A first major milestone has been reached by the Acciona Ghella Joint Venture on the Broadway Subway Project. Elsie, the first of two 150-m-long TBMs that began excavating for the Broadway Subway ...
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Press release - On January 26, 2023 the patron saint Santa Barbara blessing was given so construction could begin for the safety tunnel for the Isla Bella tunnel.
The tunnelling works will be ...
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The 6th International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines and Construction Vehicles (bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2023) kicked off on January 31, 2023. China ...
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The global safety company looks back on accomplishments and looks forward to providing continued support for their industries around the globe.
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Teams have now completed Woolloongabba - Albert Street and Boggo Road - Woolloongabba sections in both directions, Roma Street to the Northern Portal 1.2 km in the upline and 750 m in the ...
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On 01 February HS2 Ltd confirmed that Florence and Cecilia, the two giant TBMs driving the HS2 high speed rail project’s longest tunnels, have passed the halfway point of the 16 km (10 ...
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On 31/01/2023 the State of California awarded EUR344 million (USD375 million) to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) for its BART extension into Downtown San Jose and Santa ...
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Teams have now completed Woolloongabba - Albert Street and Boggo Road - Woolloongabba sections in both directions, Roma Street to the Northern Portal 1.2 km in the upline and 750 m in the ...
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After many requests, the Early Registration for WTC2023 to be held at Megaron Athens International Conference Centre (MAICC) on 12 – 18 May 2023 has been extended. The new early bird deadline is ...
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In December, TERRATEC celebrated the assembly of the third of five ordered 6.61m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for the Chennai Metro Rail project in India. ...
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Press release - Ngā mihi o te Tau Hou (happy New Year) from the team at City Rail Link! We’re back and ready for a busy year working on the next phase of works – fitting out the tunnels and stations ...
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Waterproof shotcrete with self-healing properties to repair and protect the vault of the tunnel Paradiso
Press Release - The phenomenon of self-healing of cracks in concrete structures is a ...
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Skanska Norge AS and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration started the drill&blast excavation works of the Hovik tunnel on the Strand-Ramstadsletta section of the E18 Lysaker-Ramstadsletta. In ...
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This month the construction site for the 3 km Perca ring road on the SS 49 in Val Pusteria began preparatory works. The Perca ring road will improve the viability and quality of life of the ...
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TBM Diggy Scardust has officially started tunnelling for the Scarborough’s 7.8-km subway extension that will bring subway service farther north into Scarborough and accommodate as many as ...
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On the 17/01/2023 the Joint Venture Gulermak-Sam India reached an important milestone with the breakthrough of the Terratec TBM S92. The breakthrough happened at Nayaganj Station on the 3.62 km Moti ...
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Metro will host three community open houses - one of which will be virtual - on January 21, 24, and 26 - for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project, which will build a heavy rail line or monorail ...
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WTC 2023 will be held in a hybrid format. It will mainly be a congress with physical attendance combined with its digital side. Physical participation is encouraged so that this congress marks the ...
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To date, in relation to the Stad ship tunnel construction project, about 50 contractors and suppliers have registered for the Supplier Conference. The conference will be held in Gardermoen on the ...
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On Saturday 7 January 2023, the TBM Martina - diameter 10.03 m, length 150 m and weight 1,750 t - began excavation from the Campagna di Lonato site of the 4782 m second tube of the Lonato rock ...
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In December 2022 Eng. Sayed Farouk - CEO & Chairman of the Arab Contractors Company, visited the Cairo Metro Line 4 project to follow up on the work progress. First, there was a meeting to ...
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On the request from authors, the full paper submission date of UYAK2023 Symposium has been extended up to January 15, 2023. The full papers of the accepted abstracts should be uploaded to the ...
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Press release - Normet has agreed to acquire Rambooms Oy, a manufacturer and supplier of rock breaker boom systems, and Marakon Oy, a supplier of hydraulic hammers and excavator attachments for the ...
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University students who live, or study, in the Midlands are being offered the chance to join HS2’s construction partner Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) on an eight-week paid work placement this ...
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The name of the TBM that will drill the 2.2 km long tunnel on the S19 Rzeszów Południe - Babica expressway was recently announced as Karpatka.
A selection of names were chosen by ...
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In January the excavation of the Batuta railway tunnel was completed. It is part of upgrading of the Frontiera-Curtici-Simeria railway line for trains with a maximum speed of 160 km/h.
This ...
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Two new TERRATEC TBMs will take part in the Khlong Prem Prachakorn Drainage Tunnel Project for the Department of Drainage and Sewage Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in Thailand. ...
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On December 7th the first double shield hard rock TBM - named Jasmine after the Philippines’ national flower ‘’sampaguita’’ and imported from China - has started to ...
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Press release - On December 12th - after 14 months of boring - Jinxiu, the China’s largest EPB TBM, developed by CRCHI marked its first major breakthrough in ...
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The first of the two TBMs for the H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel has formally passed its acceptance test at Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau, Germany. The ...
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In its meeting on the 16th December 2022, the Federal Council approved the general project for the upgrading of the A2 motorway from Lugano to Mendrisio (PoLuMe). The total investment amounts to ...
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Work is progressing on the reassembly and placement within cell 1 of the South Island Launch Pit of TBM Mary with her shield section already to set in place. In the next few days the team will lift ...
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From article by AUGMENT IT - With Augmented Reality, companies increase efficiency and quality in the inspection processes of Plants and Machines, as the case of Häny AG impressively ...
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On the 15/12/2022 Sudarshan 8.1, the Terratec TBM EPB S88, reached the Meerut Central RRTS Station completing the 1823.39 m long tunnel between Bhainsali to Meerut Central Stations (Package 8). ...
