Three quarters of firms and public doubt any improvement this Parliament
Despite the Government’s strong commitment to improving the UK’s infrastructure, both business and the public ...
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On the 8th of October 2017 construction of the 55 km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) was completed. The final fixes are now taking place and the bridge and tunnel will be fully ...
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On 12.10.2017 ANAS approved the EUR958 million project for
the second 18 km section of SS 106 Jonica (km18,863 - km37,661),
between SS534 near Sibari and Roseto Capo Spulico in ...
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Work started back in 2010 on the 8 km
long Rohtang Tunnel in Himachal Pradesh, engineers finally broke through on the
11th October 2017.
The project suffered several delays
and ...
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The construction
phase of Scotland’s biggest waste water tunnel, which will help tackle flooding
and improve river water quality in the Glasgow area, has been completed.
A ...
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The Changing Face of the Tunneling Industry: The Role of the
ITA, Partnership, and Innovation
Posted by Martin Knights on the Robbins website | The Future
of Tunnelling
Martin Knights graduated ...
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In the November-December 2017 period, Mtkvari HPP will finalize the construction of its 9km tunnel and due to the above-mentioned reason will announce RFP on the sale of its used Herrenknecht Tunnel Boring Machine S-424 with a diameter of 6 meters.
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On 17.10.2017 the New Albula Tunnel of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), the breakthrough into the reverse drive of the cavern was achieved. With this, the excavation from Preda (main lot) met the ...
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On the 29th September there was a break through for Cossi part of the Condotte Group for the Selva Piana tunnel. The Selva Piana tunnel is part of the Morbegno bypass section from Cosio to Tartano ...
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The Government of Ukraine has applied for loan financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and European Investment Bank (EIB) for the Kharkiv Metro Extension Project. ...
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A Muslim woman working on London’s ‘super sewer’ has helped
design two innovative items of protective clothing (PPE) for women on
construction sites who observe the hijab and the ...
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Watch the time lapse video of the Thames Tideway project delivery
update - https://twitter.com/TidewayLondon/status/905361148773625856
for further information follow them on twitter ...
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In Saint Martin La Porte the South tube heading in an Easterly direction has been excavated using traditional methods and has reached 10km. at the front the coal formation are mostly composed of ...
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This year’s Cutting
Edge promises to deliver.
Featuring a tailored high-end single-track program of
subject-specific presentations that focus on innovation and practical
experience, the ...
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In the “Major project of the year over €500m” category there are
4 finalists under transportation.
On November 13-16 2017 ITA will see leading international
specialists in the ...
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Eight new LOVSUNS EPB-TBMs for Metro Tunnels in Istanbul.
There is a huge demand on TBM Tunnelling in Turkey. Istanbul is one of the most vibrant Metropol Citys of the world,
connecting the ...
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In its 30th anniversary year CBE Group a French
company signed a contract for its 500th project. The project is to
support GIE ALLIANCE with the building
of line 15, South of the Parisian ...
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Featuring a tailored high-end single-track program of subject-specific
presentations that focus on innovation and practical experience, the sixth
annual conference will continue the ...
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First of Two Mixed Ground Machines will begin boring this
autumn.
The first of two Slurry TBMs, a rebuilt 6.65 m (21.8 ft)
diameter machine, passed its factory acceptance on September 4, 2017 ...
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Thanks to the effort made by ALGAHER’s Technical Team as well as the high implication of their suppliers, ALGAHER has developed a hydrophilic material to give a response to the growing needs of the market regarding to TUNNEL SEGMENT GASKETS.
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The registration to the STUVA- Conference, that will be held in Stuttgart, Germany from the 6th to the 8th of December 2017, is in full swing and is available online. Use this ...
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On 11.09.2017 a ceremony was
held for the start works for First High Speed Train Project (popularly referred
to as the Bullet Train) between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The actual works will ...
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On 04.09.2017 a 6.65-m diameter NFM Slurry TBM rebuilt by Robbins for the Mumbai Metro Line 3 project passed the FAT (factory acceptance testing) in Singapore. The slurry TBM will be ...
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It has just been announced that Cardiff based tunneljobs Ltd CEO Samantha Heard – Evans has been shortlisted for the 2017 NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards in the #GoDo ...
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The
5km long Waterview Connection, which connects Auckland’s Northwestern (SH16)
and Southwestern (SH20) Motorways, opened to traffic on 02.07.2017. Data shows
there was a 20 minute time ...
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On 31.08.2017 the joint venture between Collini Lavori Spa (Trento), Costruzioni Casarotto Srl (Villa Agnedo, TN), Misconel Srl (Cavalese, TN) and Ediltione Spa (Tione, TN) broke through on the 1 km ...
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On the 04.04.2017 the TBM Bertha completed its tunnelling and on the 23.08.2017,crews lifted the final pieces of the 8,000-ton out of the SR 99 tunnel’s disassembly pit near ...
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The Metro (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) in Los Angeles, is inviting students from kindergarten through to 12th grade to participate in an art and naming contest for the two TBMs that will ...
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It's a great pleasure to announce the second and last extension of the deadline for abstract submission to the ITA - AITES World Tunnel Congress 2018 that will take place in Dubai from 20 - 26 April ...
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On the 29th August 2017, CREG was awarded a new contract for the supply of a 15.8m slurry TBM. This TBM will be used for the Chunfeng tunnel project in Shenzhen and it will be the biggest slurry TBM ...
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TunnelTech 2017: Breaking ground in new technologies
26–27 September 2017
One Birdcage Walk, London
With an increase in tunnelling project investment and more tunnels having ...
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Manuscript abstracts for the 5th International conference on Fires in vehicles to be held in Boras (Sweden) from 3 to 4 October 2018 have to be submitted to the Secretariat by email to five@ri.se by ...
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Tunnelling awards 2017 are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2017 Tunnelling Awards.
They would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter this year, and congratulate ...
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Terratec, the Australian-based TBM manufacturer, has secured an order to supply 4 new 6.56m diameter TBMs EPB for Istanbul’s Umraniye-Atasehir-Goztepe Metro Line from the Turkish tunnelling JV ...
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WARR Hyperloop team, which was put together by the Technical university of Munich from Germany, has won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition on Sunday, with their prototype pod reaching a speed of ...
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A one-day only Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions Seminar will take place at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London on the 13.09.2017.
Items on the agenda are:
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