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The Victoria, Australia government’s Melbourne Metro Tunnel rail project is facing significant budget overruns and a potential delay.

Tunnelling technology firm Herrenknecht has successfully utilised its Tunnel Enlargement System (TES) to widen the profile of two ageing railway tunnels in Germany while trains continued to run.

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.