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Delhi Metro’s precision tunnelling: A major engineering breakthrough beneath an operating corridor
- Nov, 30, 2025
- Tunneling Ground Improvement News On Projects / Industry
- India
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has completed one of its most demanding underground works to date as part of the Phase 4 expansion. Engineers successfully advanced a Tunnel Boring Machine (TB...
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Final breakthrough marks major milestone for Sydney Metro West tunnelling
- Nov, 23, 2025
- Tunneling Tunneling In Rock Structural Geology News On Projects / Industry
- Australia, Sydney
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Sydney Metro West project has achieved a significant milestone with the completion of tunnelling on its western end. The second tunnel boring machine, known as TBM Dorothy, has broken through at...
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Vienna metro 3D model now spans half the city
- Nov, 26, 2025
- Tunneling Visualization Data Management News On Projects / Industry News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Discover how cutting-edge geological modelling is guiding Vienna’s metro extension from concept to construction, helping bridge uncertainties and build client trust. At this year’s World Tunnel Congr...
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Progress accelerates on Rocchetta Tunnel in Apice–Hirpinia
- Nov, 13, 2025
- Tunneling Railway Geotechnics News On Projects / Industry
- Italy
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Excavation on the Rocchetta Tunnel along the Apice–Hirpinia section of the future Naples–Bari high-speed and high-capacity railway has reached an important stage. The project team has completed the f...
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Tel Aviv Metro enters pre-qualification stage for $20 billion project
- Nov, 11, 2025
- Tunneling Transportation Geotechnics News On Projects / Industry
- Israel, Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The NTA – Metropolitan Mass Transit Systems Ltd has launched the pre-qualification stage for the Tel Aviv Metro Programme, Israel’s largest-ever infrastructure project. Valued at approximately NIS 65...
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Investigation underway after water seepage accident hits Ningnan Tunnel project in Sichuan
- Nov, 10, 2025
- Seepage Tunneling News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- China, Fo Shan Shi
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A flash flood accident occurred at the Ningnan Tunnel, part of the Liangshan Riverside Expressway project in Sichuan Province, on the evening of November 10, 2025, prompting the rapid evacuation of c...
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New Zealand’s Mt Messenger Tunnel reaches completion of upper section
- Oct, 30, 2025
- Tunneling Engineering Geology News On Projects / Industry
- New Zealand
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
New Zealand’s Te Ara o Te Ata – Mt Messenger Bypass project reached a major milestone this week as crews successfully broke through the 235-metre tunnel, one of the key components of the future State...
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Worker fatally falls at Hudson Tunnel construction site in Manhattan
- Oct, 25, 2025
- Deep Excavations Underground Structures Tunneling News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- United States, New York, New York
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A fatal accident occurred on October 23, 2025, at a Hudson Yards construction site in Manhattan, where a worker fell approximately 60 feet into a pit during operations for the $16 billion Gateway Tun...
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Digital twins underground: The paradigm shift from static models to living systems
Digital twins have revolutionized projects in engineering circles for years, but its application to the subsurface realm represents a new way of thinking. The best way to understand the underground i...
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Advancing Tunnel Sustainability with Fibre-Reinforced Shotcrete
- Sep, 23, 2025
- Tunneling Underground Structures News On Projects / Industry News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Recent advancements in sprayed fibre-reinforced concrete (SFRC) technology are reshaping the way tunnels are designed and constructed. With nearly 70% of a tunnel’s embodied carbon coming from concre...
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