Madrid's Second Railway Connection to Open in June 2006The new railway connection for suburban lines C-3 and C-4 between Atocha and Chamartin railway stations in Madrid is mainly a 7,425 m tunnel, ...
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Robbins TBM Breaks Through Nancy Creek Tunnel - us/60A Robbins TBM has broken through on 27th September to a construction shaft, thus connecting the two sections of the 13 km Nancy Creek sewer ...
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MHI-Duro Felguera Receives Order for World Biggest TBM - es/104FCC and ACS Dragados have placed a EUR40 million order with MHI-Duro Felguera for the supply of possibly the world's biggest EPB ...
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World's Fifth Longest Road Tunnel Breaks Through in Taiwan - tw/14Taiwan on 16th September, 2004 celebrated the final breakthrough, the eighth of its kind since 2000, of what is the world's 5th ...
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British Tunnel Projects Face Long Road AheadThree major British tunnel projects have been slowed by extensive environmental requirements and funding issues.A public inquiry into the GBP150 million ...
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Portland's West Side Big Pipe North Drive is CompletedA Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM named Lewis (machine S-232) has broken through on 31st August into Confluent shaft on Swan Island after a 4-month ...
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Dublin Port Tunnel Breaks ThroughThe Herrenknecht EPB TBM excavating the second tube of the Dublin Port tunnel broke through into the reception pit at Whitehall on the 18th August, 2004. The event ...
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Tunnel Collapse Kills 29 in IndiaTwenty-nine labourers have been killed on 2nd August after a tunnel shaft collapsed in the Himalayas as part of the works for the Tehri hydro project in the northern ...
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New Personnel Vehicle from NormetThe new RBO is a pioneering vehicle designed and built from Normet's experience over 40 years of underground mobile equipment production. Extreme conditions call for ...
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Lovat TBM Breaks Through Upper Reach Tunnel of NEIS - us/29The Traylor / J. F. Shea / Frontier Kemper / Kenny joint venture broke through on 16th July the 3.3 km Upper Reach tunnel of the North East ...
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Atlas Copco to Acquire Baker Hughes Mining ToolsAtlas Copco North America Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Baker Hughes Mining Tools, a division of Hughes Christensen, a division of Baker ...
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Hook Fiber Goes GlobalFrom its manufacturing base in Seoul, Korea, Hookfiber International Corporation (HIC) is bringing more competition into the steel fibre concrete and shotcrete reinforcement ...
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Robbins Breakthroughs in SydneyTwo breakthroughs in two days, on July 27th and 29th, made for an eventful week on the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line project in Sydney, Australia. Thiess-Hochtief ...
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Wirth-NFM Group To Build TBM for Pajares Tunnel in Spain - es/55The FCC / Necso JV has placed an order with the Wirth-NFM Technologies Group for one TBM to be used to drive one of the two parallel ...
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Wirth TBM Breaks Through Sabugal-Meimoa Water TunnelA Wirth hard rock TBM broke though a tunnel on 23rd June for the Rural Development and Irrigation Institute under the Portuguese Ministry of ...
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MHI Receives Order for Two TBMs from China - cn/28Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has received an order to supply two earth pressure balance shield tunnelling machines to China Construction First Group ...
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China and Argentina to Build Tunnel to Link Atlantic and Pacific - ar/20 & cl/24China and Argentina signed on 29th June an agreement in principle for building a 13.9 km tunnel across the Andes ...
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Wirth / NFM Technologies Group Creates Subsidiary in SpainThe Wirth / NFM Technologies Group has created NFM-Wirth Service S.A., a subsidiary located in Madrid. The new company has been operational ...
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Railway Concessionaire Orders Perthus TBM with Option for Second Machine - fr/16 & es/21Herrenknecht has received an order from TP Ferro, the concession company set up by ACS-Dragados of Spain ...
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Germany and Denmark Sign Declaration on Fixed Baltic LinkThe German and Danish transport ministers, Manfred Stolpe and Flemming Hansen, signed on 23rd June a declaration to pursue a fixed road and ...
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Caterpillar to Hold Live Demo of Tunnelling ExcavatorAfter the high-level attention the 325CR tunnelling excavator got at the Bauma fair in Munich, Cat will run a live tunnelling construction ...
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Nusantara Tunnel Project in Indonesia Needs ExpertsPT Nusantara Tunnel Indonesia is currently preparing to construct a 33 km subsea twin tunnel crossing the Sunda Strait in Indonesia. The tunnel ...
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Gjerstad for toughness, durability, and a long working lifeMost people in the tunnelling industry associate the name Gjerstad with side-tipping buckets, an item that they have produced for nearly 40 ...
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At the Heart of the LötschbergTwenty minutes are necessary to cover the 7 km southward between the Mitholz entrance of the Lötschberg base tunnel and the worksite to Ferden. Consortium Satco, a JV ...
