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Excavation work has begun on a 21,000m³ underground box from which to launch tunnel boring machines as part of Melbourne's mammoth Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) scheme.

Danish officials have launched a fresh consultation on Cowi-Arup designs for the 10-station M5 metro line in Copenhagen.

Californian transport chiefs have frozen spending and threatened to "renegotiate" contracts after revealing a funding shortfall on Silicon Valley’s phase two subway extension.

A Schiavone Dragados Lane joint venture has secured the first tunnel boring contract of the $16bn (£12.6bn) Hudson Tunnel project in New York.

Arup in joint venture with Asia Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) has scooped a consultancy job on a new “green” transit system in Hong Kong that includes a 1km long road tunnel.

Italian construction company Webuild has launched three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) on the Naples-Bari and Messina-Catania high-speed railway projects in southern Italy.

Construction activities have started on the Kensico – Eastview Connection project to build a new 3.2km long water conveyance tunnel in New York State.

The British Columbia (BC) Government has selected a design team for its project to replace the ageing George Massey Tunnel with a new C$4.15bn (£2.48bn) eight lane immersed tube tunnel.

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) on Australia's Snowy Hydro 2.0 hydropower project has restarted work after nearly two months trapped in hard rock, while excavation work elsewhere on the project is making progressing.

Stantec has completed the first phase of construction on a project to repair a canal in California that has lost carrying capacity due to land subsidence.