On 05.03.2015 a Robbins 6.2 m-diameter Main Beam TBM completed boring a 2.8 km-long extension tunnel, known as the Eagle Creek Tunnel, for the Indianapolis Deep Tunnel System in Indiana, USA. The ...
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Tunnel Expo Turkey takes place in Istanbul 27-29th August, 2015. The Expo parallels a concurrent Mining Expo, and also hosts a tunnelling short course. Read the prospectus and visit ...
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The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will build a 4.02 km-long bypass tunnel around a leaking portion of the Delaware-Rondout aqueduct in New York. Other leaks in the Town of Wawarsing, ...
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The first Robbins webinar of the year is scheduled for 15th April, 2015.
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Title: A Myth Dispelled: In Difficult Ground, the Time for Drill & Blast Excavation has ...
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A Terratec 5.74 m-diameter double shield hardrock TBM has started boring and lining 11.3 km of a hydro tunnel in Laos. Read the press release and visit www.terratec.co. If you have not yet read ...
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Robbins year-end edition of its Underground Innovations newsletter reviews 2014/2015 projects in the article Up for the Challenge. Read the newsletter and visit www.TheRobbinsCompany.com. 14/15.
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On 17.03.2015 TBM Brenda broke through the north wall at the future Roosevelt Station of the Northgate Link Extension in Seattle, US. The EUR2 billion Northgate Link Extension will connect ...
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On 30.03.2015, the final breakthrough in the south-bound east tube of the Ceneri Base Tunnel linked Sigirino with the south adit at Vezia, some five years from the first blast by Consortium ...
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On 17.03.2015, thirteen months ahead of schedule, the first breakthrough to the south took place in the southbound west tube of the Ceneri Base Tunnel. The deviation was extremely small, only 2 cm ...
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On 11.03.2015 TBM Evelyn broke into the shaft at Kensal Green bringing to an end the tunnel construction phase of the London Power Tunnels project, the longest single tunnelling contract in ...
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On 24.03.2015 the Province of Bolzano approved the project for the construction of the main tunnels of the Brenner Basis Tunnel (Lot Mules) and confirmed the requirements for environmental ...
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On 20.03.2015, at Innsbruck, the joint statement on cross alpine corridors was signed. The Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, Switzerland and Liechtenstein ministers of transport signed an European ...
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CIFA is further widening the Carbotech range truck-mounted pumps that, thanks to new high-performance materials, feature longer booms while still respecting weight limits. Two more models will be ...
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London Crossrail TBM Victoria, named after Queen Victoria who oversaw the birth of modern railways, has successfully broken in to the eastern end of Liverpool Street Crossrail station.
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Acciona (Spain) in partnership with Ghella (Italy) have been named preferred bidders by the Norwegian National Rail Administration to design and build the 19 km-long twin tunnels of the Follo Line ...
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International tunnelling recruitment specialist iPS is seeking managers, planners and QS for a tunnel project in Norway, starting immediately and with two-year duration. ...
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Some 19 TBMs are currently engaged in constructing tunnels of Phase 3 of Delhi Metro, where 74 separate tunnelling drives are planned. Around 41 km of tunnelling and 33 tunnelling drives have been ...
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Terratec was incorporated in Australia in 1990 to satisfy the local market for TBMs and RBMs. Since then, the company has expanded its sales coverage into China, South East Asia, India, Europe and ...
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The1.8 km-long Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel in Montreal is the only underwater tunnel in Quebec. Opened in 1967, the tunnel connects the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River to the Island ...
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The Brenner Base Tunnel, the 64 km-long heart of the new Brenner rail line between Munich and Verona, is progressing apace, with work starting on the Ahrental main tunnel in Austria. Many important ...
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The Twin Tunnels project on the North Shore is nearing completion near Vancouver, Canada. Two tunnels, 3.8 m in diameter and 7.1 km long, have been constructed beneath Grouse Mountain and Mount ...
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International recruitment specialists iPS are looking for experienced horizontal directional drilling personnel for a four-week assignment near Calgary, Manitoba, Canada. Click here for further ...
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On 16.03.2015 the EUR14.2 million fourth part of SS 508 Val Sarentino upgrading project starts, including the final work in the 1,520 m-long and 2 km-long tunnels constructed by Consorzio Stabile ...
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Four years ago, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) began studying the environmental impacts of continuing the ...
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In Sydney, Australia on 02.03.2015 Florence, the second North West Rail Link TBM, broke through into the new Norwest Station area. All four 900 t TBMs are now in the ground ahead of schedule and ...
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TBM Bertha reached her stopping point in the SR 99 tunnel access pit in Seattle, US on 03.03.2015, clearing the way for Seattle Tunnel Partners to begin a disassembly process that will likely take ...
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The abstract submission deadline for Tunnels and Underground Construction 2015has been extended to 31.03.2015. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn, Zilina, Slovakia. Contact ...
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Last 17.02.2015 the City Council approved the final project of Collegno-Cascine Vica section, Line 1 of Turin metro. The project will be now evaluated by other authorities and MIT (Ministry of ...
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Work is underway on the Lingotto-Bengasi (Line 1) section of the Turin underground. On 07.07.2014 Infra.To awarded to C.C.C. (Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni), replacing Seli/Coopsette JV, the ...
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Companies from all over Europe and Asia will participate in the Follo Line Project in Norway, a 22 km-long double track line between Oslo Central Station and the public transport hub at Ski. Key to ...
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On 24.02.2015 Maurizio Lupi, the italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, and Alain Vidalies, the French Secretary of State for Transport, signed in Paris an integration to the 2012 ...
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Call for Papers for the 7th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2016), to be held Montreal, Canada, 16 - 18th March 2016 is now open. Manuscripts and posters submitted for ...
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On 28.01.2015 the 3.8 m-diameter TBM EPB Pat completed the last metres of the 2.9 km-long tunnel between Brooklyn and Staten Island. The tunnel, part of the New York City Harbor Siphons Project, is ...
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Compressed Air Work GmbH has developed the first mobile automated system for decompression chambers for personnel known as CAIS – Compress Air Intervention System. Fundamentally, the system ...
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Work on the tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel is in full swing on different fronts. Excavation of the new Tulfes-Pfons section officially began on 18.09.2014. In 5 months, at 16.02.2015, ...
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Construction on the extensions of seven lines to add 87 km to the Shenzhen, China metro system will start between 2015 and 2017. The Shenzhen Rail Construction Office plan for this third phase of ...
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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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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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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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