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Squeezing Ground Obliges to Innovate at Gotthard Base TunnelThe 800 m Sedrun shaft enables to descend to the heart of the Gotthard base tunnel in 67 seconds, at a speed of 12 m/sec. The elevator has ...
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Harvey Parker - ITA President with a MissionDr Harvey W. Parker, PE, a tunnel and geotechnical engineer in private practice, has been elected to a three-year term as President of the International ...
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Spain Inaugurates First Phase of Test and R&D TunnelVicente Alvarez Areces, the president of Asturias in northern Spain, inaugurated on 25th May a EUR1.3 million high temperature fan test ...
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The majority of workers will return to Auckland’s huge City Rail Link tunnelling scheme this week as the New Zealand city finally moves out of full lockdown – but project chiefs have ...
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Procurement has begun on the second major contract for the Scarborough Subway Extension project with the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and ...
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Take a tour inside a HS2 tunnel boring machine (TBM) with one of our tunnelling engineers. Walk the length of this 170m long underground 'factory' and discover how it excavates the 10 mile ...
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The most boring job in Britain! As wide as a house and 500ft long, two monster HS2 drills are chewing their way through the Chilterns. ROBERT HARDMAN hopped on board for an express ride... ...
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A dozen contracts with a value of more than £500M have been revealed as part of the government’s updated National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline...
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Construction of the longest tunnel in Georgia, 9-km long and 15-m in width Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel, has started today, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure...
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The project comprises approximately 2.5 miles of 78-in. welded steel pipeline, and is being constructed by Frontier-Kemper. In addition to the 11,755 ft main line tunnel, Frontier-Kemper’s ...
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The Not-a-Boring Competition happened on September 12th, 2021. We will be sharing updates on all our social media channels. Please make sure to follow us there. We would like to thank our ...
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The project, meant to improve travel between Bergen and the island of Sotra on the west coast, includes a 900m-long suspension bridge and 12.5km of tunnels...
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The project's contractor – the Riverlinx consortium – has revealed that it is getting ready to welcome the TBM to site “so we can reassemble it here ...
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In a recent drone video, Prufrock-2, The Boring Company's newest tunnel boring machine (TBM), was spotted at the tunneling startup's Bastrop, TX location...
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Herrenknecht crews working on the lower half of the tunnel boring machine forward shield. While Metrolinx continues work in Ontario to prepare the launch shaft ...
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Five companies have shown interest in the construction of the much-awaited Jalori tunnel on the Aut-Luhri National Highway connecting Banjar and Anni in ...
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Work on this major Flooding Project commenced within the grounds of Musgrave Park in April 2021. BSG Civil Engineering Ltd. has been appointed as the main contractor for this phase, with ...
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NHSRCL plans to get 3 TBMs for the tunnelling process. Each of the TBMs will progress at a speed of 200-300m per month.The reason for using both techniques ...
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The water tunnel project holds an estimated contract value of $353.9m (AED1.3bn). This project is considered the first of its kind in the region to drain ...
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The two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that were launched earlier this year to dig the parallel northbound and southbound tunnels have now passed under the ...
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As public demands for sustainable infrastructure grows, urban leaders are taking a closer look at the economic, environmental and social benefits of underground tunnels...
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At Kramertunnel is going on a full jobsite installation process. KERN Tunneltechnik is supplying several tunnel formworks and machines for secondary lining. The project is being delivered ...
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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) jointly with NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Final Section ...
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Major construction of the Southern Tunnels is expected to begin in late 2023, ... from where two tunnel-boring machines will launch to excavate the twin ...
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Leighton Asia’s Tseung Kwan O – Lam Tin tunnel project team in Hong Kong safely broke through the mined tunnel under the busy Lei Yue Mun Road.
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Construction is scheduled to start in February 2023 but has not yet been tendered. The 5.3km tunnel will include a 64m section under the Panama Canal.
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President John Stiver spent the day in Dallas visiting the ongoing Mill Creek Tunnel Project. Thank you to the Southland Contracting Team for giving Stiver Engineering the opportunity to ...
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Tideway’s ambitious programme of public artwork is the subject of a new documentary film set to premiere as part of the Totally Thames Festival next month. Check out the trailer below, and ...
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Keltbray, a leading UK specialist engineering business, today announces it has secured the contract to provide construction services for the first two ventilation shafts and head houses on ...
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URUMQI, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Giant tunnel boring machines on Monday have passed through the most difficult and dangerous part of the Tianshan Shengli tunnel ...
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The undersea tunnel will be constructed by hollowing out bedrock on the seabed near the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima plant...
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HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson MP visited Crewe today and confirmed that new research has found that the construction of HS2 is expected to support over 4,000 more jobs than previously ...
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Thames Tideway’s tunnel boring machine (TBM) Selina, which is constructing the final 5.5km stretch of the £4.1bn “super sewer”, recently passed beneath Brunel’s Thames Tunnel near Wapping ...
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California water tunnel TBM finishes second drive
11 AUGUST, 2021 BY AILBHE GOODBODY
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Salus has completed its second tunnelling ...
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