The assembly of Tideway’s two largest Tunnel Boring Machines
has reached a key milestone with their most important components now attached,
as the start of tunnelling on London’s new ...
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Tideway, the company building London’s super sewer, has been
named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2018 with its Chief Executive
Officer Andy Mitchell a finalist in the Gender ...
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Call of Abstracts The
14th International Conference entitled “Underground Construction Prague 2019’’
will be held at the Clarion Congress Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic, on ...
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On 19.04.2018 the Bane NOR's Railway Tender Conference 2018
was held in Oslo. The conference focused on facilitating meetings between main
contractors and suppliers within the field of railway and ...
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For greater safety and efficiency in
underground mining, Epiroc releases a number of automation features for the
Scooptram underground loader. The Scooptram Automation Regular package allows
the ...
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Join our Tunnel Seminar in Spain - May
22nd to May 24th 2018
SCOPE - Recently VID Fire-Kill secured a large
tunnel project in Asia, as our TUNPROTEC® System offered the technically best
and ...
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TERRATEC ’s tight r adius TBMs are enabling a
highly challenging project alignment for Bangkok ’s Metropolitan Electricity
Authority in one of the city’s busiest downtown areas. ...
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In October last year the contractor Metrostav, using a Herrenknecht S-799 TBM, with a convertible
9,890 mm diameter multi-mode TBM completed the excavation of the 4150 m
Ejpovice ...
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Dubai (UAE)/Toronto (CDN)/Liaoyang (CN), April 2018 – Founded
in 1972, Lovat has been a renowned and leading TBM manufacturer for more than
45 years until now. Specialised in mixed/soft ...
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DAT INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCES DAT WIDELOG DATA LOGGER WITH
NEW LARGE 18.5-INCH MONITOR
DAT WideLog Eliminates Need For Multiple Data Loggers
with Single Data Logger Capable Of Executing And ...
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Complimentary Webinar: Is Your TBM in a Tight Spot? How to Get Through Squeezing Ground, Rock Bursting and More - With Brad Grothen, Sindre Log
Date: May 16, 2018
If you’ve ever faced ...
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Held in Dubai, from 21stto 26thApril by the Society of Engineers (SOE) and the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA), the World Tunnel Congress and 44th ITA ...
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The main objective of the Arna -Stanghelle project, joint venture by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and the Norwegian railway company Bane Nor, is to build a safer and faster rail and ...
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INTRODUCTION
The management of the slurry system in tunnelling projects plays an important part in the safety and efficiency of tunnelling projects. Whether the slurry is used for maintaining ...
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The World Tunnelling Congress 2019 will be held in Naples, Italy from 3rd to 9th of May 2019. A major event for the engineering and geotechnical sectors linked to tunnelling, promoted by the ...
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The Cappuccini gallery, is part of the tunnel works for the construction of the SS 1 Aurelia variant; access roads to the Savona harbour hub; the interconnection between the Savona and ...
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MAPEI Underground Technology Team (UTT) is fueling the company’s growth across the region thanks to a number of recent, high-profile successful projects, which have helped the company achieve a 4.36 per cent increase in the turnover in the Middle East in 2017 compared to 2016.
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Today 23rd of April 2018 is the official opening of the World Tunnel Congress which is being held in Dubai, UAE, at the World Trade Centre. The theme is ‘The Role of Underground Space in ...
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NEW FIBRE ANCHORED GASKETS - As a leader of innovations, Datwyler
has now enhanced its glued and ‘feet’-anchored
gaskets. Following requests from their customers, they are now ...
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Posted by Doug Harding | Apr 16, 2018 | Insights in Brief
Purchasing a Tunnel Boring Machine is no small
consideration. Many factors are equally important to the price, and they
can mean ...
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On April 4th 2018, Mapei Group acquired FILI & FORME Srl, a company that has been operating for more than 10 years in the building industry as part of the Istrice brand.
Fili & ...
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Route 2020 a joint project between Acciona and Gulermak has
now completed 50% of the tunnel drilling works of the project. Acciona and Gulermak are jointly responsible
for the civil ...
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The approximately $6 billion Transbay Transit
Center/Caltrain Downtown Extension (TTC/DTX) project in San Francisco consists
of following three interconnected elements. A replacement of the the ...
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A study on a fixed link from Newfoundland to Labrador,
funded by the province and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, was
completed by Memorial University's Leslie Harris Centre of Regional ...
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To qualify for the tunnelbuilder Chamber of Horrors, a project must have set out for the Hall of Fame and lost its way. The list we have is by no means complete, because failures in tunnels are ...
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Further to its announcement on 5 January 2018, Keller today announces that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Moretrench Inc., a geotechnical contracting company operating ...
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March has been a productive month for Tideway with work on the Thames Tideway Tunnel making huge strides ahead of the start of tunnelling later this year.
Tunnel Boring Machines, Millicent and ...
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WTC 2018: Short course on the Main Opportunities and Technical Issues in Tunnelling
The United Nations estimates that by 2050, around 70% of all people will live in cities. Managing urban areas has ...
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Strange things sometimes happen at tunnelling sites. Maybe they are not so
funny at the time, and nobody wants to talk about them. Then, as the years go
by, the tale will unfold, embellished by ...
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At tunnelbuilder we have decided to visit some of our past readers submissions about tunnelling successes and mishaps. We are also going to look at what tunnellers thought may or may not ...
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Four giant tunnel boring
machines (TBMs) will start arriving early next year to build the $11 billion
Metro Tunnel that will transform Melbourne’s transport network.
Minister for ...
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Be brought right up to date about the Melbourne Metro
tunnelling project by reading their latest newsletter here. 14/18
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Almost 2/3 of the Follo line tunnel has now been completed by, the
joint venture between Ghella and Acciona. They have bored 24,000 m through
extremely hard rock which has been interspersed with ...
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In August 2015 the Government of Bangladesh awarded to the China Communication Construction Company Ltd the contract to build the Karnaphuli road tunnel (3.5 km long, 10 m wide) in Chittagong, ...
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A reminder about the abstract submission deadline The IRF
Global R2T Expo & Conference. The
abstract submission deadline has been postponed to April 6, 2018, click here
for more. ...
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VIP-Polymers Ltd is taking its latest innovation in tunnel
segment gaskets - a major step forward in cast-in gasket design - to the
ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress in Dubai.
The patented ...
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