The high-performance concrete mixing plant SBM LINEMIX® 3000 CM 410-7 H produces concrete for precast segments or tubbings. The SBM concrete mixing plant has two main features when ...
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The breakthrough of the new 1.8km double-track Beskyd railway tunnel happened on the 21.01.2016. This tunnel is located in the Carpathian Mountains, in south-west Ukraine. The new tunnel with ...
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The building of the 13 km East Coast stretch of the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) will connect commuters living in the eastern parts of Singapore and who are not currently directly served by ...
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Highways England is consulting from the 26 January 2016 until 24 March 2016 on options for the Lower Thames Crossing, which is a new road crossing for the River Thames connecting Kent and Essex.
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The 2016 Underground Construction conference will be held in Prague from 23.05.2016 to 25.05.2016. It will showcase information about existing tunnel excavations in the Slovak Republic and important ...
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Normet are pleased to announce that Robin Lindahl (51) has been appointed as President and CEO of Normet Group, he will start in his new role not later than 1.5.2016. He will be based in Huenenberg, ...
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In 2014 the restoration of the Rosemont reservoir began again, it had been commissioned by the Municipality of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tunnel construction comprises of a large diameter ...
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On 21.01.2016 at 12.00 noon and about 700 m away from the north portal at Camorino, the final breakthrough in the 15,289 meter long west tube of the Ceneri Base Tunnel took place. The breakthrough ...
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The countdown has begun - ExpoTunnel 2016 registrations are now officially open!
The third edition of the exhibition takes place in Bologna in October 2016 from the 19th until the 21st. Discounted ...
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ICE Engineering Underground Space 2016: Regeneration through Innovation will be held on the 15 March 2016, in Westminster, London at One Great George Street.
Many current and proposed ...
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Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is experiencing impressive population growth. The municipality has set out to address this situation and control impacts in terms of pollution, public health ...
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Normet, the innovative technology company offering continuous improvement to underground construction and mining processes, has agreed to acquire from Atlas Copco the assets of the MEYCO dry ...
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On the 14/01/2016 NFM Technologies in Le Creusot delivered the TBM Federica to Telt (Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin). The group of companies that are involved in the construction in Savoy, are led by ...
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In order to further improve its operations the Himal Hydro, the leading Nepalese construction company, has recently acquired a Sandvik Commando DC125R surface drill rig. The Commando DC125R is a ...
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Datwyler have released their latest newsletter to read please click here. For further information contact johannes.sutor@datwyler.com of visit the Datwyler website www.datwyler.com 02/16
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Please find below the link to the Sandvik Construction Yearbook which features a variety of case stories that have been published during 2015. These show the successful cooperation between our ...
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Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has said that construction of the 4.5km Kartal-Kaynarca extension of M4 Kadikoy-Kartal (21.8 km) metro in Istanbul has been completed and test runs will ...
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Bertha, the SR 99 TBM, is now tunneling in Seattle soil after breaking through the access pit wall on the 06.01.2016. Seattle Tunnel Partners has mined more than 22 m and installed 12 concrete ...
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Uzbekiston Temir Yullari the Uzbekistan Railway Company, will shortly open their new123.1 km electrified railway line between Agren in the Tashkent region and Pap in the Namangan region. ...
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4th European Forum of Road Tunnel Safety Officers - High Quality Meeting of Specialists in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from 9th to 10th March 2016.
There is a great demand of high quality knowledge ...
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Terratec is pleased to announce that its EPB TBM designated as S42 holed through on Friday, the 4th of December 2015 in Istanbul after completing the first half of its proposed run from Yenimahalle ...
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On 15th December 2015 TERRATEC successfully completed the Factory Acceptance Tests of two new Micro-tunnelling Systems in its facilities in Thailand for the MRTA Green Line (North) ...
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On the 23.12.2015 the Sparvo tunnel had its opening ceremony. It is part of the 32km La Quercia - Aglio section of the Apennine Road Bypass to Highway A1. In this section motorists will be ...
