Orica Buys MinovaExplosives, paint and chemicals firm Orica from Australia said it had signed an agreement to acquire UK-based chemical products maker Minova for a purchase price of AUD857 million ...
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Robbins TBM Will Challenge New Heights in the AndesAssembly of a Robbins 5 m-diameter main beam TBM was completed in September 2006 for the Olmos trans-Andean project in Peru. Odebrecht ...
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Atlas Copco Launches an Improved 10t Underground Loader - the Scooptram® ST1030An improved electrical system, an EPA Tier 3 diesel engine and a new instrument panel represent the major ...
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Mont Sion Tunnel to Start Imminently in French AlpsThe A41 north stretch is the missing link on the A41 between Villy-le-Pelloux / Saint-Martin-Bellevue and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in the ...
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Conference and Training Course on Safety in TunnelsItaly today holds the world's main records regarding underground structures. Recently, risks have been increasing due to ageing tunnels while road ...
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Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Acquires Construction & Tunneling ServicesWith the common goal to provide optimal and thorough services to contractors and tunnelling projects in the North ...
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Internet Advertising Overtakes MagazinesGuy Phillipson, CEO of the Internet Advertising Bureau www.iabuk.net has reported that spending on online advertising in the first half of 2006 has ...
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8th International Conference on Tunnel Construction and Underground StructuresThe Slovenian Society for Underground and Geotechnical Constructions, the University of Ljubljana with the Faculty ...
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China International Symposium and Exhibition on High Speed Railway TunnelsAccording to statistics, 7,504 railway tunnels - with a total length of 4,305 km - were already in operation in China ...
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Madrid Completes All New Tunnels for its Metro ExpansionAll tunnelling required as part of the 2003-2007 expansion plan of the Madrid metro ended on 27th September, 2006 on Line 7 to east of ...
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Long Rock Bores Are a Good Match for Robbins MSBURobbins announces its newest trenchless product, the Motorized Small Boring Unit (MSBU). The Robbins MSBU is a technically advanced type of ...
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Tunnels for Safer Roads in Mountainous South TyrolThe Bolzano province in South Tyrol, Northern Italy has adopted an active policy to guarantee a safer road access to famous valleys like Val ...
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Upgrading the Orte-Falconara Rail LineThe Orte-Falconara line is one of the few transversal lines on the Italian rail network. It actually crosses the central Apennines from the Marche region ...
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Iceland TBMs Make a Strong Finish and Tie a World RecordThe Kárahnjúkar hydroelectric project includes approx. 72 km of tunnels that will transfer water to a powerhouse in the Fljótsdalur ...
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First Breakthrough on Andora-San Lorenzo al Mare Section on Genoa-Ventimiglia Line DuallingOn 24th September, 2006 in San Bartolomeo al mare, next to Cervo torrent valley, tunnelling ended at ...
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4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium in SingaporeThe 4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium is organised by the Singapore National Group of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) and the ...
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TIMBY, New Construction Process for Immersed TunnelsTIMBY, which stands for Tunnel IMmersed BY Bouygues, is a new process for construction of immersed tunnels. It is based on a machine ...
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Tunnelling Well Advanced on Tizi Ouzou-Algiers Potable Water SchemeTizi Ouzou is situated at a pass that culminates at 270 metres ("tizi" means pass and "ouzou" means broom in Kabylian) but it is ...
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Herrenknecht TBM Completes Metronorte Line in MadridA TBM dubbed 'Chotis' finished the Metronorte tunnel as it holed through into Marques de la Valdavia station in Alcobendas at 12:18 p.m. on 18th ...
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First Sections Get Under Way on Ionian Coast Road SS 106 The SS 106 Ionian road is approximately 490 km long, of which 415 km in Calabria (85%), 37 km in Basilicata and 38 km in Puglia. It ...
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Zillastro Tunnel on Ionian Tyrrhenian Cross-Country Road Also Called Bagnara-BovalinoThe Zillastro tunnel is the major structure on the Ionian Tyrrhenian cross-country road, called Bagnara-Bovalino, ...
