Latest Tunnels News

Network Rail is to undertake major improvement work in and connected to the 1,282 m long Ore tunnel between Hastings and Rye this autumn.

Costain has trialed a new system that provides quality and safety assurance data and information for tunnels while they are being constructed or fitted out by automated robots.

The last module in the lining of Heathrow Airport’s 870m cargo tunnel under its runways is about to be installed by Mace under a £145M renewal project.

The funding arrangements for a £2.9bn ($3.8bn) grant for the £12.6bn ($16bn) Hudson Tunnel project have been altered so 70% of the funding will come from the US government and 30% from the states of New York and New Jersey as work on the project ramps up.

Balfour Beatty Vinci JV (BBV) has celebrated reaching the halfway point on boring the 5.6km Bromford Tunnel into Birmingham for High Speed 2 (HS2).

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Zelda has begun excavating a 6.5km section of Melbourne’s A$26.1bn (£13.3bn) North East Link road project, as reported by GE.

The ongoing underperformance of tunnel boring machine (TBM) 'Florence' has forced Snowy Hydro to invest in an additional $75M (£38.4M) TBM.

Shetland Islands Council has appointed Stantec to conduct its own consultation on proposals to construct tunnels connecting a number of the islands with the mainland and to each other.

The first tunnel boring contract for the $16bn (£12.6bn) Hudson Tunnel project in New York has been awarded to Schiavone Dragados Lane JV.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that UK infrastructure projects including the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge Tunnel “will not move forward” as the government looks to fill a £22bn hole that the government has discovered in its audit of public finances.