TBM Betty has smashed through into a cavern deep beneath Westmead to complete the first tunnel at the western end of the 24-km Sydney Metro West line, the project that will link Westmead to the ...
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TBMs Dorothy and Betty power into Parramatta
Tunnelling for the Sydney Metro West project is nearly 90% complete, with the arrival of two TBMs at Parramatta’s metro station site. This marks a ...
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Completed the excavation of the Hunter Street metro station cavern for the Sydney Metro West mega project.
Excavation has been ongoing around the clock for 20 months to create the giant cavern, ...
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We're excited to announce that Tunnelbuilder Ltd is a Media Partner for WTC2025! Tunnelbuilder.com along with sister site tunnelbuilder.it has been delivering daily tunnelling news, bids, awards, ...
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Two TBMs constructing the 24-km twin metro railway tunnels for Sydney Metro West have broken through solid rock walls to arrive at the junction caverns 24-m below the surface at Clyde. This latest ...
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Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport (SM–WSA) has reached a significant milestone, with all major tunnelling and excavation work for the project now completed, including 9.8 kms of ...
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On October 16, 2024, tunnel boring machine (TBM) Ruby began its journey to carve out the final section of the Sydney Metro West project, marking a significant step for this city-shaping ...
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The first 4 TBMs, manufactured by Herrenknecht, for SRL East will begin arriving on site next year. The TBMs will be in the ground in 2026 and they will drill 16kms of twin tunnels between ...
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Sydney Metro West Mega Machines Touchdown at Sydney Olympic Park
The construction work to deliver the 24-km new Sydney Metro West railway power ahead. The mega project has recently achieved a slew ...
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Press release - Greater Western Sydney is now home to landmark new 9.8-kilometre twin metro railway tunnels, with major tunnelling officially complete on the city-shaping Sydney Metro – ...
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Press release - Mega tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Catherine, Eileen and Peggy have completed their historic journeys to build metro rail tunnels for the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport ...
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TBM Jessie, the first TBM for the Sydney Metro West - Eastern Tunnelling Package, is about to be launched. It will carve out a 2.3-km tunnel from The Bays to Hunter Street in the ...
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Mega TBMs constructing the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport southern tunnels are edging closer to their final destinations.
TBMs Eileen and Peggy have built 4.78 ...
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On the 30th April two TBMs Beatrice and Daphne arrived at Burwood North station site as the 24-km Sydney Metro West twin tunnels connecting Greater Parramatta and the Sydney CBD continue to take ...
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Sydney Metro West is gearing up to build Sydney’s second under-harbour railway crossing with the final TBMs arriving on site. The two TBMs will carve out the 2.3-km twin tunnels from The Bays, ...
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TBMs Catherine and Marlene are halfway to St Marys after each building 2.4 km of tunnel for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport project. They broke through at the Claremont Meadows ...
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Press release - The first service tunnel to connect the 24-km Metro West line to a new stabling and maintenance facility at Clyde has been completed, ticking off another significant milestone for ...
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The last two of six TBMs, 1.3t in weight, for the 24-km Sydney Metro West project between Westmead and the Sydney CBD have successfully completed their Factory Acceptance Tests. These machines ...
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The joint venture between Acciona and Ferrovial achieved a significant milestone on the Sydney Metro West project, marking a first in the southern hemisphere. Two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) ...
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The first milestone is the launch of the fourth TBM, named after Marlene Kanga AO, and the second milestone is the breakthrough of the TBM Peggy at the Airport Terminal Station.
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On July 04, 2023 TBM Peggy began its journey at the future Airport Business Park Station, carving out the first 5.5-km sections of the second tube of the twin metro tunnels towards the Aerotropolis. ...
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On 25/07/2023 the 1,066-t TBM Eileen reached the Airport Terminal metro station site, marking the first tunnel breakthrough for the city-shaping Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport ...
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Last week a third TBM has been launched for the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport project at Orchard Hills. The TBM is named after Catherine White, who has worked tirelessly to advocate ...
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The TBMs Daphne and Beatrice are driving the tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park as part of Sydney Metro West: TBM Daphne already 327 m into its 11-km journey from The Bays to Sydney ...
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On July 04, 2023 two 1,066-t TBMs Eileen and Peggy started their journeys at the future Airport Business Park Station, carving out the first 5.5-km sections of the twin metro tunnels towards the ...
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Press release - Gamuda Australia has been awarded a major transport project by the NSW Government, the Sydney Metro West – Western Tunnelling Package. In a consortium with Laing ...
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The first two TBMs have arrived for the Sydney Metro West project, ready to start construction on the new 24-km tunnels which will connect Greater Parramatta to the Sydney CBD.
The two ...
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Sydney Metro has received the green light for tunnelling between The Bays and Sydney CBD, completing plans for the 24 km of twin tunnels from Westmead to Hunter Street in the Sydney ...
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Work will start immediately on a AUD77.5 million business case to extend the Sydney Metro - Western Sydney Airport (WSA) Line from the Western Sydney Aerotropolis to Glenfield, via ...
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For the first time in Australia, two autonomous TBMs (1,266 t and 165 m) will be used to build twin 9-km rail tunnels between Sydney Olympic Park and Westmead, part of the EUR1.45 bn (AUD2.16 ...
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Two 1266 tonne, 165 m long double-shield, hard rock, gripper-type TBMs have been ordered to build the city’s next metro rail tunnels as part of the Sydney Metro West project, with the first ...
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The community can again have its say on the Sydney Metro West railway project, with the second Environmental Impact Statement for the mega project now on public exhibition.
The latest ...
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On the Sydney Metro West project, the planning process has started for the construction of 9 new metro stations between Westmead and Hunter Street in the Sydney CBD – as well as the precincts ...
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The Sydney Metro West project has received two major planning approvals, paving the way for mega TBMs to be in the ground by the end of 2022.
Planning approval has been granted for the ...
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The winners of the ITA tunnelling awards 2020 are :-
MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR (OVER €500M)
John Holland CPB Ghella Joint Venture Tunnelling and Station Excavation Works for the Sydney ...
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The first of the two TBMs that will excavate the bulk of Cross River Rail’s 5.9km twin tunnels is passing factory acceptance testing, before being disassembled and transported by trucks to ...
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