The Robbins Company will present a series of lectures on high power TBMs on Tuesday 24.06.2014 at NAT in Los Angeles. Read the press release and visit the company at booth 425 or at ...
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The European Commission has approved a EUR409.5 million investment from the Regional Development Fund (FEDR) for Romania's Eroilor-Drumul Taberei subway route currently in development.
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The breakthrough of a veteran Robbins hardrock TBM on 19.05.2014 at the Lemay Redundant Force Main in St. Louis, MO was its twelfth in over 40 km of rock, since its manufacture in 1981. The TBM, ...
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French manufacturer Condat supplies a complete range of self-extinguishing lubricants to the tunnelling industry that includes Tail Seal Greases, Main Bearing Lubrication & Protection ...
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Following successful cooperation with the Robbins Company on TBM seminars in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil, Mapei UTT is participating in the first of a Webinar series for 2014 organized by Robbins. ...
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On Saturday 14.06.2014 the construction site open day for the new 8.8 km Bure-Porrentruy A16 section will be held in Switzerland. The section includes the mono-tube and bi-directional 3,059 m Bure ...
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A 2.2 m-diameter Robbins heavy duty double shield hardrock TBM in Fairfax, VA on its seventh project has holed out after a punishing run through diabase of 345 MPa hardness. The machine has set a ...
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Tunnel boring under the Bosphorus as part of the Eurasia Tunnel Project (Istanbul Strait Road Tunnel) began on 19.04.2014 with a ceremony at Haydarpasa construction site. The 3,300 t TBM has been ...
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On 04.06.2014 the Swedish road and railway authority Trafikverket signed with the JV Zueblin/Boskalis the design and build contract for the Marieholm tunnel project. The tunnel, 30 m-wide and 10 ...
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Asia-Pacific based manufacturer Terratec has announced details of TBM sales to Turkey and Laos, significantly expanding the company’s current geographic spread. Read the press release and ...
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The first of two Robbins TBMs working on San Francisco Central Subway has holed out. Read the blog and visit www.robbinstbm.com. 23/14.
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The Robbins Company is hosting a complimentary hour-long web seminar on 18th June, 2014 at which experts from Robbins, BASF and Mapei will discuss available ground conditioning techniques and ...
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Geodata Group, based in Leoben, Austria has stepped up to sponsor our flagship website tunnelbuilder.com. A tunnelbuilder client for many years, Geodata has grown along with the tunnelling industry. ...
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Time to register for the Australian Tunnelling Conference taking place in Sydney 17-19 September, 2014. Click here for list of papers and online registration, or visit www.ausimm.com. 22/14.
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The Nova Subida da Serra (NSS) in Brazil comprises five lots and involves a new 20 km-long road section for which 15 km of the existing BR-040 will be doubled and a 4,640 m tunnel at Petropolis will ...
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The construction of Mesaimeer tunnel in Qatar started on 20.05.2014 and will be complete by early 2017. The Mesaimeer tunnel for surface and ground water is one of the key drainage projects within ...
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On 26.05.2014 the provincial government approved the technical characteristics of the future Bolzano ring road alignment in Italy. The construction of the EUR368million project will be divided into ...
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In March this year lighting, ventilation, security, and surveillance for Peshraw tunnel (2390 m) under Mount Azmar, Sulaymaniyah city, Iraq, Kurdistan Region, were tested, and installation and ...
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President Xi Jinping has visited the CREG TBM assembly factory in Zhengzhou.
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The 14th International Water Mist Conference, Istanbul, 22-23 October 2014, will be of interest to those responsible for selecting fire protection as well as researchers/scientists who wish to be ...
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International recruitment specialist iPS has posted a vacancy for a Spanish-speaking vertical drilling supervisor for a 6 m-diameter water shaft in Chile. Read the details below and contact ...
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TBM manufacturer CREG has supplied the world’s largest rectangular boxjacking EPB machine to a project in Zhengzhou, China. Read the press release and visit www.crectbm.com. Contact ...
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Seattle Tunnel Partners, WSDOT’s contractor for the SR 99 tunnel project, has started building the circular pit to access and repair their TBM. Rigs have begun work to install the 75 piles ...
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A Robbins Double Shield TBM broke through at the Black River Tunnel Project on 29.04.2014 in Lorain, OH. The 1.7 km-long EPA-mandated tunnel will prevent heavy rains from triggering sewage overflows ...
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The license has been approved for the construction of the new Albula rail tunnel on the Thusis-Tirano section, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008. The existing Albula tunnel, opened ...
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The companies CIFA, Gei-Impianti, Mantovani Benne Mbi, MB Spa, Nord-lock and Venieri Spa have each secured a Samoter 2014 International Innovation Award. The prize is awarded to manufacturers who ...
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The triennial Samoter exhibition is underway in Verona, Italy at a time when sales of construction machinery are increasing by 20 percent year on year, signalling an end to the recession in the ...
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As the Channel Tunnel celebrates the 20th anniversary of its inauguration, CBE Group reflects upon its own origins in 1987 as supplier of concrete segment manufacturing facilities for Sangatte at ...
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ES Rubber, producers of segment gaskets and fixings, is entering the South American market and invites all tunnelbuilder readers to visit their stand number 40/41 at WTC Brazil 09-15.05.2014. Click ...
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Three Robbins 5.23 m-diameter main beam TBMs with continuous conveyor systems have completed the 44.6 km-long Pahang Selangor raw water tunnel in Malaysia. First use outside Japan of a fast setting, ...
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As the recession lifts in the US and Europe, tunnelbuilder readership is growing rapidly, indicating over 1 million visits for 2014. During March, tunnelbuilder.com alone registered 25,027 unique ...
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Sandvik TCAD+ is an aiming tool designed for accurately executing pre-designed drilling plans. It features face drilling, long hole drilling and bolting hole plans on the drillrig screen. ...
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On 04.04.2014, 150 m-long TBM Victoria broke through into Whitechapel tunnels to reach the 32 km (over 75 percent) of Crossrail tunnelling completed.
Victoria began the drive at Limmo Peninsula in ...
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Two months after completing her 2.7 km tunnel drive from Pudding Mill Lane to one of Europe’s largest mined caverns at Stepney Green, the TBM Jessica made a 5 km journey to her next launch ...
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International employment consultants iPS have started their recruitment drive for Doha Metro project in Qatar by posting six top management and engineering vacancies.
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NFM Technologies of France will supply a 10.16 m-diameter TBM to excavate the 6 km-long underground section of the proposed Metro Riyadh Line 3 in Saudi Arabia. Read the press release and visit ...
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