World's Biggest TBM Finishes Boring in Madrid
'Dulcinea', the world's biggest TBM featuring a 15.2 m diameter and a power of 22,000 kW, has completed its job in record time. Machine ...
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Boring Begins on the San Vicente Pipeline ProjectA Robbins hard rock main beam TBM began boring a section of the San Vicente pipeline in San Diego, California on 21st June, 2006. The 3.5 ...
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Lake Hodges-Olivenhain Reservoir Water Tunnel Nears EndA water tunnel to link Lake Hodges and Olivenhain Reservoir is built by Kiewit Pacific Co. for the San Diego County Water Authority ...
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Fifth and Last TBM Launch at PajaresThe fifth of the five TBMs needed to dig the 2 x 24.7 km Pajares tunnel commenced on 10th July, 2006 from the Asturias side. That TBM has been produced at ...
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Second Islisberg Tunnel Breaks ThroughA Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine (machine S-256) holed through on 12th July, 2006 the 4,645 m-long east tube of the Islisberg tunnel in Zurich, ...
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Tunnelling of Maurice Lemaire Safety Tunnel EndsMore than fifteen months have been necessary for a Herrenknecht gripper TBM, christened 'Cynthia' in December 2004, to complete a 6,226 m-long ...
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Line C Extension of Prague Metro Makes HeadwayThe extension of Line C in Prague from Ladvi to Letnany (4,602 m, whereof 2,360 m in mined tunnels, with stops in Strizkov, Prosek and Letnany) is built ...
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Repairing the Montblanc Tunnels on the Lleida-Barcelona High Speed LinkThe Camp Magre, Lilla and Puig Cabrer tunnels are situated on subsection lV-b (for the first two) and V on the ...
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Putzmeister Ibérica Markets Vacuum Cleaner for TBMsSpain is the world's first market in terms of the number of tunnel boring machines in activity at the moment. At least 25 TBMs were working ...
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Third TBM Starts Boring on Line 9 in BarcelonaTunnelling on the future Line 9 of Barcelona's metro, an infrastructure that will cross Barcelona connecting Badalona and Santa Coloma de ...
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Chicago Finishes Deep TunnelAfter 30 years and more than USD3 billion, the 176 km of tunnels were completed recently when the 12.9 km Little Calumet leg near Calumet City, Lansing and South ...
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Lovat TBM Starts Canada Line in VancouverA Lovat TBM, nicknamed 'Sweet Leilani', was launched with champagne on 10th June, 2006 at an official ceremony at the future False Creek South station ...
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Robbins Signs Contract for Very Long Water Tunnel in IndiaJaiprakash Associates Limited (JAL) has signed contracts with Robbins for the AMR project in Andhra Pradesh, India on 26th May, 2006. The ...
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Eiksund Tunnel Sets New RecordThe 7,765 m-long Eiksund tunnel in Norway has set a new world record when the deepest point excavated so far (-266 m below sea level) was reached on 31st May, ...
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Hsuehshan Tunnel Opens in TaiwanThe 12.9 km Hsuehshan, or Snow Mountain, tunnel has opened to traffic on 16th June, 2006 in eastern Ilan county, Taiwan. It is the longest road tunnel in Asia ...
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Robbins Readies TBMs for Capilano-Seymour Water Scheme in Vancouver
Deployment of the first of two Robbins tunnel boring machines represents a significant step in construction of the ...
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Double Breakthrough with Two Lovats in Bologna
Sergio Cofferati, the mayor of Bologna, and Elio Catania, the president and CEO of the Italian railways, presided on 31st May, 2006 the ...
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Norway Builds SILA Project
Sweden's LKAB supplies highly upgraded iron ore products to the steel industry and custom-adapted mineral products to other industrial sectors. Most of LKAB's ...
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Kicks off San Cristobal Tunnel at Groundbreaking CeremonyChilean president Michelle Bachelet, minister of public works Eduardo Bitran, and Karl Traub, ...
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Flood Relief Tunnel Starts in ParisAn impressive tunnel boring machine commences to work at the Ivry-Massena tunnel (TIMA) in Paris. Its mission is to dig Europe's biggest and deepest ...
