On the 16/10/2021 an open day will be held from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. for the launch of a new TBM for Line 18. This will be the second TBM for Line 18, whose name will be revealed during the site ...
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The planning approval documents for the construction of the eastern section (PFA 3 East) between the western bank of the Isar and Leuchtenbergring station, from km 107.853 to km 110.711, of ...
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Tunnelling is essential underground construction that creates tunnels in many different applications for the benefit of the community. Did you know there are many safety hazards and risks involved ...
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On 08/10/2021 the TBM Olga - diameter 6 m - completed the right running single-track tunnel – 500 m long - between the Kashirskaya station and the transition chamber at the Klenovy ...
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T&M Specialists Canada now offers a full range of tunnelling and mining specialist services throughout North America.
As Hong Kong based T&M Specialists nears 10 years ...
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Press release - Costruzioni Elettrotecniche CEAR is proud to introduce to the market the ATEX certified pressurized and ventilated containerized substation, that is suitable for Hazardous Area ...
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On the 04/10/2021 the joint venture between Aecon (40%) /Traylor Bros Inc. (60%) completed for Metro Vancouver excavation of the Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel, located in North Vancouver, ...
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Construction work on the M4-M5 Link Tunnels Project - part of WestConnex - the Australia’s largest road infrastructure project - restarted from 31 July 2021, undertaken 24 hours a ...
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Epiroc, Boliden and ABB recently entered a joint collaboration to develop an electric trolley truck system for underground mining. This development project will lower CO2 emissions, improve work ...
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TunnelSkills – the national specialist training forum for the UK tunnelling industry – specialises in the application of immersive learning and new technology to improve training, ...
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The 1000th ring has been installed on the Greenwich Connection Tunnel by TBM Annie.
The TBM is now 1.5km into the journey to Chambers Wharf in Bermondsey, where the Greenwich Connection ...
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On 28/09/2021 TBM Rachel started its journey towards Royal Palm Beach for the Clearwater Project: at first, she’ll go slowly while systems are tested, but soon she’ll pick up speed ...
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Following a brief pause in July to install the remaining gantries and connect the conveyor belt, Lady Eileen - the first TBM to start tunnelling - is now more than 160 m into the mountain. By ...
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On 19/09/2021 TBM Wyspiarka, which started the Swinoujscie tunnel construction in March this year, broke through the wall of the receiving chamber - 35 m long, 19 m wide and 18 m high - on ...
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The first enormous 2,000 tonne tunnelling machine passed the one mile mark this week during the construction of the first tunnels for HS2 - Britain’s new high speed rail link between London, ...
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Maintenance of underground infrastructure is one of the most important issues for the construction market. Nowadays, maintenance includes priority activities, in order to maintain the value of ...
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On the 29/09/2021 in Goeschenen and Airolo the works for the second tube of the Gotthard motorway tunnel were officially opened. This was a symbolic ceremony, because the original celebration was ...
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Innovation born out of necessity: the launch of hyperTunnel will see tunnels built completely differently in future, for huge global societal benefit.
hyperTunnel is a new British tunnelling ...
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The Factory Acceptance Ceremony for STRABAG’s 12m EPB TBM took place yesterday at the Herrenknecht AG workshop in Schwanau, Germany. The TBM will tunnel the Metrolinx & Infrastructure ...
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On 17/09/2021 the Weilan Tunnel part of the Guangxi Tianxi Expressway project invested in and constructed by Energy China Gezhouba Group successfully achieved a full-scale break ...
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On the 07/09/2021, after the approval of the updated construction programme, approval was also obtained for the total costs of the BBT project, which had been updated to take the following issues ...
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On the 25/09/2021 a ceremony was held to celebrate the third breakthrough of headrace tunnel for the 884 MW Suki Kinari Hydropower Project.
The project has been under construction since 2017 ...
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From their early beginnings in underground coal mining roof support, STRATA has evolved into a leading global provider of advanced products and technologies in multiple industries.
“Our ...
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On 22/09/21 Urja, the first TBM for the Namma Metro's Reach 6 line made a breakthrough at Shivajinagar, after completing the north bound tunnel of 855 m from Cantonment to Shivajinagar stations: ...
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Purchasing a MineARC chamber is an investment in ensuring that your crew are safe in the event of a disaster, but simply purchasing a chamber is only the first step in this process. A big part of ...
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T&M Specialists Limited, established in Hong Kong in 2014, are delighted to announce they have been awarded a Permanent Sprayed Concrete Lining project.
Taking part in Hong Kong’s ...
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Our Business Development Manager Tunnelling Barrie Willis and our Manager Tunnelling Sam Merrick will be attending the British Tunnelling Society Conference on September 30th and October 1st in ...
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At the end of August, the Gateway Program partners submitted an updated financial plan for the Hudson Tunnel Project to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) that should improve the project's ...
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Boreas Tunnelling are recruiting multiple TBM Operators that have verifiable long term experience in operating a Herrenknecht EPB TBM (Diameter 10.0 and above) for a long term job in South East ...
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TunnelCraft are looking for a Slurry Treatment Plant (STP) Manager for a large UK based tunnelling project.
The successful applicant will be working alongside the Tunnelling site team to ensure ...
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After more than 30 years of going their separate ways, Munich based guidance system suppliers PPS GmbH and tacs GmbH have announced their merger and future cooperation.
"The combination of our ...
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The HRBT Expansion Project reached several milestones in August. On the South Island, construction crews completed the underground concrete walls, also known as slurry walls, for the launch pit, ...
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On the 10/09/2021 a TBM began the construction of the longest tunnel on the Kvesheti-Kobi road project in Kobi.
The event was attended by the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili, ...
