Germany and Denmark Sign Declaration on Fixed Baltic LinkThe German and Danish transport ministers, Manfred Stolpe and Flemming Hansen, signed on 23rd June a declaration to pursue a fixed road and ...
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Caterpillar to Hold Live Demo of Tunnelling ExcavatorAfter the high-level attention the 325CR tunnelling excavator got at the Bauma fair in Munich, Cat will run a live tunnelling construction ...
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Nusantara Tunnel Project in Indonesia Needs ExpertsPT Nusantara Tunnel Indonesia is currently preparing to construct a 33 km subsea twin tunnel crossing the Sunda Strait in Indonesia. The tunnel ...
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Gjerstad for toughness, durability, and a long working lifeMost people in the tunnelling industry associate the name Gjerstad with side-tipping buckets, an item that they have produced for nearly 40 ...
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At the Heart of the LötschbergTwenty minutes are necessary to cover the 7 km southward between the Mitholz entrance of the Lötschberg base tunnel and the worksite to Ferden. Consortium Satco, a JV ...
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Black Diamond Cutters Take on the WorldBlack Diamond Cutters, manufactured in the New South Wales town of Artarmon, Australia, have been a growing influence on Asia Pacific TBM projects over the ...
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Squeezing Ground Obliges to Innovate at Gotthard Base TunnelThe 800 m Sedrun shaft enables to descend to the heart of the Gotthard base tunnel in 67 seconds, at a speed of 12 m/sec. The elevator has ...
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Harvey Parker - ITA President with a MissionDr Harvey W. Parker, PE, a tunnel and geotechnical engineer in private practice, has been elected to a three-year term as President of the International ...
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Spain Inaugurates First Phase of Test and R&D TunnelVicente Alvarez Areces, the president of Asturias in northern Spain, inaugurated on 25th May a EUR1.3 million high temperature fan test ...
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Goodbye WT, hello TTC!April edition of World Tunnelling magazine was the last of the series, and the title has closed after some 150 issues. Launched in March, 1988, WT was well-received by both ...
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Sandvik Tamrock Wins Order for Tunnelling Jumbos - cn/61Sandvik Tamrock has signed a supply contract with the Leighton-Kumagai JV to deliver five new Tamrock Axera tunnelling jumbos for Route 8 ...
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Four Cat 330C HD Special Application Excavators on the World's Longest Tunnelling ProjectThe Sedrun intermediate adit is one of the most spectacular sections of the 2 x 57 km Gotthard base tunnel in ...
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France and Italy Sign Lyon-Turin High Speed Rail Link AgreementFrance and Italy on 5th May signed an agreement on the financing of a EUR12 billion transalpine high speed rail link between the cities ...
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Austria and Italy Sign Agreement on Brenner Base TunnelHubert Gorbach, the Austrian deputy chancellor and minister for transport, innovation and technology, and Pietro Lunardi, Italy's minister for ...
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EU Welcomes New TEN GuidelinesThe European Parliament and Council adopted 30 priority projects of the Trans-European transport Network (TEN) on 21st April, a few days before the enlargement of the ...
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Lovat Launches TBM in SingaporeDowner Engineering has launched a refurbished 6.15 m-diameter Lovat TBM, model RMP242SE Series 18500, for the Singapore cable tunnel contract C302, section from West ...
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Annual Tunnel Test Results Disclosed as EU Adopts New Directive on SafetyADAC, the German motoring club, has presented the results of its sixth annual tunnel test survey since 1999. This year's ...
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Three Killed, One Missing at Singapore Metro CollapseThree workers, one Malaysian, one Chinese and one Singaporean, have been killed on 20th April at a metro collapse on a Circle Line worksite in ...
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Eurotunnel Sells TBM as French Board is AppointedAn Howden TBM used to build the Channel tunnel that links the south of England and France has been sold by online auction site eBay. The 580t machine ...
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Safer European Road TunnelsThe European Parliament will vote on 20th April a second reading recommendation on proposals to improve the safety of tunnels on the trans-European road network. The ...
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Berlusconi Attends Groundbreaking Ceremony of Base Tunnel on Bologna-Florence Motorway - it/21Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and minister for infrastructure and transport Pietro Lunardi ...
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Kranji Tunnel Breaks Through in SingaporeA Herrenknecht 4.88 m-diameter EPB TBM, machine S-171, has successfully completed the 4.8 km south drive of the Kranji tunnel as part of Contract T-05 for ...
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Atlas Copco Launches Super-fast 30 kW Hydraulic Rock Drill COP 3038Atlas Copco took Bauma by storm with the unexpected announcement of the launch of its super-fast COP 3038 hydraulic rock drill. ...
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Bauma Mining Reflects Dynamism of Mining and Tunnelling SectorsFrom 29th March to 4th April 2004, 514 manufacturers out of a total of over 2,740 companies from 48 countries exhibited their mining ...
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Improved TBM Guidance Systemtacs gmbh, specialist manufacturer of TBM guidance systems, has extended its acs guidance system software to integrate the geological profile and plan view of the ...
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First TBM Being Assembled for SMART Scheme in KLThe Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) project is a flood mitigation project being implemented by the government of Malaysia. During ...
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Hybrid from SwellexThe newly- announced Swellex Hybrid rockbolt combines the pre-tensioning capabilities of Swellex with the grouting convenience of MAI SDA to provide immediate, long-term support. ...
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Hsuehshan Tunnel Breaks ThroughTaiwan's minister of transportation and communications Lin Ling-san pushed a button to detonate explosives, clearing away the final 2.8m of rock of the westbound tube ...
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AUA Awards for 2004The American Underground Construction Association will present the following awards during its NAT 2004 conference in Atlanta, GA from 17th to 21st April:Outstanding Individual in ...
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VMT Celebrates 10th Anniversary at BaumaWhile Bauma celebrates its 5th decade, VMT is entering its 2nd decade, having been formed in April, 1994. The company started in survey technology, supplying ...
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New TBM Record at AmstegAt end February, 2004 about 25% of all the 153 km of shafts, cross passages and tunnels have already been excavated at the Alptransit Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland.At ...
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Guadarrama Tunnels are 50% CompleteThe four TBMs have bored half of the twin tunnels under Sierra de Guadarrama on the high speed line from Madrid to Valladolid via Segovia. At end-January 2004, ...
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Technical Seminar on TBMsIIR Spain organises a technical seminar on the necessary steps in the selection of a TBM to get a maximum return on investment, estimate with a 100% accuracy the project ...
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Hunter Personnel - More positions on tunnelbuilder.comJoining a growing list of human resources specialists to be seen on the tunnebuilder web-site, Hunter Personnel was established in 1976, and ...
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Häny Grouting Systems - Simple and ReliableSwiss-based Häny is one of the best-known names in grouting, having researched and developed equipment suited to many of the current techniques. The ...
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Stonehenge Tunnel Inquiry Opens amid Claims for Longer ProjectA public inquiry has opened on 17th February into a plan to build a road tunnel under Stonehenge, the famous circle of megalithic ...
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