The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology and the Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will allow for knowledge sharing and advanced ...
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On 16/01/2016 the Municipalities of Milan, Cinisello Balsamo, Sesto San Giovanni and Monza, the Metropolitan City and the Lombardy Region gave the Milan Metro the contract to re- award the works to ...
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CIFA will be appearing at Samoter 2017 in two separate areas, one indoor booth of more than 500sqm (Hall 4, stand E2-G3) and one an external area (Area A, stand 9-10). Make sure you visit their team ...
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The 30th edition of Samoter will be in Verona from 22nd to 25th of February 2017 and will welcome the best Italian and international brands in the following sectors: earth moving, ...
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Seattle Tunnel Partners resumed mining late Monday following 10 days of hyperbaric maintenance on Bertha, the SR 99 tunnelling machine.
Crews replaced approximately 300 of the nearly 500 ...
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Rock Machine surmounts challenges on High-Cover Los Condores HEPP - Chile’s Los Condores HEPP is a high cover, hard rock challenge, with 500 m (1,640 ft) of rock above the tunnel and a ...
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The UK government has given the green light to EUR2.27 billion plans for the upgrading of the A303 between the M3 and M5 motorways, and 11.26 km stretch of new dual carriageway with a 2.9 km tunnel ...
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Preparation to build the first of the cross passages, linking the two parallel tunnels of the Forrestfield-Airport Link, located along Dundas Road in Forrestfield, will start from 23.01.2017. The ...
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CIFA will be exhibiting at the World of Concrete 2017 in Las Vegas from the 17th to the 20th of January 2017 you can find them at booth C5372. They will be displaying a new range of ...
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On the 20th December 2016 FCC Construction completed the boring of the Bolaños tunnels (Verín-Ourense). The works entailed the delivery of two parallel single-track tunnels, ...
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Message from Tarcisio CELESTINO, ITA President -
Dear ITA Colleagues:
In spite of an overall low level of global economic activity, the tunnelling industry seems to have been growing ...
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At the beginning of November a rectangular pipe jacking machine with a cutting section of 7.72m x 5.65m has finished tunnelling as part of Singapore’s T221 project.
The machine was ...
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CIFA have released a comprehensive
newsletter covering all aspects of their operations. The subjects they cover include - Exploring sustainability, learning to invest
abroad, ...
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The Environment Effects Statement (EES) assessment for the Metro Tunnel was released today, paving the way for major construction to start in early 2017.
Minister for Planning Richard Wynne ...
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CREG is the leading TBM supplier for challenging tunnelling work in underground projects worldwide. CREG provides TBMs, tunnelling technology and technical solutions for a wide variety of ...
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Senbay Madencilik - Kolin - Kalyon JV gear up for tunnelling works on the Dudullu - Bostancı ...
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GIVING OUR CUSTOMERS WHAT THEY NEED: GLOBAL PRODUCT LAUNCHES IN 2016
2016 saw us introduce many developments aimed at helping our customers whatever their business, wherever they are in the world. ...
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In completing his first calendar year with the company, Robin Lindahl, Normet Group’s President and CEO, is reorganizing to maximize the company’s strategic focus and achieve the growth ...
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The city of Akron (Ohio) has never seen a construction project quite like the Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel (OCIT). 1902m of ground lies between the Little Cuyahoga River on the Ohio & Erie ...
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Press release - Milan, December 6, 2016 – The Lane Construction Corporation, a U.S. subsidiary of the Salini Impregilo Group, has won contracts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and ...
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STUVA Expo 2017 and STUVA Conference, the
international trade fair and the forum for tunnels and infrastructure will take
place on 6th – 7th of December 2017 at the Messe Stuttgart, ...
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Eight TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs have
successfully completed 20 drives, totalling approximately 18km of running
tunnels, on four major contracts.
Two TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance ...
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A joint venture between Morgan Sindall and BeMo Tunnelling has been awarded a place on London Underground’s ‘Future Stations’ Civils and Tunnelling Works framework. The eight-year ...
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To watch the awards and see all the winners please click on
the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHESh816ATE
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Due to a clash of dates with another Italian fire safety event, IWMA today announced that it will move its 17th International Water Mist Conference from September to October 2017. The new dates now ...
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The Underground Construction Association of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (UCA of SME) Scholarship has been established to encourage undergraduate and graduate academic ...
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With the official support from Institution of Railway Signal Engineers – Thailand Sector, Rail Expansion Asia 2017 will deliver unmatched opportunities; leveraging expertise from all ...
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The Lee tunnel in Beckton (London), a MVB joint venture (Morgan Sindall/Vinci Grand Projets and Bachy Soletanche), is the first Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete (SFRC) tunnel ever to be nominated and ...
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Phase 4A of the Cairo Metro public works contract was won by a Franco-Egyptian joint venture composed of Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Bouygues Travaux Publics, an Arab Contractor and Orascom ...
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Graeme Monteith, Tunnelling Engineering Manager at Barhale Construction, has been appointed chairman of the Pipe Jacking Association and Jim Kirby, an Associate at consulting engineer Donaldson ...
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Mike Rispin, Senior Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing at Normet Group, announces the following changes in Normet’s North American organization, effective December 1, 2016:
Gregory ...
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Tunnelbuilder websites can offer you far more than any other magazine or website for far less. Tunnelbuilder has a global reach and is being read by over 300,000 people in 128 different countries. ...
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Work is underway on Perth's Forrestfield-Airport Link (FAL) following a sod turning ceremony on 03.11.2016 at the site of the future Forrestfield Station. The FAL will provide a much-needed ...
