Four Road Headers Now Work on Cross City Tunnel in SydneyFour roadheaders are now tunnelling underneath Sydney to build the Cross City Tunnel (CCT). Since the first machine started work on 19th May, ...
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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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Putzmeister - speed and precision in shotcrete placementFor many years the Putzmeister Wetkret 103 has been the standard wet shotcrete jumbo for tunnels, having made its reputation on durability, ...
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Robbins Receives Order for Three Machines for Kárahnjúkar Hydro ProjectUS TBM manufacturer, The Robbins Company, has received an order for three hard rock TBMs from Italian contractor Impregilo ...
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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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Hsuehshan Tunnel Section Breaks ThroughTaiwan's Premier Yu Shyi-kun presided over on 31st May, 2003 the breakthrough ceremony of the 5.7 km western section of the maintenance and emergency gallery ...
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Normet Celebrates Launching of Spraymec 7110 WPC at IntermatIntermat 2003 exhibition held in Paris 13th to 17th May, 2003 has been the occasion for Normet to launch its novelty - Spraymec 7110 WPC ...
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Atlas Copco Displays Impressive Product Line at IntermatAtlas Copco has been at the forefront at the big Intermat show held in Paris 13th to 17th May, 2003. Among the highlights from the Atlas Copco ...
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Extensive Geological Campaign Under Way for Stuttgart 21Stuttgart 21 is one of Deutsche Bahn's largest projects consisting mainly of a comprehensive redesign of Stuttgart's dead-end central station, ...
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Mott MacDonald sponsors tunnelintelligence.comMott MacDonald is taking up a foundation sponsorship of tunnelintelligence.com, the industry's favourite bids and awards website from tunnelbuilder. ...
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EuroTest Survey Assesses Safety in 25 European Road TunnelsThe survey "Safety in Road Tunnels 2003" carried out by several European motoring associations for the European ADAC motoring consortium ...
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Atlas Copco at Intermat 2003Visitors to this year's Intermat exhibition which will be held in Paris 13th to 17th May will be greeted by an array of equipment from the Swedish manufacturer Atlas ...
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Meet IPS at AmsterdamIPS, the supplier of specialist personnel to tunnelling projects, has improved its website so that vacancies and available personnel can now be searched by department. This ...
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Madrid Metrosur Commissioned on Schedule - es/24Madrid, Friday 11th April, 2003 Metrosur was officially opened today, completing the Madrid Metro 1999-2003 extension programme in just 40 months. ...
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Northbound Tunnel Opening for Boston's Big DigThe 2.4 km northbound tunnel on Interstate 93 opened to motorists on 30th March. The tunnel runs under Atlantic Avenue starting near South Station. The ...
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On December 22, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a loan agreement with the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in Kathmandu, the capital city, to provide a ...
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A micro–Tunnel Boring Machine (mTBM) called ‘Domenica’ has started digging and laying the first pipe for Watercare’s Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel project...
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The main cooling water supply for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station will be fed from four intake head’s which will be located on the seabed of the Bristol Channel...
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HS2 has launched a national vote to name the project’s third Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) which is set to create a one-mile twin bore tunnel under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire...
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The small formwork designed and manufactured for BV Brandberg completed the lining for the first rescue tunnel...
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Webuild Group has won the €1.07-billion contract for which it had been declared best bidder to design and build a section of a high-capacity railway extending from the Brenner Base Tunnel ...
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Development of new water source in order to meet the increasing water demand by constructing a dam for MWSS service area’s domestic water supply...
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UK: The Align JV of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick has started to excavate HS2’s 16 km Chiltern tunnel using semi-continuous...
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World Tunnel Congress 2022 has reached another key milestone – we now have 100 confirmed exhibitors...
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The Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) Project is part of the Anacostia River Tunnel System in Washington, D.C. ...
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The construction work on the double-tube four-lane tunnel between Qazigund and Banihal along the Srinagar-Jammu highway is in ...
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Work sites could then be established to enable the construction of the tunnels and the other buildings. On completion of the project, the islands could ...
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The first-of-its-kind tunnel loop project will open on June 8, simultaneously with a concrete industry convention that marks the first in-person convention ...
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ITAym steering board is calling for nominations for at least one open position in the ITAym steering board...
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The Cargo sous terrain (CST) project sounds like science fiction: a 500-kilometre network of tunnels to transport freight between Switzerland’s busiest cities...
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The tender for the construction of the French side of the Lyon-Turin base tunnel, with a value of approximately €2.3 billion, is nearing its final stage.
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The planned $11.6-billion project to reconstruct a pair of tunnels and add a new one under the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey has finally reached...
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"We have 2 of the 25 tunnel boring machines in the country and we are programming to launch the first TBM from Valenzuela towards Quirino Highway," ...
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Learn more about the Broadway Subway Project at broadwaysubway.ca...
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After four years of stalling by the Trump administration, officials in Washington approved the $11.6 billion project for federal funding...
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A Wales to Ireland tunnel could prove to be a "more attractive" prospect than the previously suggested Scotland to Northern Ireland link, according to tunnelling expert Bill Grose...
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You may recall our great tunnelling expedition last week... well a monster new wasterwater pipeline project in Auckland has us once again plunging the depths...
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Our team has begun building a new tunnel portal that will take motorists to the future Western Harbour Tunnel...
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The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has launched the tender for the construction of the Polihali Transfer Tunnel...
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Prior “pre-construction” work to date has consisted of final design, advanced utility relocation and Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) assembly and ...
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The NSW government will push ahead with a $2.5 billion motorway tunnel between Kogarah and Arncliffe but doubt remains over a future extension south towards the Sutherland shire...
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HS2’s construction partner for West Midlands and Warwickshire, Balfour Beatty VINCI, is offering young people who are out of work the opportunity to kickstart their career on Europe’s ...
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Did you catch our major milestone on the news? - TBM Else has already crossed the Brisbane River and is well on her way to Albert Street! Meanwhile, TBM Merle has arrived at the tunnel's ...
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Four huge tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have finished 20 months of ... While the TBMs have finished the rail tunnels between the project's five ...
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Kargil, May 23 (PTI) Construction work of the over 14-km-long Zojila tunnel along the Srinagar-Leh National Highway is going on smoothly and every ...
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Just days after the historic launch of its first giant tunnelling machine ‘Florence’, HS2’s construction partner Align JV has announced today that it is recruiting nine new apprentices ...
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Virtual Factory Acceptance Ceremony of TBM Variable Density® "Mary" - Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel...
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A “friendly giant” 10ft Tunnel Boring Machine has arrived in Belfast, for use on a major £8million Flood Alleviation Project...
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National Grid is due to start tunnelling for its £1 billion flagship project to rewire South London...
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has told Mayor of Miami city in the US that his Boring Company could dig a 3.2 km tunnel for just $30 million...
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It was great to have TVNZ's Seven Sharp visit us today to go underground to see the amazing construction of the new CRL Karangahape train station.
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Two parallel 5.7-kilometer tunnel excavations will soon start in Vancouver, B.C., as part of the Millennium Line subway extension that includes six new stations...
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A new online tool has been launched on Cross River Rail’s website so the public can follow the project’s mega tunnel boring machines in real time as they dig our twin tunnels beneath ...
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The Lake Washington Ship Canal is a navigable channel that connects Lake Washington to the Puget Sound. Each year it receives over 75 million gallons (283.9 ML) of polluted stormwater...
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