At the beginning of this month TBM Charlotte completed her
journey to the Carnwath Road reception chamber at Fulham, finishing a 1.1km
connection tunnel, at a depth of 30 m. It will take sewage ...
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The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) has advised
the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) that WTC
2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is cancelled. The Executive ...
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Line 15 - On 18/06/20 the TBM Amandine, who started out from the Arcueil Cachan station (Line 15, lot T3C), broke through the wall of the future Villejuif IGR (Institut Gustave Roussy) station. The ...
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Boskalis and joint venture partner Van Oord have started work on the construction of what will be the largest port in Europe for the Fehmarnbelt project in Robyhavn. The working harbour ...
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CMC di Ravenna recently marked the commencement of the Río Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel, in Argentina, with a cutterhead lowering ceremony that was attended by the country’s President Alberto ...
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The ECA (European Court of Auditors) audited the Commission’s management of the following 8 cross-border transport megaprojects in thirteen Member States:
1) Rail Baltica: a rail line ...
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The Sydney Metro West EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) went on exhibition 30th April and the community has until 26/06/2020 to provide feedback. This is one of three EISs for the project ...
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On June 17th 20202 the final breakthrough in the north tube of the
Koralm tunnel took place. Since 2014, tunnellers have dug through the mountain from
Carinthian Lavanttal with the TBM Kora. After ...
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On the 12/06/2020 TBM Maria broke through at the C20 Kondratowicza station. The TBM completed the first part of the right tunnel on the north-east section of metro Line 2 in Warsaw.
The ...
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Tideway is building a new 25km super sewer, deep beneath the Thames, where around two million tonnes of sewage overflowing from the pumping station and into the River every year, will be ...
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The excavation of the TBMs launch site and the construction of the concrete precast plant for the Chiltern tunnels on the London to Birmingham high speed rail line, HS2 First Phase project has now ...
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On the 04/06/2020 Zitron successfully carried out the most
challenging high temperature test to date on a tunnel axial fan: 600 ºC for 120
minutes.
These fans will be installed at the ...
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On the 16th of June comol5 celebrated a major milestone
by successfully drilling under the Rhine-Schie Canal for the second time. It was
the most difficult and exciting part of the drilling ...
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On the 11/06/2020 the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that legislators did not violate the state constitution by allowing construction of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two ...
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Piacenza Expo has decided to postpone the GEOFLUID exposition until 2021. The new date for your diaries will be the 15th to the 18th of September 2021 at the exhibition centre ...
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On the 08/06/2020 the TBM EPB S-900 Herrenknecht (diameter
15.87 m) completed the excavation of the 7551 m Santa Lucia tunnel on Barberino
di Mugello - Calenzano section, A1 Motorway in Italy. ...
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ELAPAS (Empresa Local de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Sanitario) from the city of Sucre, Bolivia, has published the Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System (Lot ...
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ITA-AITES and the Danish Society for Tunnels and Underground
Works (DFTU) call for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2021 in
Copenhagen 16-19 May 2021 has been extended to the 16 June 2020. ...
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The Big 5, the annual trade event connecting the global
construction community in Dubai, is moving dates from 23-26 November 2020 and
will be held next on 12-15 September 2021, at the Dubai World ...
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Don't forget to stop by the Robbins booth at the North American Tunnelling (NAT) virtual trade show, where you can view a curated selection of Robbins latest news, white papers, videos and ...
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Are you ready for the North American Tunnelling (NAT) Virtual Conference? Register and get a week full of informative talks on intriguing topics from June 8-12. Visit ...
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The call for entries has been extended until the 23rd June 2020 for the 6th edition of the international tunnelling and underground space awards. The ITA Awards will take place at the ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for the Ontario Line project. The Ontario Line is a 15.5-km stand-alone rapid transit line that ...
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On 28/05/20 Larsen & Toubro began lowering parts of TBM DZ669 (named Avni) and DZ671 (named Vindhya) into the Shivajinagar and Cantonment stations, respectively, for driving tunnels on the ...
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Balfour Beatty today announces that its 50:50 joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$7.2 billion (c. £760 million) contract to deliver tunnels and associated works for an ...
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Acciona and Nye Veier, the Norwegian state highway authority, have reached an agreement to proceed to the next stage of the design and construction of the E6 Ranheim-Værnes highway.
Work is ...
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On the 06/05/2020 Deutsche Bahn reached another important milestone as part of the Stuttgart 21 project, by breaking through the east tube of the 9.5-km-long Filder tunnel: the last of four tunnels ...
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A number of TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs are achieving great progress rates on new lines for Istanbul’s ongoing metro expansion despite the Covid-19 outbreak.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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The Penetron Italy team were approached to provide a waterproofing solution for an underground pedestrian tunnel, elevator shafts, and different concrete structures for the new San Martino ...
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The 2020 ISRM International Symposium will be held on 12-14 October 2020. The event will take place at the same venue in Trondheim, Norway. All associated ISRM meetings will also be moved to new ...
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Metro tunnel in Australia have reached another major
milestone, with tunnel boring machines (TBM) Millie and Alice now both on their
way to South Yarra.
The green TBM Alice, named after wartime ...
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There are four TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta, Maria and Anna that are being used to tunnel the central Targowek and Wola sections of the Warsaw metro line 2. TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta will now ...
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On the 19/05/20 in Francavilla Marittima in Cosenza province, the first stone was laid for the Mega Lot 3 of the SS 106 Ionian Highway. The EUR980 million project, was commissioned by state road ...
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Strata Worldwide is excited to announce the global launch of its next generation emergency refuge chamber; the Strata ERCX.
