In July TBM Sarah was launched from its shaft at Aubervilliers for its journey towards the Saint-Denis Pleyel station. It will arrive at the Finot site at Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine and then it will drive ...
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On behalf of the Greek Tunnelling Society (GTS) it is our great pleasure to inform you that the we have applied to host in Athens the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (WTC) in 2023.
The Greek ...
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On July 24, 2020, a jubilant ceremony marked a milestone for southern Turkey’s arduous Bahçe-Nurdaği High-Speed Railway Tunnel. The first TBM-driven portion of tunneling using an ...
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In August this year MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation) completed the 1.5-km long tunnel beneath Mithi River. The Terratec-made TBM Godavari-4 completed the upline stretch of 1.5-km from BKC to ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Request for Proposals (RFPs) to teams who have recently been shortlisted to bid on the advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway ...
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HS2 has revealed the design for the Amersham vent shaft headhouse which is a design for one of 5 structures that will be built to provide ventilation and emergency access to the high-speed rail ...
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On the 19th of August Sound Transit announced that Atkinson Construction had completed the civil construction of the Bellevue tunnel. The tunnel will connect the East Main and Bellevue ...
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The new Brenner Base Tunnel, which is the responsibility of BBT, is being built to boost the capacity of the Verona-Fortezza access line from the south, which is being built by RFI. The line is ...
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On 13/08/20 the China State Railway Group Co Ltd (China Railway) completed the 14.5km Duoji tunnel on the Kunming-Vientiane Railway to link China with Laos. In drilling the Duoji Tunnel, located ...
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The final two Tunnel Boring Machines on the Tideway project have been blessed signalling that they will soon be ready to begin digging the final stretches of the super sewer.
TBM Annie at Greenwich ...
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The TBMs will excavate tunnels, reducing the environmental impacts in rural areas.
What is HS2?
HS2 is a state-of-the-art, high-speed line critical for the UK’s low-carbon transport ...
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On 30/07/20 BMRCL, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has launched the 2.88 km tunnel work between Shivaji Nagar and Tannery Road stations on Namma Metro Phase 2 line project: the Chief ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have shortlisted six teams for advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension projects. ...
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After noting the persistent scenario of international uncertainty linked with Covid-19, the 31st edition of SaMoTer and 9th edition of Asphaltica have been postponed to March 2021. ...
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On August 13, 2020 at time: 8 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT / 3 PM GMT/5 PM GMT+2 Robbins will be hosting a free webinar discussing a project they were involved in in the Himalayas.
The title of the ...
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Preparation for the arrival of HS2’s first giant TBMs has passed a major milestone with the completion of the 17m high headwall and ground reinforcement at what will become the south ...
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Depuis 50 ans, Sotecnisol a dominé le marché de l’étanchéité au Portugal et a développé une forte présence dans d’autres ...
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New outfall tunnel for Ashbridges Bay Wastewater
The construction of the new outfall tunnel for Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant in Toronto has been a work in progress since the ...
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Last week the virtual Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for the Joint Water Pollution Control Plant Effluent Outfall TBM to be used for the Clearwater Project in Los Angeles was ...
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On 20/07/20 the TBM Koumba arrived at the future Europa service facility in Orly on the extension of line 14 south: click here for the video. The TBM will resume excavation in about two ...
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Cross River Rail in Brisbane (Australia) will test underground blasting at the site of the new Albert Street underground station and the new Woolloongabba station site, in a move to speed up ...
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CEAR have finally completed the certification for their 7.2kV Ex-e MV Junction box in accordance with the Directive ATEX 2014/34/EU. This Ex-e Junction Box is also in compliance with ...
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On 14/07/2020, the Turin City Council passed a resolution, which will then have to be approved by the City Council, which identifies Infra.To, the in-house company of the city of Turin, for the ...
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On the 9th of July 2020 geotechnical drilling began along the proposed route of the Mitchell Treaty Tunnels (MTT), a key infrastructure component of the KSM gold-copper project in north western ...
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T&M Specialists UK Ltd. A new company in the UK market but with an already extensive portfolio of previous projects. T&M Specialists started life based in Hong Kong from where they have ...
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The Stockholm metro will be expanded with the building of the new Yellow line from Odenplan in Stockholm to Arenastaden in Solna. The new line will have three new stations (Hagastaden, Sodra ...
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IWMC 2021: Tabletop Booking has started - The 20th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) will take place in Warsaw (Poland) on 21st and 22nd April 2021 at the Regent Warsaw Hotel.
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At the beginning of July TBM Selina, built to create the final 5.5km stretch of London’s new super sewer, arrived in the capital. It was delivered to Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site in ...
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The most sophisticated TBM for the construction of Snowy 2.0, the biggest renewable energy project in Australia, has passed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), making it ready to be shipped to the ...
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On 06/07/20 the TBM Gunther, tunnelling from Ahrental (Innsbruck) in the north completed its 16.7 km long exploratory tunnel. The TBM averaged 11 m of tunnelling per day. The breakthrough, ...
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On the 2nd of July a break through ceremony was held in Naples for the Monte Olibano tunnel, which forms part of the project to upgrade and expansion of the Cumana Railway.
The new tunnel forms ...
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The WestConnex M8 opened on Sunday 5 July in Sydney. The new
M5 East motorway has been named the M8. The 9km M8 twin tunnels run from the
end of the M5 Motorway at Kingsgrove to the new St Peters ...
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At the beginning of this month TBM Charlotte completed her
journey to the Carnwath Road reception chamber at Fulham, finishing a 1.1km
connection tunnel, at a depth of 30 m. It will take sewage ...
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The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) has advised
the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) that WTC
2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is cancelled. The Executive ...
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Line 15 - On 18/06/20 the TBM Amandine, who started out from the Arcueil Cachan station (Line 15, lot T3C), broke through the wall of the future Villejuif IGR (Institut Gustave Roussy) station. The ...
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Boskalis and joint venture partner Van Oord have started work on the construction of what will be the largest port in Europe for the Fehmarnbelt project in Robyhavn. The working harbour ...
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