Ritchie Bros will hold an unreserved public auction of plant and equipment at their premises in Caorso, Italy on 04.12.2014, where some 900 plant items will be for sale. Click here and visit ...
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At Poltinger Precision Systems we strive every day to improve both ourselves, and our products.
To suit our customers’ needs, and to implement their ideas for an even better PPS Guidance ...
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On 08.11.2014 breakthrough was achieved on the 3.9 km-long Val di Sambro tunnel on A1, between Firenze and Bologna. The contract was awarded to the JV Vianini Lavori/Toto/Profacta. Click it/21 ...
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On 11.11.2014 the final breakthrough in the first tunnel of Milan's M4 metro occurred at the Forlanini FS site. Excavations began last April, and to date 65 percent of the contract for the ...
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Atlas Copco has introduced its Meyco Versa mobile shotcreting unit suited to mid-size tunnels. Read the press release and contact michael.seitz@ch.atlascopco.com. 46/14
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On 29.09.2014 the TBM Alice completed the southbound tube of the 2.4 km Waterview tunnels from Owairaka to Waterview. The tunnels will connect Auckland's Southwestern and Northwestern motorways. At ...
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French manufacturer Acimex supplies vacuum devices for the handling of precast concrete segments in tunnels.
Acimex vacuum erector and segment trolley will be used in the 10.16 m-diameter EPB ...
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On 20.10.2014 TBM Ellie finished her journey at Victoria Dock Portal in east London, completing the 900 m drive from Limmo Peninsula, near Canning Town, to Victoria Dock Portal in just six weeks, at ...
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On 20.10.2014 construction of Grand St Bernard safety tunnel (GSS) restarted, following agreement with the old contractor JV Condotte that only 11 of 23 cross passages originally intended will be ...
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Eight Terratec 6.52 m-diameter EPBs are at work on Delhi Metro Phase 3. During the last two months, four significant breakthroughs have been recorded, and another 14 will be accomplished during the ...
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On 31.10.2014, installation of the non-ballasted track was completed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel. General contractor Transtec Gotthard, at a distance of around 54 m from the south portal, cast the ...
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Shanghai is a long way to go for a show, and Werner is the lucky member of tunnelbuilder team to make the journey. China Bauma runs from November 25-28, and Werner will be most pleased to meet old ...
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The link for the upcoming Robbins Webinar on 18th November dealing with On-site First Time Assembly has changed to http://bit.ly/RobbinsOFTAWebinar. Questions for the discussion should be addressed ...
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On 17.11.2014, TBM Anna will break through after 300 days of work on the Frejus safety tunnel, completing construction. Mechanized excavation of Lot 2 started at the Italian end on 01.07.2013, ...
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The Forrestfield Line will integrate with the existing rail network in Perth, Australia and deliver an 8.5 km-long rail extension from the Midland Line east of Bayswater to Forrestfield via Perth Airport; three new stations, Airport West and Forrestfield and Consolidated Airport; and expanded and new bus feeder services.
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Consortium Salini Impregilo/Strabag has agreed with client BBT SE to start construction of the EUR300 million Isarco River Underpass, part of the southern lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel located in ...
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The Robbins Company president Lok Home is hosting the company’s third webinar in mid-November, entitled Insight on Onsite Assembly: Why OFTA is Revolutionizing TBM Tunnelling.
In ...
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Setronic Verona Srl is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company, specialized in design, manufacture and after sales service for optical beam smoke and fire detectors, opacity analyzer, calibrating and ...
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By popular request, the deadline for abstract submissions for WTC2015 in Croatia has been extended to 01.11.2014. To date, more than 500 abstracts for WTC 2015 have been received, showing a strong ...
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For several years Normet Academy has used simulators as the vital part of service in hydraulic and automation, concrete spraying and scaling training programs for mining and tunnelling operators. ...
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For the
second edition of the Arabian Tunnelling Conference in Abu Dhabi deadline to
submit an abstract is 15 October 2014. The conference theme will be: Sustainable
Tunnelling in GCC ...
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Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s
largest industrial auctioneer, held a record-breaking multi-million Euro
auction at its site in Caorso, Italy on 02.10.2014. More than 1,360 ...
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During ExpoTunnel, on October 23-24, the SIG - Italian Tunnelling Society has organized the international conference Innovation in the construction of underground works. Among the speeches on 23 ...
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The Thimphu-Wangdue road is classified as the primary national highway in Bhutan. Except for an undefined weak zone near the portal at Nabisa, the 10.5 km-long road tunnel road Yusipang in Thimphu ...
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Excavation of the headrace tunnel from adit 1 to the de-silting chamber has been completed at Punatshangchhu-II HEP in Bhutan. The de-silting chamber helps clean up the raw water between intake and ...
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Expotunnel will be in Bologna, Italy from 23 to 25 October 2014, where tunnelbuilder team welcomes you to our stand D2-E1 in Hall 19. Fill out the registration form and you'll receive by email ...
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By 28.09.2014 EPB TBM Barbara (diameter 15.08 m, length 115 m) owned by consortium Empedocle 2, comprising CMC (leader), Tecnis and CCC, reached the 1 km mark driving the Caltanissetta tunnel on SS ...
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Metrostav and Havnen Anlegg have started drill/blast construction of the 1,565 m-long Bjornabakkane tunnel in Central Norway. The tunnel, commissioned by Statens vegvesen, will provide avalanche ...
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Northgate Link Extension will connect the Northgate, Roosevelt and U District neighborhoods to downtown Seattle, US and the airport.
A second TBM is beginning its 5.79 km journey from the Maple ...
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In August, 2014 major progress was made at a coalmine in Queensland, Australia when a specialized Robbins Dual Mode EPB/Rock TBM was successfully rolled out after completing the first of two access ...
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The exhibiting companies and those that make up the Promotion Committee are working in the underground field in Italy and abroad with their innovative solutions. For example: Spea Ingegneria ...
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The Sao Paulo, Brazil green metro line 2 extension will be a new 14.4 km-long section between Vila Prudente and Dutra stations, including 15 shafts, turnout tracks and the following 13 stations: ...
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Excavations on the Tulfes-Pfons construction lot began on 18.09.2014 with a solemn ceremony.
The BBT project along the 9,000 km north-south corridor from Helsinki to La Valletta is very important ...
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On 18.09.2014 Piedmont Region and the company Infra.To signed the agreement for funding EUR35 million for the construction of the Lingotto-Bengasi section 4 of Line 1 of Turin metro. The section ...
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The Border Roads Organization (BRO) reported the construction of the 8.8 km-long Rohtang tunnel in the State of Himachal Pradesh, India is underway, with 4.4 km completed to date.
Meantime, ...
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On 12.09.2014 was held the final conference of the three-year Interreg Italy-Austria IBBT project on flooring, lining and innovative lighting for tunnels. The project, co-funded Interreg IV ...
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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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