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 rail expo will be held from the 2nd of March until the 4th 2017 at Istanbul’s Expo Centre.
Eurasia Rail is Turkey's and the Middle East's leading exhibition providing the perfect ...
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On the 14th November at 12.30am Condotte group achieved the final breakthrough in the Paniga tunnel in Morbegno. The tunnel is Lot 1 and the 2nd part of the SS38 Stelvio bypass ...
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ITA Croatia is organizing for 2017 the 7th International Symposium on Tunnels and Underground Structures in South-East Europe with the title "SEE tunnel". The Symposium will be held in the ...
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Edvirt to deliver simulator training and testing required for all operators in E4 Stockholm Bypass project - This autumn, construction will begin on the E4 Stockholm Bypass project. When finished, ...
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Robbins will be on Stand 54 at TBM DiGs on the 16th -18th of November in Istanbul, Turkey. Robbins has had a presence in Turkey for nearly 30 years. Robbins supplied the first TBM to ever bore ...
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The latest VMT Newsletter is now available. The newsletter
includes updates about VMTs current projects, product developments and general
topics that concern VMT. To view the newsletter please ...
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Management Authority for Urban
Railways (MAUR) of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee intends to undertake the
construction and implementation of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line 2 ...
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The 20th Gulf Engineering Forum in collaboration with the
4th Arabian Tunnelling Conference will be held in Dubai from
the 21st to 22nd February 2017 at the Ritz ...
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On 01.11.2016 the Board of Supervisors agreed to accept a EUR9 million state grant for the EUR70.43 million Interlake Tunnel project pending final terms. The supervisors adopted a resolution of ...
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is working on putting forth standards for the Tunneling industry. During a meeting held in October by the American Society of Mechanical ...
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At Mexico City’s Túnel Emisor Poniente II (TEP II), a Robbins
Crossover (XRE) TBM has excavated at record-breaking speeds through varying
geology – setting two national records ...
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Many companies make promises about their equipment and services. Sandvik however feel that “seeing is believing” and this has led them to create a selection of videos showing just ...
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Two 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines are ready to be delivered to Tata-Gulermak JV, for the North-South line (Phase 1 A) of the Lucknow Metro, in Uttar ...
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The latest ITA newsletter is now available please click here to read the newsletter which includes the following message from Tarcisio CELESTINO, the ITA President:
Dear ITA ...
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The Forrestfield-Airport Link will connect the existing Midland Line, near Bayswater Station, to Forrestfield through underground tunnels.
In September the Public Transport Authority (PTA) formally ...
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Free Webinar | Wednesday, November 2, 10am (Eastern Daylight Time) hosted by The Robbins Company.
High cover, squeezing ground, fault zones, water inflows … geological challenges arise but ...
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Andrew Wolstenholme, CEO at Crossrail Ltd has said that Crossrail is more than 75% complete. “There is a huge amount of work underway to complete the stations and fit-out the physical ...
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Swiftly-Assembled Machine to bore Emergency Water Supply Tunnel - After an Onsite First Time Assembly (OFTA) lasting just 2.5 months, Atlanta Georgia, USA’s newest TBM, dubbed ...
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The Third International Conference on Tunnel Boring Machines in Difficult Grounds (TBM DiGs 2017) will be hosted in Wuhan, China. Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts on various ...
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Since its
inception in 1994, the annual Microtunneling Short Course has been the premier
event devoted to advancing the industry. Much like the microtunneling market
itself, the Microtunneling ...
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The Metro Tunnel will transform public transport above and
below ground, including Melbourne's tram network.
During the construction of Domain station, trams will
continue to run along St Kilda ...
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Ragnar Wighus president of the IWMA announced today that the
17th International Water Mist Conference will take place in Rome,
Italy on the 20th and 21st September
2017. A venue has ...
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On September 23, 2016, Bangalore’s last
TBM for the city’s metro rail project broke through, marking the end of TBM
tunneling on the Namma Metro phase 1.
The Robbins-operated ...
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Datwyler, during the third quarter of 2016, has been involved in several projects in Argentina, Equador, India, Russia, USA and the United Kingdom. To read more about these projects ...
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On 26th September 2016, TERRATEC
celebrated the successful Factory Acceptance Test of a new 3.20m diameter Earth
Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (EPBM) destined for the Phra Khanong
Cable ...
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A 38km bridge in the South China Sea will form a fixed
crossing over the Pearl River Estuary between Zhuhai and Macau on the western
side and Hong Kong on the eastern side. The Y-shaped bridge ...
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The $1.25 billion Eurasia Tunnel, which is 14.6 km long with 3.4 km under the sea, connecting the European and Asian sides, will open to the public on 20.12.2016. Turkish President Erdogan had a ...
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The Board of Directors of Datwyler
Holding Inc. has appointed Torsten Maschke to the new CEO of the Sealing
Solutions division and made him a member of the Executive Management. The
47-year-old ...
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iPS announces the appointment of Hans van Burk as Director Sales and Marketing. Hans (43) has extensive sales experience within the energy and maritime industry, recently as Commercial Director of ...
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On Tuesday, September 6, 2016, one of the longest-running Robbins TBMs embarked on its most extensive project yet. The 6.2 m (20.2 ft) Main Beam machine, owned by the Shea-Kiewit (S-K) JV, ...
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Mühlhauser GmbH from Freienbach entered into an agreement with SMT Scharf GmbH. Core of the strategic partnership is the exclusive sale of a jointly developed logistics solution for ...
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On 26th August 2016, TERRATEC successfully completed the Factory Acceptance Tests of a new Microtunnelling System in its assembly plant in Guangzhou, China. The testing was attended by ...
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Tunnelbuilder welcomes Trimble as an animated banner advertiser.
Positioning-centric information is changing the way people, businesses and governments work throughout the world. By ...
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The 3rd Annual Urban, Underground Space and Tunneling large scale conference is designed to meet all building industry practitioners' demands to secure and guarantee their investments. The three day ...
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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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The new line will run on a main tunnel approximately 10.1 km (6 miles) in length, created by two new tunnel-boring machines, and will also include 20 ...
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