Chenani Nashri slated to be India's first tunnel with a world-class integrated tunnel control system

September 2017

Safety has been the paramount consideration for India's longest tunnel. Now at 9 km - reducing the journey by 31 km - the recently completed Chenani-...

Tags: Safety, Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, Kashmir Valley, SC Mittal, IL&FS Transportation Networks, NATM, TBM, Earthmoving equipment, SCADA, ITCS software platform, SOS box, PA system, FM systems, Lighting, Ventilation systems

Mixed Geology, mixed Market

August 2017

India’s mixed geology is driving the use of diverse tunnelling equipment as well as the launch of new products and services....

Tags: Mixed Geology, Diverse tunnelling equipment, TBM, NATM, Afcons, Erkat RDC units, ERC cutters, Tunnelling equipment, Trenchless Toolbox, Customised Machines, GAIL, Assam Gas, Reliance

The End of the Tunnel!

June 2017

An idea conceived in 1983 is now taking shape, with the endeavour to be completed and dedicated to the nation by mid-2019. Planning an all-weather ro...

Tags: Rohtang tunnel, International Tunnelling Association, Rohtang Tunnel, STRABAG-AFCON JV, SMEC, CCS, NATM, EET, SAJV, FIDIC system

Ahmedabad | Afcons next metro stop

April 2017

Afcons Infrastructure has been awarded the job of designing and constructing underground stations and tunnel for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-I...

Tags: Afcons Infrastructure, Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project, TBM, NATM, Kalupur Metro Station

India is one of the fastest growing markets for tunnel construction

April 2016

Underground works in urban areas are the need of the hour. Mostly, all the cities in India are developing their underground metro transit systems, bu...

Tags: Kapil Bhati, Robbins Tunneling India, DMRC, metro systems, EPB TBM, AFCONS, TBM, Hydro-power, Infrastructure projects, Transportation, Water supply Ssewerage systems, Drilling & blasting, NATM, Tunnel Construction

Tunnelling into the future

April 2016

Those gargantuan machines painstakingly threading their way beneath hills, roadways, mountainous terrain and beneath the ground in many of India's ci...

Tags: Hard rock, Pir Panjal Tunnel, Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, Zojila pass, Rohtang tunnel, Rohtang project, TBM, Alimineti Madhava Reddy, Robbins Tunneling, Trenchless Technology, DMRC, NATM, SEM, Sleemanabad Carrier Canal project, EPB

Underground Challengers

December 2015

Every underground excavation poses a unique set of challenges. Technically superior and sometimes application-specific, underground excavation equipm...

Tags: Equipment, OPEX, Infrastructure, Tunnelling Project, BV Raisinghani, Jaiprakash Associates Ltd, New Austrian Tunneling Method, NATM, Underground Excavation Projects, mine development, Civil Construction, Articulated Dump Trucks, Hydro Electric Power, Urban Infrastructure, Metro Rail