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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Mapei's response to the growing
demand from the construction market was to create their Underground Technology Team
and product line. The Underground Technology Team (UTT), is dedicated ...
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A pioneering
civil engineering skills academy unlike anything else in the North East has
been officially opened in Hartlepool.
The new
skills academy from Seymour Civil ...
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Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is proud to have
contributed engineering excellence to the Heung Yuen Wai Highway in Hong Kong.
The major transport infrastructure project will promote ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) allocated EUR113.15 million (USD125 million) to the Santa
Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) for the Bay ...
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An Australian-first tunnelling training centre will open next year in Oakleigh. The centre will train thousands of local workers to deliver tunnel projects in Victoria - including the Metro ...
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Its less than a month to go before the next edition of EXPO Ferroviaria in Italy. The EXPO will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of October at Rho Fiera in Milan. The event is for the ...
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TBM Grace has now tunnelled more than 5.6km and installed more than 3300 rings, on her journey to Bayswater. Grace is now tunnelling in Ascot - underneath the Tonkin Highway road reserve and is ...
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The final parts of the TBM Bella, the largest in the southern hemisphere have been lifted into place to start digging the West Gate Tunnel in Melbourne. The 450-t cutterhead has been lowered 27 m ...
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A second mega boring machine has arrived deep under the Sydney central business district at the new Pitt Street metro railway station. Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Mum Shirl started digging from ...
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The TBM DiGs conference will be held from November 13th – 15th , 2019 in Golden, Colorado USA.
TBM DiGs is an international conference series that provides a specialized technological ...
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WHAT IS SYNMIX® HP? - Synmix® macro synthetic fibres, from industry specialist Bekaert, have set a new standard for safety reinforcement with their light weight, easy to handle ...
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GALL ZEIDLER Consultants, Senior Tunnel Engineer Dominic Reda will be presenting at the 12th Annual Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course in Denver, Colorado September 9th – 11th . ...
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In September, 2019 China started the shield excavation of the Jinan Yellow River Tunnel, known as the "first” tunnel of the Wanli Yellow River according to the China Railway Construction ...
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Compact TBM bores longest Rock Tunnel at 2.46 m Diameter
In August 2019, a small diameter Double Shield TBM made a big impact. The 2.46 m (8.07 ft) diameter Robbins machine completed 3,475 m ...
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The Public Hearing for the North East Link Environment Effects Statement (EES) which began on the 25th July will reach its conclusion in mid – September 2019.
Any individual and any groups ...
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In June 2019 the Gateway
Development Commission became a bi-state organization, with new authority and ability
to receive the federal grants and loans necessary to deliver the Gateway
Program of ...
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The Feasibility Study and Preliminary Design for the Lac Straulesti – Gara Progresu Metro
Line 4/Green Line extension in Bucharest has been completed. Metrorex the
operator of the ...
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ICE is
pleased to announce its first learning programme which has been accredited for
US Professional Development Hours (PDH).
This
programme, located on the ICE Learning Hub, has been ...
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On August 11th 2019 TBM Sibylle the first of two
TBMs involved in the construction of the Albvorland tunnel, completed 7,700 m of the northern tube after only 18 months. The Albvorland ...
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On August the 16th TBM Nancy broke through a wall
of rock at the site of the future Pitt Street Station, about 20m below the
heart of Sydney’s CBD. Nancy had clocked up 6km of tunnelling ...
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HCC-MMS JV achieves major milestone with Terratec machine
having broken through on the first full section of running tunnel to be
completed for Mumbai Metro Line 3, in India. In early-August, ...
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From the East to the West Coast, North America’s tunnelling industry is flourishing. In 2019, the eighth annual Cutting Edge Conference will be held in Hilton Miami Downtown, Florida from ...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday
unveiled the rolling stock model of Metro Line 3, which has been named AquaLine. The MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation) has awarded the ...
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3 Ways to Bore More Efficiently in Extremely Hard Rock: Maximize your TBM Advance through Minimized Downtime
When the rock seems unbreakable, stresses are multiplied: The cutters must be stronger, ...
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Extension of the Kommunarskaya Line
On 20 August, at the meeting of the Urban Planning Commission, the project for the extension of the Kommunarskaya line of the Moscow metro to the city of Troitsk ...
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On the 21st of August a summit to establish the
next steps for the construction of the 2.5km road tunnel under Monte Tondo was
held. The interested parties were the Municipality, the Province of ...
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With over 55 live tenders for construction/development
of new tunnels in just Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium at the time of writing this,
it is safe to say that tunnel construction/ ...
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A Tunnel boring machine built by the Robbins company “holed through” Tuesday morning,
breaking through shale bedrock in Dutchess County to complete its excavation on
the $1 billion ...
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Press release - The 17-strong expert judging panel, chaired
by the ITA President Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan, has concluded its deliberations and
based on detailed evaluation, 32 entries have been chosen ...
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Dr. Manoj Verman, President of a new ISRM Commission on Hard Rock Excavation, will be the speaker for two short courses on tunnelling to be held at the Radisson Blu, Kathmandu, Nepal from the ...
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On July 3, 2019 the MIT (Ministero delle Infrastrutture e
dei Trasporti) completed the evaluations for the new Brescia – Padova High
Speed/High Capacity railway section and have now ...
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The second
of two new 4.66m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs to be delivered
for a 13.5km potable water tunnel system, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At the
end of July, ...
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The final sprint: Only 5 months to go to STUVA Expo 2019 -
Register now!
