The French and Italian governments, in accordance with the agreements between the two countries in their Articles of Association, have appointed the members of Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin - ...
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Collins Earthworks has completed excavating the north portal site of the twin tube Long Itchington Wood tunnel (1.61 km/1mile length, 9-10 m diameter) , ready for the launch of the TBM that ...
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The range of CIFA machines for the world of underground works has recently been enhanced thanks to the addition of two new machines, RHINO and MANTIS.
RHINO is a stationary pump ...
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At the beginning of February the Grand Paris Express held an inauguration ceremony for the last TBM for Line 15 South. The event was attended by everyone in the team from the Horizon joint ...
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The name has been announced of the TBM that will bore the new twin tunnels at the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, click here for the video. The TBM will be named Mary, in honor of Mary Jackson ...
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The NASTT 2021 No-Dig Show will convene in Orlando, Florida, March 28-31 at the Orange County Convention Center — offering in-person and virtual offerings to bring the trenchless industry to ...
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VTA achieved two critical milestones for the BART Phase II Project being the first transit agency in the nation to submit an application for EUR1.43 bn (USD1.74 bn) through the Federal Transit ...
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Press release - Gomez International Inc. would like to announce we have partnered with TJB, General Cable, Toshiba Motors, Tsurumi Pumps and Littlefuse to be their OEM representative in the ...
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Normet’s battery electric SmartDrive product family provides high productivity with decreased operating cost and zero local emissions. Normet’s Spraymec 8100 VC SD tunnelling sprayer ...
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The Australian and NSW governments are funding the 14 km Coffs Harbour bypass project. The bypass will boost the regional economy and improve connectivity, road transport efficiency and safety ...
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Digging of the western section of the Metro Tunnel between Kensington and the Central Business District is now complete, after TBM Meg broke through at the State Library Station, marking the ...
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The hot water collected during excavation of the Chiomonte base tunnel will become a source of clean, sustainable energy for its construction site. This geothermal resource will then be made ...
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An online webinar to hear first-hand from Cross River Rail’s experts about tunnelling works and how it may impact local residents and businesses.
Experts from the Cross River Rail ...
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Voting has begun to name the new Swina River TBM, which will soon begin to drive the Swinoujscie tunnel tunnel under the Swina River. The competition committee chose 5 of the 301 ...
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Parliament continues to show very strong support for HS2, as the Bill for the extension from the West Midlands to Crewe – Phase 2A – is given Royal ...
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Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has achieved its 36th breakthrough at CSMIA T1 Metro Station. With this 1.5-km long tunnel from Sahar Road Metro Station to CSMIA, T1 is now completed. The ...
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The winner to host the WTC2023 is Greece! The final voting result: Greece 33 vs Turkey 14. The theme will be EXPANDING UNDERGROUND - Knowledge & Passion to Make a Positive Impact on ...
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On 05/02/21 at the Manila North Centre Port Terminal an arrival ceremony was held for the Cutter Head for of the first TBM Kaunlaran. It will be used for the 15-station Metro Manila Subway 's ...
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With final German approval of the Fehmarnbelt project obtained in November 2020, construction of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Denmark and Germany is now well underway.
During 2021, ...
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Most of the preparation works for the City Rail Link (CRL) has been completed and project momentum is shifting to the heavy infrastructure programme. 2021 will see the Dame Whina Cooper ...
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Robbins Brand to continue under Global TBM Company - Global TBM Company, newly established by industry veteran Lok Home, is proud to announce the recent purchase of substantially all the assets of ...
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Line 16 (27.5 km) of the Grand Paris Express project will be entirely underground and three works lots are planned with the use of 8 TBMs. The works’ are scheduled to finish in 2030. Lot 2 - ...
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On 29/01/2021 the Enbridge Line 5 tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac got another step closer to being built. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy announced its approval of ...
