Companies that are looking to buy heavy machinery for their current and next jobs may be able to secure a good deal at Ritchie Bros. upcoming auction in Ocaña (Central Spain). The auction - held on June 7 & 8 - features more than 2,000 pieces of equipment, trucks and other items.
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On 22.05.2017 the first stage of the “TELT at Work” roadshow was held in Turin. TELT is a project that covers the cross-border works for the Lyon-Turin railway line. The TELT ...
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VMT are pleased
to announce that the past year has been something of a good one for their
tunnel guidance systems as well as for all other product solutions of the VMT
portfolio – with the ...
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At the end of April 2017 the construction of the section 1 of the Tehran-Shomal Freeway (or Tehran-North Freeway) project, connecting Tehran to the city of Chalus at the Caspian Sea in the northern ...
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In April 2017, a ceremony was held to celebrate the
commissioning of the Dariali Hydropower Project in the Republic of Georgia.
Many attended the ceremony marking the first carbon-neutral ...
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On the 25.04.2017 the Los Angeles Metro held a pre-proposal conference for the Section 3 tunnel contract. They are using an innovative approach by delivering the stations and tunnels separately for ...
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Normet, the innovative underground technology company, has
won several new orders from Hindustan Zinc, India’s only and the world leading
producer of Zinc-Lead-Silver.
Hindustan ...
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BBC TWO’s (UK) The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway returns for a second series on 22 May at 9pm GMT to follow the construction of the Elizabeth line under London.
Crossrail provided exclusive ...
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The
conference webpage for the 17th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) is
now active and online! The event will take place on 25th and 26th October 2017
in Rome, Italy. The conference ...
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Excavation of the downtown Bellevue light rail tunnel began in February 2017 and construction crews have been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on tunnel construction ever since.
Sound Transit ...
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tunnelbuilder opens the doors to all tunnelling companies, putting their products in front of thousands of qualified readers. All advertisers, large and small, have one thing in common – the ...
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On 5th May
2017, CREG’s 3.5m diameter gripper TBM LEA made its first breakthrough of its Tunnel
Drive 3 as part of the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project. A celebration was
held in ...
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Tunnelbuilder welcomes SWEDFAN as a new advertiser .SWEDFAN undertake the design, calculations, manufacturing and supply of complete underground ventilation systems with heavy-duty high pressure ...
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Check out Robbins Special Edition Newsletter from The
Robbins Company so you can catch up on all that they have been doing lately !
For all the latest information please click on this link ...
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Tunneljobs is recruiting for a major tunnelling contract in the United Kingdom. So if you are looking for work currently or within the next 2 months please either send your current resume to the ...
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California High-Speed Rail will make a stop at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) in San Diego, California, June 4 – 7.
Featuring 100 technical sessions, short courses and ...
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TERRATEC Tight Radius Shields (TRS)
facilitate a challenging curved alignment on a major new drainage tunnel
project for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) .
In April 2017, ...
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On 22.03.2017 a TBM broke through at Maniatika Station on the Athens Line 3 extension to Piraeus. By the end of March 67% of the tunnel had been completed which equates to 50% of the ...
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Preparation work for a hopper for Almohades in Casablancabegan at the beginning of 2017 has now finished. This will allow for tunnelling works to start shortly. In July 2016 the turkish company ...
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On 05.04.17 the TBM Aktor broke through at Analipsi station after opening the second of the twin 7.8km main shafts which are part of of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Railway. The breakthrough ...
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The Call for Papers for the 8th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2018) is open. The symposium will be held at the Textile ...
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Early registration ends May 7 for the Rapid Excavation
and Tunneling Conference (RETC), June 4 – 7, 2017 in San Diego.
RETC 2017 is heating up in San Diego, California with
tunneling ...
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A Robbins TBM, recently christened “Augustine”, is being
commissioned to undertake its eighth bore after being launched by contractor
Eiffage Civil Engineering on March 3. The TBM, ...
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Normet Group and JCHX Mining Management Co Ltd have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and sell underground mining equipment in the Chinese market.
The joint venture will ...
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The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) is a strategic project between the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore that aims to facilitate seamless travel between the two capital cities. The ...
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On 06.02.2017 the Turkish group Makyol completed the
excavation of a 5.2km sewer tunnel. The tunnel was driven by a TBM EPB
(diameter 6.5 m, lenght 87 m) and is part of the Super West Collector ...
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The Joint venture between Cimic a subsidiary of CPB Contractors and John Holland has been named as the preferred contractor for the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia. The joint ...
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PPS is looking forward to make 2017 a year of innovation in the PPS product lines. A new generation of pipejacking and micro-tunneling systems will be introduced and classical PPS guidance systems ...
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New threats like terrorist acts in tunnels and cyber-attacks to control systems could severely influence public life. Within a workshop on “New Security Challenges for Design and ...
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To view Amberg technologies latest newsletter please click here.15/17.
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The preferred route for the new Lower Thames Crossing between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent has been announced. The new two-mile road tunnel will create a link between the A2 and the M25 ...
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On 06.04.2017 the TBM Harriet arrived at the Leimert Park Station completing the second tunnel of the underground section of the Crenshaw/LAX Line in Los Angeles.
The TBM began its work on ...
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The ITA video of Tunnelling Works over the world (updated)
has been released on youtube please view it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzY0QuF4gkM&feature=youtu.be
.14/17.
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STUVA-Expo 2017 – multiple communication options for
exhibitors available
Improving the efficiency of communication for our exhibitors
is currently the focus of the organizing team of ...