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Last Breakthrough in the Uetliberg Tunnel with Tunnel Bore Extender (TBE) Using Undercutting TechniqueOn 18th May, 2006 the Uetliberg tunnel construction crew celebrated the TBE's last ...
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Katschberg Tunnel Breaks Through in AustriaThe 5,414 m Katschberg tunnel on the A10 Tauern motorway connects Salzburg with Carinthia. It is a single bored tunnel and for obvious safety ...
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World's Largest TBM Ready to Cross the Yangtze in ShanghaiAt the end of April 2006, Herrenknecht handed over the first tunnelling machine with a diameter of 15.43 m to the Chinese client ...
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Angela Merkel Inaugurates New Central Station and Tunnel in Berlin as Germany Hosts Football World Cup
Berlin inaugurated its new central station on 26th May, 2006. The new station is ...
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Nordoya Tunnel Opens in Faroe IslandsThe 6.2 km Nordoya subsea tunnel opened on 29th April, 2006 in the Faroe Islands, three months ahead of schedule. This is a single-tube dual-lane tunnel, the ...
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First Sections of Variante di Valico to Open SoonThe upgrading project of the Apennine section between Sasso Marconi and Barberino di Mugello, first designed in 1993 and revised in 1999, goes from ...
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Construction Starts on Tunnel under Yangtze River in WuhanWuhan, capital of Hubei province, wants to decongest the only two bridges over the Yangtze River in the city centre. The 3,609 m-long ...
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Underground Drillrigs LaunchAfter the Rocket Boomer E2, Atlas Copco has added a new member to the Rocket Boomer E-series family: the Rocket Boomer XE3, a three-boom drill rig. The Rocket ...
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East Rail's Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Extension in Hong Kong Nears EndIn Hong Kong's Northern New Territories lies a 25 hectare site of agricultural lands and ponds. This is the Long Valley ...
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One out of Four European Tunnels is UnsafeThe EuroTest firstly, then the European Tunnel Assessment Programme (EuroTAP) began in 2000 following the Mont Blanc tunnel disaster when 39 people ...
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Experts Invited to Workshop and Fire Test on Water Mist SystemsIntensive research work over the last decade has shown that fixed automatic firefighting systems considerably can increase safety in ...
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Turin Hosts INTERtunnel 2006The 7th INTERtunnel will be held in Turin at the Lingotto Fiere exhibition centre from 16th to 18th May, 2006. Italy is the ideal host country for an exhibition covering ...
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Rome Presented Project Finance Scheme for Metro Line DOn 13th April, 2006 the project finance scheme of Line D, the fourth subway line in Rome, has been presented. This is a new line to be developed ...
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First Castellanza Tunnel Breaks Through on Saronno-Malpensa Railway SectionThe first tunnel built to place underground the FNM tracks in Castellanza broke through on 19th April, 2006. The ...
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SMART Southern Tunnel Breaks Through in Kuala Lumpur
The southern drive of the SMART (Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel) project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was completed on 22nd ...
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Zitron to Supply Fans for World's Biggest Underground ProjectThe M-30 motorway in Madrid is a large thoroughfare built in the seventies between Manoteras junction and Los Franceses bridge, and ...
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Thames Tideway tunnellers have achieved a significant milestone linking up all three sections of the super sewer project for the first time. West main ...
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The Philippines and Japan on Tuesday, (July 27) formally signed an additional P116-billion (JPY253 billion) loan package to finance the building of the country’s first underground railway...
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All four of the Metro Tunnel’s tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are being retrieved from underground...
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A High Court judge has ruled that transport secretary Grant Shapps did not break the law when approving the £27.4bn Road Investment Strategy (RIS2)...
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The Formwork, designed and manufactured for the Tunnel des Evouettes, has been pre-assembled and inspected by the client...
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Major work is expected to start in the coming months, with the tunnelling contract awarded by the end of the year and tunnel boring machines in the ...
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The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel Project will replace the 2.25km-long rail tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Baltimore, Maryland, US. Project Type...
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ON the evening of Monday July 19, the tunnel boring machine that is working on the construction of the sanitation pipeline in Palma completed the ...
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Following the launch of HS2's first two giant tunnelling machines, Align JV have now begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the ...
