Press release - At present, the construction of the tunnels of the China-Laos Railway has entered the dry season. There are continuous reports of tunnel breakthroughs. The companies involved in the ...
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The Early Bird Registration for WTC 2020 is extended until 31st January 2020. The ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2020 and 46th General Assembly will take place in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia from ...
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The Cipe (Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning) at its meeting of 20/12/2019 approved the modification of the perimeter of the T3 section of line C of the Rome underground in order to ...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur revealed that the 8.8km Rohtang Tunnel, renamed Atal Tunnel, will be opened by the end of June 2020 and will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra ...
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Patel Engineering will utilise a TERRATEC open hard rock TBM for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai’s (MCGM) AMT-II water transfer project, in India.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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A HOCHTIEF joint venture has been awarded with a GBP 400 million contract to deliver the second phase of the London Power Tunnels (LPT2) project.
Scheduled to start in March next year, this ...
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Toronto has embarked on the largest and most significant stormwater management program in the city’s history.
Over the next 25 years, the City of Toronto’s Wet Weather Flow Master Plan ...
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On December 15th 2019 the go-ahead was given for the countdown to the opening of the 15.4 km long Ceneri base tunnel. The preview will be between December 12-13, 2020: where the first train will ...
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At the end of October 2019 Bekaert concluded the buy-out of Maccaferri's 50% share in Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions (BMUS). As a result, the Underground Solutions team will from January ...
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The first of two metro railway tunnels deep under Sydney Harbour has been completed in an historic milestone for public transport in Sydney.
At their deepest point, the tunnels are 40 metres ...
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London’s new super sewer has reached 10km as the first section of the main tunnel has been completed.
Four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are currently at work deep beneath the city to create ...
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On the 29th of November 2019 the Brenner Base tunnel reached a milestone and is now 50 % complete. So far they have tunnelled 150km of the 230km needed to finish the project. The Brenner Base Tunnel ...
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TBM Coline has now begun tunnelling for the Lyon Metro B extension. It has taken over two months to assemble this variable density TBM. The TBM type was chosen by Sytral due to the geological ...
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In 1979, a 4.56 m diameter Robbins Double Shield TBM was delivered to bore the Severomuysky Service Tunnel, a 15.3 km long railway through the remote mountains of Siberia. Now, 40 years after the ...
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The TBM Mixshield Gaia, involved in the construction of the N434 Rijnlandroute tunnel, between the A4 at Leiden and the A44 at Wassenaar has now completed 50% of its tunnelling. The two tubes, 2 ...
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The works to complete Tenerife’s motorway ring road started on the 25th November 2019. The project, which has an investment of EUR 240.4 million and has to be completed within 48 months, is a ...
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German specialist locomotive and rolling stock manufacturer Schoema will be exhibiting at STUVA 2019 in Frankfurt between November 26th -27th .
Schoema manufactures the most robust and durable ...
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LAS VEGAS – The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) today began tunnelling the future of transportation in Las Vegas as Elon Musk’s The Boring Company (TBC) began work on ...
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Since 2015, the international competition ITA Tunnelling Awards seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space use. This year the ...
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The Riachuelo environmental restoration project is the excavation of a nearly 12 km long outfall tunnel, under the River Plate in Argentina. Lot 3 of the megaproject was devised by the government to ...
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Poynting have an established history of providing circular
polarised antennas for mine tunnels internationally. The MinePoynt (HELI) range
of antennas are well established for several years ...
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The TBM that will be used for the excavation of the Central Interceptor Project has officially been ordered. The Central Interceptor is New Zealand’s largest ever wastewater tunnel, that will ...
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The Gateway Program partners continue to advance with the engineering and design of the Hudson Tunnel Project with dozens of “geotechnical borings” to be conducted along the proposed ...
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The TBM, that will excavate the2.4 km extension of the metro line B of Lyon from Saint-Genis-Laval to Oullins, has been christened Coline. The machine will drive a single tube tunnel with a 8.5 m ...
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Systemair has supplied 122 jet fans - with a 630 to 1250 mm diameter – for the Oddernes and Banehei E18 road tunnels in Norway. Due to the presence of entrance and exit ramps and to the ...
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The date of the Robbins and iPS Webinar on Rescuing & Refurbishing TBMs has been postponed until November 21st , 2019. For further information please visit ...
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TERRATEC delivers the first two of three TBMs that will be used by Gulermak-Tata Projects JV for the underground works on Line 1 of the Pune Metro, in India.
TERRATEC is pleased to announce the ...
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Melbourne Metro have reached a major milestone with tunnelling starting on the North Melbourne to Kensington section of the Tunnel Project. Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Joan was the first to break ...
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Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mum Shirl has broken through a wall of rock into the new Martin Place Station in the heart of Sydney.
Mum Shirl has excavated about 650,000 tonnes of rock – enough ...
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The Joint Venture working on the Struma motorway (Bulgaria) which consists of GP Group (48%), Global Construction (48%) and Via Plan (2%) has now started construction of the 2km Zheleznitsa tunnel ...
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Line 14 - On the 12th October 2019 during the KM7 event at the Saint-Denis Site, the name of the third TBM to be used for the line 14 construction on the Grand Paris Express was announced. The ...
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The new Fornebu Railway/Fornebu line/Fornebubanen will be an 8 km extension of the Oslo Metro. This will connect the Fornebu peninsula in Baerum to the existing Majorstuen T-rail ...
