On July 24th , 2019 the official inauguration
ceremony of the RijnlandRoute TBM took place (click here for a video). In early
August the 100 m long TBM, built by Herrenknecht and named Gaia, after ...
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A giant tunnelling machine set to create part of London’s
new super sewer arrived in London this week, with parts unloaded from a ship
onto the Greenwich Peninsula. The machine will be used ...
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The Obigarm-Nurobod road section of the existing M41 - part
of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) network (Corridors 2,
3 and 5) and connecting the northeast region of ...
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In early July, a 2.8
m Robbins Main Beam TBM began boring the 2.7 km long Salvasskardelva HEPP in
Bardu, Norway. The TBM, specially designed for Norsk Grønnkraft's (NGK) ...
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B. De Rivaz
Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions, Erembodegem-Aalst, Belgium
ABSTRACT: New guideline concerning the use of FRC
precast segment has been recently
published to provide detail ...
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Course organizers have announced the agenda for the 12th annual Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course. The Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course will be held Sep. 9-11 at the University of ...
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On 19.07.2019 the teams of the Horizon Consortium (Bouygues
Travaux Publics / Soletanche Bachy / BESSAC) - working on lot T2A of Line 15
South of the Grand Paris Express - left the construction ...
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The Paris Line 11 extension to Rosny-Bois-Perrier will be
built with cut & cover, conventional
and TBM methods. The central part of the new alignment between the Serge
Gainsbourg ...
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As the fastest growing region in the
global economy, Southeast Asia emerging economies have attracted worldwide
attention. It is estimated that by 2020, ASEAN is expected to become the ...
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Retired Chartered Engineer CALVIN BARROWS proposes simple but innovative solutions to the age-old problem of overheating metro networks.
Worldwide there are a significant number of Metro networks ...
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On July 4th , 2019 Canada’s Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, joined by Mayor Valerie Plante, the Quebec Junior Transport Minister
and Minister Responsible for Montreal, Chantal Rouleau and ...
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New allocation from the FTA for section three of the Metro
has received a new allocation of AUD100 million from the Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) for the third and final section of the ...
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The launch site - from where the 90 m long TBMs will dig
south west to build the twin tunnels to connect the West Gate Freeway to the
port, city and CityLink in Melbourne - has taken a year to ...
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Finest Bay Area Development has signed a memorandum of
understanding with three Chinese companies, as part of plans to build the 100
km (60 mile) double undersea train tunnel from Tallinn in ...
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Three roadheaders
have met 30 metres underground in the first major breakthrough, connecting two
excavated caverns that will become State Library Station.
The road headers have dug out more ...
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The Bahrain Rail Congress 2019 will be held under the theme
“Designing & Developing a Well Connected, World Class, National Rail
Network in the Kingdom of Bahrain” which is ...
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On the 10th
of July 2019 a second TBM arrived at Parco Solari station in Milan. Thus
completing the excavation of the tunnels from San Cristoforo to Solari, part of
the western section of ...
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Element Construction are looking for a tunnel construction
company to be part of a joint venture on a tunnelling project. The tunnelling
project is to build two parallel tunnels for a highway, ...
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Before tunnelling for the West Gate Tunnel
Project begins in 2019, they need to divert a 600 metre section of the North
Yarra Main Sewer. Diverting a sewer is a massive job that involves ...
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London’s £4.2 billion super sewer is seen from the air as
new pictures reveal deep shafts carved into the banks of the River Thames.
The Thames Tideway tunnel snakes alongside the ...
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On Saturday, July 6th , the second 130m-long TBM arrived at Redcliffe Station for the Forrestfield Airport Link project. TBM Sandy broke through into Redcliffe Station, emerging from her most ...
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Ghella, as part of the Pulse consortium, which is led
by CIMIC Group, has reached contractual and financial close with the State
of Queensland to deliver the Tunnel, Stations and Development (TSD) ...
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Metro NET celebrated the ceremonial naming and unveiling of
its second set of tunnel boring machines that will dig twin subway tunnels
between Beverly Hills and Century City. Subway tunnelling is ...
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The International Seminar on Roads, Bridges and Tunnels, the
ISRBT2019 will take place in Thessaloniki, 7-9 November. It will consist of
three daily Sessions, 7th November: Roads, 8th November: ...
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TERRATEC’s tight radius TBMs are enabling a highly
challenging project alignment for Bangkok’s Metropolitan Electricity Authority
in one of the city’s busiest downtown areas.
In ...
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Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Kathleen has passed its final
inspection and is now ready to launch from Barangaroo next month to dig the
historic rail crossing deep under Sydney Harbour.
The 975 ...
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EXPO Ferroviaria 2019, the 9th International Railway
Exhibition, will take place from Tuesday 1st to Thursday 3rd of October 2019 at
the Rho Fiera exhibition centre, ...
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The Award-winning E-Power Pipe® system, which was developed
by Herrenknecht AG as a new method for the quick and secure installation of
small-diameter cable protection pipes underground for ...
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On the 24th of June TBM 1 which is excavating the Rome Line C arrived near the Colosseum, while TBM 2 has passed the Piazza Celimontana shaft.
After arriving at Fori Imperiali the TBMs, cannot ...
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Construction on the Xi’an utility tunnel project is ongoing.
With estimated total costs of US$2.6 billion, it is currently China’s single
largest infrastructure project. The planned ...
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The government of India, following the IL&Fs financial crisis, cancelled the contracts with first contractors for the construction of the 14-km-long Zojila and 6.5-km-long Z-Morh tunnels on the ...
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Early bird registration for the 26th World Road Congress has
now been extended until the 30th of June. For further information about the
congress please click here. To register for the event ...
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Iisalmi, Finland, June 12, 2019. Normet made history by
demonstrating battery electric emulsion charging in production environment
underground on June 4th in Pyhäsalmi mine, Finland, with ...
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The World
Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2020 will be held in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre,
Kuala Lumpur.
Growing numbers
of underground innovations claimed to hold the key to unlock the door to ...
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Sydney Metro’s
third mega TBM has broken through a wall of rock at the new Crows Nest Station,
marking a major milestone in the project which will link the North West Metro
to the CBD and ...
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After appeal Europe's competition enforcer launched an
in-depth investigation on the 14.06.2019
into public financing for a planned €8.7 billion ($9.8 billion) rail and
road tunnel ...
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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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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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