Retired Chartered Engineer CALVIN BARROWS proposes simple but innovative solutions to the age-old problem of overheating metro networks.
Worldwide there are a significant number of Metro networks ...
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On July 4th , 2019 Canada’s Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, joined by Mayor Valerie Plante, the Quebec Junior Transport Minister
and Minister Responsible for Montreal, Chantal Rouleau and ...
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New allocation from the FTA for section three of the Metro
has received a new allocation of AUD100 million from the Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) for the third and final section of the ...
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The launch site - from where the 90 m long TBMs will dig
south west to build the twin tunnels to connect the West Gate Freeway to the
port, city and CityLink in Melbourne - has taken a year to ...
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Finest Bay Area Development has signed a memorandum of
understanding with three Chinese companies, as part of plans to build the 100
km (60 mile) double undersea train tunnel from Tallinn in ...
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Three roadheaders
have met 30 metres underground in the first major breakthrough, connecting two
excavated caverns that will become State Library Station.
The road headers have dug out more ...
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The Bahrain Rail Congress 2019 will be held under the theme
“Designing & Developing a Well Connected, World Class, National Rail
Network in the Kingdom of Bahrain” which is ...
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On the 10th
of July 2019 a second TBM arrived at Parco Solari station in Milan. Thus
completing the excavation of the tunnels from San Cristoforo to Solari, part of
the western section of ...
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Element Construction are looking for a tunnel construction
company to be part of a joint venture on a tunnelling project. The tunnelling
project is to build two parallel tunnels for a highway, ...
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Before tunnelling for the West Gate Tunnel
Project begins in 2019, they need to divert a 600 metre section of the North
Yarra Main Sewer. Diverting a sewer is a massive job that involves ...
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London’s £4.2 billion super sewer is seen from the air as
new pictures reveal deep shafts carved into the banks of the River Thames.
The Thames Tideway tunnel snakes alongside the ...
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On Saturday, July 6th , the second 130m-long TBM arrived at Redcliffe Station for the Forrestfield Airport Link project. TBM Sandy broke through into Redcliffe Station, emerging from her most ...
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Ghella, as part of the Pulse consortium, which is led
by CIMIC Group, has reached contractual and financial close with the State
of Queensland to deliver the Tunnel, Stations and Development (TSD) ...
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Metro NET celebrated the ceremonial naming and unveiling of
its second set of tunnel boring machines that will dig twin subway tunnels
between Beverly Hills and Century City. Subway tunnelling is ...
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The International Seminar on Roads, Bridges and Tunnels, the
ISRBT2019 will take place in Thessaloniki, 7-9 November. It will consist of
three daily Sessions, 7th November: Roads, 8th November: ...
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TERRATEC’s tight radius TBMs are enabling a highly
challenging project alignment for Bangkok’s Metropolitan Electricity Authority
in one of the city’s busiest downtown areas.
In ...
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Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Kathleen has passed its final
inspection and is now ready to launch from Barangaroo next month to dig the
historic rail crossing deep under Sydney Harbour.
The 975 ...
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EXPO Ferroviaria 2019, the 9th International Railway
Exhibition, will take place from Tuesday 1st to Thursday 3rd of October 2019 at
the Rho Fiera exhibition centre, ...
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The Award-winning E-Power Pipe® system, which was developed
by Herrenknecht AG as a new method for the quick and secure installation of
small-diameter cable protection pipes underground for ...
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On the 24th of June TBM 1 which is excavating the Rome Line C arrived near the Colosseum, while TBM 2 has passed the Piazza Celimontana shaft.
After arriving at Fori Imperiali the TBMs, cannot ...
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Construction on the Xi’an utility tunnel project is ongoing.
With estimated total costs of US$2.6 billion, it is currently China’s single
largest infrastructure project. The planned ...
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The government of India, following the IL&Fs financial crisis, cancelled the contracts with first contractors for the construction of the 14-km-long Zojila and 6.5-km-long Z-Morh tunnels on the ...
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Early bird registration for the 26th World Road Congress has
now been extended until the 30th of June. For further information about the
congress please click here. To register for the event ...
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Iisalmi, Finland, June 12, 2019. Normet made history by
demonstrating battery electric emulsion charging in production environment
underground on June 4th in Pyhäsalmi mine, Finland, with ...
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The World
Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2020 will be held in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre,
Kuala Lumpur.
Growing numbers
of underground innovations claimed to hold the key to unlock the door to ...
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Sydney Metro’s
third mega TBM has broken through a wall of rock at the new Crows Nest Station,
marking a major milestone in the project which will link the North West Metro
to the CBD and ...
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After appeal Europe's competition enforcer launched an
in-depth investigation on the 14.06.2019
into public financing for a planned €8.7 billion ($9.8 billion) rail and
road tunnel ...
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After relaunching, TBM Grace has now successfully tunnelled
through the station box d-wall (western end). After spending five weeks at
Redcliffe Station, where she underwent scheduled ...
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CIPA S.p.A. is carrying
out the widening excavations of the odd and even tracks on the section of the
Rome Metro C between the well 3.3 and the San Giovanni station. On the left
side of the ...
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It is with deep sadness that The Robbins Company announces
the passing of Richard James Robbins, President and CEO from 1958 to 1993. Dick
passed away surrounded by family on Thursday May 30, 2019 ...
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THE ITA TUNNELLING and UNDERGROUND SPACE AWARDS
2019- 5th EDITION. The 5th edition of the international tunnelling and
underground space awards welcomes new applications, ITA is now calling ...
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The Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
announced that on June 6th, the South bound of the 6,927 m Boryeong Undersea tunnel,
Korea’s longest undersea tunnel, had broken ...