The Strata ERCX is a steel-sided, walk-in refuge chamber for use ...
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Work is underway to improve brightness and visibility in the George Massey Tunnel. Claire Trevena, Canadian Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, said the government continues to move ahead ...
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This year’s Swiss Tunnel Congress will be taking place in
the form of a webinar due to the current worldwide pandemic (COVID-19). A video of
the recorded congress will be published on the ...
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Wuhan began construction of a lake-crossing tunnel project on Tuesday, as life and work gradually return to normalcy in the virus-ravaged Chinese city.
The crossing will include two ... More Information
With a new tunnel underneath the Trinity River complete, the Integrated Pipeline reaches a milestone. More Information
Ferrovial, through a consortium involving its Construction subsidiary and construction company Alberto Couto Alves, has been selected as preferred bidder for an extension of Porto Metro in ... More Information
The city of Amsterdam is considering building a giant underwater tunnel to connect two ferry stations: Amsterdam Central Station and Amsterdam Noord. More Information
Excavation of Town Hall Station’s first level is now complete, with three roadheaders breaking through into the station’s central cavern 25 metres below Swanston Street. More Information
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Highways England has issued a prior information notice for the £6.8bn tunnel project, looking for an “integration partner” to manage the supply chain.
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3D renderings of High Speed 2’s (HS2) three tunnels design at Euston have been revealed, following a court battle concerning the safety of the proposal. More Information
The tunnel is expected to pass under Expo Road and Sheikh Zayed Road, and will be operational in October 2020 More Information
Tauros TBM is a guidance system for single and double shield tunnel heading machines.
The modular system consists of a hardware that is suitable for tunnels and a software that can be ... More Information
Set to open in 2028, 11 sites in Austria and Italy continue work on the Brenner Base Tunnel. More Information
The PPS-TBM Guidance System is designed to provide maximum positional information to the pilot of a TBM while requiring a minimum of attention. More Information
VIENTIANE, June 21 (Xinhua) -- China Railway Guangzhou Engineering Group (CRECGZ) drilled through the Ban Nakok Tunnel, the second longest tunnel along the China-Laos railway, on Sunday. More Information
Workers from ITD Cementation and Herrenknecht on Friday resumed tunneling work on Kolkata Metro’s east-west 16.34 km Line-2 three months after it had been suspended, for the second time in ... More Information
Chinese firm Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Ltd (STEC) was the lowest bidder for constructing a 5.6-km tunnel between New Ashok ...
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A massive tunnel boring machine, called “Rosie,” completed its work in August 2018. OCIT. Akron announced Thursday it is 100% completed with the ...
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Ursula, Tideway's eastbound tunnel boring machine (TBM) launched from Kirtling Street, has resumed her journey towards the Chambers Wharf site in Bermondsey. More Information
... for the new line; the other will be the design-build-finance contract for the Ontario Line's southern portion that includes construction of a 6-km tunnel.
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Project developer Lantis has awarded the €570m (£493m) tunnel construction contract to the Tijdelijke Handelsvennootschap Combinatie ...
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ACCIONA, the leading partner of Peace River Hydro Partners (PRHP), has successfully completed one of the most important technical milestones on the Site-C project having finalized the ... More Information
Rabat – Construction on a tunnel to decongest traffic around Rabat's iconic Bab el Had square commenced Tuesday. The project has an estimated ...
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Both of L.A. Metro’s tunneling machines have reached the future Wilshire/Fairfax subway station near the La Brea Tar Pits in the Miracle Mile. Tunneling for the first three miles of this ... More Information
The new Ceneri Base Tunnel, in Switzerland, has now been tested to 275km/h.
The tunnel is the fastest single-bore tunnel using Furrer+Frey’s Rigid Overhead Conductor-rail system. More Information
The construction of this 6 km road and 450 m tunnel is being done at a cost of Rs 88 crore. Earlier the date of completion of this project was scheduled ...
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HS2 ltd has revealed the initial images of its first two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) set to launch on the project later this year. The Tunnel Boring ... More Information
The work for package 1 includes the digging tunnels spanning 11.8km using two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and construction of Antonypôle, ...
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SWEDEN: The Subterra subsidiary of Czech company Metrostav Group has been awarded a KC5bn contract to undertake drill and blast tunneling for a 4·1 km western extension of the Stockholm ... More Information
We need your help to name the first pair of tunnel boring machines to be used on the high-speed rail project. More Information
The Boring Company’s tunnel-making, dirt-clearing drill reached the end of the line for the second time in three months Thursday, making a pathway for Elon Musk’s untested underground ... More Information
Thames Water has named its partner contractors for the first two lots in its £2.6bn AMP7 capital work programme. More Information
Construction of the base tunnel began in 2006 and it is the final section of the Zürich – Milan corridor upgrade project, which also included the ...
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The Shoreline Storage Tunnel (SST) project is part of Project Clean Lake, a $3 billion, 25-year program that the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) began in 2011 to meet Clean ... More Information
For one managing director, Kevin Browning of Global Tunnelling Experts [GTE] in Bristol, this proposal poses a whole new raft of problems, and he has written an open letter to the ... More Information
With a diameter of 10.88 meters, the largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) that China has exported to Europe More Information
The AJ can reveal that RIBA Stirling Prize-winning practice dRMM has landed a key role on the £1.2 billion Silvertown Tunnel project. The architect is ...
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The services agreement will focus on clay and water management associated with the Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) active on the Metro Tunnel ... More Information
The use of real-time data in underground mining has moved beyond a "nice to have" and is now essential for any operation looking to drive productivity and promote maximum health and safety ... More Information