On August 13, 2020 at time: 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT/5 PM GMT+2 Robbins will be hosting a free webinar discussing a project they were involved in in the Himalayas.
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Preparation for the arrival of HS2’s first giant TBMs has passed a major milestone with the completion of the 17m high headwall and ground reinforcement at what will become the south ...
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New outfall tunnel for Ashbridges Bay Wastewater
The construction of the new outfall tunnel for Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant in Toronto has been a work in progress since the ...
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Last week the virtual Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for the Joint Water Pollution Control Plant Effluent Outfall TBM to be used for the Clearwater Project in Los Angeles was ...
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On 20/07/20 the TBM Koumba arrived at the future Europa service facility in Orly on the extension of line 14 south: click here for the video. The TBM will resume excavation in about two ...
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Cross River Rail in Brisbane (Australia) will test underground blasting at the site of the new Albert Street underground station and the new Woolloongabba station site, in a move to speed up ...
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CEAR have finally completed the certification for their 7.2kV Ex-e MV Junction box in accordance with the Directive ATEX 2014/34/EU. This Ex-e Junction Box is also in compliance with ...
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On 14/07/2020, the Turin City Council passed a resolution, which will then have to be approved by the City Council, which identifies Infra.To, the in-house company of the city of Turin, for the ...
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On the 9th of July 2020 geotechnical drilling began along the proposed route of the Mitchell Treaty Tunnels (MTT), a key infrastructure component of the KSM gold-copper project in north western ...
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T&M Specialists UK Ltd. A new company in the UK market but with an already extensive portfolio of previous projects. T&M Specialists started life based in Hong Kong from where they have ...
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The Stockholm metro will be expanded with the building of the new Yellow line from Odenplan in Stockholm to Arenastaden in Solna. The new line will have three new stations (Hagastaden, Sodra ...
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IWMC 2021: Tabletop Booking has started - The 20th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) will take place in Warsaw (Poland) on 21st and 22nd April 2021 at the Regent Warsaw Hotel.
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At the beginning of July TBM Selina, built to create the final 5.5km stretch of London’s new super sewer, arrived in the capital. It was delivered to Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site in ...
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The most sophisticated TBM for the construction of Snowy 2.0, the biggest renewable energy project in Australia, has passed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), making it ready to be shipped to the ...
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On 06/07/20 the TBM Gunther, tunnelling from Ahrental (Innsbruck) in the north completed its 16.7 km long exploratory tunnel. The TBM averaged 11 m of tunnelling per day. The breakthrough, ...
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On the 2nd of July a break through ceremony was held in Naples for the Monte Olibano tunnel, which forms part of the project to upgrade and expansion of the Cumana Railway.
The new tunnel forms ...
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The WestConnex M8 opened on Sunday 5 July in Sydney. The new
M5 East motorway has been named the M8. The 9km M8 twin tunnels run from the
end of the M5 Motorway at Kingsgrove to the new St Peters ...
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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.
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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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Karnaphuli Tunnel Project has achieved a “breakthrough” with the completion of the left line despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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"Project costs will only be finalised when construction contracts have been awarded," it said. The proposed route of the Western Harbour Tunnel.
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Sources added that during winter, it would be impossible to take the workforce from one portal of the 14.15 km tunnel to the other end. “The construction ...
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GCR company Pomerleau has won a contract to renew Montreal's Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel. The €726m project will improve safety on the link, ...
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Southeastern Turkey’s Gaziantep province is characterized by complex fractured rock within the Eastern Anatolian Fault, and it is now the location of an important railway tunnel project. More Information
The STRABAG-EllisDon joint venture TTP broke through the first of two railway tunnels under 21 lanes of North America's most busiest highway 401. More Information
Below the mountains that overlook Hong Kong's financial district, drainage engineer Alex Lau is ankle-deep in water flowing into a giant tunnel almost twice the height of a double-decker bus More Information
A 27km twin tunnel will run from Cheltenham to Box Hill as part of the fist stage, running at a depths of ...
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It is designed to look like an ordinary countryside barn, but in reality it is camouflage for Britain’s biggest infrastructure project. More Information
A plan to remove overhead pylons from a North Wales beauty spot has been approved. More Information
Want to see more of our #Robbins Single Shield TBM for the Ashbridges Bay Outfall in Toronto, ON, Canada? Check out this drone footage video of the assembled TBM: More Information
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The Metro Tunnel Project has stepped into the virtual classroom to help ... Tunnel HQ and videos explaining the new train line and the construction ...
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Level achieved: The tunnel boring machine codenamed S-774 which broke through underground at the future Ampang Park MRT station on July 17 ...
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ACCIONA, in consortium with its Polish subsidiary Mostostal Warszawa, has been awarded the design and construction of a 10,3Km stretch of the country's S19 Expressway, from the Rzeszów ... More Information
THE U.K. GOVERNMENT has again delayed the decision on building a road tunnel close to Stonehenge. More Information
A 185 meter underground siding line tunnel has started to take shape roughly 24 meters at the bottom of the Swargate Station on Pune Metro's under construction 16.589 km Purple Line ... More Information
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The consultation is now open until 23.59 on 12 August 2020.
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Tunnelling start-up The Boring Company is challenging teams from across the world to come up with tunnelling solutions and answer the question: “Can you beat the snail?”. More Information
In late March of this year, Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) officials closed the West Seattle Bridge to traffic due to cracks that had expanded two feet within two weeks. More Information
“Now that the Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel is complete, the next big project is North Hill, which in our consent decree is a 24-foot diameter tunnel,” ...
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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.
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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.
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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