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The NCE tunnelling summit is pleased to announce their full programme and speaker line up for this years tunnelling summit. The summit will be held on the 7th and 8th of December 2017 in London. For ...
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The 3rd Urban Underground Space and Tunnelling Conference will be held from the 27th March until the 29th in Singapore. This conference will cover technology of underground space and ...
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The Norwegian Tunnelling Society (NFF) has the pleasure to announce that the registration for WTC 2017 is now open . The world tunnel congress will be from the 9th to the 15th June in Bergen ...
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The tunnel-way, dubbed the “Vegas loop”, is a nearly $52.5 million ... Reporters and various Las Vegas media entities were shown the project on ...
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THE TRANSPORTATION department has started seeking bidders for the tunneling works contract connecting the South Commuter Railway Project to ...
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After construction crews spent months drilling, digging, mucking, paving, lining and electrifying tunnels, representatives of Las Vegas media were ...
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Construction of Australia’s biggest road infrastructure project has reached another major milestone, with Rozelle Interchange tunnelling passing the half way mark...
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YOU ARE HERE:INNOVATIVE THINKING
Western Isles to mainland Scotland tunnel to be considered
07 APR, 2021 BY CATHERINE KENNEDY
A 27km tunnel linking the Western Isles and mainland ...
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Construction begins on Snøhetta's entrance for the mile-long ship tunnel which will introduce a safe passage for large vessels along the turbulent ...
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Egis has successfully signed the Contract Agreement with Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) for the design of the Dhaka Metro Line 5 South. Egis, leader of the consortium will work ...
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It is part of the Changzhou-Wuxi Highway which has a total length of 43.9 km. Construction of the underwater tunnel began in January 2018 in east ...
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The La Paz tunnel is located in the La Paz mountain range in Lebrija, a municipality in the department of Santander (Colombia). This region has a warm climate with two annual periods of ...
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“Sir Digs-A-Lot” is one of five finalists out of 1,200 community suggestions for the name of Seattle’s next big underground tunnel boring machine...
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(CNN) — Norway has got the go-ahead to construct what's being billed as the world's first ship tunnel, designed to help vessels navigate the treacherous Stadhavet Sea...
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Cross River Rail will have 5.9 kilometres of twin tunnels running deep under Brisbane.
Giant underground factories...
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Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke joint venture has just completed excavation of the ninth and final shaft of the central section of the super sewer project...
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Fugro delivered the ground investigation for Femern Link Contractors, a consortium formed by Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Per Aarsleff, Wayss ...
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For his long and distinguished career in tunnelling, dedication to the BTS and commitment to developing young tunnel engineers...
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The tunnel, originally announced in 2017, will bore through just over a mile of the peninsula at its narrowest, southern end and allow ships to avoid the ...
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Two Iseki 1200 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named after two deities – the Norse goddess Freya and the Greek goddess Artemis – will complete ...
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The scope of work in the project includes the construction of a 10.5km highway, plus five tunnels with a combined length of 4km. The longest of these ...
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The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recognized nine WSP USA projects for Engineering Excellence..
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Vehicles travel through the Saigon River Tunnel that links District 1 and Thu Duc City, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen...
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The Australasian Tunnelling Conference (ATS2020+1), our premier industry event, will be held in Melbourne on the 10th – 13th May 2021 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre ...
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Tracking devices have been clamped on two 165-metre long boring machines digging the first rail tunnels beneath the Brisbane River. The two giant ...
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Tunnel construction as a climate-friendly source of energy. The Brenner Base Tunnel will relieve transit traffic between Italy and Austria and, incidentally, ...
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More than 20 tunnel boring machines have been put to work to date to build lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 as part of a Grand Paris Express metro expansion ...
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For the first time, LTA will use a large-diameter tunnel boring machine to construct a single tunnel with two tracks in it. CRL1 is slated to commence ...
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True to its dedication to strive for innovation and sustainability, Normet has continued to develop and optimise its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ...
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... two major planning approvals in readiness for the tunnel boring machines to start ... The first tunnelling contracts are likely to be issued in mid-2021.
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Watch the trailer for episode 2 of Tideway’s brand new web series - Tunnel Vision...
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HS2 Ltd has set a construction start date of Spring 2024 for Phase 2a of the project.
The target date for the start of earthworks is revealed in board minutes from December but just ...
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They will build their tunnelling machine and test it against competitors to get top spot.Caption: A render of the Warwick Boring Team's tunnelling device ...
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The M4-M5 Link Tunnels is the first stage of the M4-M5 Link which is being delivered in two stages...
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The Yokohama Loop Northwest Route is a 7.1km-long motorway that connects the Tomei Expressway and the Daisan Keihin Road...
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Tunnel Vision is a new web series from Tideway that will take a closer-then-ever look at the two dozen construction sites that make up the project, its amazing engineering and the people ...
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The NSW Government expects the first of four large tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be in the ground by mid-2023. For more information visit the ...
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Uninterrupted connection was provided in the first tunnel of the Fahrettin Altay-Narlıdere metro line, which is under construction by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality...
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Two former ICE presidents have been brought in to carry out an official feasibility study of a possible Irish Sea crossing...
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Upgrades on the London Underground continue to gather pace, with work progressing on the capacity upgrade at Bank station and the Northern Line Extension programme...
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... LOT main tunnel will consist of approximately 17,000 feet of 144-inch hand-mined diameter tunnel and will be mined with a tunnel boring machine ...
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