In order to further improve its operations the Himal Hydro, the leading Nepalese construction company, has recently acquired a Sandvik Commando DC125R surface drill rig. The Commando DC125R is a ...
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Datwyler have released their latest newsletter to read please click here. For further information contact johannes.sutor@datwyler.com of visit the Datwyler website www.datwyler.com 02/16
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Please find below the link to the Sandvik Construction Yearbook which features a variety of case stories that have been published during 2015. These show the successful cooperation between our ...
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Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has said that construction of the 4.5km Kartal-Kaynarca extension of M4 Kadikoy-Kartal (21.8 km) metro in Istanbul has been completed and test runs will ...
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Bertha, the SR 99 TBM, is now tunneling in Seattle soil after breaking through the access pit wall on the 06.01.2016. Seattle Tunnel Partners has mined more than 22 m and installed 12 concrete ...
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Uzbekiston Temir Yullari the Uzbekistan Railway Company, will shortly open their new123.1 km electrified railway line between Agren in the Tashkent region and Pap in the Namangan region. ...
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4th European Forum of Road Tunnel Safety Officers - High Quality Meeting of Specialists in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from 9th to 10th March 2016.
There is a great demand of high quality knowledge ...
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Terratec is pleased to announce that its EPB TBM designated as S42 holed through on Friday, the 4th of December 2015 in Istanbul after completing the first half of its proposed run from Yenimahalle ...
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On 15th December 2015 TERRATEC successfully completed the Factory Acceptance Tests of two new Micro-tunnelling Systems in its facilities in Thailand for the MRTA Green Line (North) ...
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On the 23.12.2015 the Sparvo tunnel had its opening ceremony. It is part of the 32km La Quercia - Aglio section of the Apennine Road Bypass to Highway A1. In this section motorists will be ...
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The cutter head for the front of the Herrenknecht single shield TBM was fitted on 11th November 2015. The TBM which is 13.97 m in diameter, 2000 ton in weight and has a length of 75 m will start ...
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The 2016 World Tunnel Congress will be held on 22-28 April 2016 in San Francisco, California. With as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions visitors ...
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Sandvik Construction is adding a revolutionary rig-integrated, high precision, online rock mass analysis and visualization system to its existing offering for tunneling process optimization – ...
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Robbins Machine is the first TBM to break through in Two Decades.
A crowd of crew members gathered to celebrate in front of a newly emerged hard rock TBM on December 10, 2015 in northern Norway, ...
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In December the Midtown Tunnel’s tide gate was installed to protect the new tunnel from severe weather impacts, and the final bulkhead was removed between the Norfolk approach and Element ...
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The first Norwegian TBM to break through in over 20 years happened on December 10, 2015 at the Rossaga Hydroelectric Project. The TBM, nicknamed "Iron-Erna", is the first TBM used in Norway since ...
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In the Mexican state of Jalisco, the 5.5 km central section of the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3, between La Normal and Plaza de la Bandera stations, will be driven by a TBM EPB for almost 4 ...
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In 2014 the Mexican Ministry of Communication and Transportation (SCT- Secretaría de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes) awarded Sener the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3 project. Sener ...
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Approximately 20 percent of the SR 99 tunnel was designed to be built without Bertha, the SR 99 TBM. Seattle Tunnel Partners had bored more than 305 m of tunnel before they stopped to repair Bertha. ...
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Normet has launched its new M and L-Series underground mining and tunnelling equipment offering with the European Stage IV/U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final power train technology (“Tier 4F”) based ...
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The 2016 World Tunnel Congress will be held on April 22-28, 2016 in San Francisco. WTC returns to the United States for the first time in 19 years. Exhibitors can register using the registration ...
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The railway tunnels through Hallandsas, in southwestern Sweden, were officially opened on 08.12.2015. The tunnels are the country’s most important railway infrastructure project in 40 years. ...
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On the 11.11.2015 the final blast underneath Lion Rock, finished the 2.4 km tunnel stretch from Hin Keng to Kai Tak for the Shatin to Central Link (SCL) Project. 60% of the tunnel excavation ...
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BBT received tenders from the following 6 groups for the construction of Brenner Base Tunnel, Lot Mules 2-3:
Astaldi SpA, Ghella SpA, Oberosler Cav Pietro SpA, Cogeis SpA, PAC SpA;
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In 2014 Sandvik introduced a completely new radio remote controlled drill rig to its surface top hammer drill rig offering, the Dino DC400Ri. The concept of this new drill rig drew extensively on ...
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See Robbins TBMs in a New Light - From Onsite Assembly to the first Breakthrough, watch EPB Tunneling at North Link Evolve. Watch Robbins latest video which documents the Onsite First Time ...
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On the 19th November 2015, 24 projects and their representatives, along with 8 engineers, 5 engineering companies and 5 contractors who were all candidates for this years ITA Tunnelling Awards in ...
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Tunnelbuilder is pleased to announce that A.S.T. Bochum of Germany has become a new advertiser on our website. A.S.T. Bochum is your specialised supplier for all Tunnelling, Microtunnelling as ...
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Zürich / Lyon, 13.11.2015: NFM Technologies and MÜHLHÄUSER have signed an exclusive agreement whereby Mühlhäuser will represent NFM Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) with ...
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The detailed design of the Castelbello and Colsano ring road has been approved for the SS 38 in Stelvio. The tender is about the construction phase and will be reviewed in 2017, the value will be ...
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Wendlingen-Ulm Line
Steinbuehl Tunnel
On 06.11.2015 at the Todsburg portal the breakthrough took place of the 4847 m long Steinbuehl tunnel. This was originally expected in the spring of 2016 ...
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As part of the Koralm tunnel (lot KAT 3) two tunnels, which are 5.9 km long and with a 9.5 m external diameter, will be driven by a bi-modal TBM and will be lined with about 45,000 segments ...
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On 19.11.2015 the government announced the EUR6.08-7.43 billion (AUD9-11 billion) Melbourne Metro project in Australia can be procured as an availability based Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
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Scottish Water reached a key milestone in the construction of the Shieldhall Tunnel in Glasgow. Bachy Soletanche, the UK company contracted last June by the JV VINCI Construction Grands Projets and ...
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The on-line registration has now opened the for the 2016 Underground Construction conference that will be held in Prague from 23.05.2016 to 25.05.2016. To register please visit the website ...
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A ceremony was held for the breakthrough of Line 3 of Riyadh's Metro, it is the longest part of the network at 40.7 km. The line runs from the west near the Jeddah Expressway and ends in the ...
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