Tunnel Design & Construction AsiaThe Tunnel Design & Construction Asia conference will bring together international industry experts to speak on the most relevant issues related to regional ...
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Ground consolidation at TBM passage in GironaInstallation of 178 sheet piles has been completed between Girona I tunnel and adjacent buildings to consolidate the structures before the Gerunda TBM ...
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Elche railway tunnel underway in AlicanteOn 15.02.2010, excavation of the 1,288 m-long, 86 sq m twin-track Elche tunnel started on the El Carrús-Elche section of the Madrid-Castilla La ...
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Mammoth Genoa underground motorway agreed A memorandum of understanding was signed in Genoa on 08.02.2010 for the construction of a 23 km underground motorway, including the Gronda di Ponente and ...
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First news from tunnelbuilder, daily!Only one tunnelling website on earth updates every day of the week, including weekends! Whenever there is important news for our readers, it is uploaded at ...
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Reboredo railway tunnel excavation completedExcavation of the 790 m-long, 110 sq m twin-track Reboredo tunnel was completed, including two cut/cover sections. Reboredo tunnel is on the Silleda, ...
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Atlas Copco and Rio Tinto to go mechanical tunnellingAtlas Copco will develop one of two rapid tunnelling concepts for Rio Tinto, which will enable fast and cost-effective construction of mine ...
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Major collapse at Gilgel-Gibe hydro Gilgel-Gibe hydroelectric power plant is located in the Great African Rift Valley region of Ethiopia. It’s 26 km-long headrace tunnel cuts through heterogeneous ...
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Pedemontana Lombarda startup Work on the Pedemontana Lombarda officially started on 06.02.2010. The Pedemontana will link the five provinces of Bergamo, Monza & Brianza, Milan, Como and Varese ...
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Three Robbins TBMs enroute to Mexico cityOn 02.02.2010, the ceremony to mark the assembly of three Robbins EPBs was held in Corpus Christi, Texas, US. The machines are headed to Mexico City's Emisor ...
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Normet International appoints KlevenThe new Director, Tunnelling and Special Projects at Normet International is Odd-Bjorn Kleven, who will work out of the company's offices in Baar, Switzerland and ...
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Atlantic Ocean tunnel opens in NorwayOn 19.12.2009, the 5.37 km-long Atlantic Ocean tunnel between Kristiansund and Bremnes on National Road 64 was opened. For construction history visit ...
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Spanish symposium on tunnelsThe fifth symposium on tunnels entitled Security for tunnels in the 21st century will be held in Bilbao, Spain later this month from 24.02.2010 to 26.02.2010 at the ...
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Stuttgart 21 project starts in GermanyWork on the Stuttgart 21 project finally started on 02.02.2010. Initially, the existing Stuttgart main station will be replaced with a subsurface station 12m ...
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Castellanza railway tunnels open in ItalyThe Castellanza tunnels on the Milan Cadorna-Saronno-Busto Arsizio-Malpensa line operated by Ferrovie Nord Milano opened on 30.01.2010. The two parallel ...
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Aker Wirth TBM for Switzerland Aker Wirth has been commissioned to construct and deliver a gripper tunnel boring machine (TBM) by ARGE Zugangsstollen Limmern (AZL). The order has a total value of ...
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Elasto Plastic Concrete in Atlantic Ocean tunnelMore than ten major tunnelling projects in Norway are benefiting from the use of Barchip structural synthetic fibre to reinforce their shotcrete ...
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Ravnehei tunnel commissioned in NorwayOn 24.11.2009 the 7 km Hanesund-Sande section on road Rv 465 opened, including the 3.3 km-long Ravnehei tunnel between Kjorrefjord and Ulland in Farsund ...
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Burata railway tunnel excavation completedOn 26.01.2010 excavation of the 4,068 m-long, 85 sq m twin-track Burata tunnel was completed. Burata is on the 6.4 km Ourense to Amoeiro section of the ...
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Innovations at Bauma 2010The 29th Bauma takes place in three months time at Neue Muenchen Messe, from 19-25 April. The exhibition is sold out, with around 3,000 firms showing their goods. Some ...
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SELI opens branch in Hong KongThe new SELI branch office at 28 Canton Road, Unit 408A - Lippo Sun Building, Kowloon, HKSAR will serve as an immediate reference contact for all the company's projects ...
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Line B extension of the Lyon metroIn July 2009 the JV headed by Chantiers Modernes Rhone-Alpes, a subsidiary of Vinci Group, with the nine companies SPIE Batignolles, TPCI, Dodin Campenon Bernard ...
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Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway A3 design approvalOn 28.01.2010, Anas approved the executive design and the start of work on the third mega lot, third part of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway ...
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NFM Technologies improves on Spanish recordWhen TBMs of sizes greater than 9 m-diameter complete more than a kilometre in a month, the talk turns to records. NFM Technologies already held the ...
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Telvent tunnel management system for BrazilSpanish IT firm Telvent will install a tunnel management system on the El Morro Alto tunnels in Brazil to enhance safety and reduce accidents.Under the ...
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Work starts on Caldecott fourth tubeCaldecott tunnel is on Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in California, US. It handles 160,000 vehicles/day through its three tubes, and is overloaded. Work is ...
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Madrid-Castilla La Mancha-Valencia-Murcia high speed line progressExcavation has been completed at the 2,437 m-long El Regajal rail tunnel on the 4.7 km Aranjuez-OntÃgola section of the ...
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Robbins EPB assembled at Mexico jobsiteMexico City officials have celebrated the erection of the country's largest ever TBM with a cutterhead turning ceremony. Next week, the 10.2 m-diameter Robbins ...
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Portugal court suspends Marao tunnel constructionConstruction of the twin-tube 5,655 m-long Marao motorway tunnel on the new Amarante-Vila Real highway in Portugal has been suspended following ...
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Padley & Venables worldwidePadley & Venables is one of the largest international manufacturers of a wide range of quality tools and bar steels for use in the mining, tunnelling, quarrying, ...
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GIA working well in Hong Kong small diameter drainage tunnelsContractor Dragages-Nishimatsu has taken delivery of a fleet of GIA locomotives, shuttlecars and Haggloaders to assist in small diameter ...
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Devil's Slide improvementOwned and operated by Caltrans, the Devil's Slide project is located on State Route 1 in San Mateo County between the City of Pacifica and the town of Montara, California. ...
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Terratec sponsors tunnelbuilder.comTerratec, our old friends from Tasmania, are starting 2010 with a bang, sponsors of tunnelbuilder.com! For 20 years Terratec has been manufacturing Total ...
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Singapore Downtown Line progressingContractor Soletanche Bachy is excavating trenches for the slurry walls that will contain the important Bugis interchange station on the new 40 km-long, 33 ...
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New guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels designANAS has published updated guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels design, with more information about Italian Risk Analysis Method and ...
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Korea Mould for precasting equipmentKorea Mould supplies high quality segment lining products for the world's tunnelling industry and a range of similar products for railway, pipejacking, spun ...
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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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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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