Ganzstein closes Semmering gapCompletion of the second 2.1 km-long tube at Ganzstein on the S6 Semmering Expressway will provide the final link on the motorway route between Lower Austria and ...
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Happy New Year for 2009!When we look back on 2008, we can be thankful that we work in the tunnelling industry, possibly the only part of the construction sector that is still largely intact. The ...
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Mont Sion tunnel opens to trafficThe north stretch of the A41 highway between Villy-le-Pelloux/Saint-Martin-Bellevue and Saint-Julien-en-Genevois in the Upper Savoy region of the French Alps, ...
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VMT consolidates success in ChinaHaving operated in China since 2006 as a service company supporting its TBM guidance systems, VMT has now achieved the official status of a Trading Company. So, ...
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California high speed rail programme managementThe proposed USD40 billion (US$1 = EUR0.72), 1,290 km-long California high speed rail system will serve San Franciso, Los Angeles and San Diego, with ...
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Recession lessons (5)"Just because we have a US$15 billion (US$1 = EUR0.72) budget deficit does not mean we should not have a high speed rail system. California should show leadership, and show the ...
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Halfway to PingluAlpine Bau, a subsidiary of Spanish construction giant FCC, has reported that its Robbins hard rock double shield TBM excavating a EUR47 million section of the north main line of ...
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Palazzoli seeks commercial partner for NorwayPalazzoli, a leading European industrial electrical equipment manufacturer with increasing activity in road and railway tunnels, is seeking a ...
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Engineering firms wantedArup, a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants is looking to source small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and black and minority ethnic ...
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Oraki diversion going well for LovatContractor McConnel-Dowell has reported good progress on the 2.9 km-long Oraki Main Sewer Hobson Diversion project in Auckland, New Zealand where its Lovat TBM ...
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Recession lessons (4)"I am particularly proud to announce the adoption by the European Commission today of these 11 funding decisions totalling EUR1.7 billion. They will greatly contribute to making ...
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Underground Construction 2010 PragueConference Transport and City Tunnels co-organized by Slovak Tunnelling Association and Czech Tunnelling Association scheduled to take place from 14.06.2010 to ...
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New tunnel scaling rig from Atlas CopcoAtlas Copco has launched a new version of its popular Scaletec scaling rig giving operators a stronger and faster scaling tool for use in tunnels. Click here ...
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Breakthrough in King County Brightwater Conveyance System
The Kenny, Shea, and Traylor Joint Venture has announced that "Luminita" their LOVAT RME229SE Series 22900 TBM has broken ...
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Three Robbins EPBMs to Improve Mexico City DrainageMexico City, founded on what was once an island in the middle of a lake, is sinking at the rate of 10 cm (4 in) per year. Over the last 30 years, ...
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Breakthrough in King County Brightwater Conveyance SystemThe Kenny, Shea, and Traylor Joint Venture has announced that "Luminita" their LOVAT RME229SE Series 22900 TBM has broken through and ...
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Banverket plans freezing at HallandsasThe TBM advancing the east tube of the Hallandsas tunnel in southwest Sweden will enter the unstable Molle Back zone towards the end of 2009, some 1 km ahead of ...
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Daily bids and awards at tunnelbuilder.com!After ten years providing weekly updates for our global readership, tunnelbuilder.com has now gone daily. This allows us to publish bids and awards much ...
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Your essential daily reportsEvery daily report published at tunnelbuilder.com is numbered, dated and archived so that you can research the history of a project, region or country. We add all of the ...
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Sandvik jumbos for La Confluencia hydro in ChileMain contractor Hochtief-Tecsa JV is using six Sandvik DT 720C underground drilling rigs and three Sandvik DC300 surface rigs at the La ...
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Hangzhou metro tunnel collapse kills fiveOn Saturday, 15th November, a wide section of road over the alignment of the 48 km-long No. 1 line of Hangzhou metro construction on Fengqing Avenue in ...
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Recession lessons (3)"Economic growth in China and India has contributed to lowering the impact of the financial crisis and will help recovery. The difficult trade-off is between managing inflation ...
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Robbins holes out at Race CourseAfter five months of tunnelling, a 6.52 m-diameter Robbins EPBM working for Continental Engineering Corporation (CEC) and Soma JV has completed the first 1 km ...
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Recession lessons (2)"To create jobs and help the economy we will bring forward major infrastructure projects like London Crossrail."Rt Hon Gordon Brown, PM, Westminster, 12.11.2008. 46/08.
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Short course on rock mechanics, stability and design of tunnels and slopesProfessor Dr-Ing W Wittke will lead this fifth 4-day course for 30 participants at WBI head office in Aachen, Germany from ...
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Robbins opens new Asia Pacific officeThe Robbins Company of Solon, Ohio has set up a Robbins Asia Pacific Pty Ltd office in Hong Kong to service East Asia, Middle East and Australia. The ...
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Piqueras tunnel finally opens to trafficAfter three years of delays due to unforeseen circumstances related to poor ground conditions, and the redesign of the route for environmental reasons, ...
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tunnelbuilder.com - your daily news!Our new server and specially developed software now makes daily updating of tunnelbuilder.com feasible, allowing us to shave even more time off our publishing ...
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ANBEL offers personalized tunnelling solutionsFor more than 40 years Italian company ANBEL has represented leading machinery and tunnel equipment manufacturers, offering personalized solutions to ...
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New energy carriers workshopL-surF Services, a grouping of Ineris, SP, STUVA and VSH is running a workshop "New energy carriers in tunnels and underground installations" in Frankfurt, Germany on ...
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Recession lessons"Those companies that invest in their brands during a recession do better than those who don't.""Parts of the western world will show flat or declining GNP growth in 2009, but this ...
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Sokkia and Geodata team upJapanese manufacturer Sokkia and Austrian company Geodata have joined forces to offer high performance solutions to all geodetic tasks in the field of tunnelling, ...
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Sandvik iSURE Drilling Software Revolutionises Professional TunnellingOnly seamless interaction of drilled pattern, charged explosives and detonator delays can provide optimum excavation results in ...
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Sandvik Launches New DTi Series Tunnelling JumbosAt an official launch event on 8th-10th October in Helsinki and Tampere, Finland, Sandvik Mining and Construction has taken tunnelling performance to ...
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First International Congress on Railroad Crossing through the Central PyreneesThe Spanish society of civil engineers and the trans-Pyrenean foundation organise in Saragossa, Spain the first congress ...
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Workshop "New Energy Carriers in Tunnels and Underground Installations"L-surF Services, the grouping of INERIS, SP, STUVA and VSH, organises on 20th November, 2008 at the InterCity Hotel in ...
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