Wirth TBM Breaks Through CTRL Tunnel SectionOn 3rd December, 2003 the first Wirth TBM of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project broke through after record time. It took only 299 days to drive 4.7 km, ...
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Lovat Holes Through in Turin'Valentina', the first launched Lovat Earth Pressure Balance shield to excavate lot 3, between Fermi and Pozzo Strada (2,632 m), on the first metro line in Turin, Italy ...
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NFM Technologies TBM Breaks Through Green Heart Tunnel in the NetherlandsThe biggest diameter TBM ever built in the world, 14.87 m in diameter with a weight of 3,520 tons, broke through ahead of ...
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Lovat TBM Breaks Through High Wycombe Sewage TunnelThe final breakthrough of a 3,295 m-long 2.85 m-diameter tunnel near Little Marlow in the UK took place on 12th January. An 80-tonne TBM, which ...
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DTSS Section Breaks Through in SingaporeOn 15th December, 2003 Penta-Ocean Construction broke through to complete 7,716 m of tunnel, the single longest drive using an earth pressure balance machine ...
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Lötschberg Tunnel Unveils Hidden Geologic TreasuresRare crystals have been unearthed during construction of the rail tunnel through the Lötschberg in canton Bern, Switzerland. Four of the finds ...
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tacs celebrates its 10th birthdaytacs GmbH, the German specialist in TBM guidance, is this year celebrating its 10th birthday.Ever since its first project, a metro tunnel in Munich in 1993, tacs has ...
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Lovat for SevilleSpanish construction joint venture UTE Metro de Sevilla, comprising Sacyr, Dragados, GEA 21, and Salvador Rus Construcciones JV, has ordered a new Lovat 6.5 m-diameter EPB TBM for ...
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Wirth TBM Breaks Through Canale Viola TunnelA Wirth TBM model SM 360 E/TS broke through last 27th November the 18,770 m-long Canale Viola tunnel in Valtellina valley in Sondrio province, Lombardy ...
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Caterpillar 988G Tunnel Loader - Mucking out in Record Time in NorwayThe NY E39 Oysand-Thamshamn road project, near Trondheim in Norway, includes six bi-directional tunnels with a total length of ...
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Lovat TBM Breaks Through in Turin'Madama Cristina', a Lovat EPB shield TBM, broke through on 9th December, 2003 completing 2.6 km of tunnel as part of lot 4 of metro line 1 in Turin. Excavation ...
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Spain and Morocco Revive Fixed Link Project under Gibraltar StraitThe project to link Spain and Morocco with a tunnel beneath the Gibraltar Strait has been revived at a recent summit held on 9th ...
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For your interest, we are listing below précis of our latest printed publications, each of which is available in downloadable pdf format, and makes a very good read.
Underground Mining ...
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Fibre Reinforcement from SI Concrete SystemsFibermesh and Novocon are two of the best-known brand names in fibre reinforcement for shotcrete, and both come from SI Concrete Systems. By manufacturing ...
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Phoenix - Seals and Conveyor BeltsPhoenix AG of Hamburg, Germany is a specialist producer of rubber-based products for mining, tunnelling and industrial use. For decades, the company has ...
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Marti Technics to Supply TBM for San Pedro TunnelSwiss logistics and engineering specialist Marti Technics Ltd will supply a TBM to UTE San Pedro, a JV set up by Sando, Aldesa, Tapusa and Copasa, to ...
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NFM Technologies Delivers First TBM for Canton MetroNFM Technologies, the Wirth Group's sister company, has delivered during week 47 the first of two TBMs for the Canton metro in China. The first ...
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EU Gives Green Light to Financing of Júcar-Vinalopó Water TransferThe European Union has decided to finance the Júcar-Vinalopó water transfer scheme, further to receiving the environmental ...
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Trans Apennine MilestoneThe 6.25 m-diameter Wirth TB 630 E/TS TBM driving the 10 km-long Ginori exploration tunnel on Italy's Trans Apennine railway has broken through on time, after three years ...
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Four Atlas Copco Drill Rigs at Work in VielhaThe existing Vielha tunnel, named Alfonso XIII, was inaugurated in 1948 and was developed during the reign of King Alfonso XIII. It is over 5,240 m in ...
