Abdalajis East Tunnel Breaks Through on Cordoba-Malaga High Speed Rail Link
A ceremony presided by Magdalena Alvarez, Spain's minister of public works, was held on 13th February, 2006 to ...
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Second International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS)The second International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS) to be held in Madrid on 15th-17th March will be an ...
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Astaldi-led JV Wins Contract for Line C of Rome Metro with EUR2.17 Billion BidA joint venture headed by Astaldi will design and build the new Line C of the Rome metro, a driverless fully automatic ...
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Expressions of Interest Extended to End April for L-SURFIn March 2005, the EU launched L-SURF, which stands for Large-Scale Underground Research Facility, a planning and organization project for a ...
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Privately Financed Project Proposed for Road Connection in North MilanAt the conference "Underground roads: an opportunity to live better on the territory" held on 10th February, 2006 and organized ...
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The Avigliana Bypass Opens for the Winter Olympic Games in TurinOne of the worst traffic black spots in Turin province travelling towards Susa valley was the Avigliana crossing. SITAF inaugurated on ...
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Sealing Gaskets from Phoenix DTThe merger of North German suppliers of elastomer products Contitech AG of Hannover and Phoenix AG of Hamburg has been announced. Both companies are global players in ...
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Automatic Conductor-less Line 1 of the Metro Opens in Turin as City Hosts XXth Winter Olympics
On 4th February, 2006 the first 7.5 km section of Line 1 of Turin's metro has been ...
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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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Tunnelling & Trenchless Technology in the 21st CenturyThe Institution of Engineers, Malaysia is organizing the International Conference and Exhibition on "Tunnelling and Trenchless Technology in ...
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Lower Northwest Interceptor's Sacramento River Crossings Near Completion
Two tunnels are required to cross the Sacramento River in California. The two tunnels are part of a massive 59.5 km ...
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Fourth TBM Starts at Pajares Railway Bypass in SpainADIF- the administration responsible for the design and construction of Spain's high speed lines - officially launched on 28th January, 2006 the ...
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Wirth Gripper TBM Drives Alborz Tunnel on Shomal Freeway near TehranToday only a two-lane highway with a length of 200 km connects Tehran and the city of Chalus at the Caspian Sea. By 2010 both ...
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First Tunnel in Europe Equipped with Automatic Fire-fighting System Sets New StandardsImproved escape routes and dualling single-tube tunnels are the solutions so far implemented from the ...
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TUNCONSTRUCT, a Project to Boost the Use of Underground Space in Europe The utilization of underground space can have a significant impact on living conditions. For example, underground trains ...
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Funding Approval for World's Longest LiftThe opening of the 57 km Gotthard base tunnel in Switzerland is still nearly ten years away, but locals in the Surselva, one of the valleys under which it ...
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NFM Technologies TBMs for Tabriz Metro in IranTwo NFM Technologies EPB shield boring machines will be used to drive a 7 km twin-tube tunnel for the Tabriz metro in Iran. The excavated diameter of ...
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MHI-Duro Felguera Delivers TBM for Pajares TunnelMHI-Duro Felguera, the joint company established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Duro Felguera, has completed the assembly of the TBM ...
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North Tube of Nazzano Tunnel is WidenedThe widening of the Nazzano northbound tunnel on the Orte-Fiano Romano section of highway A1 Milan-Naples, a few kilometres north of Rome, ended on 17th ...
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E-News Weekly No 200During the last four years, E-News Weekly has presented over 1,000 pages of focussed tunnelling contract news, providing its subscribers with reliable, up-to-the-minute ...
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Norway Builds Sauda Fjord Hydro ProjectThe Sauda fjord hydro power project, an ambitious energy production infrastructure, is under construction in Rogaland county in south Norway, south of Bergen. ...
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Speedy Tunnelling with Lovat TBMs on High Speed Rail Tunnels in BolognaThe San Ruffillo JV between Necso of Spain (now Acciona Infraestructuras) and Ghella of Italy has reported record progress by ...
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Atlanta Celebrates New Year with Commissioning of Nancy Creek TunnelMayor Shirley Franklin spoke at the R.M. Clayton Water Reclamation Center on 31st December, 2005 to herald the flow of sewage ...
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New E-series to Challenge High Speed Tunnelling RecordsAtlas Copco has given the tunnelling industry a glimpse of the future by lifting a corner of the veil covering its next drill rig launch - the ...
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Tunnelling Ends on Chamartin-Nuevos Ministerios Tunnel in MadridThe Ministry of public works completed on 7th December, 2005 tunnelling of the Chamartin-Nuevos Ministerios tunnel on the new suburban ...
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Tunnel for Taipei MRT Neihu Line is CompletedAfter more than three years of hard work, engineers and workers have succeeded in boring a 4 km tunnel under Taipei's Sungshan Airport and a ceremony has ...
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Atlas Copco's First Swedish-designed LHD Ready for Roll-out in 2006 Atlas Copco's first generation of load-haul-dump vehicles designed and built in Sweden, is scheduled to make its debut in 2006 and ...
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Dr. Martin Herrenknecht Receives STUVA PrizeOver 1,200 delegates from 27 nations participated in the popular STUVA Tagung '05 conferences and exhibition organised in Leipzig from 28th November to ...
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Highlights of 2005The Holy City of Mecca in Saudi Arabia needed two new pedestrian tunnels in a hurry for the thousands of pilgrims arriving for Haj on 5th January, 2005. Turkish contractor SFTA ...
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Schöck ComBar Reinforcement TechnologySchöck of Baden-Baden, Germany has spent a decade developing glass fibre reinforced polymer reinforcing bar, resulting in widespread approvals for its ComBar ...
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Luxembourg Builds Grouft TunnelWith a population of 465,000 and an area of 2,586 sq km, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a tiny country landlocked by Belgium, France and Germany. It is among the ...
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Hitachi TBM Completes Providence CSO Main Spine TunnelOn 1st December, 2005 an Hitachi single shield TBM reached its final destination at the bottom of a termination shaft 80 metres below the ...
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Lovat Appoints New Managers for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific RegionLovat has expanded its expertise to include local support in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, by ...
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Drivers Do Not Know How to Face Risks in TunnelsA study entitled "Experimental psychological results from driving in tunnels - Contributions to road safety", elaborated by Segtúnel, a team from the ...
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MEI - World Leader in Mining Equipment SupplyMining Equipment Inc, based in Durango, CO, US has built a strong legacy over the last quarter century in the supply of a huge variety of quality ...
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