GIA upgrades underground cable bolterThe latest mechanized grouting and cable insertion system (MEGSIS) from Swedish manufacturer GIA offers a guillotine effect cable cutter, improved piston pump ...
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Breakthrough for Almendral tunnel On 07.04.2011 excavation was completed on the 1.1 km-long single-tube, twin track Almendral tunnel, the major feature of the 1.67 km-long Barranco de ...
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Girona II tunnel excavation startedOn 06.04.2011 the TBM Gerunda started excavation of Girona II tunnel on the Madrid-Barcelona-French border high-speed line. It will drive 1,565 m from the new ...
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Live bids sets recordMore than three dozen live bids are currently listed at tunnelbuilder, the largest number since this unique service was inaugurated three years ago. Live bids allows readers to ...
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Robbins EPB scores New Record in ZhengzhouIn the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, soft ground tunnelling has made a speedy entrance. One of two 6.3 m-diameter Robbins EPBs at Zhengzhou metro Line 1 has ...
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Belgrade interceptor personnel contract renewediPS Personnel, who supplied a core of experienced tunnellers to assist in management and training at the Belgrade interceptor project in Serbia, have ...
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Espoo metro extension funded On 01.04.2011 Lansimetro of Finland signed a 30 year loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) to fund the EUR800 ...
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North-end excavation of Udaliatz underwayOn 18.03.2011 excavation started from the north end of the twin track Udalaitz tunnel on the Mondragon-Elorrio section on the new Vitoria-Bilbao-San ...
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Himalayan headrace excavation commencedThe specially designed 6.18 m-diameter Seli DSU TBM has completed its first run in the Kishanganga tunnel project. The TBM, designed to bore through difficult ...
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Steel fixers and carpenters requiredIPS has an urgent requirement for experienced and qualified construction workers for a two year contract in the south of England starting in two weeks time. If ...
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Bressanone ring road opening in South Tyrol On 16.04.2011 the first lot of the Bressanone and Varna ring road will be inaugurated, two days before its official opening to traffic. The new 4.7 ...
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Herrenknecht micros win in WarsawA pair of Herrenknecht AVND micro machines has completed 16 difficult drives totalling 5.86 km for the new Warsaw wastewater treatment system. Pipe jacking up to 36 ...
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Intertunnel 2012 back in TurinWith two of the biggest cross-border tunnelling projects in the offing on the Lyon-Turin and Brenner lines, Italy is underpinning its position as Europe's ...
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RETC for San FranciscoThe biennial Rapid Excavation & Tunneling Conference takes place June 19-22nd, 2011 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, CA. Field trips to New Irvington tunnel and ...
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Koralm tunnel gets underwayOn 28.03.2011 government officials and provincial governors of Styria and Carinthia attended the groundbreaking ceremony for construction of lot KAT 1, a 20 km-long ...
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Daetwyler for reliable sealing systemsDaetwyler is a leading provider of engineered rubber profiles used in the sealing of tunnels, offering a wide range of reliable gaskets designed to match ...
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Shotcrete 2012 - call for papers The Shotcrete 2012 conference and exhibition is scheduled for the Alpbach Conference Centre, Tyrol, Austria from 12.01.2012 to 13.01.2012. Main language will be ...
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Herrenknecht celebrates Gotthard completionWhen 9.43 m-diameter Herrenknecht gripper TBM Heidi mined the last few metres of rock in the west tube of the Gotthard base tunnel between Faido and ...
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Fastest marine rail tunnel The 10.8 km-long Shiziyang tunnel crossing the Pearl River estuary in south China's Guangdong province is designed for trains travelling at 350 km/h. Apart from being the ...
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Robbins Double Shield sees the light in SochiIn early March 2011, the 6.2 m-diameter Robbins Double Shield TBM crossed the finish line in Sochi, Russia. The machine completed a 4.5 km-long section ...
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BASF expands in NorwayBASF is investing EUR1 million in a new production plant for alkali-free accelerators at Granerud, Norway. The product, launched in 2010, increases the early strength of the ...
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Job opportunities in Central AmericaiPS has the following vacancies in Central America for a highway construction project using drill/blast techniques. Contract duration is expected to be a minimum ...
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Gotthard base tunnel final breakthroughOn 23.03.2011 at 12.20 pm miners excavated the last few metres of rock in the west tube of the Gotthard base tunnel between Faido and Sedrun. Coming some five ...
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Geodata - turning data into informationThe GEODATA group supplies integrated, IT-based solutions and services for monitoring, engineering surveying and information technology. Backed by 20 years of ...
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Extension of line B of Lyon metroOn 02.03.2011 Herrenknecht TBM Agata entered the future Oullins station of the extension of Line B of Lyon metro. The event signalled completion of excavation of the ...
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Excavation starts on Avraysa tunnel beneath Bosphorus On 26.02.2011 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the 5.4 km-long, double-deck Avraysa tunnel ...
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Fiasco breakthrough in CalabriaOn 23.02.2011 tunnelling subcontractor Cipa SpA broke through in the Fiasco road tunnel (521 m, 482 m), lot DG21 on the SS106 Jonica in Calabria, Italy bringing the ...
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New Tyne road tunnel opens in north England The 1.5 km-long second Tyne road tunnel opened to traffic on 25.02.2011 after nearly three years work. The new tunnel will initially have one lane of ...
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ChamartÃn-Atocha rail tunnel throughDuring February 2011 the 7.3 km-long trans-Madrid railway tunnel linking the stations of Atocha and Chamartin broke through. The tunnel is 45 m below the ...
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SEBHSA launches new shotcrete pumpFor nearly four decades Sociedad Española de Bombas de Hormigón S.A. (SEBHSA) has manufactured all kinds of concrete pumps with its own technology, and ...
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Elche rail tunnel excavation complete Excavation of the 1,288 m-long Elche tunnel, of which 255 m was cut/cover, was completed on 24.02.2011. The tunnel is on the El Carrus-Elche section of the ...
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SMOPYC 2011 in ZaragozaThis important international show of public works, construction and mining equipment takes place in sunny Zaragoza in northern Spain from 5-9th April, 2011. SMOPYC has ...
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New section of Torino metro Line1 opensConstruction of six new stations on the new 3.7 km underground section of the metro Line 1 was completed mid-January, 2011. These are at Marconi, Nizza, Dante, ...
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Registration still open for Auckland conferenceThere are just two weeks to go until the 14th Australasian Tunnelling Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on 8-10th March, 2011. The theme "Development ...
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Fiscal-Balopur tunnel refurbishment approved The provisional plan for the improvement of the Fiscal-Balupor tunnel section of the N-260, Pyrenean axis, in the Spanish province of Huesca has received ...
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Samoter at Verona in MarchThe 28th edition of Samoter at Verona from March 2-6, 2011 will welcome the best Italian and international brands in the following sectors: earth moving, concrete, road ...
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HS2 Ltd has shortlisted three teams to become the Phase 2a design and delivery partner for the planned section of high-speed rail connecting the West Midlands and Crewe...
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The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has broken ground on the Kansas City Levee Flood Risk Management Project. The $258 million U.S. Army Corps of ...
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HS2 Ltd releasing over 250 packages of work for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK, worth millions of pounds...
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National Highways has today announced that Turner & Townsend Limited has been awarded the £23.3 million Commercial Partner contract on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing scheme, the most ...
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Don’t miss out on the #WTC2022! Submit your registration now on our website and take advantage of a substantial discount! You will be able to attend workshops, discover the latest ...
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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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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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