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Roadheaders start tunnelling towards Boggo Road - Two 115t roadheaders have started to mine the remainder of the 870 m Cross River Rail twin tunnels between Woolloongabba and Boggo ...
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Excellent results were achieved in 2020 by FAMA, a world leading provider of sealing, connection systems and precast tunnel lining. The company’s budget shows a positive finish after an ...
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A major milestone was reached on the M4-M5 Link Tunnels project - 41 m underground at the St Peters Interchange - with roadheaders carving through to the M8, linking two WestConnex stages ...
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The NASTT 2021 No-Dig Show will convene in Orlando, Florida, March 28-31 at the Orange County Convention Center — offering in-person and virtual offerings to bring the trenchless industry to ...
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With over 55 live tenders for construction/development of new tunnels in just Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium at the time of writing this, it is safe to say that tunnel construction/ ...
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A refurbished 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machine has been delivered to a Joint Venture between Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. of India and Vensar ...
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With the start of the New Year, the HRBT Expansion Project begins new construction activities. You are invited to learn more during a Virtual Construction Open House to learn about upcoming ...
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SaMoTer, Veronafiere's triennial international construction machinery exhibition, will now take place in March 2023.
In 2021 they will showcase a new in-quarry demo event: the format will be ...
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The Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade (the project) - proposed by Transport for NSW - has been approved by the NSW Government (the Minister for Planning and Public ...
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TBM Alice has begun its journey beneath St Kilda Road and the Yarra River, to connect the Metro Tunnel’s new Anzac and Town Hall stations in Melbourne, Australia. It follows the December ...
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In Kiruna, Sweden, tests are ongoing to set a new world standard for sustainable mining. In the process to achieve this, LKAB has ordered industry-leading battery-electric vehicles from Epiroc to be ...
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In December TBM Buroh (diameter 4.6 m) completed the 1.3 km first tunnel drive of the DTSS Phase 2 in Singapore (Contract T-08). As part of DTSS Phase 2, the existing tunnel system will be ...
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Press release - Applications are now sought for this year’s BTS Harding Prize. The competition is open to all tunnelling engineers of the age of 33 or below at the end of the previous year. ...
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Silvertown Tunnel
This twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London will link Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula. Site investigations and enabling works are underway, with ...
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Buckinghamshire will benefit from two HS2 tunnels, carrying the railway from the Colne Valley to Wendover - the Chilterns tunnel and the Wendover tunnel...
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A consortium of Razel-Bec, Sefi-Intrafor and Fayat Metal has won the €325m (£280m) contract for construction of the section between Clichy-Montfermeil and Noisy-Champs...
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The growth of the tunnel construction in the country has been driven by a robust pipeline of projects and investments in setting up hydropower projects, developing urban mass rapid transit ...
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We've all traveled through dark, boring tunnels, but these exceptional passages are a far cry from dull. Here are 10 of the coolest tunnels around the world...
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The M4-M5 Link Tunnels is the first stage of the M4-M5 Link which is being delivered in two stages...
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Hundreds of extra train services will run through Sydney’s Inner West and T8 Airport lines every week under a $1 billion plan to increase peak-hour capacity by as much as 80 per cent on ...
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson has proposed connecting England, Scotland and Northern Ireland via tunnels connected to a giant underground roundabout beneath the Isle of Man...
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Transport for London (TfL) has awarded five contractors places on a new framework to construct and repair its highways network, including bridges and tunnels. The winning contractors on ...
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Traditionally, a TBM is named before the project starts for good luck. VDOT says TBMs are historically named after women because tunnellers looked to ...
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On Jan. 18, Elon Musk tweeted, “Cars and trucks stuck in traffic generate megatons of toxic gases & particulate, but @boringcompany road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic & be an ...
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The coastline at the southernmost tip of Mumbai is changing at the speed of 3 metres per day under one of the biggest green recreational open spaces in the city.
Mavala, India’s biggest ...
