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TERRATEC marks its latest milestone on the Orange Line metro project, in Bangkok, Thailand, with the breakthrough of the Westbound running tunnel on Contract E3 .
Recently, TERRATEC joined ...
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The Breakthroughs in Tunnelling Short Course, the longest-running and most-attended course of its kind, marks its 13th year in 2020. The 2020 course returns to the University of Denver in Denver, ...
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At any given time Robbins TBMs are operating in dozens of countries around the world at all project stages. Thus far, 2020 has been no exception to the rule: From an icy visit to the world’s ...
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New dates for the trade fairs SaMoTer and Asphaltica that are to be held in Verona Italy have been announced. The two shows are being held at Veronafiere are for the construction equipment and the ...
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The World Tunnel Conference 2021 and associated events will be held between the 14th and 20th of May 2021 at the Bella Congress Center Copenhagen. Denmark and Scandinavia will present some of the ...
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New twin metro railway tunnels deep under Sydney Harbour are complete in a historic milestone – with all tunnelling now finished on the Sydney Metro City & Southwest project.
Mega boring ...
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The A3 motorway section at the Kerenzerberg tunnel in the direction of Sargans has been in operation for over 30 years. In order to ensure road safety for the coming years and long-term operation, ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension ...
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On the 16/03/2020 construction of the tunnel between the Mamyri and Slavic World stations began for the new Kommunarskaya metro line. Mosinzhproekt JSC is the general designer and general contractor ...
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If you missed the Robbins webinar, No need to worry, you can watch an on-demand recording of their event on Big Data: Technology for Efficient TBM Tunneling please click here for further ...
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Designing a refuge chamber to fit a 4.4m diameter tunnel boring machine with limited gantry space. Learn about the custom engineering that went into building two 10-person, 24-hour TunnelSAFE refuge ...
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On 25/02/2020 two TBMs (10 m diameter) were simultaneously launched on the western part of the Big Circle Line (BCL) in Moscow. The TBMs will be driving two double track tunnels, TBM ...
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On the 04/03/2020 the first TBM, involved in the construction of the tunnel for the central section of the M4 line in Milan arrived at the De Amicis station. The TBM averaged 25m/day and has now ...
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The following events have been postponed -
1. The Fehmarn Link Business Conference, which should have been held at Lalandia in Rodbyhavn on March 12, has been postponed to a later date. ...
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When the Regional Connector project is completed, three Metro light rail lines — the A (Blue), E (Expo) and L (Gold) — will finally be joined together via two 1.9-mile twin tunnels ...
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Tough TBM breaks through after navigating Faults, Karst, and More - In January 2020, a Robbins 5.97 m (19.6 ft) diameter Main Beam TBM cleared its final hurdle when it broke through in Guangxi ...
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The TBM for the City Rail Link project awarded to Link Alliance, a group of 7 companies , is due to arrive in Auckland next spring. It will bore twin tunnels under the city centre. The $13 ...
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Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol JV is currently completing TBM testing on-site for the new Ümraniye-Ataşehir-Göztepe line, the latest addition to Istanbul’s metro ...
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On the 29/02/2020 the TBM EPB S50 built by Terratec broke through at Arnavutkoy-1 station after excavating 1551 metres. The work is part of the new Halkali-Istanbul Airport Metro Line. The 31km-long ...
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SaMoTer, the international construction equipment trade fair, scheduled for the 21-25 March will now be held between the 16-20 May 2020. Asphaltica, the road infrastructure event to be held ...
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Due to the spreading Corona Virus in Asia-Pacific and also in Europe, the organisers of the WTC 2020 in Malaysia have decided to change the date of the Congress as well as any and ...
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Press release - Four giant boring machines are leaving Sydney after finishing tunnelling under the city, delivering 30km of twin metro railway tunnels. Their massive cutterheads, each weighing 100 ...
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The state of Finland will apply for funding from the European Commission for the planning process of the One-hour Turku-Helsinki Rail Link, of the Finland Railway, of the Espoo city rail link, to ...
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On the 23/02/2020 TBM Joan, named after former Victorian Premier Joan Kirner, broke through in a 13-m-deep shaft at Childers Street, Kensington, completing the first section of the Metro ...
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The international business conference Fehmarn Link Business Conference ´20 (FLBC) will be held on Thursday 12th March at Lalandia in Rodbyhavn. The conference is the launching pad for ...
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Five years after work began on the Metro Tunnel, the third and fourth TBMs are being assembled before starting work on Victoria’s biggest public transport project.
TBMs Millie and Alice ...
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E18 Langangen - Rugtvedt is part of the E18 Langangen - Grimstad section. The project is 17 km long and has a contract value of about EUR516,47 million (NOK 5.2 billion), excluding VAT.
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The following groups of contractors and consultants have qualified to supply offers and compete to build the new E6 Storhove - Oyer.
AF Gruppen - Norconsult
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iPS Powerful People and T&M Specialists Hong Kong, are two companies that have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement for civil construction projects in the Far East. T&M ...
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On the 18/02/2020 TBM Grace broke through at Bayswater Station, marking the end of her 8 km journey from Forrestfield to Bayswater after 32 months.
In late July 2017, TBM Grace set off from ...
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The Bözberg tunnel's slab track has been completed with the installation of the last sleeper. A great moment for all those involved and an important milestone for the largest single project ...
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On the 31st of January, the opening ceremony for construction of the new 13.6km section of a rail line between the towns of Nykirke and Barkaker, south of Oslo has was held.