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For over fifty years, TLT-Turbo has developed first-of-their-kind, fine-tuned, and advanced ventilation systems for road, railway and metro tunnels. TLT-Turbo focuses on the system as a whole to ...
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HS2 Ltd confirmed the shortlist of bidders in the running to build the high speed rail project’s network control centre and rolling stock maintenance depot. The contract – worth an ...
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Robbins’ latest innovation is making good headway on a non-circular tunnel excavation in hard rock. The rectangular TBM, known as the MDM5000 (standing for Mine Development Machine with ...
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The second of three offshore tunnels needed for Hinkley Point C’s cooling water system has been completed under the Bristol Channel...
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In a major milestone for Rio Tinto’s Kemano T2 hydropower project in British Columbia, the tunnel boring machine has broken through to complete its journey...
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Bridges, tunnels and viaducts: works in progress to build the highways of the future...
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In the first of a special two-part Deep Dive, two of the nation’s leading tunnel engineers use detailed animations to reveal the inner workings of today’s state-of-the-art of tunnel boring ...
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This twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London will link Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula. Construction is now underway - we plan to open the new tunnel in 2025...
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India has completed work on the first of four tunnels drilled through the Himalayas to connect the Indian-controlled Kashmir with its northern Ladakh region ...
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For lining tunnel construction works, the excavation of one of the two intake tunnels and launched the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Outfall Tunnel.
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‘Florence’ – the first of HS2's ten Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) has completed her first mile of tunnel for the UK’s new high speed railway. Watch this youtube fly through video...
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Watch the successful bore of the Mine Development Machine (MDM)5000, manufactured by Robbins for Fresnillo Plc, Mexico's oldest silver mine. The MDM5000 is ideal for underground mine ...
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The New Civil Engineer’s Tunnelling Festival 2021 has released its short list of companies...
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Here you may register for STUVA Conference 2021 or log in to your already created user account...
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TunnelSkills are pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the BTS Conference on Thursday 30th September and Friday 1st October...
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National Highways has announced the companies shortlisted for the road building contracts either side of the Lower Thames Crossing...
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At 18.2 km, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel for both vehicles and trains. It will take only ten minutes to travel from Denmark to Germany by car and ...
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Two bidders for the Malta-Gozo tunnel project have filed objections after a single bidder was shortlisted to design and build the tunnel.
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The majority of workers will return to Auckland’s huge City Rail Link tunnelling scheme this week as the New Zealand city finally moves out of full lockdown – but project chiefs have ...
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Procurement has begun on the second major contract for the Scarborough Subway Extension project with the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and ...
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Take a tour inside a HS2 tunnel boring machine (TBM) with one of our tunnelling engineers. Walk the length of this 170m long underground 'factory' and discover how it excavates the 10 mile ...
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The most boring job in Britain! As wide as a house and 500ft long, two monster HS2 drills are chewing their way through the Chilterns. ROBERT HARDMAN hopped on board for an express ride... ...
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It's one year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Interchange station site in Solihull to announce the formal start of construction on the London-Birmingham phase of HS2...
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A dozen contracts with a value of more than £500M have been revealed as part of the government’s updated National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline...
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Construction of the longest tunnel in Georgia, 9-km long and 15-m in width Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel, has started today, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure...
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The project comprises approximately 2.5 miles of 78-in. welded steel pipeline, and is being constructed by Frontier-Kemper. In addition to the 11,755 ft main line tunnel, Frontier-Kemper’s ...
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The Not-a-Boring Competition happened on September 12th, 2021. We will be sharing updates on all our social media channels. Please make sure to follow us there. We would like to thank our ...
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The project, meant to improve travel between Bergen and the island of Sotra on the west coast, includes a 900m-long suspension bridge and 12.5km of tunnels...
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The project's contractor – the Riverlinx consortium – has revealed that it is getting ready to welcome the TBM to site “so we can reassemble it here ...
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In a recent drone video, Prufrock-2, The Boring Company's newest tunnel boring machine (TBM), was spotted at the tunneling startup's Bastrop, TX location...
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Herrenknecht crews working on the lower half of the tunnel boring machine forward shield. While Metrolinx continues work in Ontario to prepare the launch shaft ...
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Five companies have shown interest in the construction of the much-awaited Jalori tunnel on the Aut-Luhri National Highway connecting Banjar and Anni in ...
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Work on this major Flooding Project commenced within the grounds of Musgrave Park in April 2021. BSG Civil Engineering Ltd. has been appointed as the main contractor for this phase, with ...
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NHSRCL plans to get 3 TBMs for the tunnelling process. Each of the TBMs will progress at a speed of 200-300m per month.The reason for using both techniques ...
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Have you always wanted to know how Keller carries out a large construction site...
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The water tunnel project holds an estimated contract value of $353.9m (AED1.3bn). This project is considered the first of its kind in the region to drain ...
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The Trunk Road T2 and the Cha Kwo Ling(CKL) Tunnel form the middle section of Route 6. They connect the Central Kowloon Route(CKR) to the west and the main tunnel of the Tseung Kwan O –Lam ...
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The two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that were launched earlier this year to dig the parallel northbound and southbound tunnels have now passed under the ...
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As public demands for sustainable infrastructure grows, urban leaders are taking a closer look at the economic, environmental and social benefits of underground tunnels...
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Don't miss this specialized annual tunneling industry event where you have the chance to share experiences and identify mutual opportunities for growth in tunneling, an industry ...
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At Kramertunnel is going on a full jobsite installation process. KERN Tunneltechnik is supplying several tunnel formworks and machines for secondary lining. The project is being delivered ...
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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) jointly with NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Final Section ...
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