On the 01.06.2016 the Indian Union Cabinet approved the 9.05 km extension of Corridor-1 of the Chennai Metro Rail Project Phase-I from Washermanpet to Wimconagar (Lot UAA08). The 2.4 km ...
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The Norwegian Tunnelling Society (NFF) announced that the Call for Abstracts for WTC 2017 has been extended until the 01.07.2016.
Abstracts for WTC2017 are welcome on the following ...
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Cross River Rail in Brisbane is the Queensland Government’s highest priority infrastructure project. It is required to support the region’s growing urban population. With the population ...
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Rideau Transit Group, which is building the phase 1 of Ottawa’s light rail transit (LRT), called the Confederation Line, is coordinating the repair work for a 300-m stretch of the LRT tunnel ...
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SoilFreeze is the only U.S. construction company specializing exclusively in ground freezing services for construction and related industries. The company provides structural shoring, ...
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Madrid, 10 June 2016. The FAST consortium, headed by FCC, has completed tunnelling work on Riyadh Metro line 5 (Green line). The announcement was made at an event held in the Saudi capital that was ...
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Tunneljobs.com is a new company created specifically for the tunnelling industry by tunnelling professionals. It has been kept simple and easy to use and there is a team of people at tunneljobs to ...
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On 06.06.2016 in Regensdorf the main works for the expansion of the 10 km northern Zurich bypass began. The bypass, which has been open to traffic since 1985 with two lanes in both directions, runs ...
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On 13.05.2016 the final breakthrough occurred in the Valico di Fossato tunnel on the SS76 Val d’Esino, Fossato di Vico-Cancelli section. This tunnel is part of the Quadrilatero Marche-Umbria ...
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On 01.06.2016 the inauguration of the Gotthard Base Tunnel was held at Rynächt Pollegio north and south. The Gotthard Base tunnel is 57km long between the north portal in Erstfeld and Bodio in ...
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The 16th International Water Mist Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria, on the 21st and 22nd of September 2016. The venue will be the Arcotel Wimberger Wien.
The ...
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On 25.05.016 the Rastatt tunnel construction the officially started. The tunnel is on the Karlsruhe-Rastatt-South section 1 of the 182km Karlsruhe - Basle main line. The 4270 m Rastatt tunnel will ...
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The construction on the 160 km Phase 3 of the Delhi Metro system began in 2011 and is currently underway, 53.835 km of the metro is being built underground.
The Phase 3 of the Delhi Metro involves ...
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On the 29.04.2016 the consortium of Doprastav-Vahostav-Strabag-Metrostav completed the excavation for the 2km twin tube Ovciarsko tunnel, which is close to Zilina. The 11 km Hricovske Podhradie - ...
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New Civil Engineer’s hugely popular Tunnelling Awards are back for their seventh year, and the 2016 event promises to be bigger and better than ever. The awards showcase the very best in ...
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Strata Worldwide would like to introduce its latest model of refuge chambers."Strata Worldwide has invested considerable time and effort in understanding the issues of working at the new ...
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CEAR has completed a plan of investment in research and development that has been given an ATEX standard 2014/34/UE notification for the company's quality system and for the conformity of production ...
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ExpoTunnel staff engaged in intensive promotional activity of their show at BAUMA in Munich and at the WTC in San Francisco. ExpoTunnel has promoted this event to the international public ...
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The World Tunnel Congress for 2017 will take place in the conference centre in the Edvard Grieg Hall in the City of Bergen, Norway. The conference will start on the 09.06.2017 and end on the ...
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The final preparations for the opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel which is the heart of the New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA) are being made.
At midnight between 31.05.2016 and ...
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Visit Putzmeister during IFAT 2016 at Booth A6.251/350,
from May 30th to June 3rd 2016. IFAT 2016 is the world's leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials ...
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ADFIL, Low & Bonar's construction fibre business, participated
for the first time at the World Tunnelling Congress 2016 (WTC). It was the first time that the Durus S500, an
innovative ...
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The Bolzano
provincial council approved project variations for the Chienes ring road. The
road length will increase from the initially planned 2 km to 2.7 km, extending
westward, in the direction ...
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Dubai Municipality is planning to build a 75 km
deep-sewer tunnel and network in the Deira and Bur Dubai area of the emirate.
It will be similar to the Strategic Tunnel Enhancement Programme ...
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The $1.176
billion Forrestfield-Airport Link contract awarded last April to the joint
venture between Italian company Salini Impregilo and local company NRW Pty Ltd
(SINRW) involves the ...
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Robbins will be hosting their third webinar for the 2016 series on June 15th 2016.
The title is - Mega TBM Mobilization: The Logistics of Multi-Machine Project
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Record orders confirm customer confidence - Seven days of intense activity for SBM Mineral Processing! High numbers of trade visitors from around the world, valuable new contacts and a surprising ...
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This month on the NorthConnex project in Sydney, Australia, they will reach a major milestone when the first of the roadheaders start operating at the Southern Compound. This roadheader will ...
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Last month it was announced that the new Hudson River rail tunnels will get a EUR 61.43 million (USD 70 million) injection from Amtrak (50%) and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (50%) ...
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RETC will be held from June 4-7, 2017 at the Hyatt Grand Manchester in San Diego, CA. The 2017 RETC Organizing Committee has issued a call for papers. Prospective authors should submit abstracts of ...
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Parts of the first Follo Line TBM (diameter 9.96 m, length 150 m, weight 2400 t) have arrived in Norway. This first shipment included segments for the large cutterhead. This is the first of four ...
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SELI Overseas is the first to complete the TBM excavation on the Gold Line in Doha. On Sunday 01/05/16 at approximately 10.00am TBM 6 will broke through into the Al Aziziyah Station in Doha. ...
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On March 29, 2016, North America’s first Crossover TBM broke new ground in Mexico City. The 8.7 m (28.5 ft) diameter Robbins XRE—a cross between a rock TBM and an EPB—emerged ...
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The Underground Grouting & Ground Improvement Short Course will be held on May 16-20 at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA. The course will cover grouting and ground ...
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Last month TERRATEC’s TR3000 Raise Boring Machine successfully completed two 3.1m diameter shafts for ventilation purposes for copper mines in the Sichuan Province in China. The rock ...
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Melamchi Water Supply Development Board (MWSDB) has the responsibility to implement Phase 1 of the Melamchi Water Supply Project, including a tunnel to divert raw water from Melamchi river to a ...
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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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