Don't forget to stop by the Robbins booth at the North American Tunnelling (NAT) virtual trade show, where you can view a curated selection of Robbins latest news, white papers, videos and ...
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Are you ready for the North American Tunnelling (NAT) Virtual Conference? Register and get a week full of informative talks on intriguing topics from June 8-12. Visit ...
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The call for entries has been extended until the 23rd June 2020 for the 6th edition of the international tunnelling and underground space awards. The ITA Awards will take place at the ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for the Ontario Line project. The Ontario Line is a 15.5-km stand-alone rapid transit line that ...
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On 28/05/20 Larsen & Toubro began lowering parts of TBM DZ669 (named Avni) and DZ671 (named Vindhya) into the Shivajinagar and Cantonment stations, respectively, for driving tunnels on the ...
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Balfour Beatty today announces that its 50:50 joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$7.2 billion (c. £760 million) contract to deliver tunnels and associated works for an ...
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Acciona and Nye Veier, the Norwegian state highway authority, have reached an agreement to proceed to the next stage of the design and construction of the E6 Ranheim-Værnes highway.
Work is ...
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On the 06/05/2020 Deutsche Bahn reached another important milestone as part of the Stuttgart 21 project, by breaking through the east tube of the 9.5-km-long Filder tunnel: the last of four tunnels ...
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A number of TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs are achieving great progress rates on new lines for Istanbul’s ongoing metro expansion despite the Covid-19 outbreak.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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The Penetron Italy team were approached to provide a waterproofing solution for an underground pedestrian tunnel, elevator shafts, and different concrete structures for the new San Martino ...
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The 2020 ISRM International Symposium will be held on 12-14 October 2020. The event will take place at the same venue in Trondheim, Norway. All associated ISRM meetings will also be moved to new ...
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Metro tunnel in Australia have reached another major
milestone, with tunnel boring machines (TBM) Millie and Alice now both on their
way to South Yarra.
The green TBM Alice, named after wartime ...
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There are four TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta, Maria and Anna that are being used to tunnel the central Targowek and Wola sections of the Warsaw metro line 2. TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta will now ...
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On the 19/05/20 in Francavilla Marittima in Cosenza province, the first stone was laid for the Mega Lot 3 of the SS 106 Ionian Highway. The EUR980 million project, was commissioned by state road ...
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Strata Worldwide is excited to announce the global launch of its next generation emergency refuge chamber; the Strata ERCX.
The Strata ERCX is a steel-sided, walk-in refuge chamber for use ...
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Work is underway to improve brightness and visibility in the George Massey Tunnel. Claire Trevena, Canadian Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, said the government continues to move ahead ...
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This year’s Swiss Tunnel Congress will be taking place in
the form of a webinar due to the current worldwide pandemic (COVID-19). A video of
the recorded congress will be published on the ...
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The next generation of high performance, eco-friendly tail sealants for shielded tunnel boring machines have been introduced into the Normet TBM product range. The new range of ...
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ELAPAS (Empresa Local de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Sanitario) from the city of Sucre, Bolivia, has published the Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System (Lot ...
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The winning name for City Rail Link’s TBM is Dame Whina Cooper. City Rail Link’s TBM will share the name of Dame Whina Cooper, a woman who spent most of an illustrious life leading the ...
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London’s biggest infrastructure project has re-started
tunnelling work on the super sewer urgently needed to clean up the River
Thames.
Tideway, the company building the 25km super sewer ...
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TBM Gaia has started drilling the second 2.25km RijnlandRoute tunnel in the Netherlands. After Gaia was blessed on 07/05/2020, tunnelling began, the route will pass under the Vliet, the ...
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The Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit project has seen plenty of progress! Recently, the project reached an important milestone. As part of a testing and commissioning phase, a light rail ...
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From the 11/05/20 the REM (Reseau Express Metropolitain) construction sites in Montreal will gradually resume their operations, after a stop time that started on the 24/03/20. This is following the ...
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The new GEOFLUID show will take place from the 19th to 22nd May 2021 at the Piacenza exhibition centre in Italy . The current pandemic has considerably influenced the decision to cancel, ...
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The Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology has
been postponed from 7-10 September 2020 to 30 August - 2 September 2021 at the
same venue in Mallorca, Spain. Due to the rescheduling, ...
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At Tideway, our aim is to inspire the engineers of tomorrow
by promoting the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and maths.
We also want to showcase some of the many talented people ...
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On Monday, April 27, 2020 the excavation of the second tube of the 2.06km Zakopianka tunnel under the Lubon Maly Mountain in the Beskid Wyspowy was completed. The teams boring the tunnel from both ...
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Paradigm Flow Services Ltd (PFS) has successfully applied their game changing digital dry deluge testing system, Dry-Flo® on a non-oilfield project on a major transport tunnel construction ...
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On the 23.04.2020 the TBM named Aysylu was launched to start the construction of the first 5.37 section of the second metro line in Kazan from Fuchik – Sakharov, the contractor is ...
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CIPA is hiring and looking for workers for its Italian and foreign sites:
• Mechanics and drivers (with license ...
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In March 2020 Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP), the joint venture consisting of Dragados USA, Flatiron Constructors, Vinci Construction and Dodin Campenon Bernard, commissioned ...
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On the 27/04/20 Metro Tunnel reached another major milestone
with TBM Millie launching from the site of the new Anzac Station in Melbourne.
Millie is digging the first tunnel between Anzac Station ...
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SWEDFAN - Complete Turnkey Ventilation Systems for underground construction since 1995.
SWEDFAN has designed and manufactured ventilation systems for more than 2.000 tunnelling projects worldwide ...
