California to Build San Vicente PipelineThe San Diego County Water Authority officially launched on 21st July, 2005 at a groundbreaking ceremony the construction on the San Vicente Pipeline project, ...
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NFM Technologies TBM Completes Atocha-Nuevos Ministerios Section on New Atocha-Chamartin Tunnel in MadridA NFM Technologies EPB TBM holed through on 27th July, 2005 the Atocha-Nuevos Ministerios ...
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Fourth IUT ´05 Live Fair in Sargans, SwitzerlandThe fourth IUT '05 Live in the Hagerbach Test Gallery (VSH) near Sargans, east Switzerland will be held on September 14th and 15th, 2005. This is an ...
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Frejus Tunnel Reopens in the AlpsThe French-Italian Frejus tunnel in the Alps, which was closed since 4th June due to a fire that killed two truckers, reopened to traffic on 4th August. However, ...
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Mont Blanc Security Chief Sentenced to Jail for Tunnel FireA court in the French Alpine town of Bonneville found 13 of the 16 defendants guilty on 27th July, 2005 in connection with the March 1999 ...
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Sapae Tunnel Breaks Through in South KoreaSohn Hak-rae, president of the Korea Highway Corporation, executives from GS Engineering and Construction (ex LG Engineering and Construction) and ...
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Tunnelling Starts at Pajares with Herrenknecht TBM Update
Spanish PM Zapatero and minister of public works Magdalena Alvarez at the launch of the first of five TBMs to be employed on the Pajares ...
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Mitsubishi TBM Arrives in Seattle for Beacon Hill TunnelA Mitsubishi tunnel boring machine arrived in pieces on 11th July on the Seattle waterfront to be assembled over the next two months. After ...
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Asturias Inaugurates Test Tunnel in San Pedro de AnesIt is obvious that tunnels occupy an increasing place in the design and construction of civil works for roads, railways and urban transport. The ...
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Construction of Perthus Tunnel Starts on Figueras-Perpignan High Speed LinkMagdalena Alvarez, the Spanish minister of public works, and Dominique Perben, the French minister for transport, ...
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Tunnelling Starts at Pajares with Herrenknecht TBMJose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the Spanish PM, and Magdalena Ãlvarez, the minister of public works, celebrated on 13th July, 2005 the launch of the ...
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CMC to Use Two Lovat TBMs for Algerian Water Scheme Cooperativa Muratori e Cementisti (CMC) has placed and order with Lovat for twin hard rock 3.7 m-diametre TBMs, ancillary equipment and services ...
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ACTEURS - a Project to Study how Human Behaviour is Crucial during Fire in TunnelsThe fire which erupted on 4th June in the 12.9 km Frejus tunnel, killing two Slovak truck drivers, recalls that ...
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Longest Croatian Road Tunnel Opens on Zagreb-Split MotorwayThe entire 375.5 km Zagreb-Split motorway A1, which connects Croatia's north and south, was officially opened on 26th June, 2005 by Prime ...
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First Atlas Copco WL4C30 Drill Rig at Work in FinlandThe Vuosaari harbour rail line in Helsinki is a new 19 km-long single-track freight infrastructure to handle ten trains a day in each direction. ...
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Pianoro Tunnel Breakthrough on Bologna-Florence High Speed LineOn 15th June, 2005 at kilometre point 7+372 and a distance of 2,266 m from the north entrance, the Pianoro tunnel broke through. The ...
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Zitron Commissions New Test Bench for FansThe Zitron test bench is the biggest in the world of its type. It has been built in compliance with standard 210-99 of AMCA (Association for air movement ...
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Robbins Double-shield TBM Breaks Through Quarry Tunnel in ItalyA 150 m-long Robbins double-shield TBM broke through on 31st May, 2005 the tunnel linking the raw material quarries with the ...
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Second Guadarrama Tunnel Breaks ThroughThe Ministry of public works concluded on 1st June, 2005 after almost three years of work the excavation across the Guadarrama mountain range of the second of ...
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Comedy of ErrorsLes Vaches du Viande - not for VegetariansOn 13th June 2005, five cows took shelter from thunderstorms in the Viande tunnel, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. Next morning, they were found ...
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1 Herrenknecht, 1 Lovat for Istanbul LRT and MetroThe Otogar-Bagcilar LRT system project in Istanbul consists of three double-tube tunnels. The first double-tube tunnel will be constructed from ...
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Vietnam Opens Hai Van TunnelPrime minister Phan Van Khai officially opened on 5th June, 2005 the Hai Van tunnel, which links the central province of Thua Thien Hue to the north and Da Nang City to ...
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Mega TBM for Madrid M-30Monday 6th June saw the factory acceptance trials of the world's largest diameter TBM at the Herrenknecht home plant in Schwanau, southern Germany. Leading the client ...
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EuroTAP to Assess 150 Road Tunnels in EuropeSince 1999, EuroTest, the joint test organisation of the European automobile clubs, investigates the safety level in road tunnels throughout Europe. ...
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Fire in Frejus Tunnel Kills TwoTwo people died on Saturday 4th June, 2005 when a truck carrying tyres caught fire inside the 12.9 km-long 9 m-wide Frejus tunnel, shutting off a major route under ...
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Robbins TBM to Excavate Venaus Exploratory Tunnel on Lyon-Turin HSLA Robbins high performance open type hard rock TBM will be used by the CMC-led JV including Strabag, Bentini Costruzioni, Cogeis ...
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International Congress on Safety Criteria and Innovations in TunnelsThe international congress on Safety Criteria and Innovations in Tunnels will be celebrated in the Congress Palace in Gijon, ...
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Conference on the Lyon-Turin Transalpine LineURIS AR, the Regional Union of Engineers and Scientists of the Ain and Rhone departments (France), organises on 9th and 10th June, 2005 a conference on ...
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Cogemacoustic – ventilating the underground environmentCogemacoustic, the specialist manufacturer of underground ventilation and dust extraction equipment, has developed an enviable reputation for ...
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Lovat TBM for Krolsky Tunnel in SiberiaRussian contractor Bamtonnelstroy of Krasnoryarsk took delivery three months ahead of schedule of their new TBM 'Martha', a 9.5 m-diameter hard rock machine ...
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Bolivia Inaugurates Misicuni TunnelThe 19.5 km trans-Andean tunnel to transport water from the Misicuni river in the Andes mountain range in Bolivia, the world's most infamous and slowest tunnel, ...
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Historic Tunnel Breakthrough at LoetschbergWorkers have blasted their way through the final metres of rock on 28th April, 2005 to pierce the 34.6 km Loetschberg rail tunnel, a key component of ...
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Tunnelling Equipment for SaleA JV of Razel, Bouygues and Spie Batignolles TPCI sells a CSM Bessac TBM and associated equipment fabricated in 2001, used on the Blagis-Cachan sewer tunnel built for ...
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Two Atlas Copco L2 C Drill Rigs at Arlaban TunnelHighway AP-1 Eibar-Vitoria in Spain's Basque region spans 46.2 km, whereof 31.9 km in Gipuzkoa province and 14.3 in Alava province. The highway has ...
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NFM Technologies Wins Contract for 2 TBMs for Road Tunnel in Wuhan, ChinaNFM Technologies, part of the Wirth group, has been awarded a contract by the China Railway Tunnel Group for the design, ...
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Herrenknecht Extends Market Range with New Company Herrenknecht VerticalTo make the company ready for the future, Herrenknecht extends its technological and market range. The newly founded ...
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