Zitron is a leader in the manufacture of ventilation systems for mining, public works and the naval sector; transport, drilling and lifting equipment.
Zitron, located in large manufacturing ...
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This article has been submitted by Calvin R Barrows it is a different way of looking at the causes of the heat build up in the summer on the London underground. Please read through the article and ...
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Find out how mechanized tunnelling from Herrenknecht shapes
the world of tomorrow.
Has the future at Herrenknecht ever been as exciting as it
is today? I’m sure we will not run out of stuff ...
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The first of 4 TBMs that will build the Melbourne Metro
Tunnel is on its way to its launch site in North Melbourne. The TBMs are being
engineered in Germany and built in China, before they are ...
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Underground construction is high risk; the extensive length
and size of a tunnel build through unknown rock strata poses the continual
threat of fire or rock fall. To manage this risk ...
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GETECH srl can count on consolidated experience, thanks to 30 years of research, development and application in the field of solid/liquid separation with Centrifugal Plant up to more than 150mc/h. ...
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A cause
near and dear to the hearts of the 26th Annual Microtunneling Short
Course organizers is helping the men and women who have served in the United
States military successfully return to ...
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Do you want to find out what will be presented at the World
Tunnelling Conference 2019? Do you want to know which topics will be the focus
of the AAA sessions? Do you want to see an example of an ...
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Just in time for its 20th anniversary PPS has announced the
newly developed guidance system platform PPS-UNP (Universal Navigation
Platform). The UNP can be used for all types of underground ...
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Bella, the first TBM that will build the West Gate Tunnel, has
arrived in Melbourne. The TBM is 90 m long, 15.6 m high and weighs 4,000 t. The
hundreds of pieces that make up Bella will be ...
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At present
IPS are recruiting TBM Fitters and TBM Electricians for a project in the UK. It will be a long term contract on this major infrastructure project.
Please
contact Sam Merrick on ...
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Overnight a TBM made by Herrenknecht (mod.Avnd2000Ab)
started its journey by road toward Melendugno (Le) a tunnelling site in Puglia, Italy. It will be used to drill the Trans
Adriatic ...
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Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) has successfully
commenced signalling & integrated testing trials for the whole North-South
Corridor (Phase-1A). The integrated testing and trials are for ...
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Please consider joining us at the Tunnel and Underground Structures Committee during the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC. The committee will meet on January 15, ...
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The early registration deadline for the Underground Construction Prague will be on the 31st of January 2019. With early registration the attendance fees are less so select your registration fee, pay ...
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The Trenchless
Technology Road Show heads to western Canada to provide a platform to educate
municipal, engineering and contractor personnel on the benefits of trenchless
methods.
The ...
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The Gerede Water Transmission Tunnel in central Turkey has
been designated a national priority due to chronic drought conditions in the
capital Ankara. The water supply line is 31.6 km long and ...
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The new year is off to a great start for Robbins their Double
Shield Rockhead, launched in July 2018 has broken through. The TBM broke
through on January 1st 2019 after boring the 640m-long ...
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Four giant Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) are needed to dig
the Metro Tunnel.
Lowered into the ground at North Melbourne and St Kilda Road
in pieces and then assembled, they operate as moving ...
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On the 19.12.2018 the largest TBM currently working in Spain
ended the excavation of the 3048 m tunnel of the new railway to Terminal T1 of
the Barcelona-El Prat airport. The first phase of the ...
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Press release - As of the 21st December 2018, the Germany-based
company Ott GmbH & Co KG, acquired by Datwyler Holding Inc. in September
2016, officially changed its name to Datwyler ...
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For more than 25 years, the Microtunneling Short Course has
trained over 3,500 professionals, ranging from contractors and engineers to
owner agency representatives. The three-day intensive course ...
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Good communication systems are fundamental to all aspects of a tunnelling project, including risk management and emergency response.
Emergency communication systems in tunnelling are used to ...
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The Lower Thames Crossing online consultation, which closed on
the 20.12.2018, has seen over 26,000 replies. The consultation is arguably the
most significant that has ever been held into a UK ...
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The Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol joint venture conduct TBM
testing on-site for the new Ümraniye Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro line, the latest
addition to Istanbul’s transportation ...
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On the 28.12.2018 the Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced that the planned approval for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In accordance with German regulations, Femern ...
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Moscow in 2018 set a record, commissioning 17 underground metro stations, building 33 km of tracks and 3 train maintenance facilities: on 22.03.2018 the 3 new stations (Okruzhnaya, Verkhnye ...
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On the 26.12.2018 the Mumbai Metro-3 (Colabata-Bandra-Seepz)
Wainganga 2 TBM broke through at the future Seepz station in Andheri.
The TBM was originally launched on the 23.08.2018 from
Sariput ...
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Stockholm dependence
on electricity has incresed, their electricity network needs to be strengthened
and renewed to meet Stockholm’s future need of secure electricity ...
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Common Questions About Refuge Chamber Servicing - Are you
aware of the hidden risks of poor servicing?
There are many common misconceptions about refuge chamber
servicing, which we have briefly ...
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Leading Experts to Gather in Boulder, Colorado, Feb.
5-7th 2019
The agenda topics for the annual Microtunneling Short
Course at the University of Colorado Boulder February 5-7, 2019, has ...
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An invitation to attend STUVA 2019 -
We cordially invite you to the STUVA Conference 2019! At
this "family meeting of the tunnel industry" you will meet more than
3,000 other top-class experts. ...
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For 40 years STUVA has conducted an annual survey of
authorities, construction companies and planners with an aim to capture the volume
of tunnelling in Germany.
The statistics also include a ...
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WTC 2019 news release - The Italian construction system continues to grow in foreign
markets despite global tensions and the hardships in the market of Italian
public works. The 35 "top" companies ...
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OUR Favorite moments - 2018 has been a great year for Robbins. It was a year full of breakthroughs, new developments, and record-setting bores. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a look ...
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Message from Tarcisio Celestino -President of ITA 2016-2019
Each year, the ITA Tunnelling Awards conference brings better news. During a whole day, high-level presentations by the finalists have ...
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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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Lower Thames Crossing consultation launched ahead of DCO application
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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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