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Lovat TBM Breaks Through First LRT Extension Tunnel in EdmontonA Lovat EPB TBM broke through to the University LRT station on 8th November, completing the 293 m-long southbound tunnel of Edmonton's ...
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New leadership for Boart LongyearPaul Brunner, managing director of Boart Longyear, has been appointed president and chief executive officer, effective January, 2004, to follow the retirement of ...
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Spanish Government Gives Go-Ahead to Huge Water ProjectSpain's ministry of environment has approved on 31st October the Environmental Impact Statement for the controversial Ebro river transfer ...
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€70 Million to Rebuild Two High Speed Rail TunnelsThe Spanish Ministry of public works will spend €70 million -on top of the €54 million already spent- to rebuild the Montblanc and La Riba ...
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European Union to Strengthen Safety Rules for Road TunnelsThe transport ministers of the EU backed a directive proposal for stricter safety regulations in European tunnels, that were endorsed in a ...
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Weldgrip for one-stop ground and strata controlWeldgrip has a dedicated, purpose-built facility for the manufacture of machinery, tools and equipment for ground and strata control. Supplying a full ...
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Fourth Breakthrough at Lötschberg Base TunnelAfter two years and four months, the Herrenknecht TBM which started working from Raron has completed on schedule a 10 km east tube section to the Ferden ...
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Hsueshan Tunnel Breaks ThroughTaiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, Premier Yu Shyi-kun, and Minister of transportation and communications Lin Ling-san attended the breakthrough by a Robbins TBM of the ...
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Hai Van Pass Tunnel Breaks ThroughA major breakthrough took place at the Hai Van tunnel on 28th October when workers on either side of the 6,247 m-long 11.9 m-wide tunnel met each other. Workers of ...
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First Robbins TBM for Karahnjukar - is/14The Owner, the Consultant and Impregilo have signed off on delivery of the first of three Robbins TBMs for the Karahnjukar project in Iceland. The first TBM ...
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NFM Technologies to Supply Second TBM to Excavate Kazan's First Metro LineKazmetrostroy, in charge of building Kazan's metro, has ordered a second hand TBM from NFM Technologies. This machine will ...
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US Department of Transport Publishes Recommendations for Bridge and Tunnel SafetyThe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has published a report stressing that tunnels and bridges in the United ...
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Consultant Wanted for Major Highway TunnelA well-qualified M & E control consultant is required for the twin-tube, 18 km-long Qinling Zhongnanshan, tunnel, currently under construction as ...
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Tunnelling Sub-Contractor Urgently RequiredValecha Engineering has received a design work order to commence Udaipur city's Mansi Wakal water supply project near Dewas in India, value Rs165 million. ...
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King Juan Carlos Inaugurates Madrid to Lleida HSLKing Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia inaugurated on 10th October the Madrid to Lleida high speed line during a inaugural trip which took four hours to ...
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Section of A86 Tunnel in Paris Breaks ThroughThe Herrenknecht TBM boring the east tunnel on the A86 motorway west of Paris broke through on 14th October the first section, named VL1 and 4.5 km in ...
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The largest tunnelling machine ever used on a UK rail project is officially starting work...
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Overview of the Phase 2 extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit to Silicon Valley. The extension will add 6 miles of track and 4 stations to BART system and finally bring BART service to ...
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On 21/04/2021 the Moroccan and Spanish Ministers of Transport programmed in the months a new intergovernmental meeting in Casablanca on the railway tunnel project between Morocco and ...
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Karagozian has shadowed engineers as they drill into the dirt with behemoth tunnel boring machines and reinforce fragile tunnels with concrete.
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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 (MCEC).
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HS2 Ltd main works contractor Balfour Beatty Vinci JV (BBV JV) is looking to appoint suppliers for civil and ground engineering work in the West Midlands...
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Pay a visit to Carnwath Road for a look at the connection tunnel junction, drop in to King Edward Memorial Park for an update on the shaft excavation, and take a first trip to Abbey Mills, ...
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CPB Contractors, John Holland and Laing O’Rourke are on the shortlist for phase one of Melbourne’s $50-billion suburban rail loop...
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Construction of the new rail tunnels through the Alps has set a new record for the project with significant advances made on the Italian side of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) project by ...
