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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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 People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang
Ninh want to build an undersea tunnel at Cua Luc Bay. They have submitted the
pre-feasibility report to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan ...
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Excavation of Turkey’s longest water tunnel came to an end on December 18, 2018. To get there, a 5.56 m (18.2 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM and the contractor JV of Kolin/Limak had ...
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Two ITACET training sessions will be organized on the 3rd and 4th of May during WTC2019.
• Tunnelling 4.0 information ...
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There have been ten offers for the design and construction of the 13.2 km Struma motorway in the 23.6 km section between Kresna and Krupnik, through the Kresna Gorge (Lot 3.2.1). The Lot 3.2.1 ...
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The last truck of spoil excavated from the NorthConnex tunnel was delivered to Hornsby Quarry on 25.01.2019. More than one million cubic metres of spoil was placed to partially fill the quarry, ...
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Press release-Bahrain announces consultancy tenders for phase one of its metro project.
Bahrain's Ministry of Transportation has launched tenders for the appointment of a transaction advisor and ...
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The fourth of five mega tunnel boring machines (TBMs) has started tunnelling under Sydney.
TBM Mabel has been launched at Chatswood to help deliver 31km of tunnels between Marrickville and ...
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On the 13th of February 2019 a fifth TBM breakthrough was reached for Mumbai Metro 3 corridor at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) - T2 metro station. The TBM Wainganga 3, ...
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First TBM (length 225 m, weight 1,800 t), after final checks in Germany, is ready to be shipped to Wilton International, Redcar. The TBM will be reassembled and start tunnelling in the second ...
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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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The Trunk Road T2 and the Cha Kwo Ling(CKL) Tunnel form the middle section of Route 6. They connect the Central Kowloon Route(CKR) to the west and the main tunnel of the Tseung Kwan O –Lam ...
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The two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that were launched earlier this year to dig the parallel northbound and southbound tunnels have now passed under the ...
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As public demands for sustainable infrastructure grows, urban leaders are taking a closer look at the economic, environmental and social benefits of underground tunnels...
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Don't miss this specialized annual tunneling industry event where you have the chance to share experiences and identify mutual opportunities for growth in tunneling, an industry ...
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At Kramertunnel is going on a full jobsite installation process. KERN Tunneltechnik is supplying several tunnel formworks and machines for secondary lining. The project is being delivered ...
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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) jointly with NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Final Section ...
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