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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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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HS2 Ltd has shortlisted three teams to become the Phase 2a design and delivery partner for the planned section of high-speed rail connecting the West Midlands and Crewe...
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The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has broken ground on the Kansas City Levee Flood Risk Management Project. The $258 million U.S. Army Corps of ...
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HS2 Ltd releasing over 250 packages of work for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK, worth millions of pounds...
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National Highways has today announced that Turner & Townsend Limited has been awarded the £23.3 million Commercial Partner contract on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing scheme, the most ...
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Don’t miss out on the #WTC2022! Submit your registration now on our website and take advantage of a substantial discount! You will be able to attend workshops, discover the latest ...
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The second of three offshore tunnels needed for Hinkley Point C’s cooling water system has been completed under the Bristol Channel...
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In a major milestone for Rio Tinto’s Kemano T2 hydropower project in British Columbia, the tunnel boring machine has broken through to complete its journey...
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Bridges, tunnels and viaducts: works in progress to build the highways of the future...
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In the first of a special two-part Deep Dive, two of the nation’s leading tunnel engineers use detailed animations to reveal the inner workings of today’s state-of-the-art of tunnel boring ...
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This twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London will link Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula. Construction is now underway - we plan to open the new tunnel in 2025...
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India has completed work on the first of four tunnels drilled through the Himalayas to connect the Indian-controlled Kashmir with its northern Ladakh region ...
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For lining tunnel construction works, the excavation of one of the two intake tunnels and launched the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Outfall Tunnel.
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‘Florence’ – the first of HS2's ten Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) has completed her first mile of tunnel for the UK’s new high speed railway. Watch this youtube fly through video...
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Watch the successful bore of the Mine Development Machine (MDM)5000, manufactured by Robbins for Fresnillo Plc, Mexico's oldest silver mine. The MDM5000 is ideal for underground mine ...
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The New Civil Engineer’s Tunnelling Festival 2021 has released its short list of companies...
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Here you may register for STUVA Conference 2021 or log in to your already created user account...
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TunnelSkills are pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the BTS Conference on Thursday 30th September and Friday 1st October...
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National Highways has announced the companies shortlisted for the road building contracts either side of the Lower Thames Crossing...
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At 18.2 km, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel for both vehicles and trains. It will take only ten minutes to travel from Denmark to Germany by car and ...
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Two bidders for the Malta-Gozo tunnel project have filed objections after a single bidder was shortlisted to design and build the tunnel.
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The majority of workers will return to Auckland’s huge City Rail Link tunnelling scheme this week as the New Zealand city finally moves out of full lockdown – but project chiefs have ...
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Procurement has begun on the second major contract for the Scarborough Subway Extension project with the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and ...
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Take a tour inside a HS2 tunnel boring machine (TBM) with one of our tunnelling engineers. Walk the length of this 170m long underground 'factory' and discover how it excavates the 10 mile ...
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The most boring job in Britain! As wide as a house and 500ft long, two monster HS2 drills are chewing their way through the Chilterns. ROBERT HARDMAN hopped on board for an express ride... ...
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It's one year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Interchange station site in Solihull to announce the formal start of construction on the London-Birmingham phase of HS2...
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A dozen contracts with a value of more than £500M have been revealed as part of the government’s updated National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline...
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Construction of the longest tunnel in Georgia, 9-km long and 15-m in width Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel, has started today, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure...
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The project comprises approximately 2.5 miles of 78-in. welded steel pipeline, and is being constructed by Frontier-Kemper. In addition to the 11,755 ft main line tunnel, Frontier-Kemper’s ...
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The Not-a-Boring Competition happened on September 12th, 2021. We will be sharing updates on all our social media channels. Please make sure to follow us there. We would like to thank our ...
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The project, meant to improve travel between Bergen and the island of Sotra on the west coast, includes a 900m-long suspension bridge and 12.5km of tunnels...
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The project's contractor – the Riverlinx consortium – has revealed that it is getting ready to welcome the TBM to site “so we can reassemble it here ...
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In a recent drone video, Prufrock-2, The Boring Company's newest tunnel boring machine (TBM), was spotted at the tunneling startup's Bastrop, TX location...
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Herrenknecht crews working on the lower half of the tunnel boring machine forward shield. While Metrolinx continues work in Ontario to prepare the launch shaft ...
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Five companies have shown interest in the construction of the much-awaited Jalori tunnel on the Aut-Luhri National Highway connecting Banjar and Anni in ...
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Work on this major Flooding Project commenced within the grounds of Musgrave Park in April 2021. BSG Civil Engineering Ltd. has been appointed as the main contractor for this phase, with ...
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NHSRCL plans to get 3 TBMs for the tunnelling process. Each of the TBMs will progress at a speed of 200-300m per month.The reason for using both techniques ...
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Have you always wanted to know how Keller carries out a large construction site...
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The water tunnel project holds an estimated contract value of $353.9m (AED1.3bn). This project is considered the first of its kind in the region to drain ...
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