GETECH srl can count on consolidated experience, thanks to 30 years of research, development and application in the field of solid/liquid separation with Centrifugal Plant up to more than 150mc/h. ...
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A cause
near and dear to the hearts of the 26th Annual Microtunneling Short
Course organizers is helping the men and women who have served in the United
States military successfully return to ...
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Do you want to find out what will be presented at the World
Tunnelling Conference 2019? Do you want to know which topics will be the focus
of the AAA sessions? Do you want to see an example of an ...
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Just in time for its 20th anniversary PPS has announced the
newly developed guidance system platform PPS-UNP (Universal Navigation
Platform). The UNP can be used for all types of underground ...
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Bella, the first TBM that will build the West Gate Tunnel, has
arrived in Melbourne. The TBM is 90 m long, 15.6 m high and weighs 4,000 t. The
hundreds of pieces that make up Bella will be ...
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At present
IPS are recruiting TBM Fitters and TBM Electricians for a project in the UK. It will be a long term contract on this major infrastructure project.
Please
contact Sam Merrick on ...
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Overnight a TBM made by Herrenknecht (mod.Avnd2000Ab)
started its journey by road toward Melendugno (Le) a tunnelling site in Puglia, Italy. It will be used to drill the Trans
Adriatic ...
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Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) has successfully
commenced signalling & integrated testing trials for the whole North-South
Corridor (Phase-1A). The integrated testing and trials are for ...
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Please consider joining us at the Tunnel and Underground Structures Committee during the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC. The committee will meet on January 15, ...
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The early registration deadline for the Underground Construction Prague will be on the 31st of January 2019. With early registration the attendance fees are less so select your registration fee, pay ...
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The Trenchless
Technology Road Show heads to western Canada to provide a platform to educate
municipal, engineering and contractor personnel on the benefits of trenchless
methods.
The ...
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The Gerede Water Transmission Tunnel in central Turkey has
been designated a national priority due to chronic drought conditions in the
capital Ankara. The water supply line is 31.6 km long and ...
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The new year is off to a great start for Robbins their Double
Shield Rockhead, launched in July 2018 has broken through. The TBM broke
through on January 1st 2019 after boring the 640m-long ...
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Four giant Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) are needed to dig
the Metro Tunnel.
Lowered into the ground at North Melbourne and St Kilda Road
in pieces and then assembled, they operate as moving ...
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On the 19.12.2018 the largest TBM currently working in Spain
ended the excavation of the 3048 m tunnel of the new railway to Terminal T1 of
the Barcelona-El Prat airport. The first phase of the ...
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Press release - As of the 21st December 2018, the Germany-based
company Ott GmbH & Co KG, acquired by Datwyler Holding Inc. in September
2016, officially changed its name to Datwyler ...
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For more than 25 years, the Microtunneling Short Course has
trained over 3,500 professionals, ranging from contractors and engineers to
owner agency representatives. The three-day intensive course ...
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Good communication systems are fundamental to all aspects of a tunnelling project, including risk management and emergency response.
Emergency communication systems in tunnelling are used to ...
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The Lower Thames Crossing online consultation, which closed on
the 20.12.2018, has seen over 26,000 replies. The consultation is arguably the
most significant that has ever been held into a UK ...
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The Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol joint venture conduct TBM
testing on-site for the new Ümraniye Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro line, the latest
addition to Istanbul’s transportation ...
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On the 28.12.2018 the Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced that the planned approval for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In accordance with German regulations, Femern ...
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Moscow in 2018 set a record, commissioning 17 underground metro stations, building 33 km of tracks and 3 train maintenance facilities: on 22.03.2018 the 3 new stations (Okruzhnaya, Verkhnye ...
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On the 26.12.2018 the Mumbai Metro-3 (Colabata-Bandra-Seepz)
Wainganga 2 TBM broke through at the future Seepz station in Andheri.
The TBM was originally launched on the 23.08.2018 from
Sariput ...
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Stockholm dependence
on electricity has incresed, their electricity network needs to be strengthened
and renewed to meet Stockholm’s future need of secure electricity ...
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Common Questions About Refuge Chamber Servicing - Are you
aware of the hidden risks of poor servicing?
There are many common misconceptions about refuge chamber
servicing, which we have briefly ...
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Leading Experts to Gather in Boulder, Colorado, Feb.
5-7th 2019
The agenda topics for the annual Microtunneling Short
Course at the University of Colorado Boulder February 5-7, 2019, has ...
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An invitation to attend STUVA 2019 -
We cordially invite you to the STUVA Conference 2019! At
this "family meeting of the tunnel industry" you will meet more than
3,000 other top-class experts. ...
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For 40 years STUVA has conducted an annual survey of
authorities, construction companies and planners with an aim to capture the volume
of tunnelling in Germany.
The statistics also include a ...
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WTC 2019 news release - The Italian construction system continues to grow in foreign
markets despite global tensions and the hardships in the market of Italian
public works. The 35 "top" companies ...
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OUR Favorite moments - 2018 has been a great year for Robbins. It was a year full of breakthroughs, new developments, and record-setting bores. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a look ...
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Message from Tarcisio Celestino -President of ITA 2016-2019
Each year, the ITA Tunnelling Awards conference brings better news. During a whole day, high-level presentations by the finalists have ...
