toward systems installation and a planned 2028 opening.

Soft-ground tunneling will occur beneath the dense, transit-linked Gush Dan corridor for the planned 150-km underground rail system.

Manufacturing of massive tunnel boring machines for the Hudson Tunnel Project is nearly done

A partial collapse in LA’s Clearwater Tunnel trapped 31 workers nearly 450 ft underground; all were rescued safely. Officials cite soft soil and “squeezing ground” as likely contributing factors.

German-based TBM manufacturer is progressing on a challenging dig under the Elbe River estuary, and expects further tunnel work in the future as Germany prepares significant investments in infrastructure.

LA Metro's D Line Extension reached a key milestone as the tunnels for all nine miles of the project have been successfully completed.

With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 high speed railroad is shifting into the fit-out stage with more than $6 billion of track and system work being readied for procurement. 

One team in England recently achieved one of the world's most sustained single tunnel-boring machine drives on a mine project, says its contractor, while another secured a design-build contract for the country's longest road tunnel,