CIFA with Zoomlion Capital, its captive finance company, have launched a new range of financial services aimed at increasing its market presence in Europe. This new offering, developed in ...
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On October 22nd the L&T-STEC JV and MMRC achieved the 21st Breakthrough for Mumbai Metro's Line 3 at Churchgate Station part of Package 1. The breakthrough of Robbins Crossover XRE TBM Surya-II ...
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On the 29th of October 2019 TBM Wanda broke through at Wendlingen am Neck for the Albvorland southern tube. The construction of the 8,176 m Albvorland tunnel, a key section of the new 60-km-long ...
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Press release - Know Your Precast, the innovative Italian solution for the prefabrication world. CP Technology Srl, is a company that is growing rapidly with its innovative carousel ...
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Construction will soon begin in Sydney on Metro West, with 7 station locations confirmed at Westmead, Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock and the Bays ...
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"Tunnels: a resilient link between past and future" was at the centre of the debates of the World Tunnel Congress 2019, held in Naples. Focusing on repair and maintenance anticipation for ...
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TERRATEC are a silver sponsor the Tunnel Association Canadas Technical Workshop - which will be held at the Delta Hotel, Winnipeg, MB, Canada from the 21st until the 22nd of October. The ...
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Systemair have manufactured jet fans for the 1km twin tube Klimkovice tunnel on the D1 motorway in the Czech Republic. There are 16 jet fans in total each one is 1120 mm in diameter, has ...
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Webinar Summary - Detlef Jordan, Robbins and Barrie Willis, iPS –
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PPS has more than 40 years of experience in the field of underground survey and guidance systems.
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Sydney’s new twin metro railway tunnels are now 70% complete as tunnelling reaches the heart of the city deep under Martin Place. TBM Nancy has arrived at the new Martin Place Station, 28 m ...
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Bane NOR invites suppliers to its Tender Conference where it will present upcoming plans about railway systems. The conference will be held on Wednesday, November 27th 2019, from 11.00 until 16.00, ...
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Press Release - CIFA and Blend are showing at the 2nd Conpaviper National Forum with EasyFloor A70 CIFA. They are at the forum with their full line of machines and solutions for the concrete sector. ...
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On October 2nd , a Metro Vancouver committee, created to provide input to the British Colombia provincial government on a new Massey crossing, has recommended that the existing 629 m George Massey ...
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The 26th World Road Congress is taking place in the city of Abu Dhabi from October 6th to 10th 2019, where professionals from all over the world will meet to discuss their ...
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EES public hearing wrap-up -
The Public Hearing for the North East Link Environment Effects Statement (EES) wrapped up on Monday 16th September. The independent Inquiry and ...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued a permit to HRCP - Hampton Roads Connector Partners to perform borings in the waters between the Hampton and Norfolk shorelines for the HRBT expansion ...
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The aim of this networking event is to celebrate the great achievements of tunnelling projects and tunnelling engineers in Australia and to promote the industry and its many professions to students, ...
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Press release from Highways England - The next phase of investigation work for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme near Stonehenge will focus on Countess roundabout over the coming ...
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There have been two new breakthroughs as part of the ongoing Mumbai Metro Line 3 in India.
The 18th breakthrough was TBM Wainganga-1 who broke through at the SEEPZ station after completing ...
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We are pleased to announce that the 16th Australian Tunnelling Conference will be held on 14-15 October 2019 at the Aerial UTS Function Centre in Sydney.
With a comprehensive, two-day ...
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iPS Powerful People and Nautech Services have agreed to intensively collaborate. With this agreement iPS Powerful People will strengthen their position in the Survey and Marine markets, and Nautech ...
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If you are attending this show EXPO Ferrovia in Italy today make sure you visit the stands of the companies that were chosen as the winners of the “DITECFER Railway Innovation Leaders ...
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Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mabel has broken through a wall of rock into the new Victoria Cross Station in North Sydney.
Mabel has excavated about 450,000 tonnes of sandstone and shale – ...
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Tunnelling has started this week, with Joan now digging from the North Melbourne Station site towards Kensington as part of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project.
TBM Joan is the first to break ...
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Copenhagen’s new metro will be inaugurated on Sunday, September 29th by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, accompanied by members of the royal family, Danish Prime Minister Mette ...
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On September 23rd , 2019 the TBM Federica (diameter 11.26 m, length 125 m, weight 2400 t) built by the French company NFM Technologie , completed the excavation of the first 9 km section between ...
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Starting on September 18th, 2019 Martin Gradnitzer and Gilberto Cardola will take the helm of the Brenner Base Tunnel cross-border project company in Austria and Italy, replacing the ...
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The Narragansett Bay Commission has received a loan from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s WIFIA (Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act) Program to the amount of $268.7 ...
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Strata Worldwide has launched a new leaky feeder solution
for underground construction. The DigitalBRIDGE Plus+ delivers powerful,
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The Hinkley Point C project has reached another key milestone
with the start of tunnelling at the UKs first new nuclear power station in a
generation.
Work has started to install the 38,000 ...
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On Saturday 14th September, 2019 at the Braque pit site in Aulnay-sous-Bois the first TBM for the Grand Paris express was christened. The TBM was named Armelle after Armelle Martin who saved a ...
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Four finalists have been announced for the major project of the year
category which focusses on ‘Managing Urban Expansion’. The awards will be held
in Miami, USA from the 18th to the ...
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Penang is planning a massive transportation network that
includes four highways, an eight-lane highway in the Persiaran Gurney, a light-rail
transit (LRT) and an undersea tunnel. The ...
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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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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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