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 mountainous tunneling ...
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In early
March, Senbay Madencilik - Kolin - Kalyon JV achieved a record - breaking TBM
production shift during excavation of the Dudullu - Bostancı Metro Line, in
Istanbul .
At 7am, ...
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Workhorse Machine makes progress in
Difficult Ground
A rebuilt Robbins 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
diameter Main Beam TBM has yet another milestone to add to its storied career:
an unexpected ...
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On 15 and 16.02.2018 Swietelsky Tunnelbau GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary company of the Swietelsky group, reached an important milestone in the construction of the Froeschnitzgraben tunnel (SBT ...
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NORTH EAST BOUNDARY TUNNEL in the USA or the DUBAI DEEP STORM WATER project in the United Arab Emirates are two of the new projects signed by CBE Group at the beginning of the year. As active as ...
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The first of five mega TBMS designed, built and to be delivered by Herrenknecht, will be in the ground before the end of this year to drive the twin 15.5km metro rail tunnels between Chatswood and ...
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Pickles is Australia’s leading asset remarketing organisation with thousands of assets available across vehicles, industrial, salvage and general goods. We’re currently taking EOIs for a Wirth roadheader T3.20.
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The Twin Peaks Tunnel (3.54 km-2.2 miles) first opened for service on 03.02.1918, and still is a vital connection between downtown San Francisco (California, USA) and its southern and western ...
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has approved the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Chenani - Sudhmahadev section of National Highway 244 to two lanes with paved shoulders ...
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The Indian government on Tuesday approved a Rs 1,384 crore tunnel project in Uttarakhand as part of ‘Char Dham’ project to connect the pilgrimage sites - Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri ...
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On 27.02.2018 the TBM Luz de America, one of the 3 machines used by Acciona in the Quito Metro Line 1 Consortium, reached its third station, La Magdalena. It travelled 1,700 m and installed 1,134 ...
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On the 28.02.2018 the JV led by Dodin Campenon Bernard which included GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, along with Spie Batignolles TPCI, Spie ...
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Sytral, from November 2016 to January 2018, studied the feasibility of a new metro line connecting the center of Lyon to Alai station in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune (at the border between Francheville and ...
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On the basis of the final report published in February on the railway tunnel project between Helsinki and Tallinn, the FinEst Link, the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications has set up a ...
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Just-in-time delivery of materials and products becomes more and more important in our daily rush hour world. What this means for the working process, how much logistic work and what preparations ...
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iPS are pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Mans as Director of Operations for iPS Holdings his appointment began today 01/03/2018. Patrick has been working with iPS for 7 years, as ...
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The XXIII Winter Olympic Games held in Peyongchang (South Korea) have highlighted the major underground works undertaken by Korean authorities and the Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space ...
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Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol JV gear up for tunnelling on the Ümraniye-Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro Line, in the latest addition to Istanbul’s ongoing mass transportation ...
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On 23.02.2018, just 7 months after beginning the railway infrastructure systems works, the installation of the tracks in the 15.4 km East tube of the Ceneri Base Tunnel have now been ...
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The WTC 2019 will take place from the 3rd to the 5th May 2019 at the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples. The call for abstract started on 31 January will end on 15 May 2018. All ...
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Chicago’s Albany Park Diversion Tunnel to go online this spring
In Chicago, Illinois, USA Kenny Construction is nearing completion on the Albany Park Stormwater Diversion Tunnel. ...
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The Government authorized the construction of new emergency exits in 7 tunnels of the Vitoria/Gasteiz-Bilbao-Donostia/San Sebastian-French Border line, on the Vitoria/Gasteiz-Bilbao route, with a ...
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On the 15.01.2018 the Ministerio de Fomento with the publication in the Official State Gazette (BOE), opened a public information period. This was for an informative study of the N-230 road’s ...
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In order to promote the latest knowledge on current key
issues and to facilitate technical discussions and debate amongst industry
stakeholders, PIARC and its French National Committee have ...
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If you would like to see the full interview with Andy
Mitchell and Nick Sumption on innovation at Tideway please click this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vLcIVtg-sY&app=desktop
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On the 03.02.2018 at the Champigny Plateau site the launch
and the christening of the first TBM on the Grand Paris Express took place.
Nearly 4,000 people attended the event and watched the ...
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TBMs Millicent and Ursula arrived in London for the super
sewer Tideway, the company building London’s super sewer, has welcomed the
first shipment of two more TBMs in preparation for the ...
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15th and 16th March 2018, Hotel Novotel Amsterdam Schiphol
Airport, Amsterdam – Netherlands
Using our last two Editions of Tunnels - Safety & Fire
Protection Conferences held in 2016 ...
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Challenging Ground Conditions are No Match for Talented Team and their TBM
In Jilin, one of the three provinces of Northeast China, a 7.9 m (26 ft) diameter Robbins Hard Rock Main Beam TBM has ...
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The MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation ) has completed 15-16% of the civil construction for the Mumbai Metro Line 3, the first underground metro line in Mumbai/Bombay.
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Last year on the 27th of October in the hall of the Ministry of Energy
Infrastructures and Natural Resources of the Republic of Armenia, Debed Hydro
LLC, a subsidiary of the Energy ...
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FAMA, a company in constant development, is increasing its
presence in the international market place. In the last few months they have secured
new contracts in the USA, United Arab Emirates and ...
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On 13.02.2018 the second TBM, launched from Dateo Station on
05.01.2018, has completed the last underground section
from Linate airport to Tricolore Place on the East section of M4 ...
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The Clean Rivers Project is DC Water's ongoing program to
reduce combined sewer overflows (CSO’s), millions of litres of untreated water,
into the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers and Rock Creek ...
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From the 5th to the 7th December 2017, the International Forum for Tunnels and Infrastructure of STUVA took place on the grounds of the Stuttgart Messe.
The result of these three days ...
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