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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CIPA S.p.A. has recently signed a contract with the company Autostrade per l'Italia which involves the upgrading of tunnels on the A12. The joint venture between Cipa Spa and Paolo Barghi Srl are ...
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The deadline for the project for the ITA Tunnelling Awards 2018 has been extended to June 18th, 2018 (9AM CET). The 2018 edition will take place on 7 November, in Chuzhou-Nanjing during the ...
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On the 07.06.2018 the TBM Masha completed the Southern extension of the Metro Line 1 in Turin.
The TBM, had been launched last November 2017, and has finished driving the last 690 m section between ...
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The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has planned the use of
another TBM to dig the 13km tunnels of the Dudhkoshi Storage Hydroelectric
Project which is currently under study. The TBM will be used ...
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A Robbins Double Shield TBM 5.06 m diameter has had a successful time with its drive as part of the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project. The
Bheri Babai project is the only project in Nepal ...
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The dirt is a newsletter written for the BTSYM (British Tunnelling Society Young Members) so far they have had two issues. The first was in March ...
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The first 100 m of Exploratory tunnel had started being excavated for the Brenner base tunnel overnight the 24th and 25th May. The TBM Serena started at the beginning of May, has now ...
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Costruzioni Elettrotecniche Cear Srl continues to improve Milan's road network by participating in the construction of the M4 underground or "Blue Line", which will connect the historic ...
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The third Road2Tunnel Fair, the International Roads, Bridges
and Tunnels Fair, will bring together all stakeholders involved in the
planning, design, application, and management of international ...
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On 13.05.2018, Ashghal, the Public Works Authority in Qatar,
started the construction of the Mesaimeer pumping station project and sewage
tunnel, a sustainable solution for rainwater and ...
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The Fire Sprinkler International 2018 will be held in Stockholm 13th & 14th of June.
Bocciolone Antincendio S.p.A. the Italian leading manufacturing company for Fire Fighting Equipment and ...
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Dallas Adams delivered a raw and emotional presentation
describing the impact a workplace accident can have on family, friends and
work colleagues.
With his experience in the industry, ...
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Channel Tunnel stays cool and reduces environmental impact on
Eurotunnel, after its first season of operating a new cooling system for
maintaining requisite temperatures in the landmark Channel ...
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On the 28.05.2018 the flagging-off ceremony was held for the Kalkaji Mandir - Janakpuri West section of Line 8 (Magenta Line) in Delhi. The 24.82 km Janakpuri West – Kalkaji Mandir ...
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Moglicë Headrace Tunnel - On May 3, 2018 a 6.2 m
(20.3 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM broke through, marking the
completion of the first TBM-driven tunnel in Albania. The TBM, ...
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Melbourne will be home to five stunning new landmarks when
the underground stations for the Metro Tunnel open in 2025.
Designs for the stations, unveiled earlier today, combine
functionality, ...
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The 39.259 km Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-I with 32
stations will connect 4 corners of the Ahmedabad city with 2 corridors. The
18.522 km North-South Corridor, completely elevated with 15 ...
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A few days left to submit entries - Since 2015, the international competition
"the ITA Tunnelling Awards" seeks and rewards the most
ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in ...
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As
Gulermak-TATA Projects JV celebrates the early completion of TBM tunnelling on
Phase 1 A of the Lucknow Metro, Larsen & Toubro India Ltd. gears up for launch on Package 2 of
the Ahmedabad ...
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The Fomento approved the public information document, the
technical document of the project and the Environmental Impact Study for the
northern bypass of Puertollano (Ciudad Real Province). The ...
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Europe’s biggest
infrastructure project is now in its final stages - all the platform screen
doors are installed with testing underway, installation of the overhead power
equipment in the ...
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Construction professionals can tap into
cutting edge approaches to site characterisation and ground risk modelling at
free seminars being run this summer by global geoscience leader ...
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ITA Tunnelling Awards 2018 in Chuzhou – One week left to
submit entries
Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA
Tunnelling Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking ...
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The report recently released about the Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel Task Force chaired by the Ministry of
Transport and Communications states that due to the scale and complexity of ...
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On 19.05.2018 the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi,
attended the Closing Ceremony of the Birth Centenary Celebration of the 19th
Kushok Bakula Rinpoche in Leh and he unveiled a plaque to mark ...
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The deadline submission for the call for abstract has been
postponed to June 8, 2018
Having ascertained an important response for the call, and
in consideration of the fast-growing number of ...
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For all the latest information on CIFA and their 90 years of
innovation please read their newsletter just click here! .20/18.
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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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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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