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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CMC di Ravenna recently marked the commencement of the Río Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel, in Argentina, with a cutterhead lowering ceremony that was attended by the country’s President Alberto ...
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The ECA (European Court of Auditors) audited the Commission’s management of the following 8 cross-border transport megaprojects in thirteen Member States:
1) Rail Baltica: a rail line ...
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The Sydney Metro West EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) went on exhibition 30th April and the community has until 26/06/2020 to provide feedback. This is one of three EISs for the project ...
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On June 17th 20202 the final breakthrough in the north tube of the
Koralm tunnel took place. Since 2014, tunnellers have dug through the mountain from
Carinthian Lavanttal with the TBM Kora. After ...
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On the 12/06/2020 TBM Maria broke through at the C20 Kondratowicza station. The TBM completed the first part of the right tunnel on the north-east section of metro Line 2 in Warsaw.
The ...
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Tideway is building a new 25km super sewer, deep beneath the Thames, where around two million tonnes of sewage overflowing from the pumping station and into the River every year, will be ...
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The excavation of the TBMs launch site and the construction of the concrete precast plant for the Chiltern tunnels on the London to Birmingham high speed rail line, HS2 First Phase project has now ...
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On the 04/06/2020 Zitron successfully carried out the most
challenging high temperature test to date on a tunnel axial fan: 600 ºC for 120
minutes.
These fans will be installed at the ...
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On the 16th of June comol5 celebrated a major milestone
by successfully drilling under the Rhine-Schie Canal for the second time. It was
the most difficult and exciting part of the drilling ...
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On the 11/06/2020 the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that legislators did not violate the state constitution by allowing construction of an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two ...
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Piacenza Expo has decided to postpone the GEOFLUID exposition until 2021. The new date for your diaries will be the 15th to the 18th of September 2021 at the exhibition centre ...
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On the 08/06/2020 the TBM EPB S-900 Herrenknecht (diameter
15.87 m) completed the excavation of the 7551 m Santa Lucia tunnel on Barberino
di Mugello - Calenzano section, A1 Motorway in Italy. ...
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ELAPAS (Empresa Local de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Sanitario) from the city of Sucre, Bolivia, has published the Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System (Lot ...
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ITA-AITES and the Danish Society for Tunnels and Underground
Works (DFTU) call for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2021 in
Copenhagen 16-19 May 2021 has been extended to the 16 June 2020. ...
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The Big 5, the annual trade event connecting the global
construction community in Dubai, is moving dates from 23-26 November 2020 and
will be held next on 12-15 September 2021, at the Dubai World ...
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Don't forget to stop by the Robbins booth at the North American Tunnelling (NAT) virtual trade show, where you can view a curated selection of Robbins latest news, white papers, videos and ...
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Are you ready for the North American Tunnelling (NAT) Virtual Conference? Register and get a week full of informative talks on intriguing topics from June 8-12. Visit ...
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The call for entries has been extended until the 23rd June 2020 for the 6th edition of the international tunnelling and underground space awards. The ITA Awards will take place at the ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for the Ontario Line project. The Ontario Line is a 15.5-km stand-alone rapid transit line that ...
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On 28/05/20 Larsen & Toubro began lowering parts of TBM DZ669 (named Avni) and DZ671 (named Vindhya) into the Shivajinagar and Cantonment stations, respectively, for driving tunnels on the ...
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Balfour Beatty today announces that its 50:50 joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$7.2 billion (c. £760 million) contract to deliver tunnels and associated works for an ...
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Acciona and Nye Veier, the Norwegian state highway authority, have reached an agreement to proceed to the next stage of the design and construction of the E6 Ranheim-Værnes highway.
Work is ...
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On the 06/05/2020 Deutsche Bahn reached another important milestone as part of the Stuttgart 21 project, by breaking through the east tube of the 9.5-km-long Filder tunnel: the last of four tunnels ...
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A number of TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs are achieving great progress rates on new lines for Istanbul’s ongoing metro expansion despite the Covid-19 outbreak.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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The Penetron Italy team were approached to provide a waterproofing solution for an underground pedestrian tunnel, elevator shafts, and different concrete structures for the new San Martino ...
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The 2020 ISRM International Symposium will be held on 12-14 October 2020. The event will take place at the same venue in Trondheim, Norway. All associated ISRM meetings will also be moved to new ...
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Metro tunnel in Australia have reached another major
milestone, with tunnel boring machines (TBM) Millie and Alice now both on their
way to South Yarra.
The green TBM Alice, named after wartime ...
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There are four TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta, Maria and Anna that are being used to tunnel the central Targowek and Wola sections of the Warsaw metro line 2. TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta will now ...
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On the 19/05/20 in Francavilla Marittima in Cosenza province, the first stone was laid for the Mega Lot 3 of the SS 106 Ionian Highway. The EUR980 million project, was commissioned by state road ...
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