In December, TERRATEC celebrated the assembly of the third of five ordered 6.61m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for the Chennai Metro Rail project in India. ...
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Press release - Ngā mihi o te Tau Hou (happy New Year) from the team at City Rail Link! We’re back and ready for a busy year working on the next phase of works – fitting out the tunnels and stations ...
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Waterproof shotcrete with self-healing properties to repair and protect the vault of the tunnel Paradiso
Press Release - The phenomenon of self-healing of cracks in concrete structures is a ...
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Skanska Norge AS and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration started the drill&blast excavation works of the Hovik tunnel on the Strand-Ramstadsletta section of the E18 Lysaker-Ramstadsletta. In ...
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This month the construction site for the 3 km Perca ring road on the SS 49 in Val Pusteria began preparatory works. The Perca ring road will improve the viability and quality of life of the ...
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TBM Diggy Scardust has officially started tunnelling for the Scarborough’s 7.8-km subway extension that will bring subway service farther north into Scarborough and accommodate as many as ...
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On the 17/01/2023 the Joint Venture Gulermak-Sam India reached an important milestone with the breakthrough of the Terratec TBM S92. The breakthrough happened at Nayaganj Station on the 3.62 km Moti ...
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Metro will host three community open houses - one of which will be virtual - on January 21, 24, and 26 - for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project, which will build a heavy rail line or monorail ...
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WTC 2023 will be held in a hybrid format. It will mainly be a congress with physical attendance combined with its digital side. Physical participation is encouraged so that this congress marks the ...
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To date, in relation to the Stad ship tunnel construction project, about 50 contractors and suppliers have registered for the Supplier Conference. The conference will be held in Gardermoen on the ...
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On Saturday 7 January 2023, the TBM Martina - diameter 10.03 m, length 150 m and weight 1,750 t - began excavation from the Campagna di Lonato site of the 4782 m second tube of the Lonato rock ...
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In December 2022 Eng. Sayed Farouk - CEO & Chairman of the Arab Contractors Company, visited the Cairo Metro Line 4 project to follow up on the work progress. First, there was a meeting to ...
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On the request from authors, the full paper submission date of UYAK2023 Symposium has been extended up to January 15, 2023. The full papers of the accepted abstracts should be uploaded to the ...
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Press release - Normet has agreed to acquire Rambooms Oy, a manufacturer and supplier of rock breaker boom systems, and Marakon Oy, a supplier of hydraulic hammers and excavator attachments for the ...
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University students who live, or study, in the Midlands are being offered the chance to join HS2’s construction partner Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) on an eight-week paid work placement this ...
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The name of the TBM that will drill the 2.2 km long tunnel on the S19 Rzeszów Południe - Babica expressway was recently announced as Karpatka.
A selection of names were chosen by ...
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In January the excavation of the Batuta railway tunnel was completed. It is part of upgrading of the Frontiera-Curtici-Simeria railway line for trains with a maximum speed of 160 km/h.
This ...
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Two new TERRATEC TBMs will take part in the Khlong Prem Prachakorn Drainage Tunnel Project for the Department of Drainage and Sewage Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in Thailand. ...
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On December 7th the first double shield hard rock TBM - named Jasmine after the Philippines’ national flower ‘’sampaguita’’ and imported from China - has started to ...
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Press release - On December 12th - after 14 months of boring - Jinxiu, the China’s largest EPB TBM, developed by CRCHI marked its first major breakthrough in ...
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The first of the two TBMs for the H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel has formally passed its acceptance test at Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau, Germany. The ...
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In its meeting on the 16th December 2022, the Federal Council approved the general project for the upgrading of the A2 motorway from Lugano to Mendrisio (PoLuMe). The total investment amounts to ...
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Work is progressing on the reassembly and placement within cell 1 of the South Island Launch Pit of TBM Mary with her shield section already to set in place. In the next few days the team will lift ...
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From article by AUGMENT IT - With Augmented Reality, companies increase efficiency and quality in the inspection processes of Plants and Machines, as the case of Häny AG impressively ...
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On the 15/12/2022 Sudarshan 8.1, the Terratec TBM EPB S88, reached the Meerut Central RRTS Station completing the 1823.39 m long tunnel between Bhainsali to Meerut Central Stations (Package 8). ...
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On December 6, the first hard rock TBM exported to South America by CRCHI created an advance rate record of more than 1000 meters per month for the construction of the San Gawang Hydropower Project ...
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The construction work on the underground section of Corridor 2 in Patna, the capital of Bihar, will soon be on a fast track as two of the four TBMs procured by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation ...
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The Lyon-Turin base tunnel in France has now commenced excavation in Saint-Julien-Montdenis on construction site n.08 in Villard-Clément. Almost 3 km of tunnels will join the 10.5 km already ...
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In November 2022 the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) achieved a major construction milestone in Phase 4. They completed tunnelling work between Krishna Park Extension and Keshopur on the ...
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The 5.4m diameter TBM Hiwa-i-te-Rangi arrived at the 25m deep Pump Station 23 shaft in Hillsborough (Auckland) on 6th December. The TBM had left the southern shore of the Manukau in September ...
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The 8th edition of the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards was held online on the 8th December 2023.
The winners in each category are:
MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR - Purple line ...
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On the 04/12/2022 - celebrating Saint Barbara the patron saint of miners and tunnellers - there was a breakthrough between Polcevera and Cravasco work site in the Valico tunnel (odd track). This ...
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The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) just received authority to pursue federal funding for up to 50% of the cost of Phase II of the BART Silicon Valley Extension Project. The ...
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Earlier this week, the Government’s independent planning authority, the Planning Inspectorate, confirmed it has accepted National Highway’s application for a Development Consent Order ...
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Line 17 - On Monday 14th November at 5 pm the TBM Dorine - 120 m long and weighing over 1,000 t – brokethrough at Line 17’s Rolland manufact in Le Bourget at a depth of 26 m, ...
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Press release - HS2 Ltd’s 125 metre-long ‘Dorothy’ tunnel boring machine has launched for her second one-mile tunnel bore under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking the ...
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