International recruiters iPS are looking for experienced concrete batching plant operators for 18-month contracts commencing mid-September, 2012.
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Tasmanian manufacturer Terratec has announced that its 6.44 m-diameter EPB is ready to launch on a 5.1 km drive beneath Chinatown and Chao Phraya river at the Bangkok Metro Blue Line
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Gjerstad is a leading manufacturer specializing in tunnelling and mining equipment.
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The Saudi government has approved EUR13.15bn of spending to overhaul the transport network of Mecca (or Makkah).
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Norwegian Ola Waldmo, the international expert on rock support, grouting and sprayed concrete, has been appointed managing director at Normet Scandinavia AB in Ludvika, Sweden
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Liefkenshoek rail link is a 16.2 km-long twin-track railway project under construction in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Prominent tunnelling experts will convene in Munich to discuss case studies and trends in fire protection and safety on 12-13 September, 2012.
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Employment specialist iPS is supporting four contracts within the Crossrail project, the largest underground construction job in Europe
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Following its success at Veligonda, where a 7.9 m-diameter Herrenknecht double shield TBM achieved 525 m advance in one month, the German manufacturer has announced orders for 18 EPBs in the +6 m-diameter range for Indian metro projects.
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The first TBM of contracting JV BAM Nuttall/Ferrovial Agroman/Kier has reached Paddington, some 750 m from its launch chamber at Royal Oak.
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For tunnels, Italian manufacturer Maccaferri produces GFRP profiles and hybrid drainage elements to reinforce and consolidate face excavation,
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On 09.08.2012 Cipa SpA broke through the 402 m south carriageway of Limbia tunnel, lot DG22 of SS106 Jonica,
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On 31.07.2012 breakthrough the Col Cavalier tunnel in Belluno municipality (BL). The tunnel is 1,826 m long, of which 210 m in cut/cover, is part of the upgrading of a large section of SP1 Left Piave.
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The new Robbins TBM EPB Tierra has reached Singapore from Shanghai, where, on 28-29th June it had been accepted by LTA (Land Transport Authority) and CMC.
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On 27.07.2012 the 15.62 m-diameter TBM Martina (EPB S-5) broke through the 2,564 m northbound tube of the Sparvo tunnel on Italy’s Variante di Valico project.
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Crewing and recruitment agency iPS is newly OHSAS certified and compliant with international standards for safety management.
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On 19.07.2012, Putzmeister acquired Intermix, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of truck mixers and special mixers, with an annual output in the order of 800 units.
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The consortium Pedelombarda Scpa, comprising Impregilo (leader), Astaldi, Pizzarotti and ACI secured the Section A of the Pedemontana Lombarda and the first lots of the Varese and Como bypasses.
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TUCA is the Tunnelling & Construction Academy in London, which iPS supports. iPS is a supplier of specialized tunnelling personnel for Crossrail and other projects.
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In 1975 Martin Herrenknecht set up on his own as an engineer, and two years later founded Herrenknecht GmbH in the tiny hamlet of Schwanau, Germany.
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Bentley's annual Be Inspired Awards programme is a competition open to all users of Bentley software for sustaining infrastructure.
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A Robbins 6.25 m-diameter main beam TBM is making good going in basalt over 100 m beneath the streets of Mumbai to install 8.3 km of much-needed replacement water main.
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The first East European tunnelling conference takes place in Budapest on 18-21st September, 2012.
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On 05.07.2012 excavation was completed at the 990 m-long Cerzone tunnel (km 4,500 - km 5,450) on the road bypass to the SS 212 between Pietrelcina junction and San Marco dei Cavoti interchange in Italy’s Benevento province.
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Costruzioni Elettrotecniche CEAR moved to new administrative and production facilities at Gessate (Milan) in June, 2012.
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CIFA, a company in the Zoomlion Heavy Industries Group, sponsored the XVI ERMCO Congress held in Verona on 21-22nd June, 2012.
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The Swiss government has decided to build the second Gotthard road tunnel to facilitate refurbishment of the existing 16 km-long single tube,
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On 19.06.2012 10 m-diameter Herrenknecht TBM Charlotte broke through the 4 km-long east-west tube of Saverne tunnel, after seven months of work, during which average advance was 20 m/day.
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NFM Technologies has received an order for a 6.6 m-diameter earth pressure balance TBM to drive a section of the second circular line of Moscow metro.
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The prequalification process will still start this year, even though the planning of the fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt will take one year more than expected.
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On 7 June King Albert II inaugurated the new Diabolo railway infrastructure and reached by train the new Brussels Airport station.
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ITA has produced a video dealing with urban tunnelling at a time when it is estimated that migration will result in 70% of the world’s population living in cities.
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Geofluid, the biannual international show specialised in subsoil fluid prospecting extraction and transport, geological and geophysical drilling, deep foundations, no-dig technology and construction of tunnels
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Thirty years’ experience in locomotive rebuilding has given American specialist Mining Equipment a unique insight into the requirements for successful operation in the rigorous tunnelling environment.
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On 06.06.2012 consortium Condotte Cossi completed TBM excavation of the emergency tube of the Grand St Bernard tunnel. The 5,760 m-long drive, lined with precast concrete segments, was completed in 18 months.
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Nodavia, a JV of Coopsette and Ergon, secured the EUR709 million contract for the Florence high-speed rail tunnel and station.
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