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A 6.6m (21.8ft) diameter Robbins Crossover XRE TBM has made its third and final breakthrough for India’s Mumbai Metro Line 3. The project has an estimated cost of US$4.2 billion...
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Start time: 6.00pm AEST. The discussion will cover the concept of a system being an integration of people, process and technology, starting with the end in mind needing to understand the ...
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The construction of a large tunnel system in the District requires the ... To help mitigate construction impacts, D.C. Water partnered with three of the ...
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Join us to celebrate the launch of our tunnel boring machine Hiwa-i-te-Rangi with a self-guided tour of our Central Interceptor construction site. You will be able to immerse yourself in ...
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SCS's contract will involve the construction of a variety of structures and 21km of the line will be in a tunnel created using six tunnel boring machines.
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It is part of a major project to modernise the Trakia railway from Sofia to Bourgas, which has been under construction for 15 years. The hopes are that the ...
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The Mill Creek Drainage Relief Tunnel is a construction project that will bring needed infrastructure improvement to east Dallas, Texas...
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Construction of the latest phase of National Grid’s London Power Tunnels will reach a major milestone later this month with the launch of its second tunnel boring machine (TBM) following ...
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KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): The first of two tunnel boring machines (TBM) which will be used to start excavation works for the Genting Tunnel as part of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project ...
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Singapore’s longest fully underground MRT line – Cross Island Line (CRL – CR108) will be linked to existing MRT lines for seamless connectivity...
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The new IMM management, which solved the financing problem of the lines, downloaded the TBMs (Tunel Boring Machine - Tunnel Boring Machines) ...
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This site known as the Southern laydown area will be used to assemble two tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) that will dig 4kms of tunnels for the new ...
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The Boring Company (TBC) unleashed its new tunnel boring machine (TBM) named Prufrock in Las Vegas recently. Prufrock may help Elon Musk's ...
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The largest construction project in Fort Wayne's history recently struck a new milestone with the conclusion of boring for a new sewer tunnel.
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Lower Thames Crossing consultation launched ahead of DCO application
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Highways England is seeking feedback on changes to its plans to ...
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We are proud to introduce our renewed EFNARC C2 compatible VR concrete spraying training simulator! The video shows how industry professionals see the importance of operator competence in ...
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): It took over three years and involved boring through more than five miles of bedrock beneath the Summit City, and on Thursday morning, officials announced that the ...
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This month, James and Taylor are at Barn Elms to visit the greenest site on the Tideway project... and to recreate Ireland's famous goal against England at Euro '88...
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The Coffs Harbour Bypass project is a priority for the Australian and NSW governments as the Pacific Highway is a major contributor to Australia's economy. The bypass will be a key link in ...
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It's not every job that you get to use big pieces of machinery deep underneath Auckland...
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Contest to build Tesla of tunnel boring machines ... Musk's competition aim to revolutionise tunnelling methods so advanced smart and efficient ... and mathematics students have been ...
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The 110-year old Hudson River rail tunnels are used by 450 trains a day. Funding for the $11.6 billion project — $9.8 billion for new tunnel construction ...
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Highways England has launched the hunt for a Delivery Assurance Partner to support the delivery of its £1.7bn A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade past Stonehenge...
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Founder and president of the Himalaya Bachao Samiti Kulbhushan Upmanyu has pleaded for giving priority to the construction of the Chamba-Chowari tunnel beneath the Jot Pass...
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We've been given a first look at one of the completed Sydney Metro railway tunnels under Sydney Harbour. It'll connect North Sydney to Barangaroo. It's a massive project that's been ...
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Look back at the last 20 months of TBM tunnelling with a highlight reel of everything our mighty machines have accomplished so far...
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PAWTUCKET – The Narragansett Bay Commission last Friday broke ground on its Pawtucket Tunnel project, a milestone that’s seen plenty of advance legwork leading up to it...
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A new technical communication solution is now being used in the construction of the double-track railway through Moss...
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Specialist engineering and civils contractor J Murphy & Sons battled through the pandemic year to lift revenue by 26% to a record £1.1bn...
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The new line will run on a main tunnel approximately 10.1 km (6 miles) in length, created by two new tunnel-boring machines, and will also include 20 ...
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