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Balfour Beatty, alongside its joint venture partners Morgan Sindall and BAM Nuttall has seen one of their two tunnelling boring machines (TBM) become the first to break through the ground to ...
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Transport for London (TfL) has unlocked the award of the GBP1bn Silvertown Tunnel contract, despite the ongoing legal action over its procurement. TfL now hopes to sign a contract with the ...
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Between the 21st and 22nd of April 2020 the 10th International Conference of Tunnel Safety and Ventilation will be held in Graz, Austria. Technical visits will be organized on April 20th, ...
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TERRATEC recently celebrated the successful completion of a 300m deep, 4.1m diameter, ventilation shaft at the Buriticá mine development project, in Colombia.
Peruvian mining contractor ...
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The tunnel-way, dubbed the “Vegas loop”, is a nearly $52.5 million ... Reporters and various Las Vegas media entities were shown the project on ...
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THE TRANSPORTATION department has started seeking bidders for the tunneling works contract connecting the South Commuter Railway Project to ...
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After construction crews spent months drilling, digging, mucking, paving, lining and electrifying tunnels, representatives of Las Vegas media were ...
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Construction of Australia’s biggest road infrastructure project has reached another major milestone, with Rozelle Interchange tunnelling passing the half way mark...
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Western Isles to mainland Scotland tunnel to be considered
07 APR, 2021 BY CATHERINE KENNEDY
A 27km tunnel linking the Western Isles and mainland ...
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Construction begins on Snøhetta's entrance for the mile-long ship tunnel which will introduce a safe passage for large vessels along the turbulent ...
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Egis has successfully signed the Contract Agreement with Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) for the design of the Dhaka Metro Line 5 South. Egis, leader of the consortium will work ...
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It is part of the Changzhou-Wuxi Highway which has a total length of 43.9 km. Construction of the underwater tunnel began in January 2018 in east ...
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The La Paz tunnel is located in the La Paz mountain range in Lebrija, a municipality in the department of Santander (Colombia). This region has a warm climate with two annual periods of ...
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“Sir Digs-A-Lot” is one of five finalists out of 1,200 community suggestions for the name of Seattle’s next big underground tunnel boring machine...
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(CNN) — Norway has got the go-ahead to construct what's being billed as the world's first ship tunnel, designed to help vessels navigate the treacherous Stadhavet Sea...
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Cross River Rail will have 5.9 kilometres of twin tunnels running deep under Brisbane.
Giant underground factories...
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Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke joint venture has just completed excavation of the ninth and final shaft of the central section of the super sewer project...
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Fugro delivered the ground investigation for Femern Link Contractors, a consortium formed by Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Per Aarsleff, Wayss ...
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For his long and distinguished career in tunnelling, dedication to the BTS and commitment to developing young tunnel engineers...
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The tunnel, originally announced in 2017, will bore through just over a mile of the peninsula at its narrowest, southern end and allow ships to avoid the ...
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Two Iseki 1200 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named after two deities – the Norse goddess Freya and the Greek goddess Artemis – will complete ...
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The scope of work in the project includes the construction of a 10.5km highway, plus five tunnels with a combined length of 4km. The longest of these ...
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The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recognized nine WSP USA projects for Engineering Excellence..
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Vehicles travel through the Saigon River Tunnel that links District 1 and Thu Duc City, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen...
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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 ...
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Tracking devices have been clamped on two 165-metre long boring machines digging the first rail tunnels beneath the Brisbane River. The two giant ...
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Tunnel construction as a climate-friendly source of energy. The Brenner Base Tunnel will relieve transit traffic between Italy and Austria and, incidentally, ...
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More than 20 tunnel boring machines have been put to work to date to build lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 as part of a Grand Paris Express metro expansion ...
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For the first time, LTA will use a large-diameter tunnel boring machine to construct a single tunnel with two tracks in it. CRL1 is slated to commence ...
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True to its dedication to strive for innovation and sustainability, Normet has continued to develop and optimise its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ...
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... two major planning approvals in readiness for the tunnel boring machines to start ... The first tunnelling contracts are likely to be issued in mid-2021.
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Watch the trailer for episode 2 of Tideway’s brand new web series - Tunnel Vision...
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HS2 Ltd has set a construction start date of Spring 2024 for Phase 2a of the project.
The target date for the start of earthworks is revealed in board minutes from December but just ...
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They will build their tunnelling machine and test it against competitors to get top spot.Caption: A render of the Warwick Boring Team's tunnelling device ...
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The M4-M5 Link Tunnels is the first stage of the M4-M5 Link which is being delivered in two stages...
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The Yokohama Loop Northwest Route is a 7.1km-long motorway that connects the Tomei Expressway and the Daisan Keihin Road...
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Tunnel Vision is a new web series from Tideway that will take a closer-then-ever look at the two dozen construction sites that make up the project, its amazing engineering and the people ...
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The NSW Government expects the first of four large tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be in the ground by mid-2023. For more information visit the ...
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Uninterrupted connection was provided in the first tunnel of the Fahrettin Altay-Narlıdere metro line, which is under construction by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality...
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Two former ICE presidents have been brought in to carry out an official feasibility study of a possible Irish Sea crossing...
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Upgrades on the London Underground continue to gather pace, with work progressing on the capacity upgrade at Bank station and the Northern Line Extension programme...
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... LOT main tunnel will consist of approximately 17,000 feet of 144-inch hand-mined diameter tunnel and will be mined with a tunnel boring machine ...
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