Numerical standards and certifications to increase efficiency in the development of underground infrastructure projects – BIM for tunnelling – written by Michel Rives from ...
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TERRATEC is pleased to announce the delivery of three (3) new 7.51m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System Project to ...
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Line 15 South - The excavation of this line involved 10 TBMs, which installed 128,000 segments and 18,500 rings. In 2019 TBM Steffie-Orbival was the first machine to complete its section, followed ...
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4STREETS s.r.l. is a young company founded in the spring of 2016 by motivated and experienced entrepreneurs who, combining the skills they had acquired in managing numerous construction sites in the ...
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On 21/12/21 the excavation activities for the new San Tomaso tunnel, a strategic part of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa Junction One Project, and the first of the Genoa railway junction, ...
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Press release - The start of tunnelling for HS2 in London is set to begin in 2022 and progress has been made with the delivery of two giant Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) to ...
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PRESS RELEASE - The Riverlinx Construction Joint Venture (BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant) delivering the design and build of the Silvertown Tunnel on behalf of Transport for ...
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Today TBM Merle broke through at the Northern Portal site, bringing the Cross River Rail project’s year of tunnelling to an end, click here for the video. The Cross River Rail's twin tunnels ...
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Helsinki City Council have approved the Sornaistentunnel project between the Sornainen coastal road and the Hermann coastal road and its implementation in stages as follows:
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In October TBM Rachel began boring, stopping every 1.5 m (5 feet) to construct a ring of the tunnel wall. About 106 m (350 feet) of tunnel has been completed so far, and the pace is expected to pick ...
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Virginia Department of Transportation and Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) will celebrate the arrival of TBM Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021. ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened a new almost 24 km section of the BCL including 10 stations (Terekhovo , Kuntsevskaya , Davydkovo, Aminevskaya , Michurinsky ...
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This month Snowy Hydro achieved another exciting milestone, with the commissioning of Kirsten, the second of three TBMs that will excavate more than 27km of tunnels for Snowy 2.0 pumped-storage ...
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The Cluj-Napoca City Council have approved the feasibility study (technical documentation and technical-economic indicators), drafted by the Joint Venture SYSTRA, SWS Engineering and Metrans ...
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Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and ...
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The breaking out of the concrete plugs either side of the shaft at Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore signals the next step in secondary lining the main ‘super sewer’ tunnel. All sections of ...
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Press release - Yesterday [2 December] HS2 CEO Mark Thurston pushed the button to start HS2’s tunnel boring machine on its one-mile journey under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking ...
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On the 29/11/2021 at 11h00a at the Fehmarnbelt tunnel construction site in Puttgarden, Danish Transport minister Benny Engelbrecht, together with Enak Ferlemann from the German Federal Government, ...
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The Terzo Valico dei Giovi-Nodo di Genova project has reached another milestone only 6 months after a breakthrough along the planned Valico Tunnel, which will become the longest railway tunnel in ...
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Army Corps of Engineers Permit – The Gateway Development Commission has announced that the last major step in the federal regulatory process for the Hudson Tunnel Project has been completed ...
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Gulermak/Sam India JV gets ready to commence tunnelling on the Corridor-1 of Kanpur MRTS Project in India. Two 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines have been ...
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Selina, the giant TBM creating the final, easternmost section of London’s new super sewer has passed the halfway mark on her underground journey towards Abbey Mills Pumping Station in ...
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The first of Cross River Rail’s Tunnel Boring Machines has seen the daylight, for the first time in ten months.
The mega project is one of many being delivered by the Palaszczuk ...
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On 24/11/2021 Eiffage Genie Civil celebrated the breakthrough of TBM Armelle in Le Blanc-Mesnile station, Line 16, Grand Paris Express. Click here for the video, here and fr/127 for tunnel ...
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On the 24/11/2021 TBM Serena with a diameter of 6.85m, a length of approximately 300m and weight 1,500 t has reached the Brenner Pass. The TBM has excavated over 14 km of tunnel in 3.5 years. The ...
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Press release - Work to construct the 850m-long station box at HS2’s Old Oak Common station began last month as concrete frame and substructure specialist, Expanded, started on site. Expanded ...
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Strata Worldwide is excited to announce a new strategic partnership with technology expert Nerospec SK. Nerospec SK is a developer of cutting-edge machine digitalization systems. Together the ...
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Work is ongoing towards the completion and opening on the 4 December ( Santa Barbara's day) for new Santa Lucia tunnel in the A1 motorway, Barberino - Calenzano section.
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Preparatory works for the construction of emergency exits of the Swinoujscie tunnel, driven under the Swina river, are underway. The 1,483.8 m single tube tunnel will have a 3.5 m wide lane ...
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On 22/11/2021 Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) achieved a breakthrough on the Zojila tunnel construction project in the Jammu Kashmir-Ladakh region. The project was awarded to ...
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Its less than a week to go until the STUVA Expo and Conference 2021. The conference will be held from the 24 to 26 November in Karlsruhe. To find out all about the conference please click here for ...
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In West Ruislip, HS2 is preparing the way for the TBMs that will dig the high speed rail tunnels under West London. The giant cutterheads - part of the first pair of TBMs that will dig ...
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In October 2021, the breakthrough of a Robbins Crossover XRE TBM was the cause of much celebration. A team of personnel from Kolin Construction, Turkish State Railways (TCDD), and Robbins field ...
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Bagmati Province government have decided to stop work on the Posta Bahadur Bogati (Bhimphedi-Kulekhani) tunnel construction as it was unable to build the tunnel itself and the federal government had ...
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On the 14/11/2021 the construction of the 5.9km Llogara tunnel officially started. The tunnel, on the road between Vlora and Saranda along the southern part of the Albanian Rivera, is planned ...
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TBM Annie has reached the Earl Pumping Station site in Deptford. This marks the 2.2km point of an overall 4.5km journey from Greenwich Pumping Station to Chambers Wharf in Bermondsey. The TBM will ...
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