TUNCONSTRUCT, a Project to Boost the Use of Underground Space in Europe The utilization of underground space can have a significant impact on living conditions. For example, underground trains ...
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Funding Approval for World's Longest LiftThe opening of the 57 km Gotthard base tunnel in Switzerland is still nearly ten years away, but locals in the Surselva, one of the valleys under which it ...
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NFM Technologies TBMs for Tabriz Metro in IranTwo NFM Technologies EPB shield boring machines will be used to drive a 7 km twin-tube tunnel for the Tabriz metro in Iran. The excavated diameter of ...
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MHI-Duro Felguera Delivers TBM for Pajares TunnelMHI-Duro Felguera, the joint company established by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Duro Felguera, has completed the assembly of the TBM ...
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North Tube of Nazzano Tunnel is WidenedThe widening of the Nazzano northbound tunnel on the Orte-Fiano Romano section of highway A1 Milan-Naples, a few kilometres north of Rome, ended on 17th ...
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E-News Weekly No 200During the last four years, E-News Weekly has presented over 1,000 pages of focussed tunnelling contract news, providing its subscribers with reliable, up-to-the-minute ...
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Norway Builds Sauda Fjord Hydro ProjectThe Sauda fjord hydro power project, an ambitious energy production infrastructure, is under construction in Rogaland county in south Norway, south of Bergen. ...
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Speedy Tunnelling with Lovat TBMs on High Speed Rail Tunnels in BolognaThe San Ruffillo JV between Necso of Spain (now Acciona Infraestructuras) and Ghella of Italy has reported record progress by ...
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Atlanta Celebrates New Year with Commissioning of Nancy Creek TunnelMayor Shirley Franklin spoke at the R.M. Clayton Water Reclamation Center on 31st December, 2005 to herald the flow of sewage ...
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New E-series to Challenge High Speed Tunnelling RecordsAtlas Copco has given the tunnelling industry a glimpse of the future by lifting a corner of the veil covering its next drill rig launch - the ...
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Tunnelling Ends on Chamartin-Nuevos Ministerios Tunnel in MadridThe Ministry of public works completed on 7th December, 2005 tunnelling of the Chamartin-Nuevos Ministerios tunnel on the new suburban ...
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Tunnel for Taipei MRT Neihu Line is CompletedAfter more than three years of hard work, engineers and workers have succeeded in boring a 4 km tunnel under Taipei's Sungshan Airport and a ceremony has ...
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Atlas Copco's First Swedish-designed LHD Ready for Roll-out in 2006 Atlas Copco's first generation of load-haul-dump vehicles designed and built in Sweden, is scheduled to make its debut in 2006 and ...
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Dr. Martin Herrenknecht Receives STUVA PrizeOver 1,200 delegates from 27 nations participated in the popular STUVA Tagung '05 conferences and exhibition organised in Leipzig from 28th November to ...
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Highlights of 2005The Holy City of Mecca in Saudi Arabia needed two new pedestrian tunnels in a hurry for the thousands of pilgrims arriving for Haj on 5th January, 2005. Turkish contractor SFTA ...
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Schöck ComBar Reinforcement TechnologySchöck of Baden-Baden, Germany has spent a decade developing glass fibre reinforced polymer reinforcing bar, resulting in widespread approvals for its ComBar ...
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Luxembourg Builds Grouft TunnelWith a population of 465,000 and an area of 2,586 sq km, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a tiny country landlocked by Belgium, France and Germany. It is among the ...
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Hitachi TBM Completes Providence CSO Main Spine TunnelOn 1st December, 2005 an Hitachi single shield TBM reached its final destination at the bottom of a termination shaft 80 metres below the ...
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Lovat Appoints New Managers for Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific RegionLovat has expanded its expertise to include local support in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, by ...
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Drivers Do Not Know How to Face Risks in TunnelsA study entitled "Experimental psychological results from driving in tunnels - Contributions to road safety", elaborated by Segtúnel, a team from the ...
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Press Releases at tunnelbuilder.comIf you are an established advertiser with tunnelbuilder, we invite you to submit your 2006 press releases to us for publication. This will bring news about your ...
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MEI - World Leader in Mining Equipment SupplyMining Equipment Inc, based in Durango, CO, US has built a strong legacy over the last quarter century in the supply of a huge variety of quality ...
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Second Stage of Izmir Light Rail Under ConstructionThe second stage of the Izmir light rail system in Turkey is under construction by the Rail Systems Directorate of the Izmir Metropolitan ...
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End of Tunnelling on Apennine Section of Bologna-Florence High Speed LinkThe breakthrough of the Vaglia tunnel on 21st October, 2005 marks the end of tunnelling on the Apennine section between ...
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Andorra Builds Dos Valires TunnelThe Principality of Andorra is in southwest Europe on the Mediterranean slope of the eastern Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is a small country, maybe 35 or 40 ...
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Hsinchuang Line in Taiwan Marks Breakthrough of 10 km TunnelA celebration was held on 19th November, 2005 to mark the breakthrough of a 10 km tunnel on Taipei mass rapid transit system's Hsinchuang ...
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COP 3038 Rock Drills Shape Norwegian HydroBirkeland Entreprenørforretning is in joint venture with Spilde Entreprenør to build the first phase of the 41.8 GWh Kløvtveit project in Hordaland, ...
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Atlanta Builds West Area CSO Tunnels The West Area CSO tunnel in Atlanta will collect, convey and store up to 567.8 million litres of combined sewer overflow from the Clear Creek, Tanyard and North ...
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Two Lovat TBMs for Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnel in LondonAt the Underground Construction 2005 conference and exhibition held 26th-27th October, 2005 in London, J Murphy & Sons signed a contract ...
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Eagle's Nest Tunnel Breaks ThroughThe construction of Route 8 in Hong Kong has reached a significant milestone with the breakthrough on 19th October, 2005 of the Eagle's Nest tunnel. The tunnel ...
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Rushing to Meet the 2006 Winter Olympics Deadline in TurinThe 1,055 m Craviale tunnel and the 664 m Turina tunnel along state road SS 23, 50 km northwest of Turin, Italy are currently being ...
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Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Wins Engineering AwardsSingapore's Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) has won this year's Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award handed out by the Institution of ...
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NFM Technologies Appoints New ManagerNFM Technologies has just boosted its service activities with the arrival of Philippe Patret, who occupies the position of external services manager. A 48 ...
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Major Road Works in TriesteThe so-called second stretch of the third lot on Trieste's road network, northeast Italy is a new 5.5 km road alignment that connects the section of Trieste's major ...
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Fae Exploratory TunnelWork is under way to build the 2,215 m-long Fae exploratory tunnel, which forms part of the widening and improvement of road SS 43 in Non Valley between Mostizzolo and Cles, in ...
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New COP 1132 Rock Drill from Atlas CopcoAtlas Copco's new COP 1132 rock drill represents the latest trend in high speed technology in small class equipment offering users 30% more speed than its ...
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HS2 Ltd has shortlisted three teams to become the Phase 2a design and delivery partner for the planned section of high-speed rail connecting the West Midlands and Crewe...
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The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has broken ground on the Kansas City Levee Flood Risk Management Project. The $258 million U.S. Army Corps of ...
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HS2 Ltd releasing over 250 packages of work for small and medium-sized businesses in the UK, worth millions of pounds...
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National Highways has today announced that Turner & Townsend Limited has been awarded the £23.3 million Commercial Partner contract on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing scheme, the most ...
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Don’t miss out on the #WTC2022! Submit your registration now on our website and take advantage of a substantial discount! You will be able to attend workshops, discover the latest ...
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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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