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Read All About It!E-News Weekly from tunnelbuilder is the only weekly tunnelling market intelligence e-newsletter available from any source. This week, issue No 93 describes the punishment meted out ...
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Second TBM Start for Line 9 in BarcelonaLlobri, this is the name of the second TBM that will drive the 44 km metro line 9 in Barcelona. The machine started to tunnel the new line between the Gorg ...
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Welcome to the Future!tunnelbuilder.com front page has undergone a substantial revision this week, as part of a complete upgrade of our operating software. Page presentation is now database-driven, ...
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Dateline Underground Construction 2003It's high time to make travel plans for the UC 2003 conference and exhibition, which takes place at ExCeL, London on 24-25th September. ExCeL is at the old ...
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Geokon - world-class geotechnical instrumentationGeokon is the most successful designer and manufacturer of vibrating wire geotechnical instrumentation, with a line of products that is unsurpassed ...
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Spanish Tunnellers Rescued from Guadarrama TunnelThirty-four workers have been rescued after being trapped by fire for five hours on 6th August in the Guadarrama railway tunnel under construction on ...
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New Concept in Lighting Control from MayerMayer International (UK) Ltd has introduced an advanced new concept in automated light switching technology for road tunnels. Known as System-1600, it ...
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Muck Cars Designed by CSM Bessac Receive Innovation AwardThe Roll and Rock process designed by CSM Bessac, a small-to-midsize TBM maker based near Toulouse, France has received a French construction ...
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Wirth Completes Shaft II in Sedrun for Gotthard Base Tunnel in Record TimeThe breakthrough by a Wirth shaft boring machine of the tunnel floor level on 23rd June, 2003 marked another milestone at ...
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Crossrail Gets Green LightThe UK government has given the go-ahead for the £10 billion Crossrail project that will link east and west London. But transport Secretary Alistair Darling has again ...
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Herrenknecht Reports GrowthHerrenknecht AG, in its 2002 Annual Report, has reported sales in excess of €300 million for the first time, consolidating its position as market leader in TBM ...
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Putzmeister Contribute to Building Taiwanese HSR in Record TimeA 345 km high speed railway is under construction in Taiwan between capital Taipeh and Kaohsiung in the south. Numerous Putzmeister ...
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Chancellor Schröder Inaugurates Germany's Longest Road TunnelChancellor Gerhard Schröder inaugurated on 5th July the nearly 8 km-long Rennsteig tunnel, Germany's longest road tunnel linking ...
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Mühlhäuser - world leader in transportation engineeringWesterschelde and Elbe highway tunnels; Athens, Singapore and Barcelona metros; Lesotho, New York and Isafahan water tunnels; ...
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Putzmeister and Sika Form Strategic AllianceSika AG, Baar, Switzerland, a chemical specialities company, and Putzmeister AG, Aichtal, Germany have entered into a strategic global alliance in the ...
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Cat Launches 325 CCR Tunnel ExcavatorThe new 164 kw 35t Cat 325 CCR, with a swing radius of only 1.9 m, is designed specifically for tunnelling. It has a robust undercarriage, and a full size ...
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First TBM Starts Line 9 of Barcelona MetroAn Earth Pressure Balance shield built by NFM Technologies, Wirth's sister company based in Lyon, started driving line 9 in Barcelona from Can Zam in Santa ...
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High Speed Tunnel Starts in BolognaPietro Lunardi, the Italian minister for infrastructure and transport, Vasco Errani, the president of the Emilia-Romagna region, Vittorio Prodi, the president of ...
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Developing DSL BroadbandAccess to DSL Broadband is increasing rapidly, allowing us to install downloadable publications for more tunnelbuilder readers. However, the spread of DSL is not uniform. ...
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Two Wirth EPB Shields for Shiraz Metro - ir/19The Wirth Group's sister company NFM Technologies will deliver two Earth Pressure Balance TBMs to the Shiraz Urban Railway Organization for the Shiraz ...
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France Confirms Lyon-Turin High Speed LinkFrench prime minister Raffarin confirmed to Italian premier Berlusconi France's commitment to build the Lyon-Turin high speed line, loosening the strained ...
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Zürich Thalwil Tunnel InauguratedSwiss transport minister Moritz Leuenberger inaugurated the second double-track line Zürich-Thalwil on 6th June, 2003. This 10.7 km line allows long-distance ...
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Halcrow sponsors tunnelintelligence.comHalcrow Group is taking up a foundation sponsorship of tunnelintelligence.com, the industry's most-visited bids and awards website. The company is an ...
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Herrenknecht TBM Tackles Gotthard Base Tunnel from NorthThe AGN JV between Murer and Strabag started excavation of the Gotthard base tunnel from the north side at the Amsteg jobsite on 27th May, ...
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The largest tunnelling machine ever used on a UK rail project is officially starting work...
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Overview of the Phase 2 extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit to Silicon Valley. The extension will add 6 miles of track and 4 stations to BART system and finally bring BART service to ...