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The call for Abstracts for 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference has been extended to Monday the 10th of April. Submit in one of the following categories:
1. Urban Planning, ...
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The major phase of geotechnical investigations to inform
tunnel and station designs for the Metro Tunnel Project is now complete.
Over the past two years more than 270 boreholes have been
drilled ...
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LONDON - A British court on Friday overturned government approval for the construction of a controversial road tunnel close to the Stonehenge stone circle, following opposition from ...
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Thames Tideway tunnellers have achieved a significant milestone linking up all three sections of the super sewer project for the first time. West main ...
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The Philippines and Japan on Tuesday, (July 27) formally signed an additional P116-billion (JPY253 billion) loan package to finance the building of the country’s first underground railway...
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All four of the Metro Tunnel’s tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are being retrieved from underground...
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A High Court judge has ruled that transport secretary Grant Shapps did not break the law when approving the £27.4bn Road Investment Strategy (RIS2)...
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The Formwork, designed and manufactured for the Tunnel des Evouettes, has been pre-assembled and inspected by the client...
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Major work is expected to start in the coming months, with the tunnelling contract awarded by the end of the year and tunnel boring machines in the ...
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The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel Project will replace the 2.25km-long rail tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Baltimore, Maryland, US. Project Type...
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ON the evening of Monday July 19, the tunnel boring machine that is working on the construction of the sanitation pipeline in Palma completed the ...
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Following the launch of HS2's first two giant tunnelling machines, Align JV have now begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the ...
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A 6.6m (21.8ft) diameter Robbins Crossover XRE TBM has made its third and final breakthrough for India’s Mumbai Metro Line 3. The project has an estimated cost of US$4.2 billion...
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Start time: 6.00pm AEST. The discussion will cover the concept of a system being an integration of people, process and technology, starting with the end in mind needing to understand the ...
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The construction of a large tunnel system in the District requires the ... To help mitigate construction impacts, D.C. Water partnered with three of the ...
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Join us to celebrate the launch of our tunnel boring machine Hiwa-i-te-Rangi with a self-guided tour of our Central Interceptor construction site. You will be able to immerse yourself in ...
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SCS's contract will involve the construction of a variety of structures and 21km of the line will be in a tunnel created using six tunnel boring machines.
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It is part of a major project to modernise the Trakia railway from Sofia to Bourgas, which has been under construction for 15 years. The hopes are that the ...
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The Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel is a construction project that will bring needed infrastructure improvement to east Dallas, Texas...
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Construction of the latest phase of National Grid’s London Power Tunnels will reach a major milestone later this month with the launch of its second tunnel boring machine (TBM) following ...
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KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): The first of two tunnel boring machines (TBM) which will be used to start excavation works for the Genting Tunnel as part of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project ...
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Singapore’s longest fully underground MRT line – Cross Island Line (CRL – CR108) will be linked to existing MRT lines for seamless connectivity...
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The new IMM management, which solved the financing problem of the lines, downloaded the TBMs (Tunel Boring Machine - Tunnel Boring Machines) ...
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This site known as the Southern laydown area will be used to assemble two tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) that will dig 4kms of tunnels for the new ...
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The Boring Company (TBC) unleashed its new tunnel boring machine (TBM) named Prufrock in Las Vegas recently. Prufrock may help Elon Musk's ...
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The largest construction project in Fort Wayne's history recently struck a new milestone with the conclusion of boring for a new sewer tunnel.
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Highways England is seeking feedback on changes to its plans to ...
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We are proud to introduce our renewed EFNARC C2 compatible VR concrete spraying training simulator! The video shows how industry professionals see the importance of operator competence in ...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): It took over three years and involved boring through more than five miles of bedrock beneath the Summit City, and on Thursday morning, officials announced that the ...
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This month, James and Taylor are at Barn Elms to visit the greenest site on the Tideway project... and to recreate Ireland's famous goal against England at Euro '88...
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The Coffs Harbour Bypass project is a priority for the Australian and NSW governments as the Pacific Highway is a major contributor to Australia's economy. The bypass will be a key link in ...
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It's not every job that you get to use big pieces of machinery deep underneath Auckland...
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Contest to build Tesla of tunnel boring machines ... Musk's competition aim to revolutionise tunnelling methods so advanced smart and efficient ... and mathematics students have been ...
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The 110-year old Hudson River rail tunnels are used by 450 trains a day. Funding for the $11.6 billion project — $9.8 billion for new tunnel construction ...
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Highways England has launched the hunt for a Delivery Assurance Partner to support the delivery of its £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade past Stonehenge...
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Founder and president of the Himalaya Bachao Samiti Kulbhushan Upmanyu has pleaded for giving priority to the construction of the Chamba-Chowari tunnel beneath the Jot Pass...
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We've been given a first look at one of the completed Sydney Metro railway tunnels under Sydney Harbour. It'll connect North Sydney to Barangaroo. It's a massive project that's been ...
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Look back at the last 20 months of TBM tunnelling with a highlight reel of everything our mighty machines have accomplished so far...
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PAWTUCKET – The Narragansett Bay Commission last Friday broke ground on its Pawtucket Tunnel project, a milestone that’s seen plenty of advance legwork leading up to it...
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A new technical communication solution is now being used in the construction of the double-track railway through Moss...
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Specialist engineering and civils contractor J Murphy & Sons battled through the pandemic year to lift revenue by 26% to a record £1.1bn...
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