Press release - A giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) building part of London’s new super sewer has today completed its journey, marking another crucial step toward a cleaner, healthier River ...
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Work is nearing completion on the cross passages which connect the new metro railway tunnels between Chatswood and Sydenham.
Cross passages are an important safety feature of the Sydney ...
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Press release - The Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project’s twin rail tunnels are now halfway to completion, with the state’s biggest ever public transport project forging ahead over the past ...
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If you need more in-depth explanations of Robbins products, browse through their white papers. These downloadable and printable papers, written by Robbins employees, cover everything from disc ...
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Celebrating 50 years of underground space development and research, and looking forward to the NXT 50 years.
Take part in the HAGERBACH NXT 50 series of webinars and broaden your understanding on ...
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The WTC2020 Digital Platform is accessible until 23rd September 2020 at https://wtdc2020.mego.events/. The Opening Ceremony, Landmark & Keynote Lectures, Closing of WTC2020, ...
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Cross River Rail is boosting the Queensland Economy by $4.1 million per day, supporting a workforce of over 2,400 and providing work for more than 400 suppliers and subcontractor companies, 90% of ...
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The stretch of BART Silicon Valley into Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara is entering the procurement stage of the project. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is reaching ...
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On Oct 15, 2020 08:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Robbins are hosting a new webinar called “48 Fault Zones and 26 Bar Pressure: Tunneling Turkey's Gerede Water ...
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So far this year about 63% of the length of the E4 tunnel which is part of the Forbifart Stockholm project has been completed. The team working on the project have averaged about 680 meters per ...
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TBM Armelle, a TBM on the Grand Paris Express Line 16 has broken through. The TBM was originally launched from the Georges Braque shaft in October 2019 and broke through in Aulnay-sous-Bois after ...
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This year's WTC 2020 will be held virtually from September 11-17, but Robbins history in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is very real. Robbins is looking forward to your online visit to the country where it ...
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On 09/09/20 the final breakthrough ceremony was held in the presence of authorities for the first of two TBMs involved in the construction of M4 metro line (Blue line) central section in Milan. The ...
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Press release - True to its commitment to innovation while embracing the “new norm”, the World Tunnel Congress 2020 will now be held fully digital, paving the way for tunnelling ...
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On 04/09/20 the last giant TBM set to create the final 5.5km stretch of London’s new super sewer has been lowered below ground. The TBM, Selina, was delivered to Tideway’s Chambers Wharf ...
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The new 3.14m diameter TERRATEC EPB TBM will empower sewage infrastructure components on the Mumbai Sewer Disposal Project Stage II Priority Works, in Mumbai, India.
TERRATEC is celebrating ...
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At the beginning of August two TBMs (weight 1350 t and 165 m length) arrived in Queensland, ready to be fitted out before being deployed to dig the Cross River Rail twin tunnels in early 2021. ...
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The environmental assessment process for Sydney Metro West is being done in stages in recognition of the size of the project. Stage 1 seeks approval for station excavation and tunnelling between ...
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On the 01/09/2020 the Province of Bolzano signed a contract with the consortium, led by Carron Bau Srl GmbH (group leader) and composed of companies Mair Josef & Co. KG di Mair Klaus and Di ...
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In August the Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) received one of the three components of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project Permit. The receiving of the final US Army Corps ...
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In July TBM Sarah was launched from its shaft at Aubervilliers for its journey towards the Saint-Denis Pleyel station. It will arrive at the Finot site at Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine and then it will drive ...
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On behalf of the Greek Tunnelling Society (GTS) it is our great pleasure to inform you that the we have applied to host in Athens the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (WTC) in 2023.
The Greek ...
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On July 24, 2020, a jubilant ceremony marked a milestone for southern Turkey’s arduous Bahçe-Nurdaği High-Speed Railway Tunnel. The first TBM-driven portion of tunneling using an ...
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In August this year MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation) completed the 1.5-km long tunnel beneath Mithi River. The Terratec-made TBM Godavari-4 completed the upline stretch of 1.5-km from BKC to ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Request for Proposals (RFPs) to teams who have recently been shortlisted to bid on the advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway ...
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HS2 has revealed the design for the Amersham vent shaft headhouse which is a design for one of 5 structures that will be built to provide ventilation and emergency access to the high-speed rail ...
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On the 19th of August Sound Transit announced that Atkinson Construction had completed the civil construction of the Bellevue tunnel. The tunnel will connect the East Main and Bellevue ...
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The new Brenner Base Tunnel, which is the responsibility of BBT, is being built to boost the capacity of the Verona-Fortezza access line from the south, which is being built by RFI. The line is ...
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On 13/08/20 the China State Railway Group Co Ltd (China Railway) completed the 14.5km Duoji tunnel on the Kunming-Vientiane Railway to link China with Laos. In drilling the Duoji Tunnel, located ...
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The final two Tunnel Boring Machines on the Tideway project have been blessed signalling that they will soon be ready to begin digging the final stretches of the super sewer.
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The TBMs will excavate tunnels, reducing the environmental impacts in rural areas.