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The cutter head for the front of the Herrenknecht single shield TBM was fitted on 11th November 2015. The TBM which is 13.97 m in diameter, 2000 ton in weight and has a length of 75 m will start ...
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The 2016 World Tunnel Congress will be held on 22-28 April 2016 in San Francisco, California. With as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions visitors ...
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Sandvik Construction is adding a revolutionary rig-integrated, high precision, online rock mass analysis and visualization system to its existing offering for tunneling process optimization – ...
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Robbins Machine is the first TBM to break through in Two Decades.
A crowd of crew members gathered to celebrate in front of a newly emerged hard rock TBM on December 10, 2015 in northern Norway, ...
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In December the Midtown Tunnel’s tide gate was installed to protect the new tunnel from severe weather impacts, and the final bulkhead was removed between the Norfolk approach and Element ...
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The first Norwegian TBM to break through in over 20 years happened on December 10, 2015 at the Rossaga Hydroelectric Project. The TBM, nicknamed "Iron-Erna", is the first TBM used in Norway since ...
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In the Mexican state of Jalisco, the 5.5 km central section of the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3, between La Normal and Plaza de la Bandera stations, will be driven by a TBM EPB for almost 4 ...
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In 2014 the Mexican Ministry of Communication and Transportation (SCT- Secretaría de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes) awarded Sener the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3 project. Sener ...
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Approximately 20 percent of the SR 99 tunnel was designed to be built without Bertha, the SR 99 TBM. Seattle Tunnel Partners had bored more than 305 m of tunnel before they stopped to repair Bertha. ...
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Normet has launched its new M and L-Series underground mining and tunnelling equipment offering with the European Stage IV/U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final power train technology (“Tier 4F”) based ...
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The 2016 World Tunnel Congress will be held on April 22-28, 2016 in San Francisco. WTC returns to the United States for the first time in 19 years. Exhibitors can register using the registration ...
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The railway tunnels through Hallandsas, in southwestern Sweden, were officially opened on 08.12.2015. The tunnels are the country’s most important railway infrastructure project in 40 years. ...
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On the 11.11.2015 the final blast underneath Lion Rock, finished the 2.4 km tunnel stretch from Hin Keng to Kai Tak for the Shatin to Central Link (SCL) Project. 60% of the tunnel excavation ...
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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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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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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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Major construction of the Southern Tunnels is expected to begin in late 2023, ... from where two tunnel-boring machines will launch to excavate the twin ...
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Leighton Asia’s Tseung Kwan O – Lam Tin tunnel project team in Hong Kong safely broke through the mined tunnel under the busy Lei Yue Mun Road.
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Construction is scheduled to start in February 2023 but has not yet been tendered. The 5.3km tunnel will include a 64m section under the Panama Canal.
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President John Stiver spent the day in Dallas visiting the ongoing Mill Creek Tunnel Project. Thank you to the Southland Contracting Team for giving Stiver Engineering the opportunity to ...
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Tideway’s ambitious programme of public artwork is the subject of a new documentary film set to premiere as part of the Totally Thames Festival next month. Check out the trailer below, and ...
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Keltbray, a leading UK specialist engineering business, today announces it has secured the contract to provide construction services for the first two ventilation shafts and head houses on ...
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URUMQI, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Giant tunnel boring machines on Monday have passed through the most difficult and dangerous part of the Tianshan Shengli tunnel ...
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The undersea tunnel will be constructed by hollowing out bedrock on the seabed near the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima plant...
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Unlike traditional tunnel boring machines, the all-electric TBM is capable of launching directly from the surface and re-emerging after a tunneling project is ...
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HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson MP visited Crewe today and confirmed that new research has found that the construction of HS2 is expected to support over 4,000 more jobs than previously ...
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Thames Tideway’s tunnel boring machine (TBM) Selina, which is constructing the final 5.5km stretch of the £4.1bn “super sewer”, recently passed beneath Brunel’s Thames Tunnel near Wapping ...
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California water tunnel TBM finishes second drive
11 AUGUST, 2021 BY AILBHE GOODBODY
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Salus has completed its second tunnelling ...
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