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 ...

Bertha may be sitting idle, but another boring machine in Seattle, Swizy, is ready to move. “We are replacing the (Fremont) pipeline that has been in use for about 100 years,” said Annie Kolb-Nelson ...

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 ...

Chosen from several entries submitted by Hampton Roads area middle school students, the massive underwater tunnel boring machine (TBM) that arrives later this year to dig new tunnels for the $3.8 ...

Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to build a network of underground tunnels to transport people and cargo around cities. It's just raised $675 million to push further toward that goal. The Boring ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The huge boring tool affectionately known as 'Chessie is once again digging through the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. "So think about a four-story building as long as a football ...

Move aside, earth beneath Seattle. Here comes some hard rock. Seattle Public Utilities has announced that a tunnel boring machine… Read More Seattle’s deep musical roots are coming to the surface in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc , the world's largest maker of earth-moving equipment, on Wednesday said it had acquired Lovat, a maker of tunnel-boring machines. Caterpillar said Lovat would ...

So much, with Seattle-area tunnel-boring machines, stems from Bertha. Pre-Bertha, we were blessed with giant underground drills named for heroic sled dogs — Balto and Togo — who helped deliver ...

The first of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) components for South Australia's biggest infrastructure project have arrived in Adelaide.This marks a ...