Caterpillar Inc has announced that it is pulling out of the tunnelling business and closing its plant in Etobicoke, Canada which it bought from Lovat Inc just five years ago.
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On 23.04.2013 the M/V Aggersborg arrived at Port of San Francisco Pier 80 Omni Terminal carrying Mom Chung, the first of two EPBs for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency,
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On 20.03.2013 the 6.6 km-long trunk II, lot 2 section of the new SS 125 Orientale Sarda from Capo Boi junction to Terra Mala junction, in the province of Cagliari, was opened.
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Qatar's capital, Doha, is developing fast. New city districts such as Lusail and The Pearl, Doha Greater Area will experience serious traffic problems in the near future.
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On 26.04.2013 work started on the west portal of the Prado left tube. The tunnel alignment is beneath the towns of Vilar de Barrio and Saurreaus
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Egypt's National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) has signed an agreement with Spanish firm Getinsa Paymacotas to conduct technical studies and produce tender documents to build three new tunnels underneath the Suez Canal.
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On 29.04.2013 breakthrough was achieved on the right tube of Vilavella tunnel on the 3.8 km-long Tunnel de la Canda-Vilavella sub-section of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed line
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International tunnel recruitment specialist iPS is following up its Bauma presentation with a fortnight of intensive visits to the Middle East and Far East, where demand for personnel is on the increase.
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On 25.04.2013 construction started on Stage III of Line 1 Metro extension Mladost 1-Business Park-Mladost 4 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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It is always a great day at tunnelbuilder when one of its established clients steps up to sponsor our flagship website.
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The first of three 5.23 m-diameter Robbins Main Beam TBMs has holed on the 44.6 km-long Pahang Selangor water transfer tunnel in Malaysia
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On 09.04.2013 the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) named its massive Blue Plains Tunnel TBM Lady Bird,
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The symposium on tunnelling in the Mediterranean region takes place 7-8th May, 2013 in Porec on the Adriatic coast of Croatia
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Call for papers for the 6th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security, ISTSS 2014, to be held at World Trade Centre (WTC) in Marseille, France, 12-14th March, 2014.
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On 11.03.2013 and 21.03.2013 the first and second elements of the 1.6 km-long Coatzacoalcos River tunnel in Veracruz, Mexico were successfully immersed.
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On 25.03.2013 TBM Phyllis reached the south end of the new Crossrail Bond Street western ticket hall at Davies Street, having constructed 2,000 tunnel rings and completed 3.2 km of new tunnels.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has made a tangible commitment to the cross-border Frejus Tunnel project in the form of a EUR120 million loan. It will enable a second tube to be built alongside the existing tunnel connecting Piedmont to Savoie.
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From April, 2013 rail tracks in both tubes of Gotthard Base Tunnel, for 20 km between Erstfeld and Sedrun, will be fully installed.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR238 million towards the construction of the 6.7 km-long central section of Warsaw’s new metro line.
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Twin 1.1 km-long, 12.2 m-diameter TBM-driven tunnels under the Vistula River in Gdansk,
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The three-day Metrorail conference opens at Hilton Madrid Airport Hotel on Tuesday, 9th April
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Some very important people will be attending Bauma in Muenchen later this month from 15-21 April.
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On 26.03.2013 the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) officially opened the northbound and southbound Highway 1-Devil’s Slide Tunnels to traffic overnight.
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The new 22 km-long double track Oslo-Ski line is part of the Follo project, which comprises 64 km of rail track. Preliminary works will start in 2013, and the contract for the 19.5 km-long twin tunnel will be tendered soon afterwards.
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The Northgate Link Extension construction began in late-2012 with demolition of the Roosevelt Station site.
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The 41 parts that comprise the world’s largest EPB, with a 17.45 m diameter and weighing 7,000 t, arrived in Seattle, US from Osaka, Japan on 02.04.2013.
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On 26.03.2013 twin Herrenknecht EPBs owned by Astaldi simultaneously reached Pozzo Parco in the CityLife area having started from San Siro Harar–Dessie in April, 2012. This completed the 3 ...
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On 25.02.2013, TBM Charlotte, diameter 10 m, length 110 m, weight 2,220 tons, broke through the second tube of the 4,020m Saverne tunnel driving east-west.
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Construction of the 3 km-long T3 section, San Giovanni - Fori Imperiali/Colosseo, Line C of the Rome metro will start in April, 2013.
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The 10.96 km-long, 8.40 m-wide, 7.39 m-high Pir Panjal railway tunnel on the Banihal-Qazigund section of J & K railway line is the India’s longest and Asia’s second largest.
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G&G Partners is a modern and dynamic company located in northern Italy, established and run by qualified managers in the ventilation field for tunnelling and mining applications.
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The iPS tunnelling team will be at Bauma, Muenchen from April 15-21 in Hall C, booth 529 to advise visitors on current and future employment
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Call for Papers for the 6th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2014), to be held at World Trade Centre (WTC) in Marseille, France, 12-14th March, 2014.
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This week saw the opening of tunnelbuilder file it/200, a landmark indicating that Italy has started more projects than any other country over the last fifteen years. During the same period, we reported 187 large projects in Norway and 171 in Spain.
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The innovative air cushion based carrier system Airmover 3000, conceived, designed and manufactured by Palmieri Group, was used for the first time to shift 3000 t TBM Martina at Sparvo
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On 05.03.2013 the 6.12 m-diameter Caterpillar TBM EPB, nicknamed Moley, broke through the headwall of Downsview extraction shaft in the city of Toronto,
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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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Major construction of the Southern Tunnels is expected to begin in late 2023, ... from where two tunnel-boring machines will launch to excavate the twin ...
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Leighton Asia’s Tseung Kwan O – Lam Tin tunnel project team in Hong Kong safely broke through the mined tunnel under the busy Lei Yue Mun Road.
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Construction is scheduled to start in February 2023 but has not yet been tendered. The 5.3km tunnel will include a 64m section under the Panama Canal.
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President John Stiver spent the day in Dallas visiting the ongoing Mill Creek Tunnel Project. Thank you to the Southland Contracting Team for giving Stiver Engineering the opportunity to ...
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Tideway’s ambitious programme of public artwork is the subject of a new documentary film set to premiere as part of the Totally Thames Festival next month. Check out the trailer below, and ...
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Keltbray, a leading UK specialist engineering business, today announces it has secured the contract to provide construction services for the first two ventilation shafts and head houses on ...
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URUMQI, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Giant tunnel boring machines on Monday have passed through the most difficult and dangerous part of the Tianshan Shengli tunnel ...
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The undersea tunnel will be constructed by hollowing out bedrock on the seabed near the No. 5 reactor at the Fukushima plant...
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Unlike traditional tunnel boring machines, the all-electric TBM is capable of launching directly from the surface and re-emerging after a tunneling project is ...
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HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson MP visited Crewe today and confirmed that new research has found that the construction of HS2 is expected to support over 4,000 more jobs than previously ...
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Thames Tideway’s tunnel boring machine (TBM) Selina, which is constructing the final 5.5km stretch of the £4.1bn “super sewer”, recently passed beneath Brunel’s Thames Tunnel near Wapping ...
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California water tunnel TBM finishes second drive
11 AUGUST, 2021 BY AILBHE GOODBODY
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) Salus has completed its second tunnelling ...
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Our cities continue to face challenges in their quest to adapt to rapid population growth in a time of climate change and resource constraints...
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Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Outfall Project Overview & Tunnel Boring Machine Assembly...
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