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LTT podcast with Kopu Tutu part 1 & 2 is now available on the LTT Youtube channel and LTT Soundcloud channel...
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We designed a cost efficient, scalable and relatively fast boring machine that could revolutionise the transport & logistics industry...
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In continuation to the tender for the Contract DC-07 of Phase-4, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited has now invited online open e-tenders for the “Contract DC-09: Design and ...
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Teams have begun preparing the tunnel boring machine (TBM) launch shaft site for major construction work, bringing the Scarborough Subway Extension another step toward reality...
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Final checks are now underway before the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) starts cutting into Auckland soil, excavating the first of the two rail tunnels that will completely change the way ...
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The first of two #Crossover XRE TBMs at India's Mumbai Metro made its final breakthrough in late April 2021. Check out this great #breakthrough video shot by our team!
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Design and Construction of Underground UP & Down Tunnels by Shield TBM from end of Cut & Cover tunnel near Sangam Vihar metro Station up to ...
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Stockholm Region and Implenia have signed a contract for construction of the new 'Sofia' metro station and associated tunnels in Stockholm | The order is worth SEK 1 billion (approximately ...
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Fornebubanen and Implenia Norway have today signed the contract on the Lysaker – Fornebu tunnel line, a contract with an estimated value of NOK 1.2 billion.,,
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Contractors bidding for work on the UK’s biggest roads job must embrace modularisation and demonstrate ways to save time and cost on the Lower Thames Crossing project...
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The Blue Mountains could become home to Australia’s longest road tunnel, as part of an “ambitious” proposal for the Great Western Highway upgrade...
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A two-hour Apprenticeship seminar covering apprenticeships in great detail and specifically apprenticeships in Construction. We will also cover the different career paths that can be taken ...
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Chris has been underground since 2018, diligently digging, starting at RFK Stadium and slowly moving northwest. Now, Chris’s work is complete — a 5-mile long, 23-ft. wide tunnel ...
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J Kumar Infraprojects on Wednesday received their two tunnel boring machines in Palanpur neighborhood for constructing Surat Metro Phase 1’s 3.56 km underground Package CS3 between Surat ...
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Construction alone is expected to cost $3 billion or more. ... on the so-called "higher speed" Crest Canyon tunnel and the Camino Del Mar alignment.
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A new tunnel is being proposed as part of the US&1.93 billion (A$2.5 billion) Great Western Highway duplication project. The link is intended to improve ...
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With smart underground lighting, you can alert and inform, from the control room at the push of a button...
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Construction crews begin to assemble a massive Tunnel Boring Machine, which will weigh more than 500 tonnes and be almost 65 metres long...
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Engineers, local councillors and politicians in both houses have raised concerns that HS2 Ltd and its contractors have failed to fully assess how to best build a 4.2km stretch of the ...
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The Lower Olentangy Tunnel (LOT) project aims to improve water quality and reduce the risk of exposure of humans to waterborne pollutants by ...
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The project aims to build 18 miles of such tunnels, capturing sewage overflow that would otherwise flow into the Anacostia, the Potomac, and Rock ...
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Two tunnel boring machines (TBM) had started the excavation at the beginning of April and reached the other side of the river completing 240-metre- ...
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The S$980m (£532m) contract covers the design and construction of Pasir Ris interchange station and the associated tunnels. Work also includes ...
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Meanwhile, the 254km Autopista al Mar 2 project is worth $492.2 million and requires the construction of 62 bridges and 12 tunnel stretches. This work is ...
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The £6bn Lower Thames Crossing project comprises two bored tunnels beneath the River Thames with interconnecting link roads to the M25, A13 ...
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Because nandito na at kinukumpina na, the actual construction of Metro Manila subway will actually start to commence before the end of the year," ...
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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine Surya-2 operated by Larsen & Toubro – Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company JV arrived at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus on Mumbai Metro’s 33.5 km ...
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On April 21, The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) named Donnie - "holed through," successfully completing the first half of tunnel excavation...
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The Karnaphuli River Tunnel in the port of Chittagong is a proposed 3.4 km-long, 11 m diameter twin tunnel under the river...
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Our two Tunnel Boring Machines – Else and Merle – have now been launched.
You can check out their progress on our map...
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