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Thames Tideway Press release – ON the 12th December
2018 the giant machine that will dig a 4.5km tunnel through south-east London was
assembled and made ready to begin work ...
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Following the recent breakthrough of the southern portal of the Brenner Base Tunnel, European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, visited the BBT construction sites near Fortezza.
The ...
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On St Barbaras day the 4th of December 2018 the
southern portal of the Brenner Base tunnel near Fortezza Station broke through.
93 km of the total 230 km that will make up the Brenner Base tunnel ...
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ITALY’S A1 ROAD EXPANSION SUCCESS - Known to many as the Spinal Cord of Italy’s road network, the A1 Autostrada in Italy connects Naples in the south to Milan in the north via Rome and ...
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You can view the winners of the 2018 tunnelling festival by
clicking HERE. 49/18.
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The German and Czech railway infrastructure managers, DB Netz and SZ, have announced a public tender for design work of the zoning decision documentation under the Dresden–Prague railway ...
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Network Rail has delayed the tender race for the £900m Western Rail Link to Heathrow until Summer 2022 because of Covid-19...
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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) T61 nicknamed Tapi-1 operated by the J Kumar Infraprojects – China Railway Tunnel Group JV...
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All the information you need to know about the Gotthard Tunnel...
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The world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel design, the Fehmarnbelt link gets a go-ahead. The 18 km infrastructure, the longest of its kind, connecting Denmark’s Lolland Falster ...
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After our contribution to research and development about "blasting", the alternative follows now: mechanised tunnelling methods such as full-face machines and roadheaders.
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In a statement, Transport for London said that the additional costs were not linked to the construction of the project, which remains at £1bn. “All payments ...
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GUWAHATI: The construction of the Atal Tunnel connecting Manali with Leh, which is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet, has been ...
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The government opened international tender in June for the design of Llogara Tunnel engineering project. The tendering process for the construction ...
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Construction of the initial twin tunnels near the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) was complete in May. The system is expected to be ready for ...
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Concrete pouring has begun at the Chiltern Tunnel site on HS2 for the Tunnel Boring Machine launch pad. Two TBMs will begin wok next spring to dig ...
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Barhale has won a £22M contract to monitor Thames Water’s network of tunnels and aqueducts.
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KUNMING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The cross-border tunnel on the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sunday, according to local authorities.
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At 4 a.m. early on the morning of June 20th, a glow appears on the horizon. It spreads over the meadows of Wiltshire, the area in southern Britain home to Salisbury and its medieval ...
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A view of an under construction site of Nagdhung tunnel at Sisnekhola in Dhading district, on Monday, September 07, 2020. Photo: Keshav Adhikari/THT.
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The Woodsmith Project is a deep mine and associated transport, processing and shipping infrastructure development under construction in North Yorkshire, UK.
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CAMORINO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland officially opened the Ceneri Base Tunnel on Friday, the final piece in a direct, flat rail link connecting northern Europe to the ...
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Find out how HS2 is protecting and enhancing woodlands, habitats and wildlife as we plan and build the railway.
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Normet Finland Service Center is specialized for third party emulsion charging system assemblies to Normet’s Charmec charging platforms. Normet’s new business model provides declaration of ...
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The high-speed railway, HS2 recently published a high-level report into its construction plans for the next few years. The timeline covers most of the concrete phase of the project before ...
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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is in the process of creating the world’s first floating highway.
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LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 31 (SeeNews) – Turkey's Cengiz will complete the construction of the second pipe of the Karavanke motorway tunnel ...
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Switzerland's New Rail Link: Tunnelling and excavation. For Gotthard Base Tunnel, an astonishing 25 million tonnes of rock was excavated. For context, ...
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... covering 11 km of twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. ... of four tunnel boring machines expected to be in place by the end of 2022.
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The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2020 and it is the third largest railway tunnel project in Switzerland after the Gotthard and the Lötschberg Base ...
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The new Central Interceptor TBM has been officially named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, as one of the Matariki stars to which Māori send their dreams or aspirations for the new year. Students from ...
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Afcons, in a joint venture with Strabag, has constructed the world's longest motorable tunnel 3,000 m above sea level. The Atal Tunnel will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by ...
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Three world-leading consortia have been short-listed to construct twin twenty kilometres of tunnel as part of two works packages on one of Sydney’s biggest rail tunnelling projects.
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Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long-established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders, welcomed its first rail freight delivery of aggregate at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in ...
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Early in 2021, two 2000 tonne tunnelling machines measuring over 170 metres each will be launched at a site by the M25 to bore 10 miles each underneath the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.
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If you missed our webinar on high-speed tunneling in the Himalayas, we've got a video for you.
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The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in May 2018 laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,800 crore project, billed as the Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, ...
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The project was first proposed in 2010, after which a feasibility study was conducted in 2013 and construction began in 2019. The New Mutwal Tunnel is ...
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More than 700 men are working in shifts to complete the tunnel...
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The system improvements include construction of nine tunnels to control sewer overflows. Upcoming tunneling components of Project Clear include ( ...
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Plans are moving forward for the construction of the Hangzhou Genshan East Road Crossing River Tunnel in China. The TBM that will be used for the ...
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Karnaphuli Tunnel Project has achieved a “breakthrough” with the completion of the left line despite the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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