HS2’s Herrenknecht TBM ‘Dorothy’ has launched for her second 1.6km long (one-mile) tunnel bore under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire,…
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Fifth TBM launched on HS2
HS2 Ltd has launched the fifth TBM, ‘Caroline’, that will be constructing tunnels for the HS2 railway through London. The…
British Tunnelling Society Conference 2022
Tunnels are central to sustainable development. That was the message from International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) president Arnold…
Auckland City Rail Link completes tunnelling
Auckland’s 1.6km twin-bore City Rail Link is a stage closer to completion following the 7.15m diameter Herrenknecht EPBM Dame Whina…
Boring begins on London’s Silvertown Tunnel
Tunnelling of the new river crossing at Silvertown is now underway, Transport for London (TfL) and Riverlinx have confirmed. The…
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension’s ‘Rexy’ launches
Metrolinx and The West End Connectors team have reached another milestone on Ontario’s Eglinton Crosstown West Extension with the second…
Silvertown TBM prepares for late summer launch
The cutterhead for the TBM that will bore London’s 1.4km long twin-lane Silvertown Tunnel has been lowered into the start…
HS2 celebrates historic first tunnelling breakthrough
The UK’s HS2 Ltd is celebrating the very first tunnelling breakthrough on Europe’s largest infrastructure project. A 2,000-tonne Herrenknecht TBM…
CRL’s second Tunnel breakthrough at Karanga a Hape Station
Auckland’s $4.4bn City Rail Link has achieved another significant project milestone with the 7.15m diameter Herrenknecht TBM, Dame Whina Cooper, breaking through…
North East Link orders two 15.6m diameter Herrenknecht TBMs
Two 15.6m diameter Herrenknecht TBMs have been ordered to help build North East Link’s 6.5km road tunnels that will fix the missing…