Latest Tunnels News

A consortium led by Eiffage has won a €2.54bn (£2.2bn) contract to design and build a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express.

NCE can reveal that 86 structures currently in use by National Highways on the UK’s Strategic Road Network are past modern design life standards of 120 years.

A team of 90 specialists has completed the assembly of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) that will drive the second bore of HS2’s Bromford Tunnel in Birmingham.

Campaigners opposing National Highways’ £1.7bn A303 tunnel underneath Stonehenge World Heritage Site are heading to High Court today, 12 December, for a three-day hearing.

A consortium of CPB Contractors, Ghella and Acciona has been picked by the Victorian state government in Australia to deliver the AU$3.6bn (£1.8bn) tunnelling package for a new rail line in Melbourne.

Germany’s national railway company Deutsche Bahn has commenced construction of the 88km of railway that will run up to the Ferhmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark.

The world record for the longest single tunnel boring machine (TBM) drive has been broken after Strabag reached the 25.8km mark of its 37km tunnel for the £7.2bn Woodsmith mine project in northern England.

National Highways has awarded the £1.34bn Tunnels and Approaches contract for its Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) scheme to a joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics and J Murphy & Sons (BMJV).

The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Flavia has recommenced its drive beneath the Alps for the Brenner Base Tunnel after spending seven months trapped in a fault zone.

Use of artificial intelligence (AI), implementation of modern methods of construction (MMC) and a comprehensive pipeline of work should be “business as usual” in infrastructure delivery by 2025, according to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).