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In June 2019, a preliminary consultation was carried out for the new Lyon metro line E project. Sytral chose the Alai - Bellecour route with the following 6 stations: Alai, Liberation, Menival, ...
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On the 5th of February 3 new TBMs manufactured by Herrenknecht were christened at the Verden site in Le Bourget, France. The consortium led by Eiffage-Génie Civil will use them to carry out ...
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On the 27/01/2020 the TBM Gaia (diameter 11 m) re-emerged at the Stevenshof district of the A44 in Leiden, after 6 months tunnelling and 2,250 m from its starting point at the A4 motorway. ...
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Last week, Metro quietly signed a federal Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA) for $1.3 billion to construct the Westside Purple Line Extension Section 3. Though this comes after a delay of ... More Information
Huge excavators positioned on jack-up barges on Deptford Creek have been dredging the riverbed to prepare for tunnelling in Greenwich. More Information
The project, first announced in 2018, will close parts of the tunnel for four years as the Port Authority repairs damages from Hurricane Sandy and puts ...
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The main construction contract for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme includes eight miles of new dual carriageway and a tunnel at least ...
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The project includes an undersea tunnel between Rødby on the Danish island of Lolland and Puttgarden in Germany. The tunnel will be around 19km ...
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Mining Technology spoke with Normet’s senior vice president of Ground Control and Construction Technologies (GCCT) to discuss the latest developments in bolt technology and what the future ... More Information
Tunnelling has begun on a second tunnel for Elon Musk’s Las Vegas underground transportation system. Musk’s firm, The Boring Company, completed excavation of the first tunnel last month ... More Information
The Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) is a straight, flat railway tunnel connecting two countries. It runs for 55 km between Innsbruck (in Austria) and Fortezza (in Italy). More Information
More than £52M was spent on three tunnel boring machines (TBMs) by High ... but was unable to confirm which contractor had ordered the third TBM.
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Sarens was proud to collaborate with client Cosider Travaux Publics on the extension of the Algiers Subway in Oued Smar, a well-trafficked site in the center of Algiers. More Information
This latest milestone comes shortly after the boring machine tunneled 4,486 ... The machine was then lowered piece by piece and tunneling is now ...
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Tunnel Boring Machine S-1075 operated by the Continental Engineering Corp - ITD Cementation - Tata Projects JV made a breakthrough at Worli Station's northern-end on Mumbai Metro's 33.5 km ... More Information
This underground package’s tunnels will be built using tunnel boring machines (TBMs), and connect the New Ashok Nagar Down Ramp with the Sahibabad UP Ramp through one station at Anand ... More Information
The first and second tunnel boring machines began tunneling last May, ...
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — Construction of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya (SSP) Line has achieved more than 70 per cent project completion following the success ... More Information
Emmett Hanger said lawmakers believed it was an opportune time to approve
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They said: “There have been no increases in the overall price of the
project, and the basic construction value is around £1bn as we have always
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Demonstrating its commitment to safety, experience and the State of Michigan, US, Enbridge has selected two renowned and industry leading contractors for the Great Lakes tunnel project. More Information
... for qualifications for a public–private partnership to excavate a US$4bn tunnel for the Toronto metro. The Scarborough Subway Extension project, ...
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A priest has blessed a statue almost 200ft underground to protect those working on a new 15 mile super sewer through London. More Information
The company said that construction could begin in 2021 and the tunnel could be completed by 2024. “The Great Lakes Tunnel Project is essential to ...
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Routeway Delivery Director, Camilla Barrow, explains how the fit-out of the Elizabeth line tunnels was completed, ahead of Trial Running beginning this autumn. More Information
The second tunnel boring machine (TBM) lowered in the first week of January
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CF&S Estonia has transported a tunnel boring machine from Paldiski South
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Alister Jack said the project would be cheaper than the £20bn bridge ...
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The project, which they estimate will take 50 months, was prompted by flooding in the subway tunnel during Hurricane Sandy, MTA officials told ...
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Never before seen photos from the construction of Melbourne's City Loop have revealed the huge leap forward in technology being used for the Metro ...
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NINGBO, March 3 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday resumed the construction of its first undersea high-speed railway tunnel as workers restarted the ...
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Crossrail Project -An update on the Elizabeth line's Liverpool Street station More Information
A tunnel boring machine (TBM) will be used to help install a new sewer. It has been lowered into a 23m deep shaft on William Street and will ...
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On February 29th MADONU casted slab foundations for railway tracks in the transition zone between TBM and portal areas. More Information
The technical advisory team has been appointed for a proposed 16km-long subway line that will run through the downtown core of Toronto in Canada. More Information
Milestone moment today. We made the “hole through” at the IPL 17 Trinity River tunnel, completing the TBM boring for the 2,800 LF precast segment tunnel, 150 feet deep on a 6.5% grade. The ... More Information
The BTSYM Conference 2020 will take place on Friday 13th March, at Arup, 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ More Information
Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. has decided to complete the project using 3 Tunnel Boring Machines, rather than the previous plan to use 4 TBMs More Information
Four giant boring machines are leaving Sydney after finishing tunnelling under the city, delivering 30km of twin metro railway tunnels. More Information
CHINA: Phase 1 of Hong Kong MTR’s Tuen Ma Line was opened for revenue service on February 14, extending the existing Ma On Shan Line from Tai Wai through Lion Rock to the eastern part of ... More Information
AECOM has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Detailed Design Consultant (DDC) contract of Patna Metro’s 17.64 km Line-2 after officials from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and ... More Information