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On the 26/04/2020 the Danish minister of transport reported that construction of the immersed tunnel Fehmarnbelt will start on January 1, 2021 on the Danish side. Construction work will be ...
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It’s a wrap! A major milestone was achieved earlier this week with tunnelling now complete after tunnel boring machine (TBM) Sandy broke through at the Bayswater dive structure on Monday. ...
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Project developer Lantis has awarded the €570m (£493m) tunnel construction contract to the Tijdelijke Handelsvennootschap Combinatie ...
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ACCIONA, the leading partner of Peace River Hydro Partners (PRHP), has successfully completed one of the most important technical milestones on the Site-C project having finalized the ... More Information
Rabat – Construction on a tunnel to decongest traffic around Rabat's iconic Bab el Had square commenced Tuesday. The project has an estimated ...
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Both of L.A. Metro’s tunneling machines have reached the future Wilshire/Fairfax subway station near the La Brea Tar Pits in the Miracle Mile. Tunneling for the first three miles of this ... More Information
The new Ceneri Base Tunnel, in Switzerland, has now been tested to 275km/h.
The tunnel is the fastest single-bore tunnel using Furrer+Frey’s Rigid Overhead Conductor-rail system. More Information
The construction of this 6 km road and 450 m tunnel is being done at a cost of Rs 88 crore. Earlier the date of completion of this project was scheduled ...
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HS2 ltd has revealed the initial images of its first two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) set to launch on the project later this year. The Tunnel Boring ... More Information
The work for package 1 includes the digging tunnels spanning 11.8km using two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and construction of Antonypôle, ...
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SWEDEN: The Subterra subsidiary of Czech company Metrostav Group has been awarded a KC5bn contract to undertake drill and blast tunneling for a 4·1 km western extension of the Stockholm ... More Information
We need your help to name the first pair of tunnel boring machines to be used on the high-speed rail project. More Information
The Boring Company’s tunnel-making, dirt-clearing drill reached the end of the line for the second time in three months Thursday, making a pathway for Elon Musk’s untested underground ... More Information
Thames Water has named its partner contractors for the first two lots in its £2.6bn AMP7 capital work programme. More Information
Construction of the base tunnel began in 2006 and it is the final section of the Zürich – Milan corridor upgrade project, which also included the ...
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Assoc. Prof., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The presentation argues that the use of classification ratings must be accompanied by an understanding of the actual rockmass behaviour ... More Information
The Shoreline Storage Tunnel (SST) project is part of Project Clean Lake, a $3 billion, 25-year program that the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) began in 2011 to meet Clean ... More Information
For one managing director, Kevin Browning of Global Tunnelling Experts [GTE] in Bristol, this proposal poses a whole new raft of problems, and he has written an open letter to the ... More Information
With a diameter of 10.88 meters, the largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) that China has exported to Europe More Information
The AJ can reveal that RIBA Stirling Prize-winning practice dRMM has landed a key role on the £1.2 billion Silvertown Tunnel project. The architect is ...
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The services agreement will focus on clay and water management associated with the Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) active on the Metro Tunnel ... More Information
The use of real-time data in underground mining has moved beyond a "nice to have" and is now essential for any operation looking to drive productivity and promote maximum health and safety ... More Information
Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that the next stages of design and planning for the Silvertown Tunnel are on schedule despite the coronavirus stopping work on site. More Information
Over the past four and a half months, our tunnelling team has been drilling deep beneath Melbourne’s O’Shannassy Reservoir, on behalf of Melbourne Water.
Since December last year, the ... More Information
The Hagerbach Test Gallery celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020. The mining engineer Rudolf Amberg founded the company in 1970 with the aim of creating a unique environment for testing ... More Information
Danish MPs have given the green light to the construction of the Fehmarnbelt underwater tunnel which will reduce travel time between the country and Germany to just a few minutes. More Information
SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 29 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's 267.2 million levs ($148.3 million/136.6 million levs) tender for construction of a road tunnel under the Shipka peak beneath the Balkan ... More Information
India’s largest tunnel boring machine (TBM) with diameter of 12.19m arrived in Mumbai’s Priyadarshini Park neighborhood this Sunday morning after a 5000+ nautical mile journey from ... More Information
... Minnikhanov marked the launch of the first tunnel boring machine from the future Sakharova station site. Show Fullscreen. ru-kazan-line2-TBMs-pit.
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Strata Worldwide is pleased to announce the IECEx Intrinsically Safe approval of the StrataConnect second-edition Miner Communicator (MC2). With this approval and certificate number IECEx ... More Information
The ‘Klang Valley MRT’ is a large-scale metro project designed to construct three subway lines with a total length of 150 km in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. More Information
All members of the Dr. Sauer & Partners team in Toronto are now pitching in on the finishing straight of this great project in Toronto as it nears its end, including Gerald Skalla, our ... More Information
On 20/04/20 AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd. together with SBB resumed the test runs in the Ceneri Base Tunnel More Information
(NYSE: PSN) announced that the company's Virginia Avenue Tunnel Reconstruction (VAT) project, a joint venture between Parsons and Clark ...
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Plans call for the 18-ft-diameter tunnel to be excavated between 100 and 150 ft underground using a tunnel boring machine and lined with concrete ...
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Eiffage and Kier receive Notice to Proceed for HS2, with their new partners, Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall More Information
The tunnel is one of six 10km tunnels being constructed on the most difficult part of the 160km/h line. Milin tunnel is about 1200m below the surface ...
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Israel has revealed a new plan to construct an underground railway tunnel in the occupied city of Jerusalem that reaches the outskirts of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. More Information
Read about all the tunnels in the USA awaiting funding, under design or under study... More Information