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  • About Tunnelling

    Find out all information about tunnelling and underground space: Usage, construction, reasons to build underground as well as some feedback on history, through important cases, a detailed images gallery and related documents.

  • ITA Activities

    Learn everything about the International Tunnelling & Underground Space Association, created in 1974 and which gathers currently 80 Member Nations. Download all publications authored by the association, notably the guidelines produced by the Working Groups and Committees.

  • ITA Awards

    This website is dedicated to the ITA Tunnelling Awards, organized yearly.

  • Projects Database

    This website allows you to browse and search among case histories.

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    Download and purchase papers from the WTC proceedings & documents from other ITA-approved conferences.

  • WTC

    All about the next World Tunnel Congress: WTC2026 in Montreal, Canada and WTC2027 in Antwerp, Belgium