STRABAG: Financial close of its project “Autopista al Mar 1” in Colombia completed.
USD 713 million project financing
Seven international and one national bank are ...
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Two ITACET training sessions will be organized on 3rd-4th May during WTC2019.
• Tunnelling 4.0 information technology for the design, construction and
maintenance of underground ...
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The French company can be proud of very satisfying production results for 2018 : CBE Group exceeds now 25 000 moulds manufactured by its French and Chinese teams since 1987.
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CIFA will be showing at BAUMA this year, they will be exhibiting
as part of Zoomlion Heavy Industry group (outdoor area 905/2) and CIFA by
Euromecc. They will be showcasing their leading products ...
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VMT will be 25 years old on the opening day of Bauma2019
VMT is crowning this anniversary with a series of product innovations to be presented for the first time at Bauma. They are the ...
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Carola Edvardsen is one of the world’s leading concrete experts, specialised in major international bridge, tunnel and marine projects. But getting to this point was no easy feat and she had ...
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Powerful TBM proves itself in both soft ground and hard rock.
On February 28, 2019 a ceremony was held to mark the breakthrough of a machine proven in both soft ground and hard rock. The ...
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The 2020 Graduate Program is now open for the Major
Transport Infrastructure Authority. If you’re looking for an opportunity to get
involved in Victoria’s Big Build in Melbourne ...
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Stockholm is one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions
in Europe. The population is increasing by 35,000 a year. Stockholm needs more
housing and better public transportation and as a result ...
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On the 11th of March 2019 the board of TELT, the
Italian-French company building the tunnel for the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail
link, approved the call for tenders for the tunnel, on the French ...
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“Why paint trains with high-performance solar reflective
paint ..... .....and fit low emissivity glass windows?”
(N.B. The focus of this document is on mixed surface and
sub-surface ...
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The existing outfall pipe at the Bergen Point Waste Water
Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Babylon, Suffolk County, NY, has to be replaced. A
4.33 km (14,200-foot) tunnel, with a 3.05 m (120-inch) inner ...
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The Belchen Tunnel, built in the 1970s, had to be rehabilitated due to damage to the tunnel support structure. In order to keep the traffic restrictions to a minimum, the Belchen rehabilitation ...
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Through the initiative of ITACUS, THINK DEEP groups have
been established in recent years or are in the process of being established in
several countries. These groups aim at raising awareness of ...
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Assembly is underway on the first of the two TBMs that will build the West Gate Tunnel, the Victoria’s alternative to the West Gate Bridge. It will take around 75,000 working hours to assemble ...
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Are you interested in finding out comprehensive information about
all the tunnels that have been built in Switzerland? Use this link ...
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EnigmaCG’s Tunnels 10x10x10
The number 10, for EnigmaCG symbolises us being10 years old. For you it means the first 10 Delegates get a 10% discount for the 4th Annual Innovation in ...
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The excavation of the French Saint-Martin-la-Porte
construction site (SMP4) with the Fedrica TBM exceeded 77% of the 9 km planned
by the end of February. Also in February, the target of 30 m/day ...
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Dynamic Testing has now commenced for the Crossrail Project.
Testing is being carried out through the 21 km of new tunnels under central
London. Over the next 6 months all the railway’s ...
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EUROCK 2020, is the international symposium of the ISRM, and will be taking place at the Clarion Hotel & Congress in Trondheim from June 15th to 19th 2020. The EUROCK 2020 Program Committee ...
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On the 27.02.2019 the Dogus Construction-Via Group Construct-Ultrastroy Joint Venture, completed the 5978 m tunnel using a TBM for the Sofia Metro Extension Project Line3, Lot 4 in Bulgaria.
The ...
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iPS – Powerful people has opened a local office in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia and in Manama, Bahrain. iPS is constantly looking for new opportunities to grow and expand our current business ...
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The high-speed rail project will connect the city of Oslo
with the town of Ski via twin 19.5 km tunnels, the longest in Scandinavia.
28 February 2019- ACCIONA and Ghella have completed ...
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The first of seven TERRATEC TBMs being used on Mumbai Metro’s highly anticipated 33.5km underground Line 3 corridor, in India, breaks through on its inaugural drive. In mid-February, TERRATEC ...
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TBM Catherina-Amalia broke through on the 10th of
January 2019 to complete the Victory Boogie Woogie tunnel in the Hague. The TBM
was 80 metres long and 11 meters in diameter and bored a tunnel ...
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In February 2019 the
European Commission (EC) endorsed the EUR 517 million funding dedicated to a
section of the M6 metro line planned to
link the Bucharest airport ( Henri
Coanda in ...
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On 26.02.2019 at 14h00 Bane NOR reached an important milestone
with the final double breakthrough on the Follo Line project. Anna and Magda,
the last two of the 4 Follo Line TBMs broke through at ...
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In this complimentary 40-minute webinar, Robbins Engineering
Director Brad Grothen and Elisa Comis, Associate at McMillen Jacobs, will
discuss what rapid excavation really looks like in the field. ...
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On the 25.02.2019 the second of the two TBMs that are
excavating the tunnels of the Western Section of the M4 in Milan reached
Frattini Station. In only 22 days the TBM excavated approximately 570 ...
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Rachel, the TBM digging the west section of the Thames Tideway
Tunnel, has been lowered 35 m down the shaft at Tideway's Carnwath Road site in
Fulham. Over the coming months, she will begin her ...
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THE WORLD TUNNEL CONGRESS 2019 IN NAPLES, ITALY FROM MAY 3RD
TO MAY 9TH 2019.
The whole underground industry will meet in Naples to study
and discuss the state of art of tunnelling in connection ...
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On the 20.02.2019 Mumbai Metro 3 Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ
corridor achieved a 6th TBM breakthrough at Sahar Road Metro station, which is
being built under Mumbai’s crucial Tansa water ...
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STUVA Expo 2019 - one of the world's leading and largest
events in the tunnel. The current demand to exhibit at STUVA Expo 2019 in
Frankfurt am Main again indicates a strong participation. Already ...
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On the 7th of February the shield for the fourth
TBM, which will drive 3.4 km of the Line 15 South for the Grand Paris Express
was lowered into place. The TBM will begin its journey at what will ...
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Breakthrough in the Tulfes–Pfons section - On February 12th,
2019, the last breakthrough by blasting took place in the Tulfes-Pfons section.
On that occasion, a small ceremony was held for ...
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Paris, 19 February 2019 - The Board of Directors of TELT (the public promoter entrusted by Italy and France with the construction of the cross-border section of the Lyon-Turin railway line), ...
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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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YOU ARE HERE:INNOVATIVE THINKING
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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For his long and distinguished career in tunnelling, dedication to the BTS and commitment to developing young tunnel engineers...
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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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