iPS – Powerful people is opening a new office in the “Energy
Capital of the World”, Houston, Texas. The move is in line with the iPS goals
to serve their clients all over the ...
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Thousands of Victorian jobs seekers can train and upskill as
part of the state’s biggest-ever public transport project thanks to the launch
of MetroHub – a one-stop-shop for jobs and ...
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Preferred contractor selected to build tunnel entrances - A
consortium comprising John Holland, CPB Contractors and AECOM has been selected
as the preferred bidder to deliver the $1 billion Rail ...
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Nepal’s First TBM bores 1,000 Meters in One Month
Nepal’s first tunnel boring machine, a 5.06 m (16.6 ft) diameter Robbins Double Shield, is living up to the nation’s high ...
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4th International Underground Excavations Symposium and
Exhibition is organized by the Chamber of Mining Engineers Istanbul Branch and
Turkish Tunneling Society. The exhibition will be held on ...
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Wessex water are investing around £15 million in building a
new sewer which will ensure their system copes with ongoing and future
development in North Bristol and South ...
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Press release provided by ACCIONA and Gülermak.
This tunnel is part of the Dubai Metro Red Line extension that will connect Nakheel Harbour and Tower station with the site of EXPO 2020 ...
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The list of finalists for this year’s awards has now been released please see below. The awards ceremony will be held in Chuzhou-Nanjing in China from 5-7 November 2018. For further ...
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The construction market is in a transformation phase. The entire construction supply chain is going through a transition phase towards new markets and new production methods. The SAIE show, which ...
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On the 12.07.2018 the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced plans for a EUR1.03 bn (USD1.2 bn) tunnelling project that will improve operational flexibility ...
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Fugro has been awarded a £5.2M site characterisation package
by Align JV as part of design and construction preparation works for HS2 Phase
1 (Area: Central 1).
The international ...
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MESSAGE FROM TARCISIO CELESTINO, ITA PRESIDENT
Dear ITA Friends
The World Tunnel Congress 2018 in Dubai was successful and all the beneficial consequences for the industry are ...
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Geodata offers an easy access to data and information with
24/7 availability is a factor of success for our customers. A high degree of
data integrity and reliability is therefore a key parameter ...
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Massive Metro Project Will Improve Traffic and Rail Congestion in One of India’s Largest Cities
On June 11, 2018, a Robbins Crossover XRE destined for Line 3 of India’s Mumbai Metro ...
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Celebrating its 11th year, the Breakthroughs in Tunneling
Short Course is the longest running and most-attended course of its kind.
Presented by leading practitioners from around the globe, the ...
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Going Underground: Tideway’s first tunnelling machines
lowered 53 metres into the ground
First
two tunnelling machines have been lowered underground
Tunnelling
to ...
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ABSTRACT: Rockbursts in the tight confines of a TBM tunnel can be highly hazardous events given the proximity of vital equipment and workers to the rockburst source, and the space constraints that ...
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If you need more in-depth explanations of Robbins products,
browse through our white papers. These downloadable and printable papers,
written by Robbins employees, cover everything from disc ...
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On 30.06.2018 the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in
Dubai, announced the completion of key tunnelling works for the Route 2020
Project stretching 3.2 km at a depth ranging from 12 to 36 ...
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On the 19.06.2018 TBM
La Carolina reached the end of its underground journey after boring 3.55 km of
tunnel and installing 2,281 concrete rings for the Quito Metro. The TBM began
the ...
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2018 is a special year for Geofluid, as it celebrates its
first 40 years, getting to stage its 22nd edition. at Piacenza Expo from 3rd to
the 6th of October. The Piacenza is around 30,000 square ...
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This week marks the unveiling of Metro Tunnel HQ, an
information centre where visitors can learn how this once-in-a-generation
project will be built and get up-to-date information about works in ...
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The first of five double-shield TBMs which will deliver the
next stage of the Metro is on its way to start digging deep under Sydney on
Australia’s biggest public transport project. The TBM ...
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Mega Projects Call Their Heroes
“Where the Continents Meet” is the motto that best describes the goal of the Expo which will be held in Istanbul, a city that serves as a bridge ...
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Construction and civil engineering companies will be
informed about the Stockholm’s metro extension at the Supplier Day 2018,
organized by SLL (Stockholms lans landsting) on
Tuesday ...
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In early June, TERRATEC successfully completed the Factory
Acceptance Testing of a TR2000 Raise Boring Machine (RBM), which will be
deployed by Peruvian mining contractor INCIMMET on Continental ...
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On the 20.06.2018 Adif completed the excavation of the left
tube of the Requejo tunnel (2.5 km), on the Pedralba de la Praderia - Padornelo
Tunnel subsection (province of Zamora) of the AV ...
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Posted by Lok Home | Jun 18, 2018 | Redefining the Industry
The idea of transparency is one that we most often hear touted in politics and policies. But transparency is a concept that ...
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1000 abstracts is an important result, if compared with the previous editions. The figure is a good indicator of the high expectations for the next WTC 2019 in Naples.
The Organizing Secretariat ...
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Getting the most out of things: This is the motto of the company GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH from Gelsenkirchen, not just for special mining and tunnel construction vehicles. With the inauguration of its new ...
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CBE Group has recently won two sizable contracts in
Australia. The French midcap company will take part in two substantial
projects: the Melbourne metro and the West Gate Tunnel, located in ...
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On the 15.06.2018 the MML (Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima) opened the new Linea Amarilla expressway in Lima in Peru, also named the Via Parque Rimac, linking 11 districts of Lima. The new 9 km ...
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Hard Rock Machine crosses Finish Line Nearly Five Months Ahead of Schedule
In mid-May 2018 the national-record-setting 7.9 m (26 ft) Robbins Main Beam TBM at the Jilin Lot 3 Tunnel broke through. A ...
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Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT) awarded the Boring
Company the contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the
Chicago Express Loop, an O’Hare Express service between ...
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Pune is the second largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and ninth most populated city of the country. The population of the Pune metro region is more than 6 million. In order to improve ...
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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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