A consortium led by Itinera and including Spie Batignolles and Ghella has been awarded the €1bn (£855M) contract for the excavation of the Mont Cenis base tunnel in Italy.
The twin bore Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, also known as the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, is the largest engineering work on the…
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Swiss rail operator to overhaul Jura mountains’ Hauenstein Base Tunnel
Swiss Federal Railways SBB has unveiled plans to renovate the double-track Hauenstein Base Tunnel, part of the Basel–Olten railway line, one of Switzerland’s leading rail routes for freight and passengers.
The 8km tunnel was built from 1912 to 1916 and crosses the Jura mountain range between Tecknau in the canton of…
‘Deep renovation’ of Mont Blanc tunnel to go ahead despite ‘very significant’ rockfall
Extensive repairs to the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy are set to go ahead from 4 September despite disruption caused by an extreme weather related rockfall in the area.
According to media outlets including Italy’s press agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA) Valle d'Aosta Governor Renzo Testolin confirmed on…
TBM breakthrough on £100M Glasgow water resilience project
HB Tunnelling has completed the construction of a 252m long tunnel that will form a section of a new trunk water main in Glasgow.
The tunnel, which has an internal diameter of 1.5m, was constructed between Broomloan road and the north side of Bellahouston Park in the suburb of Ibrox, south…
Preferred bidder named on Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop East tunnelling contract
A consortium including Ghella and Acciona has been named as preferred bidder for tunnelling works on Suburban Rail Loop East (SRL East), part of Melbourne’s planned Suburban Rail Loop (SRL).
Suburban Connect, a consortium made up of Ghella, Acciona Construction and Australasian construction company CPB Contractors is expected to deliver SRL…
HS2 West London vent shaft works paused as worker injured in incident remains hospitalised
One worker remains in hospital after five employed at the High Speed 2 (HS2) Northolt site were injured during the construction of the Mandeville Road vent shaft.
Work at the vent shaft site has now been paused following the incident that occurred on Saturday, 26 August, at approximately 10:30am in west…
Thames Tideway ‘super sewer’ cost holds steady at £4.5bn
Tideway, the company building London’s new super sewer Thames Tideway, has released its latest annual report, confirming the capital cost of the project remains £4.5bn, as reported in April.
Tideway confirmed the figure in its financial results for the year ending March 2023, detailing a year in which almost all underground…
Tunnelling for second phase of Singapore’s £5.8bn water recycling project completed
Tunnelling has been completed for the second phase of Singapore’s S$10bn (£5.8bn) Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) project, which will boost the country’s water recycling capacity.
DTSS was conceived in the 1990s, as Singapore’s national water agency Pub was investigating cost-efficient and land-efficient ways to reclaim and recycle water. Prior to…
Second bore completed for tunnel on Turkey’s Bahçe-Nurdaği Railway
Breakthrough of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) on a 9.6km rock tunnel on the Bahçe-Nurdaği Railway in Turkey marks completion of a key twin bored tunnel on the route.
The tunnel is the second bore driven by the 8m diameter Robbins single shield TBM through challenging geology by contractor İntekar Yapı…
£1.3bn of spending already committed to by National Highways for the Stonehenge Tunnel
Contracts worth £1.3bn have been signed by National Highways for the construction of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme which has a total estimated capital cost figure of £1.7bn.
Known as the Stonehenge Tunnel, the project will see the construction of a new 12.8km dual carriageway to replace the existing…