Zen Tunnel Engineering — Tunnelling Specialists

About Us

Young as a company.
Veterans underground.

Founded in 2023 in Dhaka by tunnelling professionals from Japan and Bangladesh —
each carrying more than twenty years at the tunnel face.

Combined experience of

0+ yrs

in tunnel construction worldwide

Hands-on with more than

0 TBMs

assembled, operated & dismantled

Machines handled up to

0 m

diameter — mega slurry & EPB TBMs

Our Projects

Experience that runs deep — and wide.

Our founders and crews have delivered tunnels for metros, sewers and utilities across eight countries. Explore the track record we bring to every new contract.

Singapore

Land Transport Authority

Thomson–East Coast Line — T202

Kawasaki TBM · Ø6.6 m

Team experience

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Singapore

Land Transport Authority

Cross Island Line — CR110 / CR115

CREG EPB TBM · Ø12.6 m & Ø7.2 m

Team experience

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Singapore

Land Transport Authority

Cross Island Line — CR116

CREG EPB TBM · Ø7.2 m

Team experience

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Our Values

Calm minds. Steady hands.
Tunnels built the zen way.

Experience

Every member of our leadership has spent 20+ years underground — from Japanese sewers to Singapore's newest MRT lines.

Flexibility

We are not limited to tunnel work. Concrete works, soil transportation, temporary steel structures — whatever the job needs, we take it on.

Safety First

Confined space, work-at-height, lifting supervision — our people are certified, drilled and uncompromising about going home safe.

Teamwork

Collaboration sits at the core of our approach. We integrate seamlessly with main contractors' teams, under their lead or ours.

Continuity

We build partnerships, not one-off contracts — supported by long-standing affiliates in Singapore's tunnelling industry.

Crew performing cutterhead intervention inside a TBM

Our Services

From cutterhead to cast-in-situ, we cover the drive.

A complete range of tunnelling services — and the general civil works around them.

Tunnel Crew Supply

TBM Assembly & Dismantling

TBM Mining Operations

TBM Skidding & Turning

Cutter Intervention

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Leadership

Three careers. One direction: forward.

Zen Tunnel Engineering was founded in 2023 by a Japanese tunnelling veteran and two Bangladeshi TBM specialists who have worked side by side across Asia's biggest underground projects.

Kakita Naoki

Founder — Tunnelling Veteran, Japan

Two decades of TBM drives across Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Singapore — now founding Bangladesh's next tunnelling company.

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Jasim Uddin

Director — Mechanical Superintendent

More than 25 years assembling, running and repairing tunnel boring machines across Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai.

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Mohammad Zahirul Islam

Director — Tunnel Operations

Twenty-four years across Singapore's MRT lines, deep sewers and cable tunnels — plus utility drives in Qatar and heavy civil works in Bangladesh.

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Precision underground.
Peace of mind above.

Backed by trusted partners and decades in the field.

Young as a company.
Veterans underground.