On 5th May
2017, CREG’s 3.5m diameter gripper TBM LEA made its first breakthrough of its Tunnel
Drive 3 as part of the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project. A celebration was
held in ...
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Tunnelbuilder welcomes SWEDFAN as a new advertiser .SWEDFAN undertake the design, calculations, manufacturing and supply of complete underground ventilation systems with heavy-duty high pressure ...
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Robbins Company so you can catch up on all that they have been doing lately !
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Tunneljobs is recruiting for a major tunnelling contract in the United Kingdom. So if you are looking for work currently or within the next 2 months please either send your current resume to the ...
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California High-Speed Rail will make a stop at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) in San Diego, California, June 4 – 7.
Featuring 100 technical sessions, short courses and ...
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TERRATEC Tight Radius Shields (TRS)
facilitate a challenging curved alignment on a major new drainage tunnel
project for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) .
In April 2017, ...
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On 22.03.2017 a TBM broke through at Maniatika Station on the Athens Line 3 extension to Piraeus. By the end of March 67% of the tunnel had been completed which equates to 50% of the ...
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Preparation work for a hopper for Almohades in Casablancabegan at the beginning of 2017 has now finished. This will allow for tunnelling works to start shortly. In July 2016 the turkish company ...
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On 05.04.17 the TBM Aktor broke through at Analipsi station after opening the second of the twin 7.8km main shafts which are part of of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Railway. The breakthrough ...
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The Call for Papers for the 8th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2018) is open. The symposium will be held at the Textile ...
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Early registration ends May 7 for the Rapid Excavation
and Tunneling Conference (RETC), June 4 – 7, 2017 in San Diego.
RETC 2017 is heating up in San Diego, California with
tunneling ...
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A Robbins TBM, recently christened “Augustine”, is being
commissioned to undertake its eighth bore after being launched by contractor
Eiffage Civil Engineering on March 3. The TBM, ...
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Normet Group and JCHX Mining Management Co Ltd have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and sell underground mining equipment in the Chinese market.
The joint venture will ...
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The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) is a strategic project between the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore that aims to facilitate seamless travel between the two capital cities. The ...
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On 06.02.2017 the Turkish group Makyol completed the
excavation of a 5.2km sewer tunnel. The tunnel was driven by a TBM EPB
(diameter 6.5 m, lenght 87 m) and is part of the Super West Collector ...
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The Joint venture between Cimic a subsidiary of CPB Contractors and John Holland has been named as the preferred contractor for the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia. The joint ...
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PPS is looking forward to make 2017 a year of innovation in the PPS product lines. A new generation of pipejacking and micro-tunneling systems will be introduced and classical PPS guidance systems ...
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New threats like terrorist acts in tunnels and cyber-attacks to control systems could severely influence public life. Within a workshop on “New Security Challenges for Design and ...
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To view Amberg technologies latest newsletter please click here.15/17.
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The preferred route for the new Lower Thames Crossing between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent has been announced. The new two-mile road tunnel will create a link between the A2 and the M25 ...
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On 06.04.2017 the TBM Harriet arrived at the Leimert Park Station completing the second tunnel of the underground section of the Crenshaw/LAX Line in Los Angeles.
The TBM began its work on ...
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The ITA video of Tunnelling Works over the world (updated)
has been released on youtube please view it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzY0QuF4gkM&feature=youtu.be
.14/17.
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STUVA-Expo 2017 – multiple communication options for
exhibitors available
Improving the efficiency of communication for our exhibitors
is currently the focus of the organizing team of ...
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The call for Abstracts for 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference has been extended to Monday the 10th of April. Submit in one of the following categories:
1. Urban Planning, ...
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The major phase of geotechnical investigations to inform
tunnel and station designs for the Metro Tunnel Project is now complete.
Over the past two years more than 270 boreholes have been
drilled ...
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Acciona Construction has completed the first of the 45 galleries connecting the two railway tunnels of the Follo Line project in Norway. These service galleries will be essential for carrying out ...
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The Robbins Company holds nearly 90% of world records for TBMs, and behind two thirds of those TBMs are continuous conveyor systems for rapid muck removal. Whether hard rock or soft ground, ...
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The Rapid Excavation and Tunnel Conference (RETC) will be held in San Diego, California June 4-7, featuring 100 technical sessions, short courses and more.
Covering topics from contracting to ...
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On March 18th 2017 SELI Overseas completed the 11,4 km long headrace tunnel at the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Hydro Power Plant, in southern Laos, using a 5.84 m diameter Double Shield TBM built by TERRATEC ...
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On 07.03.2017 Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) fabricated the first tunnel ring for the 33.5 km Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro-3 corridor project at the Wadala casting yard. About 40,000 segment ...
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Are you a college student interested in attending the
Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC)? If you answered yes,
scholarships are now available through April 12.
If you are looking to ...
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On the 22.03.2017, Implenia broke through on a section of the U-Bahn in central Berlin having reached the Brandenburger Tor station from the new U5 tunnel built. The new tunnel connects the ...
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On April 12, 2017 (Time: 7am PDT / 10am EDT / 2pm GMT ) there will be a complimentary 60-minute webinar, held by Robbins Engineering Manager Brad Grothen and Robbins Chief EPB Engineer Shinichi ...
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We are pleased to send this Call for Abstracts for the 5th International Workshop on Concrete Spalling due to Fire Exposure, 12 - 13 October 2017, in Borås, Sweden.
Controlling the ...
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In the future, a large number of road vehicles will not be powered by fossil fuels and due to environmental considerations, much current transportation policy development is aimed at increasing ...
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Specialized TBM will work below the Hudson River on the Delaware Aqueduct.
Robbins has completed the manufacture and testing of a unique tunnel boring machine that will be used to repair the ...
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