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Not-a-Boring Competition 2024

Not-a-Boring Competition 2024Film

News.

2 Sept 2026
Season 2026/27 kicks off with 25 new members
25 students from different degree programmes joined the team this month, bringing Project Marmot to full staffing across all subsystems.

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Annual reports5

Season 2025/26PDF · DE / EN · 21 MB
Annual Report 2025/26
A year of proof: the first underground extrusion of our tunnel lining system, the founding of Under Industries and the groundwork for Project Marmot.
Season 2024/25PDF · DE / EN · 15 MB
Annual Report 2024/25
Five years of Swissloop Tunneling: the Champion Award in Bastrop, the season's research and the team, partners and finances behind it.
Season 2023/24PDF · DE / EN · 13 MB
Annual Report 2023/24
The season Groundhog Beta won the Not-a-Boring Competition, with the team, partners and finances behind it.
Season 2022/23PDF · DE / EN · 10 MB
Annual Report 2022/23
From Groundhog Alpha to Groundhog Beta: the rebuilt machine, the 2023 competition in Bastrop and the season in review.
Season 2020/21PDF · DE / EN · 5.9 MB
Annual Report 2020/21
The founding season: building Groundhog Alpha and the first Not-a-Boring Competition in Las Vegas.

Press kits3

2023 / 2024PDF
Press Kit 2024
Groundhog Beta wins the Not-a-Boring Competition 2024 in Bastrop, Texas: team background, machine and results.
EN DE
2022 / 2023PDF
Press Kit 2023
Second place and the Innovation & Design Award at the Not-a-Boring Competition 2023 with Groundhog Beta.
EN DE
2021 / 2022PDF
Press Kit 2022
The team's first machine, Groundhog Alpha, and its debut among the final twelve teams in Las Vegas in 2021.
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White papers1

February 2026PDF · EN · 866 KB
White Paper — Tunnel Lining System
A tunnel lining extruded in situ from thermoplastic polymer inside the machine: system design, concept evaluation and what it means for microtunneling.

Bastrop, 2023.

High-resolution originals on request.

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