On behalf of its group company, JIMT, TERRATEC delivers the first two of four EPBMs that will be used by Obayashi Corporation for the underground works on Taiwan Taoyuan Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) ...
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Northern Tunnel Portal construction update - Excavation of a TBM extraction box is underway. The extraction box will be used to remove the two TBMs Merle and Else when they arrive in ...
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Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) hit an exciting milestone last week with the release of the Business and Investment Case, which highlights the huge transport, social and economic benefits SRL will deliver ...
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Much like the face of a TBM, tunnelling’s wheels of progress are always turning. Join us as we check in on projects across the globe—including a breakthrough in Japan, record setting ...
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Recently the Transportation Minister Rob Fleming provided an update on the long-awaited replacement for the 62-year-old George Massey Tunnel connecting Richmond (Vancouver) and Delta on Highway 99: ...
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The Water Convention is a platform for gathering professionals and technology providers from around the world to share their knowledge, practical experiences and novel technologies to address the ...
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On 23/08/2021 Merle, the second Cross River Rail’s 1350 t TBM, broke through into the 280-m-long cavern at Roma Street, joining TBM Else, the project’s other machine in the future ...
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Tunnelling of the 2 km section between Pykhtino and Rasskazovka stations of the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya metro line (Yellow line) in Moscow is 43% completed. To date, the TBM Rosa (6 m diameter) has ...
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British Tunnelling Society 2020+1 Conference and Exhibition will be held at the QEII Centre, Westminster, London SW1P 3EE, UK from September 30th - October 1st , 2021
The BTS 2020+1 ...
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Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro line - The new section of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro line will have 3 stations – Yakhromskaya ( with the working name Ulitsa 800-letiya Moskvy) , ...
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On the 06/08/2021 TBM Else (1350 t and 165 m long), the first of Cross River Rail’s two massive TBMs, which had launched from the Woolloongabba site in early 2021 has broken through a ...
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Webuild Group’s U.S. subsidiary, Lane, began excavating with the MudHoney TBM the 2.7-mile (4.2-m) storage tunnel for the Ship Canal Water Quality Project, an ...
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TAC Ontario Chapter's next webinar will feature a presentation by Mike Rispin and Ian Cadieux of Strata Worldwide on Emerging Safety Technologies for North American Tunnelling. The webinar will ...
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The Swiss Tunnel Colloquium 2021 «Tunnelling in densely populated areas» will take place in the Concert Hall of the KKL Luzern on September 13, 2021. The Concert Hall, which offers space ...
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Press release - The STUVA conference with accompanying trade exhibition (STUVA-Expo), to allow the public to attend the event in the usual manner from November 24 to 26, 2021 at the Karlsruhe Trade ...
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TBM Wyspiarka has already bored 970 m under the Swina river for the Swinoujscie tunnel on the S3 Swinoujscie-Troszyn expressway: in about 30 m the TBM will cover the entire riverbed of the ...
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Press release - Balfour Beatty today announces that its 50:50 joint venture, Gammon, has been awarded a S$644 million (c. £345 million) contract for the design and construction of Ang Mo Kio ...
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FAMA’s 2021 Convention on “Women of Success” has been successfully concluded. After the presentation of the Company’s activities and update on the current world ...
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History has been made twice over at Turkey’s Eşme-Salihli Railway Tunnel where a 13.77 m (45.18 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover XRE TBM has set new world records for best day, week, and month ...
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Normet brought their sprayed concrete layer thickness control system, the SmartScan, to the market in 2019. The SmartScan is aimed at all underground sprayed concrete applications to deliver ...
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Roma Street station -
The two Cross River Rail TBMs have left Albert Street station in Brisbane’s CBD, where they both arrived between June and July
At the beginning of ...
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Line 15 South - End of excavation for TBM Camille -
TBM Camille, launched from the Creteil l’Echat station in October 2019 and after 4.2km - reached Salengro (Champigny-sur-Marne) on Line 15 ...
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Gulermak-TATA Projects JV celebrates TBM breakthrough on the underground works for the package UG-01 of Line 1 of the Pune Metro, in India. On July 22, 2021, TERRATEC joined officials from ...
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It's winter in the Snowy Mountains and activity is hotting up at the Snowy 2.0 construction sites!
There's already more than 1,000 people working on the massive pumped-hydro project ...
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The Fegino construction site has had a new breakthrough between the Voltri interconnection tunnel (the so-called “odd-numbered” track) and a large structure in the already completed ...
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A significant milestone for London’s super sewer has been achieved at the Carnwath Road Riverside site in Fulham with the breakthrough of the West main tunnel connection into the Central ...
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The M4, Milan's new blue metro line (Linate - Forlanini FS section) has passed all its tests and been approved. The Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility has authorized the ...
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ITA, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, organizes the first ever Tunnelling Week from 20 to 24 September 2021. These 5 days of online conferences and debates dedicated ...
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The TBM, which will be used to drive the Cefalù twin-tube tunnel (7 km), for the project to double and speed up the Palermo - Messina railway line, has arrived at the Termini Imerese port ...
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Event by ITACET Foundation for Continuous Education and Training on Tunnelling and Underground Space Use. Held online on Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (your local time). This seventh episode ...
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Following the launch of HS2's first two giant TBMs, engineers working on Britain’s new high-speed railway have now begun excavating the first of five shafts that will provide ventilation ...
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On 16/7/2021 the TBM Sofia (length 106 m, weight 1450 t) arrived in the future Serge Gainsbourg station (Les Lilas). The machine has now completed the tunnel for the 6 km metro Line 11 extension, ...
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The community impacts consultation – running from July to 23:59 on Wednesday 8 September 2021 - gives Highways England communities the opportunity to have their say on ...
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In the Spring of 2021, the second of two 6.65 m (21.8 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover XRE TBMs made its third and final breakthrough for India’s Mumbai Metro Line 3. The first machine made its ...
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On the 16/07/21 there was a breakthrough in the 1148 m Marana tunnel (1,148 m), which is part of the construction works for the Amatrice - Montereale - L'Aquila section on the SS 260 Picente in ...
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On Sunday 12 September 2021, SBB will carry out a rescue exercise to verify the intervention and evacuation procedures in an emergency event. This will take place in the over 100-year-old Simplon ...
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