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Robbins TBM Digs Sewer Outfall in Northwest SpainThe project to clean up the Ferrol estuary represents an investment of EUR112 million, financed by the North of Spain water agency (85%) and ...
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IPS Tunnel Division Wins Malmö City Tunnel Contract to Supply PersonnelIPS is proud to announce that they have been awarded a contract to supply TBM specialists to the Malmö City tunnel joint ...
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First Breakthrough at Gotthard Base TunnelConstruction workers made the first breakthrough at the Gotthard base tunnel on 6th September, 2006 in what will be the world's longest rail tunnel, ...
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Austin Builds Three Water Tunnels and Has Four More in ProjectThere are three in-use wastewater tunnels in Austin: Crosstown (1973), Onion (1978) and Govalle (1988). Crosstown delivers ...
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Lovat Receives Order for TBM for Croydon Cable Tunnel in the UKMorgan Est has contracted with Lovat for the purposes of design and manufacture of a 3.6 m-diameter EPB TBM for the Croydon cable ...
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Marti Technik to Supply Conveyor Belt for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong KongSwitzerland's Marti Technik has been contracted by Dragages Hong Kong to supply a conveyor belt for the Castle ...
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SELI TBM Breaks Through Dai Ninh Headrace Tunnel in VietnamAfter 20 months of work on the headrace tunnel of the Dai Ninh hydropower project, Cavico Corporation announced that the tunnel has ...
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NFM Technologies Pockets Major Contract for Six TBMs in ChinaNFM Technologies, affiliated to Wirth, has won an order for the supply of six slurry Benton'air® type TBMs to China. The contract is ...
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BASF Acquires Degussa Construction Chemicals to Create New Innovative PotentialsBASF acquired the global construction chemicals business of Degussa, with effect from 30th June, 2006 and ...
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Launch Ceremony of World's Largest Hard Rock TBM at Niagara Falls in OntarioA ceremony was held on 8th August, 2006 to celebrate the official start up of the largest hard rock TBM in existence ...
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NYC Completes Excavation of Third Water TunnelMayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg turned off on 9th August, 2006 a tunnel boring machine and announced that the excavation of Stage 2, or ...
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Atlas Copco Secoroc Dresses in Yellow
As of 15th August, 2006 all Atlas Copco Secoroc rock drilling tools delivered will be dressed in yellow. This is yet another step in strengthening ...
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Robbins TBM Starts Pinglu Tunnel in ChinaA launch ceremony of a Robbins TBM was held on 12th July, 2006 in Souzhou in China's Shanxi province to celebrate the start of the 25.15 km-long Pinglu ...
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Herrenknecht to Supply TBM for Castle Peak Cable Tunnel in Hong KongThe Castle Peak cable tunnel project was awarded by CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd to Dragages Hong Kong Ltd on 30th November, 2005. ...
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Fire Fighting Systems For Tunnel Boring MachinesHall and Kay Fire Engineering Ltd have recently been awarded a major contract by Herrenknecht for fire fighting systems on a 180 m-long machine to be ...
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The 28.3km Taormina-Giampilieri section is also mostly in tunnels. Webuild will use three tunnel boring machines to excavate 25.2 kilometres of ...
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The second tunnel boring machine was recently launched on the scheme to extend the Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit (LRT) line in Ontario, ...
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An in depth study found that a new tunnel stretching from Bald Hills to Kedron could be up to six lanes wide and would connect with the airport ...
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The restoration of the Boston Summer Tunnel, which carries traffic ... The construction equipment J.W. White is using on the project includes a ...
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The US$206.7M (£170M) Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel project will provide ... The bored construction work was completed on the tunnel when the ...
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Gulermak - Sam India Builtwell commissioned tunnel boring machine S92 on Monday (8 August) at Bada Chauraha Station for the first 3.619 km ...
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According to media reports, the cost of construction has risen from €41.5 million to €102 million, mainly due to unexpected geological conditions...
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Boring machines will cut through the earth and rock and spoil will be removed from behind the tunnelling machine and will be extracted in ...