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On the 26th May 2019 the 11-km dual two-lane carriageway
Heung Yuen Wai Highway opened to public. The highway includes the 4.8km Lung
Shan Tunnel, 0.7km Cheung Shan Tunnel, 4.5km of ...
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The early registration discount for ‘The 2019 Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course’ ends July 30th. Early registrants will save $100 off the price of full conference ...
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The excavation work along Milan’s new M4 metro line came a
step closer to completion as the consortium responsible for the project led by
Salini Impregilo celebrated the latest breakthrough ...
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TBM Grace
Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Grace arrived at Redcliffe
Station last month, breaking through the one-metre-thick eastern station box
wall to a cheering crowd of excited team ...
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Denmark’s capital city boasts the most advanced public transport system in Europe. Cityringen is a new circular urban line around the very centre of the city. The new metro line that will ... More Information
Jamal Rostami, Director of Earth Mechanics Institute at the Colorado School of Mines in the USA explains how the key to colonising the moon depends on excavating environments beneath the ... More Information
The NSW City & Southwest Metro Project has hit a new milestone with 50 per cent completion of the tunnelling as another mega boring machine broke through into the new Crows Nest Station. More Information
The hunt is under way to find contractors who will take on the £1.7bn Stonehenge Tunnel project.
Highways England have huge plans for the busy Westcountry route into Devon along the A303 ... More Information
CBS Pittsburgh
As construction begins, there will be long-term sidewalk restrictions in the ... Pedestrian walkway and tunnel between Chatham Street and Seventh ...
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Contracts are expected to be signed with a construction consortium in August. The tunnel's opponents say it would not only add to local air pollution, ... More Information
The man planning to build an undersea train tunnel between the Finnish capital Helsinki and the Estonian capital Tallinn has said he wants China Railway Group Ltd (CREC) to build it. More Information
Planning for TBMs in Difficult Ground – or TBM DiGs 2019 – is well underway and things have started to finalize. More Information
The incident occurred on June 27, when the 64-year-old worker was operating a boring machine on Tunnel Two, the same site at which a dislodged ...
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The project includes the construction of two tunnels – Moss and Carlberg – each more than 2km long, two shorter cut-and-cover sections, a tunnel ...
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A £2bn project to open a road tunnel beneath the Stonehenge world heritage site in 2026 is being put at risk by uncertainty over how it will be financed ...
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ABSTRACT: New guideline concerning the use of FRC precast segment has been recently published to provide detail state of the art (ACI, FIB, ITA) and design proposal based on Model Code 2010. More Information
After safely being delivered to Hinkley Point C by sea, three tunnel boring machines stand ready to commence the major tunnelling work required for ...
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Breakthrough in the spectacular project Eysturoy Tunnel on the Faroe Islands More Information
Sirius - All mined polyhalite will be transported underground to the materials handling facility on Teesside on the low impact mineral transport system (MTS), located in a 37km long and ... More Information
The Well-Connected Alliance and urban design and architect partners, Boffa Miskell and Warren and Mahoney, More Information
Fort St. John, B.C. – The Site C Dam project in B.C. achieved a breakthrough this month. Officials announced that the first of two diversion tunnels ...
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June 24, 2019. Legislatures of both New York State and New Jersey have passed legislation to establish a seven-member, bi-state commission that ...
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The National High Speed Rail Corp Ltd (NHSRCL) is hopeful of acquiring a major chunk of land required for the 508-km-long Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project by the end of this year. More Information
China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (CREG) said it has rolled off the tunnel boring machine (TBM) More Information
Cahit Turhan, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, under the Bosphorus of Istanbul 3 Storey of the Great Istanbul Tunnel completed the project ...
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MILAN, June 18, 2019 – Public works like the new bridge and the Terzo Valico dei Giovi high-speed, More Information
Deep underneath Auckland, a giant tunnel has been steadily lengthening for months. More Information
Today's ceremony was held at Metro's construction staging yard on the eastern edge of ... Today's tunnel machines will dig section two of the project.
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AECOM used Bentley applications to design the central contract tunnels and map out construction plans on the Thames Tideway Tunnel Central ...
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VINCI Construction Grands Projets provides career opportunities in France and internationally that require key skill sets to deliver major construction projects. More Information
On 29 March 2019 tunnelling work for the fourth drilling of Lot H51 Pfons–Brenner began on the south exploratory tunnel, marked by a drilling ceremony. Building the exploratory shaft is a ... More Information
On June 6th, with the "Jincheng No. 9" TBM cutterhead slowly breaking out, it marked the smooth passage of the left line of the Rongchang shield section of the Xi'an Metro Line 5. More Information
Network Rail is to hold a bidders days to set out contract plans for a 6.5km new rail link from Reading and Slough to London Heathrow Airport. More Information
Normet’s forward-thinking culture has led the company to develop a range of innovative products whose aim is to modernise the tunnelling and mining industries More Information
The breakthrough of the 10.5m-wide tunnel came as planned, 27 months after NCC began the tunnel construction work in January 2017 More Information
Progress is being made for Colombia’s Toyo Tunnel project. Around 20% of the work has been carried out. More Information
Lead Design Consultant: Parsons; Tunnel Design Consultant: McMillan Jacobs Associates; Tunnel Construction Management Consultant: Mott ...
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To construct the initial 120m of the 360m deep MTS shaft at Woodsmith Mine as efficiently, expediently and safely as possible, the company and its contractors deployed specialised, More Information
Technicians work at the underground utility tunnel in Baiyin city, Northwest China's Gansu province, May 29, 2019. The 2.238 billion yuan (about $324 ...
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