Rutherford for temporary electrical equipment and cablesBased in New South Wales, Australia, and with strategically located companies in Italy and Singapore, Rutherford Power is well placed to ...
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Ten years of progress at tunnelbuilder.com1st April, 1999. The Internet bubble had popped, first generation dot.com companies had gone bust, and magazines were looking sick. Recession was the name ...
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tunnelbuilder - meet the teamWhether you speak English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Welsh, or most other languages, we will understand you. Our people in London, Madrid, Milan, Las ...
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Epping-Chatswood tunnel cracks The New South Wales Government in Australia is undertaking electronic monitoring of the EUR1.2 billion Epping to Chatswood railway line after cracks appeared in the ...
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Recruitment services in TorontoKevin Browning, Managing Director of International Tunnelling Services, is attending the 27th annual International No-Dig Show at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, ...
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Nororiente Motorway opened in Santiago, ChileOn 9th March, 2009 Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, and Luis del Rivero, Chairman of Sacyr Vallehermoso, opened the 21.5 km-long Nororiente ...
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NCE Crossrail ConferenceWill be held on Tuesday 31st March 2009 at the Hotel Russell, London W1The conference explores an expansive range of topics from design to procurement, construction to ...
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Rock mechanics, stability and design of tunnels and slopesProf. Dr.-Ing. Walter Wittke and Dr.-Ing. Bettina Wittke-Schmitt will host the 6th annual WBI-International short course from 26.11.2009 to ...
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New concept tunneljobs.com relaunchedtunnelbuilder has relaunched its tunneljobs.com website, accessible through the Jobs button in the toolbar at the top of this page. tunneljobs.com has been ...
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High speed from Madrid to the AtlanticThe 87.1 km-long section from Ourense to Santiago de Compostela on the Madrid-Galicia electrified high-speed line is European standard, double track. It passes ...
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Italian tunnel upgrades announced Autostrade per l'Italia Spa has announced the awards of contracts to upgrade installations in 50 tunnels on the A1 and A7 motorways out of Milano. Medi Impianti ...
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Abu Dhabi by 2030The Capital City District, currently under planning for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the UAE, will house 350,000 people and provide 150,000 jobs. An integrated, high capacity transit ...
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Italian tunnel upgrades announced Autostrade per l'Italia Spa has announced the awards of contracts to upgrade installations in 50 tunnels on the A1 and A7 motorways out of Milano. Click here. 09/09.
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Excavation of Stafelter tunnel starts in Luxembourg Excavation of the 1.85 km-long twin tube Stafelter tunnel on the A7 Route du Nord began at the south portal on 18.02.2009. The tunnel, 200 m of ...
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North American updateThe proposed replacement of the Alaskan Way viaduct in downtown Seattle with a 3.2 km-long bored double-deck road tunnel is symptomatic of the current trend in North America to ...
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The tunnel-way, dubbed the “Vegas loop”, is a nearly $52.5 million ... Reporters and various Las Vegas media entities were shown the project on ...
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THE TRANSPORTATION department has started seeking bidders for the tunneling works contract connecting the South Commuter Railway Project to ...
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Western Isles to mainland Scotland tunnel to be considered
07 APR, 2021 BY CATHERINE KENNEDY
A 27km tunnel linking the Western Isles and mainland ...
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Construction begins on Snøhetta's entrance for the mile-long ship tunnel which will introduce a safe passage for large vessels along the turbulent ...
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Egis has successfully signed the Contract Agreement with Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) for the design of the Dhaka Metro Line 5 South. Egis, leader of the consortium will work ...
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(CNN) — Norway has got the go-ahead to construct what's being billed as the world's first ship tunnel, designed to help vessels navigate the treacherous Stadhavet Sea...
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Cross River Rail will have 5.9 kilometres of twin tunnels running deep under Brisbane.
Giant underground factories...
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Fugro delivered the ground investigation for Femern Link Contractors, a consortium formed by Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Per Aarsleff, Wayss ...
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The tunnel, originally announced in 2017, will bore through just over a mile of the peninsula at its narrowest, southern end and allow ships to avoid the ...
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Two Iseki 1200 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) named after two deities – the Norse goddess Freya and the Greek goddess Artemis – will complete ...
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The scope of work in the project includes the construction of a 10.5km highway, plus five tunnels with a combined length of 4km. The longest of these ...
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The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recognized nine WSP USA projects for Engineering Excellence..
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Vehicles travel through the Saigon River Tunnel that links District 1 and Thu Duc City, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen...
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The Australasian Tunnelling Conference (ATS2020+1), our premier industry event, will be held in Melbourne on the 10th – 13th May 2021 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre ...
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Tracking devices have been clamped on two 165-metre long boring machines digging the first rail tunnels beneath the Brisbane River. The two giant ...
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Tunnel construction as a climate-friendly source of energy. The Brenner Base Tunnel will relieve transit traffic between Italy and Austria and, incidentally, ...
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More than 20 tunnel boring machines have been put to work to date to build lines 15, 16, 17 and 18 as part of a Grand Paris Express metro expansion ...
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For the first time, LTA will use a large-diameter tunnel boring machine to construct a single tunnel with two tracks in it. CRL1 is slated to commence ...
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True to its dedication to strive for innovation and sustainability, Normet has continued to develop and optimise its Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ...
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... two major planning approvals in readiness for the tunnel boring machines to start ... The first tunnelling contracts are likely to be issued in mid-2021.
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Watch the trailer for episode 2 of Tideway’s brand new web series - Tunnel Vision...
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HS2 Ltd has set a construction start date of Spring 2024 for Phase 2a of the project.
The target date for the start of earthworks is revealed in board minutes from December but just ...
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They will build their tunnelling machine and test it against competitors to get top spot.Caption: A render of the Warwick Boring Team's tunnelling device ...
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The M4-M5 Link Tunnels is the first stage of the M4-M5 Link which is being delivered in two stages...
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The Yokohama Loop Northwest Route is a 7.1km-long motorway that connects the Tomei Expressway and the Daisan Keihin Road...
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Tunnel Vision is a new web series from Tideway that will take a closer-then-ever look at the two dozen construction sites that make up the project, its amazing engineering and the people ...
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The NSW Government expects the first of four large tunnel boring machines (TBMs) to be in the ground by mid-2023. For more information visit the ...
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Uninterrupted connection was provided in the first tunnel of the Fahrettin Altay-Narlıdere metro line, which is under construction by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality...
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Two former ICE presidents have been brought in to carry out an official feasibility study of a possible Irish Sea crossing...
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Upgrades on the London Underground continue to gather pace, with work progressing on the capacity upgrade at Bank station and the Northern Line Extension programme...
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... LOT main tunnel will consist of approximately 17,000 feet of 144-inch hand-mined diameter tunnel and will be mined with a tunnel boring machine ...
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