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Construction of a new tunnel that will supply northern Hamburg, Germany, with heat from industrial waste started on August 4...
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The two tunnels will pass under Avenue de Verdun to connect the new Line 15 South ... joint venture CAP group, which is led by Vinci Construction...
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The next phase will start with construction of the tunnel's concrete liner. Once complete, the Mill Creek Tunnel will include 2 miles of 35-ft-dia ...
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Larsen & Toubro, an India-based infrastructure development company, has announced that their Slurry Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has achieved a ...
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Chennai Metro to use 23 re fabricated Tunnel Boring Machines for its Phase 2 Project · RINA to prepare DPR for 37-km Sarjapur Road-Hebbal Metro ...
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Redesigning the tunnel to lower the carbon impact during construction – through reduced material and water use, a reduction in vehicle movements, ...
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A new 380-ton tunnel boring machine (TBM) measuring 14 feet 8 inches tall has arrived at a wastewater project in Alexandria, Virginia.
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The MERET Pro Series Bags have been designed to help Emergency Rescue Teams do their jobs and save lives. Utilising the strongest materials and adopting smart design techniques with ...
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The huge Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) completed its one-mile dig under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire. It started its journey at the tunnel's ...
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Yinjiangbuhan tunnel, connecting to a 1400km open canal, ... said the total length of tunnels and canals under construction or planned for water ...
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Second tunnel boring machine launched for Stroud sewerage upgrade. Two tunnelling machines are now digging away on Severn Trent's £25M project…
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Our tunnel boring machine (TBM) is making great progress and today broke through at Karanga a Hape Station...
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The REM's tunnel boring machine has completed a 2.5-kilometre link from the Technoparc in St-Laurent to the underground area where the REM station ...
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... along with two 16.5km tunnels using two 10m-high tunnel-boring machines (TBMs). The contract also includes lining the tunnel walls and the ...
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Dorothy, BBV's first giant tunnel boring machine (TBM), launched from Long Itchington Wood, Warwickshire in December. She will complete her first ...
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The latest TBM is enabled with technologies that adapt to small curves, reversing and passing intersections in hard rock tunnels. Previously, TBMs ...
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Gov. Phil Murphy and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a first agreement delineating how the two states will fund the local share Gateway project to build a rail tunnel under the Hudson ...
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Construction of the Morocco-Spain tunnel is expected to commence in 2030. This is according to the Spanish research firm (SECEGSA).
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A tunnel boring machine (TBM) also known as a “mole“, is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross section through a variety of soil ..
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Did you know the word ‘solstice’, is derived from the Latin word solstitium, meaning the time when the sun seemingly appears to stop moving at the minute the summer season arrives...
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The PSVT consortium was chosen for the Shipka Peak Tunnel project as part of the Gabrovo City bypass near Yantra ... Search for construction leads ...
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Dutch construction company Royal Bam Group has agreed to sell its German infrastructure business Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau to Zech Building...
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The Federal and New South Wales Governments have awarded the design and construction contract for the $2.2 billion Coffs Harbour Bypass.
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The first of the seven tunnels on route of the new railway linking the port town of Koper with the Divača railway junction was broken through on Monday with officials telling the ceremony ...
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The Boring Company has just received approval from the City of Las Vegas, so that the Elon Musk-led company can extend its tunnel network ...
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Tunnelling now due to start from Valenzuela City. Photo Credit: Philippines Department of Transportation. THE first tunnel boring machine (TBM) to be ...
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The decision has now been made to start construction for Tvärförbindelse Södertörn, which will primarily relieve the current road 259 and Södra Länken. Together with Norrortsleden and ...
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Project director Gareth Burden lifts the lid on National Grid’s efforts to rewire London for the next 120 years by burying a 32.5km network asset beneath the capital...
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South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction had bagged the tunnel contract as part of a $2.7 billion deal with the Iraqi government General Company for Ports of Iraq (GCPI), which also ...
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hyperTunnel has received a financial investment from VINCI, a global leader in concessions, energy and construction businesses. The funds will be used for business expansion and to further ...
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