International news

The first tunnel element on the 18km undersea Fehmarnbelt road and rail link was this week inaugurated by Denmark’s King in a “historic day” for the project.

The team building the southern section of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop East project will use fewer tunnel boring machines than planned to reduce disruption around work sites.

The US government has approved a US$6.88bn (£5.4bn) federal grant for New York’s Hudson River Tunnel, meaning the project is moving “full steam ahead”, New Jersey's governor has said.

A landslide in Wyoming that caused a road to “catastrophically” fail was likely caused by soil saturation from rapid snowmelt due to warmer than average spring temperatures, a geologist has said.

The first of two tunnel boring machines (TMBs) that will dig the final section of the Sydney Metro West line between the Bays and Hunter Street has been launched.

A joint venture of Obayashi Corp and Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co (Singapore) has scooped the S$530M (£307M) contract to design and construct Turf City station on Singapore’s Cross Island Line phase two.

Utility company Watercare has received funding to extend the under-construction Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel by more than a kilometre, which will be delivered by the Ghella Abergeldie joint venture with support from Arup.

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has awarded the Implenia and Stangeland Maskin joint venture (JV) a second contract on the E39 Rogfast scheme in western Norway, which is set to form the world’s longest and deepest subsea road tunnel.

A joint venture of Webuild and NGE has been awarded a €1.38bn (£1.2bn) contract for a western section of Line 15 on the Grand Paris Express scheme to expand the Paris metro.

Excavation work on the main tunnel of Australia’s Snowy 2.0 hydro project has stopped again after a tunnel boring machine (TBM) hit “extremely hard and abrasive” rock conditions.