Reserve your trade fair stand for STUVA Expo 2019 now from
the 26th to the 27th of November 2019. Take advantage ...
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The Broadway Subway project is an extension of the
Millennium Line and a key link in Metro Vancouver’s transportation system. The
5.7-km line will extend the existing SkyTrain system ...
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Thames Tideway tunnellers have achieved a significant milestone linking up all three sections of the super sewer project for the first time. West main ...
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The Philippines and Japan on Tuesday, (July 27) formally signed an additional P116-billion (JPY253 billion) loan package to finance the building of the country’s first underground railway...
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All four of the Metro Tunnel’s tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are being retrieved from underground...
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A High Court judge has ruled that transport secretary Grant Shapps did not break the law when approving the £27.4bn Road Investment Strategy (RIS2)...
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The Formwork, designed and manufactured for the Tunnel des Evouettes, has been pre-assembled and inspected by the client...
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Major work is expected to start in the coming months, with the tunnelling contract awarded by the end of the year and tunnel boring machines in the ...
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The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel Project will replace the 2.25km-long rail tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Baltimore, Maryland, US. Project Type...
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ON the evening of Monday July 19, the tunnel boring machine that is working on the construction of the sanitation pipeline in Palma completed the ...
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Following the launch of HS2's first two giant tunnelling machines, Align JV have now begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the ...
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A 6.6m (21.8ft) diameter Robbins Crossover XRE TBM has made its third and final breakthrough for India’s Mumbai Metro Line 3. The project has an estimated cost of US$4.2 billion...
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Start time: 6.00pm AEST. The discussion will cover the concept of a system being an integration of people, process and technology, starting with the end in mind needing to understand the ...
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The construction of a large tunnel system in the District requires the ... To help mitigate construction impacts, D.C. Water partnered with three of the ...
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Join us to celebrate the launch of our tunnel boring machine Hiwa-i-te-Rangi with a self-guided tour of our Central Interceptor construction site. You will be able to immerse yourself in ...
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SCS's contract will involve the construction of a variety of structures and 21km of the line will be in a tunnel created using six tunnel boring machines.
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It is part of a major project to modernise the Trakia railway from Sofia to Bourgas, which has been under construction for 15 years. The hopes are that the ...
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The Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel is a construction project that will bring needed infrastructure improvement to east Dallas, Texas...
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Construction of the latest phase of National Grid’s London Power Tunnels will reach a major milestone later this month with the launch of its second tunnel boring machine (TBM) following ...
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KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): The first of two tunnel boring machines (TBM) which will be used to start excavation works for the Genting Tunnel as part of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project ...
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Singapore’s longest fully underground MRT line – Cross Island Line (CRL – CR108) will be linked to existing MRT lines for seamless connectivity...
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The new IMM management, which solved the financing problem of the lines, downloaded the TBMs (Tunel Boring Machine - Tunnel Boring Machines) ...
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This site known as the Southern laydown area will be used to assemble two tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) that will dig 4kms of tunnels for the new ...
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The Boring Company (TBC) unleashed its new tunnel boring machine (TBM) named Prufrock in Las Vegas recently. Prufrock may help Elon Musk's ...
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The largest construction project in Fort Wayne's history recently struck a new milestone with the conclusion of boring for a new sewer tunnel.
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Highways England is seeking feedback on changes to its plans to ...
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We are proud to introduce our renewed EFNARC C2 compatible VR concrete spraying training simulator! The video shows how industry professionals see the importance of operator competence in ...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): It took over three years and involved boring through more than five miles of bedrock beneath the Summit City, and on Thursday morning, officials announced that the ...
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This month, James and Taylor are at Barn Elms to visit the greenest site on the Tideway project... and to recreate Ireland's famous goal against England at Euro '88...
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The Coffs Harbour Bypass project is a priority for the Australian and NSW governments as the Pacific Highway is a major contributor to Australia's economy. The bypass will be a key link in ...
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It's not every job that you get to use big pieces of machinery deep underneath Auckland...
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Contest to build Tesla of tunnel boring machines ... Musk's competition aim to revolutionise tunnelling methods so advanced smart and efficient ... and mathematics students have been ...
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The 110-year old Hudson River rail tunnels are used by 450 trains a day. Funding for the $11.6 billion project — $9.8 billion for new tunnel construction ...
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Highways England has launched the hunt for a Delivery Assurance Partner to support the delivery of its £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade past Stonehenge...
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Founder and president of the Himalaya Bachao Samiti Kulbhushan Upmanyu has pleaded for giving priority to the construction of the Chamba-Chowari tunnel beneath the Jot Pass...
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We've been given a first look at one of the completed Sydney Metro railway tunnels under Sydney Harbour. It'll connect North Sydney to Barangaroo. It's a massive project that's been ...
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Look back at the last 20 months of TBM tunnelling with a highlight reel of everything our mighty machines have accomplished so far...
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PAWTUCKET – The Narragansett Bay Commission last Friday broke ground on its Pawtucket Tunnel project, a milestone that’s seen plenty of advance legwork leading up to it...
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A new technical communication solution is now being used in the construction of the double-track railway through Moss...
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Specialist engineering and civils contractor J Murphy & Sons battled through the pandemic year to lift revenue by 26% to a record £1.1bn...
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The new line will run on a main tunnel approximately 10.1 km (6 miles) in length, created by two new tunnel-boring machines, and will also include 20 ...
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