On the 15/01/2022 the 2nd TBM, named Yuan Ching, with a 7.56m diameter, broke through at around 60m below ground for the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Phase 2, Contract T-09. The TBM has completed its ...
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On the 14/01/22 the 10.3m Multi-Mode TBM, built by Herrenknecht for Narragansett Bay Commission's (USA) Pawtucket Tunnel Project, passed its Factory Acceptance Testing. The TBM - commissioned by the ...
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The TBMs, which will dig the tunnels for the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto, arrived at the ports of Oshawa and Hamilton in mid-December 2021. ...
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The Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has signed the full approval for the ECRL - East Coast Railway Link, Section C2 (ITT Gombak - Serendah - Puncak Alam - Port Klang), ...
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Since 2016, the 8 km (5-mile) tunnel portion of the 9.66 km (6-mile), 4-station planned BART extension through downtown San Jose to Santa Clara has been the most studied and talked about aspect of ...
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Press release - New images showing the green tunnel at Greatworth, Northamptonshire, with similar designs planned for Wendover and Chipping Warden Modular design set to cut embedded carbon in ...
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Hi Jonn – I hope you’re well. This is just a quick note to see if you would be interested in a guided tour of one of HS2’s first two tunnelling machines (TBMs)... They are ...
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The ISAVFT - International Symposium on Aerodynamics, Ventilation & Fire in Tunnels will be held at Brighton (UK) between the 28-30 September 2022. The Call for Papers deadline has been extended ...
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A Robbins 4.6 m (15.1 ft) diameter Crossover machine holed through in the Andes Mountains of Chile in the last quarter of 2021. The XRE TBM bored a 3.3 km (2.1 mi) long tunnel for Chile’s Los ...
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M/S Afcons Infrastructure LTD is working on the 3.655 Kms, between South Ramp to Rashtriya Military School (RT-01 Package), including the 3 underground stations Diary Circle, Mico Industries and ...
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On 29/12/2021 TBM Lilia completed the excavation of the last 1.2 km section of the BCL in Moscow, from the Nagatinsky Zaton station to the Klenovy Boulevard: click here ...
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At the beginning of December 2021, the Northern tube of a 6 km tunnel the broke through between Castelgomberto and Malo. Which allowed for a 35 km section of road between Bassano Ovest and ...
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TERRATEC is pleased to announce the delivery of three (3) new 7.51m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System Project to ...
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Line 15 South - The excavation of this line involved 10 TBMs, which installed 128,000 segments and 18,500 rings. In 2019 TBM Steffie-Orbival was the first machine to complete its section, followed ...
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4STREETS s.r.l. is a young company founded in the spring of 2016 by motivated and experienced entrepreneurs who, combining the skills they had acquired in managing numerous construction sites in the ...
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On 21/12/21 the excavation activities for the new San Tomaso tunnel, a strategic part of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa Junction One Project, and the first of the Genoa railway junction, ...
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Press release - The start of tunnelling for HS2 in London is set to begin in 2022 and progress has been made with the delivery of two giant Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) to ...
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PRESS RELEASE - The Riverlinx Construction Joint Venture (BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant) delivering the design and build of the Silvertown Tunnel on behalf of Transport for ...
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Today TBM Merle broke through at the Northern Portal site, bringing the Cross River Rail project’s year of tunnelling to an end, click here for the video. The Cross River Rail's twin tunnels ...
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Helsinki City Council have approved the Sornaistentunnel project between the Sornainen coastal road and the Hermann coastal road and its implementation in stages as follows:
In the ...
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In October TBM Rachel began boring, stopping every 1.5 m (5 feet) to construct a ring of the tunnel wall. About 106 m (350 feet) of tunnel has been completed so far, and the pace is expected to pick ...
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Virginia Department of Transportation and Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) will celebrate the arrival of TBM Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021. ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened a new almost 24 km section of the BCL including 10 stations (Terekhovo , Kuntsevskaya , Davydkovo, Aminevskaya , Michurinsky ...
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This month Snowy Hydro achieved another exciting milestone, with the commissioning of Kirsten, the second of three TBMs that will excavate more than 27km of tunnels for Snowy 2.0 pumped-storage ...
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The Bajaj Group - Nagpur is based in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, and was incorporated in 1961. Bajaj Reinforcements LLP (ISO 9001:2008) are manufacturers of next generation "Macro Synthetic ...
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The Cluj-Napoca City Council have approved the feasibility study (technical documentation and technical-economic indicators), drafted by the Joint Venture SYSTRA, SWS Engineering and Metrans ...
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Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and ...
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The breaking out of the concrete plugs either side of the shaft at Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore signals the next step in secondary lining the main ‘super sewer’ tunnel. All sections of ...
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Press release - Yesterday [2 December] HS2 CEO Mark Thurston pushed the button to start HS2’s tunnel boring machine on its one-mile journey under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking ...
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On the 29/11/2021 at 11h00a at the Fehmarnbelt tunnel construction site in Puttgarden, Danish Transport minister Benny Engelbrecht, together with Enak Ferlemann from the German Federal Government, ...
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The Terzo Valico dei Giovi-Nodo di Genova project has reached another milestone only 6 months after a breakthrough along the planned Valico Tunnel, which will become the longest railway tunnel in ...
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Army Corps of Engineers Permit – The Gateway Development Commission has announced that the last major step in the federal regulatory process for the Hudson Tunnel Project has been completed ...
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Gulermak/Sam India JV gets ready to commence tunnelling on the Corridor-1 of Kanpur MRTS Project in India. Two 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines have been ...
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Selina, the giant TBM creating the final, easternmost section of London’s new super sewer has passed the halfway mark on her underground journey towards Abbey Mills Pumping Station in ...
