A tunnel-boring machine stalled beneath China’s Yangtze River while excavating a highway tunnel, forcing engineers to complete an unprecedented mid-river docking operation over two years.

Chinese engineers have managed to turn disaster into a masterful engineering feat by rescuing ...

CAPE CHARLES, Va. (WAVY) — The tunnel boring machine known as Chessie broke through the receiving pit on Two Island at the Thimble Shoal Channel at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel Monday, the CBBT ...

Nashville’s new Tesla tunnel has reached another phase, with The Boring Company announcing on social media that tunneling is ...

A 700-foot-long tunnel boring machine named Mary is being assembled in Washington, D.C., to dig a 5.5-mile stormwater and ...

Often described as "steel dragons," tunnel boring machines, or TBMs, are colossal pieces of equipment essential for digging underground passages. Unlike machinery operating above ground, TBMs work in ...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Now that the anchor’s away, expansion work at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel is back at full bore. Burrowing of a new tunnel to help carry more vehicles between Virginia Beach and ...

A colossal project to reduce traffic in the underground tunnels connecting the Virginia cities of Norfolk and Hampton just had a big breakthrough — literally. Since 1957, the two cities have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Next year, the first modern tunnel-boring machines ever used in New Jersey will arrive in North Bergen to begin drilling the first ...

The Hudson Tunnel Project is marking another major milestone as it nears a critical point in the $16 billion process. During its Aug. 20 board meeting, Gateway Development Commission announced that ...

Deep under the Yangtze River, a stranded tunnel boring machine that looked like a sunk cost has instead become a showcase of ...