News Worker on Fehmarnbelt Tunnel dies after site accident 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…
News World’s ‘biggest, fastest’ tunnel machine completes 9km dig 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…
News Cowi to advise Norway on world’s first ship tunnel 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,…
News Aecom team wins $6bn contract to upgrade America’s busiest passenger line 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.…
Projects Trevi piles into Melbourne’s Link megaproject with four hyrdromills 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…
Projects Huge TBMs take shape for Melbourne’s big dig 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…
Projects Low-emissions engineering: Battery power shifts 850-tonne concrete tunnel 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…
News Arcadis team wins role on $16bn New York transport corridor 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…
News Strabag team wins $190m Toronto tunnelling scheme 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…
Projects JV starts building $819m Potomac River Tunnel to curb sewage spills 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…
News Germany starts laying track on its side of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun work on railways leading to the €3.5bn undersea Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link connecting Hamburg and Copenhagen. It will install 88km of track to…
News Budimex wins €34m contract for Łódź high-speed rail tunnel Polish contractor Budimex has won a €34m contract to prepare for the drilling of a 4km-long, high-speed rail tunnel in the Polish city of Łódź.
News Three teams in running for Vancouver’s $3bn Massey Tunnel The province of British Columbia has shortlisted three consortia to design and build a replacement for the George Massey Tunnel on the southern outskirts of Vancouver. The US$3bn tunnel, first…
News Vinci team picked to handle spoil from world’s longest rail tunnel A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800m contract to deal with 23 million tonnes of spoil produced in the boring of the 45km French section of the Mont Cenis base…
News Acciona, Cimic and Ghella consortium wins 16km Melbourne tunnel contract A consortium led by Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors, Italian civil engineer Ghella and Spanish contractor Acciona are in line for a contract to excavate 16km of twin-bore tunnels for Melbourne’s…
News €247m to be spent on modernising motorway between France and Italy A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…
News Skanksa completes $1.8bn LA underground rail scheme After nine years on the job, Skanska has completed the underground Regional Connector Transit project in downtown Los Angeles. The Skanska-led joint venture with Traylor Bros won the design-build contract…
News Chittagong’s pioneering road tunnel to be completed in September After four years of construction work, a 3.4km road tunnel under the Karnaphuli river in the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh is nearing completion, the Dhaka Tribune reports. The…