Australia and New Zealand to host Auckland conferenceThe 14th Australasian Tunnelling Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand on 8-10th March, 2011. The theme "Development in Underground ...
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City Tunnel opens in MalmoThe Malmo City Tunnel was officially opened last month by King Carl Gustav XVI of Sweden. The 17 km-long project is the final section of the direct link between Denmark and ...
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Ras Adjir-Emsaad highway Libya awardAn Italian consortium of Anas SpA, Progetti Europa & Global SpA and Italsocotec SpA has won a EUR125.5 million deal for the Ras Adjir-Emsaad highway in Libya. ...
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The advantages of legacyWelcome to a New Year in which the fittest have survived, and fortunes will be made out of the accelerating financial recovery. Our clients have applied their accumulated ...
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CBE laser tracker saves time, improves safetyFrench group CBE has celebrated the New Year with the launch of the latest generation of its Faro Laser Tracker Ion for three-dimensional control of ...
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Second breakthrough at A Luoi hydro On 27.12.2010 Cavico Bridge and Tunnel, the Cavico Corporation subsidiary based in Vietnam, broke through a second sub-tunnel at the A Luoi hydropower project. ...
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iPS recruiting senior staff for Indian tunnel projectIn February, 2011 India is to start work on a four-year drill/blast tunnel using NATM techniques. iPS is currently recruiting a Tunnel ...
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Variante di Valico base tunnel completed On 21.12.2010 the base tunnel on the Variante di Valico project between Florence and Bologna holed through. It is the largest highway tunnel in Italy with ...
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Long headrace for Song Bung 2 in VietnamConstruction of the 100 MW Song Bung 2 hydro plant project in Quang Nam province has been awarded to Cavico. The contract includes surge tank, powerhouse and ...
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Herrenknecht delivers world's largest EPBThe 15.62 m-diameter EPB designed and manufactured by Herrenknecht at Schwanau has been accepted by the customer this week. It will now be partially ...
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2012 Symposium on tunnel safety for New YorkThe fifth ISTSS conference will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, NY on 14-16 March, 2012 with three days of presentations and exhibits. This ...
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Galong La tunnel holes through in TibetThe 3.3 km-long Galong La tunnel holed through today, linking Tibet's remote Metok county with the outside world. The tunnel alignment passed through 11 major ...
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Second Sangaldam breakthroughWork is progressing well on the Katra-Qazigund section of the Kashmir railway, with the second tunnel breaking through at Sangaldam in the Ramban district of the valley. ...
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iPS recruits for tunnel project in IndiaIn February, 2011 India is to start work on a four-year drill/blast tunnel using NATM techniques. iPS is currently recruiting a Tunnel Superintendent and ...
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UK high speed railway route publishedThe proposed route for HS2 high speed railway from London to Birmingham has been revealed to the British parliament by the Minister for Transport. More, ...
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Marathon Robbins TBM completes PingluOn 14.11.2010 a veteran Robbins Double Shield completed one of the world's longest single-drive TBM tunnels, the 25.4 km Pinglu section of the Yellow River water ...
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Adfil Construction Fibres - leading through innovationSpanning four decades, ADFIL Construction Fibres has been manufacturing and marketing an extensive range of innovative construction fibres. The ...
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Enjoy your festive season, if you can!As the northern hemisphere grinds through the coldest seasonal weather for 30 years, we are conscious that some of our readers will be stuck in places where ...
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Zueblin and VMT join forcesEd. Zueblin of Stuttgart and VMT of Bruchsal, Germany have established a joint venture company ITC Engineering GmbH to market efficient software systems for process data ...
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Frejus safety tunnel fully underwayOn 30.11.2010 construction commenced at the Italian end of the Frejus safety tunnel under a contract with the consortium Itinera SpA/Razel SAS/Mattioda Pierino ...
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Underground Construction for LondonThe 2011 underground construction conference and exhibition will be held in Central London on 29-30th June. It takes place at a time of unprecedented tunnelling ...
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Big Crossrail contracts awardedToday, in London, Crossrail has awarded the first of nearly 30 major jobs, comprising EUR1.48 billion of construction contracts for the main project tunnel drives and ...
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Auckland Victoria Park breaks throughJust a year after mobilizing, contracting consortium V-Formation led by Fletcher Construction has broken through on the Victoria Park tunnel that will carry ...
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Advertiser support at tunnelbuilderIn publishing, editors sometimes lose sight of who is paying their wages. The buck usually comes from the advertisers, and stops with the publishers, with the ...
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iPS - powerful peopleiPS, for 22 years a renowned supplier of personnel to the tunnelling industry, has taken on a new look. The new website www.ipspersonnel.com is now fully integrated with a ...
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Rio Tinto invests in mechanized techniquesRio Tinto is investing EUR7.4 million in a new centre for underground mine construction based at CEMI in Sudbury, Canada. The partnership with CEMI provides ...
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Milan-Genoa Terzo Valico startupOn 18.11.2010 CIPE approved the start of Lot 1 construction work for the dei Giovi tunnel on the Milan-Genoa high-speed line and allocated EUR700 million to the ...
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EIA and design for Maddalena exploratory tunnel approved The environmental impact assessment for the Maddalena exploratory tunnel on the proposed Turin-Lyon high-speed railway was approved by the ...
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2011 China Tunnel Summit for ShanghaiThe 5th China tunnel summit takes place March 3-4, 2011 in Shanghai, China. For more information contact Zoey Yao at Merisis, tel +86 21 62278218, e-mail ...
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Herrenknecht EPB passes Sagrada Familia in BarcelonaBy 20.10.2010, Herrenknecht EPB Barcino excavating at 34 m depth had completed 1,980 m of the Sants-La Sagrera tunnel for the ...
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Putzmeister solution at MalmoThe concrete trackbed in the twin-tube, 6 km-long Malmo city tunnel has to be installed without major vibration at a rate of 15-20 m/h. Maximum precision is required ...
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Suspected methane explosion at Pike River mine in New ZealandThe entrance adit to Pike River coalmine is 2.3 km-long, 5.5 m-wide and 4.5 m-high. It was driven uphill near the top of the Paparoa ...
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Archidona tunnel excavation completeConstruction of the single bore, twin track Archidona tunnel on the Archidona-Arroyo de la Negra section of the Antequera-Granada high speed line was completed on ...
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Bauma China showcases the world's bestTaking place this week at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, Bauma China is the leading international trade fair in Asia for all sectors of the ...
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Brenner Base Aica-Mules pilot bore breaks throughOn 03.11.2010, a 6.3 m-diameter double shield TBM completed excavation of the 10.5 km-long exploratory tunnel between Aica and Mules as part of the ...
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EU funding reduction for Turin-Lyon lineOn 27.10.2010 the European Commission published its mid-term review of 92 priority Trans-European Networks infrastructure projects, co-financed by the ...
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