At the end of October 2025, German Federal Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder and his Danish counterpart Thomas Danielsen held a joint video conference to discuss the status of construction work on...

In June 2025 Implenia has signed an “Early Contractor Involvement” contract with Swedish company SKB (Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB) to build the first underground section of a deep repository for radioactive waste near the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Eastern Sweden.

On 14 February 2025, the two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for driving the second tube of the Gotthard Road Tunnel were started in Göschenen and Airolo. Numerous guests and employees of the...

Optimised Drilling Processes for Maximum Productivity: The Sandvik DT923i is an automated tunnelling jumbo from the i-series, equipped with two electro-hydraulic booms from the new SB110i series. These offer up to 62% greater side coverage and enable precise and fast manual boom handling. The fully proportional boom control contributes to increased efficiency in tunnel construction.

In late June 2025, the last of two Herrenknecht Single Shield TBMs successfully completed its drive for the new railway line between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag in the Indian Himalayas. The first machine had already reached its destination in mid-April. Now both parallel tubes of the more than 20-kilometer-long tunnel system are complete.

It is an ambitious plan set to revolutionize the Paris transportation network: The realization of the Grand Paris Express includes the extension of an existing metro line (Line 14) and the construction of four new metro lines in the inner and outer ring zones (Lines 15, 16, 17, and 18). Completion is planned for 2030, but even in the early construction phases, it became clear: this is no ordinary infrastructure project. Line 17, in particular – intended to connect northern Paris with Le Mesnil-Amelot – posed major challenges for the engineering and construction team.

On May 22, 2025, the 10th Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day took place in Weinheim, Germany. The large number of registrations exceeded the capacity of the large lecture hall at the WBI Center in Weinheim this year. 320 visitors registered for the specialist event to attend the high-calibre, practice-oriented presentations by more than 20 experts from the fields of rock mechanics and tunnel construction.