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HS2 is a state-of-the-art, high-speed line critical for the UK’s low-carbon transport ...
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On 30/07/20 BMRCL, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has launched the 2.88 km tunnel work between Shivaji Nagar and Tannery Road stations on Namma Metro Phase 2 line project: the Chief ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have shortlisted six teams for advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension projects. ...
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After noting the persistent scenario of international uncertainty linked with Covid-19, the 31st edition of SaMoTer and 9th edition of Asphaltica have been postponed to March 2021. ...
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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.
The title of the ...
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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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... double tunnels, with a total length of 24 km, which will be built using four tunnel boring machines (EPB-TBM), with an excavation diameter of 9.80 m.
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The German and Czech railway infrastructure managers, DB Netz and SZ, have announced a public tender for design work of the zoning decision documentation under the Dresden–Prague railway ...
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Network Rail has delayed the tender race for the £900m Western Rail Link to Heathrow until Summer 2022 because of Covid-19...
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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) T61 nicknamed Tapi-1 operated by the J Kumar Infraprojects – China Railway Tunnel Group JV...
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The world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel design, the Fehmarnbelt link gets a go-ahead. The 18 km infrastructure, the longest of its kind, connecting Denmark’s Lolland Falster ...
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After our contribution to research and development about "blasting", the alternative follows now: mechanised tunnelling methods such as full-face machines and roadheaders.
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In a statement, Transport for London said that the additional costs were not linked to the construction of the project, which remains at £1bn. “All payments ...
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GUWAHATI: The construction of the Atal Tunnel connecting Manali with Leh, which is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet, has been ...
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The government opened international tender in June for the design of Llogara Tunnel engineering project. The tendering process for the construction ...
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Construction of the initial twin tunnels near the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) was complete in May. The system is expected to be ready for ...
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Concrete pouring has begun at the Chiltern Tunnel site on HS2 for the Tunnel Boring Machine launch pad. Two TBMs will begin wok next spring to dig ...
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Barhale has won a £22M contract to monitor Thames Water’s network of tunnels and aqueducts.
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KUNMING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The cross-border tunnel on the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sunday, according to local authorities.
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At 4 a.m. early on the morning of June 20th, a glow appears on the horizon. It spreads over the meadows of Wiltshire, the area in southern Britain home to Salisbury and its medieval ...
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A view of an under construction site of Nagdhung tunnel at Sisnekhola in Dhading district, on Monday, September 07, 2020. Photo: Keshav Adhikari/THT.
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The Woodsmith Project is a deep mine and associated transport, processing and shipping infrastructure development under construction in North Yorkshire, UK.
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CAMORINO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland officially opened the Ceneri Base Tunnel on Friday, the final piece in a direct, flat rail link connecting northern Europe to the ...
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Find out how HS2 is protecting and enhancing woodlands, habitats and wildlife as we plan and build the railway.
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Normet Finland Service Center is specialized for third party emulsion charging system assemblies to Normet’s Charmec charging platforms. Normet’s new business model provides declaration of ...
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The high-speed railway, HS2 recently published a high-level report into its construction plans for the next few years. The timeline covers most of the concrete phase of the project before ...
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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is in the process of creating the world’s first floating highway.
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LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 31 (SeeNews) – Turkey's Cengiz will complete the construction of the second pipe of the Karavanke motorway tunnel ...
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Switzerland's New Rail Link: Tunnelling and excavation. For Gotthard Base Tunnel, an astonishing 25 million tonnes of rock was excavated. For context, ...
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... covering 11 km of twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. ... of four tunnel boring machines expected to be in place by the end of 2022.
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The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2020 and it is the third largest railway tunnel project in Switzerland after the Gotthard and the Lötschberg Base ...
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The new Central Interceptor TBM has been officially named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, as one of the Matariki stars to which Māori send their dreams or aspirations for the new year. Students from ...
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Afcons, in a joint venture with Strabag, has constructed the world's longest motorable tunnel 3,000 m above sea level. The Atal Tunnel will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by ...
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Three world-leading consortia have been short-listed to construct twin twenty kilometres of tunnel as part of two works packages on one of Sydney’s biggest rail tunnelling projects.
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Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long-established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders, welcomed its first rail freight delivery of aggregate at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in ...
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Early in 2021, two 2000 tonne tunnelling machines measuring over 170 metres each will be launched at a site by the M25 to bore 10 miles each underneath the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.
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If you missed our webinar on high-speed tunneling in the Himalayas, we've got a video for you.
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The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in May 2018 laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,800 crore project, billed as the Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, ...
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The project was first proposed in 2010, after which a feasibility study was conducted in 2013 and construction began in 2019. The New Mutwal Tunnel is ...
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More than 700 men are working in shifts to complete the tunnel...
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The system improvements include construction of nine tunnels to control sewer overflows. Upcoming tunneling components of Project Clear include ( ...
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Plans are moving forward for the construction of the Hangzhou Genshan East Road Crossing River Tunnel in China. The TBM that will be used for the ...
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