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new $321 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) to Alexandria Renew Enterprises for its ...
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Campaigners challenging the A303 Stonehenge Tunnel scheme have been granted a court hearing in their judicial review challenge saying that the scheme would cause significant harm to the ...
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WESTERN CANADA – As the water supply tunnel starts being excavated from North Vancouver, under Burrard Inlet, to Second Narrows Park in Burnaby, BC, ASI provided the Turnkey Commercial ...
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Work to excavate two tunnels that will serve future GO Transit rail service has been completed. Crews began excavating a second tunnel under Highways 401 and 409, which host some of ...
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A Keller Group and VSL International JV (KVJV) has been awarded a £167M contract to deliver geotechnical work as part of the C1 package on High Speed 2 (HS2).
The contract was by Align ...
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The €10 million Infrastructure Malta project to rehabilitate the four main tunnels of the Maltese road network is advancing rapidly and all works are ...
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has thrown his support behind a number of mothballed and embattled rail schemes in his London Plan.
The London Plan was formally adopted last week and includes ...
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Crews have reached another milestone in the new rail passage in the heart of some of the busiest highway traffic in Canada – 100 per cent excavation in tunnel two. Since March, heavy ...
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The Australasian Tunnelling Conference (ATS2020+1), our premier industry event, will be held in Melbourne on the 10th – 13th May 2021 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre ...
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It would be modelled on the Channel tunnel, which is 31.5 miles long and runs underwater for 23.5 miles...
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Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has kicked off the construction of a 28 kilometre long irrigation tunnel costing 244 million dollars with Asian Development Bank financing, that is ...
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The National Advisor Bureau (NAB) of United Arab Emirates (UAE) is exploring a 2,000 kilometre long underwater rail tunnel to connect Mumbai and Fujairah — a distance that can be covered ...
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Archaeological work ahead of the construction of a controversial road tunnel beside Stonehenge has led to the discovery of ancient graves, including one with the remains of a baby dating ...
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Construction works on a 25m-tall viaduct and rail tunnels for the Johor Baru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link are expected to start next quarter after a $180 million contract was ...
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We´re building two new connections across the river. A railwaybridge and a road tunnel under Göta älv to secure safe and efficient connections in a growing region...
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On 5 February 2021, Japanese Ambassador KOSHIKAWA Kazuhiko, together with Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, Finance Secretary Carlos Domínguez III, Public Works and Highways ...
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Our high-volume triplex pump provides a constant delivery of up to 1000 l/min with minimal pulsation to ensure the safest, and the most cost and time efficient solution for your job site.
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The San Bernardino County Transportation Authority recently selected HNTB for the project and construction management services contract for its first-of-a-kind, emerging technology tunnel ...
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A major milestone was reached on the M4-M5 Link Tunnels project with roadheaders carving through to the M8, linking two WestConnex stages underground for the first time.
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Highways England has awarded Jacobs a £162.5M integration partner contract for work on the Lower Thames Crossing.
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The project will have a workforce of 2,000 employees at the peak of activity. The joint venture comprises Vinci Construction Grands Projets (lead ...
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Our list of “Project Clean Lake achievements” keeps getting longer as our Westerly Storage Tunnel project met a major milestone this month.
The tunnel boring machine reached the end of ...
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Metrolinx News continues to bring you the latest advances in construction of the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit (LRT) project, thanks to images that take you behind and over ...
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China, France and Serbia have reached a milestone multi-billion dollar agreement on constructing a metro in Belgrade, Serbia's capital.
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SINGAPORE — A S$180 million contract for the construction of a bridge and tunnels for the Johor Baru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link has been awarded to the Singapore branch of ...
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Highways England estimates that the £8bn Lower Thames Crossing project will create 22,000 jobs in construction delivering a major boost to the UK economy.
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HNTB has won the project and construction management services contract for a 6.4km tunnel to Ontario Airport in California, USA. HNTB will ...
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