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On 21/04/2021 the Moroccan and Spanish Ministers of Transport programmed in the months a new intergovernmental meeting in Casablanca on the railway tunnel project between Morocco and ...
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Karagozian has shadowed engineers as they drill into the dirt with behemoth tunnel boring machines and reinforce fragile tunnels with concrete.
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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 (MCEC).
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HS2 Ltd main works contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci JV (BBV JV) is looking to appoint suppliers for civil and ground engineering work in the West Midlands...
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Pay a visit to Carnwath Road for a look at the connection tunnel junction, drop in to King Edward Memorial Park for an update on the shaft excavation, and take a first trip to Abbey Mills, ...
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CPB Contractors, John Holland and Laing O’Rourke are on the shortlist for phase one of Melbourne’s $50-billion suburban rail loop...
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Construction of the new rail tunnels through the Alps has set a new record for the project with significant advances made on the Italian side of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) project by ...
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LTT podcast with Kopu Tutu part 1 & 2 is now available on the LTT Youtube channel and LTT Soundcloud channel...
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In continuation to the tender for the Contract DC-07 of Phase-4, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited has now invited online open e-tenders for the “Contract DC-09: Design and ...
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Teams have begun preparing the tunnel boring machine (TBM) launch shaft site for major construction work, bringing the Scarborough Subway Extension another step toward reality...
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Final checks are now underway before the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) starts cutting into Auckland soil, excavating the first of the two rail tunnels that will completely change the way ...
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The first of two #Crossover XRE TBMs at India's Mumbai Metro made its final breakthrough in late April 2021. Check out this great #breakthrough video shot by our team!
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Design and Construction of Underground UP & Down Tunnels by Shield TBM from end of Cut & Cover tunnel near Sangam Vihar metro Station up to ...
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Stockholm Region and Implenia have signed a contract for construction of the new 'Sofia' metro station and associated tunnels in Stockholm | The order is worth SEK 1 billion (approximately ...
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Fornebubanen and Implenia Norway have today signed the contract on the Lysaker – Fornebu tunnel line, a contract with an estimated value of NOK 1.2 billion.,,
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Contractors bidding for work on the UK’s biggest roads job must embrace modularisation and demonstrate ways to save time and cost on the Lower Thames Crossing project...
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The Blue Mountains could become home to Australia’s longest road tunnel, as part of an “ambitious” proposal for the Great Western Highway upgrade...
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A two-hour Apprenticeship seminar covering apprenticeships in great detail and specifically apprenticeships in Construction. We will also cover the different career paths that can be taken ...
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Chris has been underground since 2018, diligently digging, starting at RFK Stadium and slowly moving northwest. Now, Chris’s work is complete — a 5-mile long, 23-ft. wide tunnel ...
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J Kumar Infraprojects on Wednesday received their two tunnel boring machines in Palanpur neighborhood for constructing Surat Metro Phase 1’s 3.56 km underground Package CS3 between Surat ...
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Construction alone is expected to cost $3 billion or more. ... on the so-called "higher speed" Crest Canyon tunnel and the Camino Del Mar alignment.
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A new tunnel is being proposed as part of the US&1.93 billion (A$2.5 billion) Great Western Highway duplication project. The link is intended to improve ...
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Construction crews begin to assemble a massive Tunnel Boring Machine, which will weigh more than 500 tonnes and be almost 65 metres long...
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Engineers, local councillors and politicians in both houses have raised concerns that HS2 Ltd and its contractors have failed to fully assess how to best build a 4.2km stretch of the ...
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The Lower Olentangy Tunnel (LOT) project aims to improve water quality and reduce the risk of exposure of humans to waterborne pollutants by ...
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The project aims to build 18 miles of such tunnels, capturing sewage overflow that would otherwise flow into the Anacostia, the Potomac, and Rock ...
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Two tunnel boring machines (TBM) had started the excavation at the beginning of April and reached the other side of the river completing 240-metre- ...
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The S$980m (£532m) contract covers the design and construction of Pasir Ris interchange station and the associated tunnels. Work also includes ...
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Meanwhile, the 254km Autopista al Mar 2 project is worth $492.2 million and requires the construction of 62 bridges and 12 tunnel stretches. This work is ...
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The £6bn Lower Thames Crossing project comprises two bored tunnels beneath the River Thames with interconnecting link roads to the M25, A13 ...
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Because nandito na at kinukumpina na, the actual construction of Metro Manila subway will actually start to commence before the end of the year," ...
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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine Surya-2 operated by Larsen & Toubro – Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company JV arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus on Mumbai Metro’s 33.5 km ...
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On April 21, The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) named Donnie - "holed through," successfully completing the first half of tunnel excavation...
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The Karnaphuli River Tunnel in the port of Chittagong is a proposed 3.4 km-long, 11 m diameter twin tunnel under the river...
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Our two Tunnel Boring Machines – Else and Merle – have now been launched.
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