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The first of Cross River Rail’s Tunnel Boring Machines has seen the daylight, for the first time in ten months.
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On 24/11/2021 Eiffage Genie Civil celebrated the breakthrough of TBM Armelle in Le Blanc-Mesnile station, Line 16, Grand Paris Express. Click here for the video, here and fr/127 for tunnel ...
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Tunnel boring machine S80 deployed by Michigan Engineers on Monday recorded its first and only breakthrough for the Mumbai Sewer Disposal Project (MSDP) Stage-II Priority Works project...
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Afcons Infrastructure on Thursday was awarded a Rs. 1669.20 crore contract by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for constructing Package DC07 of the 23.622 km Silver Line (Aerocity – ...
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Malaysia's transport minister inspects a giant tunnel boring machine shipped from Shanghai, and reassembled in Malaysia by the lead contractor on ...
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Built in 1915, the tunnel conducted travellers through the Gorge on the Oregon side until 1953, when the tunnel was closed and filled. Construction of Interstate 84 in 1966 destroyed the ...
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SINGAPORE: If you’re travelling from Telok Blangah to the Marina Bay area by MRT, changing trains twice on your journey will soon be a thing of the past. The final stretch of tunnelling ...
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We’re busy dismantling our Dame Whina Cooper tunnel boring machine (TBM) and lifting it above ground at the new CRL Aotea train station. Now we are sharing your chance to see it!...
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 16. Trend: The construction of the 23-kilometer Kvesheti-Kobi road and the nine-kilometer tunnel, which are an important ...
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Take a new-year tour of the project with updates from right across London – including from Blackfriars where the new land is really taking shape...
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As London’s bustling streets teem with traffic and ceaseless comings and goings, we here at the Tideway project are moving forward in transforming the city below its surface: through its ...
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Breaking Ground's latest episode looks at Hypertunnel, an infrastructure start-up which aims to reimagine the world of underground construction ...
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National Highways has submitted additional information to support a new application for the £1.7bn A303 Stonehenge tunnel.
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The Howard Street Tunnel is a freight rail tunnel that runs under Baltimore ... including 6,550 construction jobs and 7,300 permanent positions...
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BENTONG: The two tunnel boring machines (TBM) used to excavate the twin-bore Genting Tunnel portion of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) are the ...
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A tunnel boring machine pierces through rock, marking the completion of tunnelling works for Circle Line 6 on Wednesday (Jan 12). The MRT extension closes the loop between HarbourFront and ...
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Two huge tunnel boring machines have been ordered to build the city’s next metro rail tunnels as part of the Sydney Metro West project, with the first machine set to be in the ground in ...
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Transport for London (TfL) and the Riverlinx consortium have awarded the contract for environmental services on Silvertown Tunnel to UK engineering business Keltbray...
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A focus on the impact MudHoney is having on the waters of Seattle, the story behind the choice of the name, and how it has become a part of the community...
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The first of four mega tunnel boring machines will be in the ground by early 2023 to deliver 9.8km of twin metro rail tunnels in two sections, ...
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Giant tunnel boring machine manufactured by Chinese company for Upper Elahera Canal projectSubscribe us: http://bit.ly/NewsfirstSubscribeWatch ...
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The new year has begun on a positive note for Bangalore Metropolitan Rail Corporation Ltd (BMRCL) with two tunnel boring machines making headway...
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A tunnel that has been disused since the 1960s could become Europe’s longest underground cycle lane...
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KATHMANDU, Jan 6: Around 27 percent construction work of Nagdhunga-Naubise tunnel road has been completed.
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Order from DMRC for design and construction of Underground Metro ... of work for the project comprises design & construction of Twin Tunnel by ...
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Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the design and construction contract for 6km of tunnels between Aviation Park station and Changi East Depot to an engineering joint ...
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Snowy 2.0 tunnel boring machine (TBM) Kirsten is underway and excavating the emergency, cable and ventilation tunnel. We now have two TBM’s in operation at Lobs Hole, with a third machine, ...
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Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions has been awarded a contract in the EMEA region valued at around SEK 1 billion for the supply of tunnelling equipment, roadheaders and underground drill ...
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In Columbus, Ohio, work is under way on a $267 million project known as the Lower Olentangy Tunnel (LOT). Construction began on site in April 2021 ...
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It has already called a tender for the feasibility study of the tunnel route and the construction of the route will be started after the ...
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The major scope of work for the project comprises design & construction of twin tunnel by shield TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) of approximately 6 Km ...
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Each of the tunnels will have four lane roads that will enable traffic movement from both ways. Nighot said that preparations for construction of ...
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It is part of the 43.9-kilometer Changzhou-Wuxi Highway, which also opened to traffic on Thursday. Construction of the underwater tunnel began in ...
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Tunnel boring machine “Serena” reached its destination at the Brenner Pass after 14 km and 3.5 years of excavation works...
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'Florence' is the first of ten tunnel boring machines which will dig 64 ... 'Dorothy' is HS2's first giant tunnelling machine in the Midlands ...
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The $1.8 billion project will see giant tunnel boring machines beneath what's currently mostly farmland. Subscribe to 7NEWS Australia for the ...
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The TBM broke through at CRR's northern tunnel portal, having excavated 3.8km of CRR's 5.9km twin tunnels, with the rest excavated by roadheaders.
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Bengaluru Metro's tunnel boring machine (TBM) Urja will start tunnelling the stretch between Cantonment and Pottery Town stations, a distance of ...
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According to BNamericas' database, the capex for the tunnel construction is estimated at US$732mn. Santos and Guarujá are currently connected via ...
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Glattpark (Opfikon), 20 December 2021 – Implenia has been asked by project owner Wärme Hamburg to build a tunnel under the River Elbe for Hamburg’s new district heating network. The ...
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