Route 2020 a joint project between Acciona and Gulermak has
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The approximately $6 billion Transbay Transit
Center/Caltrain Downtown Extension (TTC/DTX) project in San Francisco consists
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A study on a fixed link from Newfoundland to Labrador,
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completed by Memorial University's Leslie Harris Centre of Regional ...
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Four giant tunnel boring
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Metro Tunnel that will transform Melbourne’s transport network.
Minister for ...
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Almost 2/3 of the Follo line tunnel has now been completed by, the
joint venture between Ghella and Acciona. They have bored 24,000 m through
extremely hard rock which has been interspersed with ...
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In August 2015 the Government of Bangladesh awarded to the China Communication Construction Company Ltd the contract to build the Karnaphuli road tunnel (3.5 km long, 10 m wide) in Chittagong, ...
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A reminder about the abstract submission deadline The IRF
Global R2T Expo & Conference. The
abstract submission deadline has been postponed to April 6, 2018, click here
for more. ...
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VIP-Polymers Ltd is taking its latest innovation in tunnel
segment gaskets - a major step forward in cast-in gasket design - to the
ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress in Dubai.
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In early
March, Senbay Madencilik - Kolin - Kalyon JV achieved a record - breaking TBM
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Istanbul .
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Workhorse Machine makes progress in
Difficult Ground
A rebuilt Robbins 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
diameter Main Beam TBM has yet another milestone to add to its storied career:
an unexpected ...
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On 15 and 16.02.2018 Swietelsky Tunnelbau GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary company of the Swietelsky group, reached an important milestone in the construction of the Froeschnitzgraben tunnel (SBT ...
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NORTH EAST BOUNDARY TUNNEL in the USA or the DUBAI DEEP STORM WATER project in the United Arab Emirates are two of the new projects signed by CBE Group at the beginning of the year. As active as ...
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The first of five mega TBMS designed, built and to be delivered by Herrenknecht, will be in the ground before the end of this year to drive the twin 15.5km metro rail tunnels between Chatswood and ...
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Pickles is Australia’s leading asset remarketing organisation with thousands of assets available across vehicles, industrial, salvage and general goods. We’re currently taking EOIs for a Wirth roadheader T3.20.
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The Twin Peaks Tunnel (3.54 km-2.2 miles) first opened for service on 03.02.1918, and still is a vital connection between downtown San Francisco (California, USA) and its southern and western ...
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has approved the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Chenani - Sudhmahadev section of National Highway 244 to two lanes with paved shoulders ...
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The Indian government on Tuesday approved a Rs 1,384 crore tunnel project in Uttarakhand as part of ‘Char Dham’ project to connect the pilgrimage sites - Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri ...
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On 27.02.2018 the TBM Luz de America, one of the 3 machines used by Acciona in the Quito Metro Line 1 Consortium, reached its third station, La Magdalena. It travelled 1,700 m and installed 1,134 ...
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On the 28.02.2018 the JV led by Dodin Campenon Bernard which included GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, along with Spie Batignolles TPCI, Spie ...
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Sytral, from November 2016 to January 2018, studied the feasibility of a new metro line connecting the center of Lyon to Alai station in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune (at the border between Francheville and ...
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On the basis of the final report published in February on the railway tunnel project between Helsinki and Tallinn, the FinEst Link, the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications has set up a ...
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iPS are pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Mans as Director of Operations for iPS Holdings his appointment began today 01/03/2018. Patrick has been working with iPS for 7 years, as ...
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The XXIII Winter Olympic Games held in Peyongchang (South Korea) have highlighted the major underground works undertaken by Korean authorities and the Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space ...
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Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol JV gear up for tunnelling on the Ümraniye-Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro Line, in the latest addition to Istanbul’s ongoing mass transportation ...
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On 23.02.2018, just 7 months after beginning the railway infrastructure systems works, the installation of the tracks in the 15.4 km East tube of the Ceneri Base Tunnel have now been ...
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The WTC 2019 will take place from the 3rd to the 5th May 2019 at the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples. The call for abstract started on 31 January will end on 15 May 2018. All ...
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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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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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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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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 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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