On August 11th 2019 TBM Sibylle the first of two
TBMs involved in the construction of the Albvorland tunnel, completed 7,700 m of the northern tube after only 18 months. The Albvorland ...
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On August the 16th TBM Nancy broke through a wall
of rock at the site of the future Pitt Street Station, about 20m below the
heart of Sydney’s CBD. Nancy had clocked up 6km of tunnelling ...
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HCC-MMS JV achieves major milestone with Terratec machine
having broken through on the first full section of running tunnel to be
completed for Mumbai Metro Line 3, in India. In early-August, ...
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From the East to the West Coast, North America’s tunnelling industry is flourishing. In 2019, the eighth annual Cutting Edge Conference will be held in Hilton Miami Downtown, Florida from ...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday
unveiled the rolling stock model of Metro Line 3, which has been named AquaLine. The MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation) has awarded the ...
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3 Ways to Bore More Efficiently in Extremely Hard Rock: Maximize your TBM Advance through Minimized Downtime
When the rock seems unbreakable, stresses are multiplied: The cutters must be stronger, ...
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Extension of the Kommunarskaya Line
On 20 August, at the meeting of the Urban Planning Commission, the project for the extension of the Kommunarskaya line of the Moscow metro to the city of Troitsk ...
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On the 21st of August a summit to establish the
next steps for the construction of the 2.5km road tunnel under Monte Tondo was
held. The interested parties were the Municipality, the Province of ...
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With over 55 live tenders for construction/development
of new tunnels in just Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium at the time of writing this,
it is safe to say that tunnel construction/ ...
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A Tunnel boring machine built by the Robbins company “holed through” Tuesday morning,
breaking through shale bedrock in Dutchess County to complete its excavation on
the $1 billion ...
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Press release - The 17-strong expert judging panel, chaired
by the ITA President Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan, has concluded its deliberations and
based on detailed evaluation, 32 entries have been chosen ...
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Dr. Manoj Verman, President of a new ISRM Commission on Hard Rock Excavation, will be the speaker for two short courses on tunnelling to be held at the Radisson Blu, Kathmandu, Nepal from the ...
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On July 3, 2019 the MIT (Ministero delle Infrastrutture e
dei Trasporti) completed the evaluations for the new Brescia – Padova High
Speed/High Capacity railway section and have now ...
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The second
of two new 4.66m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs to be delivered
for a 13.5km potable water tunnel system, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
At the
end of July, ...
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The final sprint: Only 5 months to go to STUVA Expo 2019 -
Register now!
Reserve your trade fair stand for STUVA Expo 2019 now from
the 26th to the 27th of November 2019. Take advantage ...
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The Broadway Subway project is an extension of the
Millennium Line and a key link in Metro Vancouver’s transportation system. The
5.7-km line will extend the existing SkyTrain system ...
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On July 24th , 2019 the official inauguration
ceremony of the RijnlandRoute TBM took place (click here for a video). In early
August the 100 m long TBM, built by Herrenknecht and named Gaia, after ...
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A giant tunnelling machine set to create part of London’s
new super sewer arrived in London this week, with parts unloaded from a ship
onto the Greenwich Peninsula. The machine will be used ...
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The Obigarm-Nurobod road section of the existing M41 - part
of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) network (Corridors 2,
3 and 5) and connecting the northeast region of ...
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In early July, a 2.8
m Robbins Main Beam TBM began boring the 2.7 km long Salvasskardelva HEPP in
Bardu, Norway. The TBM, specially designed for Norsk Grønnkraft's (NGK) ...
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B. De Rivaz
Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions, Erembodegem-Aalst, Belgium
ABSTRACT: New guideline concerning the use of FRC
precast segment has been recently
published to provide detail ...
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Course organizers have announced the agenda for the 12th annual Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course. The Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course will be held Sep. 9-11 at the University of ...
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On 19.07.2019 the teams of the Horizon Consortium (Bouygues
Travaux Publics / Soletanche Bachy / BESSAC) - working on lot T2A of Line 15
South of the Grand Paris Express - left the construction ...
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The Paris Line 11 extension to Rosny-Bois-Perrier will be
built with cut & cover, conventional
and TBM methods. The central part of the new alignment between the Serge
Gainsbourg ...
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As the fastest growing region in the
global economy, Southeast Asia emerging economies have attracted worldwide
attention. It is estimated that by 2020, ASEAN is expected to become the ...
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Retired Chartered Engineer CALVIN BARROWS proposes simple but innovative solutions to the age-old problem of overheating metro networks.
Worldwide there are a significant number of Metro networks ...
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On July 4th , 2019 Canada’s Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, joined by Mayor Valerie Plante, the Quebec Junior Transport Minister
and Minister Responsible for Montreal, Chantal Rouleau and ...
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New allocation from the FTA for section three of the Metro
has received a new allocation of AUD100 million from the Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) for the third and final section of the ...
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The launch site - from where the 90 m long TBMs will dig
south west to build the twin tunnels to connect the West Gate Freeway to the
port, city and CityLink in Melbourne - has taken a year to ...
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Finest Bay Area Development has signed a memorandum of
understanding with three Chinese companies, as part of plans to build the 100
km (60 mile) double undersea train tunnel from Tallinn in ...
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Three roadheaders
have met 30 metres underground in the first major breakthrough, connecting two
excavated caverns that will become State Library Station.
The road headers have dug out more ...
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The Bahrain Rail Congress 2019 will be held under the theme
“Designing & Developing a Well Connected, World Class, National Rail
Network in the Kingdom of Bahrain” which is ...
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On the 10th
of July 2019 a second TBM arrived at Parco Solari station in Milan. Thus
completing the excavation of the tunnels from San Cristoforo to Solari, part of
the western section of ...
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Element Construction are looking for a tunnel construction
company to be part of a joint venture on a tunnelling project. The tunnelling
project is to build two parallel tunnels for a highway, ...
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Before tunnelling for the West Gate Tunnel
Project begins in 2019, they need to divert a 600 metre section of the North
Yarra Main Sewer. Diverting a sewer is a massive job that involves ...
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London’s £4.2 billion super sewer is seen from the air as
new pictures reveal deep shafts carved into the banks of the River Thames.
The Thames Tideway tunnel snakes alongside the ...
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