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 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 second of three offshore tunnels needed for Hinkley Point C’s cooling water system has been completed under the Bristol Channel...
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In a major milestone for Rio Tinto’s Kemano T2 hydropower project in British Columbia, the tunnel boring machine has broken through to complete its journey...
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Bridges, tunnels and viaducts: works in progress to build the highways of the future...
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In the first of a special two-part Deep Dive, two of the nation’s leading tunnel engineers use detailed animations to reveal the inner workings of today’s state-of-the-art of tunnel boring ...
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This twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London will link Silvertown to the Greenwich Peninsula. Construction is now underway - we plan to open the new tunnel in 2025...
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India has completed work on the first of four tunnels drilled through the Himalayas to connect the Indian-controlled Kashmir with its northern Ladakh region ...
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For lining tunnel construction works, the excavation of one of the two intake tunnels and launched the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the Outfall Tunnel.
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‘Florence’ – the first of HS2's ten Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) has completed her first mile of tunnel for the UK’s new high speed railway. Watch this youtube fly through video...
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Watch the successful bore of the Mine Development Machine (MDM)5000, manufactured by Robbins for Fresnillo Plc, Mexico's oldest silver mine. The MDM5000 is ideal for underground mine ...
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The New Civil Engineer’s Tunnelling Festival 2021 has released its short list of companies...
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Here you may register for STUVA Conference 2021 or log in to your already created user account...
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TunnelSkills are pleased to be attending and exhibiting at the BTS Conference on Thursday 30th September and Friday 1st October...
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National Highways has announced the companies shortlisted for the road building contracts either side of the Lower Thames Crossing...
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At 18.2 km, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel for both vehicles and trains. It will take only ten minutes to travel from Denmark to Germany by car and ...
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Two bidders for the Malta-Gozo tunnel project have filed objections after a single bidder was shortlisted to design and build the tunnel.
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The majority of workers will return to Auckland’s huge City Rail Link tunnelling scheme this week as the New Zealand city finally moves out of full lockdown – but project chiefs have ...
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Procurement has begun on the second major contract for the Scarborough Subway Extension project with the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and ...
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Take a tour inside a HS2 tunnel boring machine (TBM) with one of our tunnelling engineers. Walk the length of this 170m long underground 'factory' and discover how it excavates the 10 mile ...
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The most boring job in Britain! As wide as a house and 500ft long, two monster HS2 drills are chewing their way through the Chilterns. ROBERT HARDMAN hopped on board for an express ride... ...
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It's one year since Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited the Interchange station site in Solihull to announce the formal start of construction on the London-Birmingham phase of HS2...
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A dozen contracts with a value of more than £500M have been revealed as part of the government’s updated National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline...
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Construction of the longest tunnel in Georgia, 9-km long and 15-m in width Kvesheti-Kobi tunnel, has started today, announces the Ministry of Infrastructure...
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The project comprises approximately 2.5 miles of 78-in. welded steel pipeline, and is being constructed by Frontier-Kemper. In addition to the 11,755 ft main line tunnel, Frontier-Kemper’s ...
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The Not-a-Boring Competition happened on September 12th, 2021. We will be sharing updates on all our social media channels. Please make sure to follow us there. We would like to thank our ...
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The project, meant to improve travel between Bergen and the island of Sotra on the west coast, includes a 900m-long suspension bridge and 12.5km of tunnels...
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The project's contractor – the Riverlinx consortium – has revealed that it is getting ready to welcome the TBM to site “so we can reassemble it here ...
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In a recent drone video, Prufrock-2, The Boring Company's newest tunnel boring machine (TBM), was spotted at the tunneling startup's Bastrop, TX location...
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Herrenknecht crews working on the lower half of the tunnel boring machine forward shield. While Metrolinx continues work in Ontario to prepare the launch shaft ...
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Five companies have shown interest in the construction of the much-awaited Jalori tunnel on the Aut-Luhri National Highway connecting Banjar and Anni in ...
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Work on this major Flooding Project commenced within the grounds of Musgrave Park in April 2021. BSG Civil Engineering Ltd. has been appointed as the main contractor for this phase, with ...
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NHSRCL plans to get 3 TBMs for the tunnelling process. Each of the TBMs will progress at a speed of 200-300m per month.The reason for using both techniques ...
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Have you always wanted to know how Keller carries out a large construction site...
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The water tunnel project holds an estimated contract value of $353.9m (AED1.3bn). This project is considered the first of its kind in the region to drain ...
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The Trunk Road T2 and the Cha Kwo Ling(CKL) Tunnel form the middle section of Route 6. They connect the Central Kowloon Route(CKR) to the west and the main tunnel of the Tseung Kwan O –Lam ...
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The two giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that were launched earlier this year to dig the parallel northbound and southbound tunnels have now passed under the ...
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As public demands for sustainable infrastructure grows, urban leaders are taking a closer look at the economic, environmental and social benefits of underground tunnels...
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Don't miss this specialized annual tunneling industry event where you have the chance to share experiences and identify mutual opportunities for growth in tunneling, an industry ...
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At Kramertunnel is going on a full jobsite installation process. KERN Tunneltechnik is supplying several tunnel formworks and machines for secondary lining. The project is being delivered ...
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The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) jointly with NJ TRANSIT and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have issued the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Final Section ...
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