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On December 6, the first hard rock TBM exported to South America by CRCHI created an advance rate record of more than 1000 meters per month for the construction of the San Gawang Hydropower Project ...
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The construction work on the underground section of Corridor 2 in Patna, the capital of Bihar, will soon be on a fast track as two of the four TBMs procured by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation ...
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President Biden is focused on selling his legislative accomplishments after the new House Republican majority had vowed to block his agenda for the remainder of his term.
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The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has tried to quash reports that HS2 trains would not run to Euston in central London due to rising construction costs.
Major breaking news this morning (27 ...
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A 12.6m-high large-diameter Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will be used to construct various stretches of the tunnels between the CRL stations such ...
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Work on the rest of the Metro Tunnel is continuing at pace – with crews currently ... First use of autonomous tunnel boring machines in Australia ...
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Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Hazel, which was lowered into its launch shaft last August, is digging the 3.2km long, 3.7m wide Waterfront tunnel…
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It used a tunnel-boring machine named “Dalisay” - the first time a tunnel-boring machine was used in an urban setting in the Philippines.
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Two engineers look down Farringdon tunnel under construction. ... to operate the new trains, and test out new 13-mile twin tunnels under London.
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The Broadway Subway project hit a milestone on Jan. 23 as boring machine Elsie cut through into the future site of Mount Pleasant Station...
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National Highways has today (9 January) released a new video fly-through that illustrates the route of the Lower Thames Crossing, as the Planning Inspectorate opened the period for members ...
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The 10-metre-diameter Martine tunnel boring machine (TBM) has begun ... A great deal of railway construction work is ongoing in Northern Italy ...
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17 reported that they will serve as Construction Management Support Services ... Hudson River Rail Tunnel Construction to Begin in 2023 With $292M ...
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SINGAPORE: Construction of Phase 1 of the Cross Island Line (CRL) – Singapore’s eighth MRT line – began on Wednesday (Jan 18).
Almost half of the line’s stations will be interchange ...
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Sika AG and INEOS Enterprises, a subsidiary of INEOS, have signed an agreement for the acquisition of MBCC Group’s admixtures business in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK and its entire ...
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The Rogfast project includes the construction of nearly 27km of tunnels and is intended to reduce the time needed to drive between Stavanger and ...
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Femern will tender this spring a tunnel track and catenary contract for the 18km immersed road-rail ... Fehmarn tunnel cleared for construction.
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A construction worker speaks with the operator of a train that is pushing a ... The gigantic drill that began digging the deep-bore tunnel from ...
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Tunneling on P488.5-B Metro Manila Subway starts today 9th January, as President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. led the launch of the first of six tunnel boring machines (TBM) at the subway's ...
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Tunnelling technology has taken huge strides forward in the last 50 years to deliver ever more complex and larger projects, but what challenges must the sector address over the next 50 ...
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Work on the rail infrastructure is poised to serve as a construction milestone for the Hudson River tunnel project, which was most recently stalled by ...
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Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) completed its tunnelling in November, 2022 by employing 17 tunnel boring machines.
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We have two tunnel boring machines and our plan is to operate them by Jan. 9,” Bautista said. “In 2023 we will release all of the contracts for the ...
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... high-tech methods including state-of-the-art Chinese-made tunnel boring machines (TBM) to excavate some of the longest tunnels in the region.
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Trial excavation is underway in Holon to assess the ground conditions that will be encountered during construction of the Tel Aviv Metro.
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A tunnel connecting Tsokha and Jinling townships in Penba county, Tibet autonomous region, was completed on Saturday after four years of construction.
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The 12.89 km tunnel, India's longest escape tunnel, was finished on Thursday on the 111 km under-construction Banihal-Katra railway line in Jammu ...
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.. linking the Patong Tunnel project to the Muang Mai - Koh Kaew - Kathu expressway has been approved and construction of that section can be.
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Skanska has signed a contract with the Norwegian Road Authority to build a subsea tunnel in Rogaland County, Norway. The contract is worth approximately NOK 5 billion, about SEK 5.2 ...
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The construction of the steel shell of a major undersea tunnel in southern China has been completed, according to ...
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GDC anticipates starting major construction in the fall of 2024, completing the new tunnel in 2035 and completing the existing tunnel rehab in ...
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In addition, a tunnel boring machine has excavated 20km of the 37km mineral transport tunnel that will link the mine to the port at Teesside.
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The tunnelling industry is at a tipping point where sustainability and decarbonisation are at the top of executives’ agendas. To achieve a 1.5°c climate-change target by 2050, the ...
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The Follo Line (Follobanen) railway tunnel project has been completed, and now commuters ... which has a number of construction projects underway.
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Chennai Metro Rail Company has planned to buy 8 Tunnel Boring Machines for the Metro Rail Project – Phase-2, in the third corridor ...
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The machine is the largest diameter TBM in the UK and is the only one being used to dig the 1.4km twin bore road tunnel, which will link Newham to the Greenwich Peninsula. The TBM will ...
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Beneath the streets of London, hidden below the foundations of the city’s Victorian buildings and far from the noise of heavy traffic, moles are digging a deep web of underground tunnels. ...
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Robots will never replace people in construction – but this pilot shows how they have the potential to drive greater efficiency, capture records ...
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We are happy to share that Dr. Sauer & Partners has been selected by Transport for London (TfL) with support from Arup to undertake a Bakerloo Line Extension feasibility study. TfL is ...
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A tunnel boring machine (TBM), measuring about 12 metres in diameter will be used to construct the single 5-kilometre-long tunnel, ...
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The giant tunnel boring machine, Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, is in the process of digging a 14.7km long tunnel as a part of Watercare's Central Interceptor ...
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