On the 14/01/22 the 10.3m Multi-Mode TBM, built by Herrenknecht for Narragansett Bay Commission's (USA) Pawtucket Tunnel Project, passed its Factory Acceptance Testing. The TBM - commissioned by the ...
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The TBMs, which will dig the tunnels for the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension in Toronto, arrived at the ports of Oshawa and Hamilton in mid-December 2021. ...
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The Malaysian Transport Minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has signed the full approval for the ECRL - East Coast Railway Link, Section C2 (ITT Gombak - Serendah - Puncak Alam - Port Klang), ...
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Since 2016, the 8 km (5-mile) tunnel portion of the 9.66 km (6-mile), 4-station planned BART extension through downtown San Jose to Santa Clara has been the most studied and talked about aspect of ...
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Press release - New images showing the green tunnel at Greatworth, Northamptonshire, with similar designs planned for Wendover and Chipping Warden Modular design set to cut embedded carbon in ...
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Hi Jonn – I hope you’re well. This is just a quick note to see if you would be interested in a guided tour of one of HS2’s first two tunnelling machines (TBMs)... They are ...
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The ISAVFT - International Symposium on Aerodynamics, Ventilation & Fire in Tunnels will be held at Brighton (UK) between the 28-30 September 2022. The Call for Papers deadline has been extended ...
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A Robbins 4.6 m (15.1 ft) diameter Crossover machine holed through in the Andes Mountains of Chile in the last quarter of 2021. The XRE TBM bored a 3.3 km (2.1 mi) long tunnel for Chile’s Los ...
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M/S Afcons Infrastructure LTD is working on the 3.655 Kms, between South Ramp to Rashtriya Military School (RT-01 Package), including the 3 underground stations Diary Circle, Mico Industries and ...
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On 29/12/2021 TBM Lilia completed the excavation of the last 1.2 km section of the BCL in Moscow, from the Nagatinsky Zaton station to the Klenovy Boulevard: click here ...
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At the beginning of December 2021, the Northern tube of a 6 km tunnel the broke through between Castelgomberto and Malo. Which allowed for a 35 km section of road between Bassano Ovest and ...
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Numerical standards and certifications to increase efficiency in the development of underground infrastructure projects – BIM for tunnelling – written by Michel Rives from ...
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TERRATEC is pleased to announce the delivery of three (3) new 7.51m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for India’s first Regional Rapid Transit System Project to ...
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Line 15 South - The excavation of this line involved 10 TBMs, which installed 128,000 segments and 18,500 rings. In 2019 TBM Steffie-Orbival was the first machine to complete its section, followed ...
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4STREETS s.r.l. is a young company founded in the spring of 2016 by motivated and experienced entrepreneurs who, combining the skills they had acquired in managing numerous construction sites in the ...
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On 21/12/21 the excavation activities for the new San Tomaso tunnel, a strategic part of the Terzo Valico dei Giovi – Genoa Junction One Project, and the first of the Genoa railway junction, ...
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Press release - The start of tunnelling for HS2 in London is set to begin in 2022 and progress has been made with the delivery of two giant Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) to ...
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PRESS RELEASE - The Riverlinx Construction Joint Venture (BAM Nuttall, Ferrovial Construction and SK Ecoplant) delivering the design and build of the Silvertown Tunnel on behalf of Transport for ...
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Today TBM Merle broke through at the Northern Portal site, bringing the Cross River Rail project’s year of tunnelling to an end, click here for the video. The Cross River Rail's twin tunnels ...
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Helsinki City Council have approved the Sornaistentunnel project between the Sornainen coastal road and the Hermann coastal road and its implementation in stages as follows:
In the ...
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In October TBM Rachel began boring, stopping every 1.5 m (5 feet) to construct a ring of the tunnel wall. About 106 m (350 feet) of tunnel has been completed so far, and the pace is expected to pick ...
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Virginia Department of Transportation and Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP) will celebrate the arrival of TBM Mary at The Port of Virginia Portsmouth Marine Terminal on the 14th December 2021. ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened a new almost 24 km section of the BCL including 10 stations (Terekhovo , Kuntsevskaya , Davydkovo, Aminevskaya , Michurinsky ...
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This month Snowy Hydro achieved another exciting milestone, with the commissioning of Kirsten, the second of three TBMs that will excavate more than 27km of tunnels for Snowy 2.0 pumped-storage ...
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The Cluj-Napoca City Council have approved the feasibility study (technical documentation and technical-economic indicators), drafted by the Joint Venture SYSTRA, SWS Engineering and Metrans ...
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Since 2015, the international competition "the ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards" seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and ...
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The breaking out of the concrete plugs either side of the shaft at Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore signals the next step in secondary lining the main ‘super sewer’ tunnel. All sections of ...
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Press release - Yesterday [2 December] HS2 CEO Mark Thurston pushed the button to start HS2’s tunnel boring machine on its one-mile journey under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking ...
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On the 29/11/2021 at 11h00a at the Fehmarnbelt tunnel construction site in Puttgarden, Danish Transport minister Benny Engelbrecht, together with Enak Ferlemann from the German Federal Government, ...
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The Terzo Valico dei Giovi-Nodo di Genova project has reached another milestone only 6 months after a breakthrough along the planned Valico Tunnel, which will become the longest railway tunnel in ...
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Army Corps of Engineers Permit – The Gateway Development Commission has announced that the last major step in the federal regulatory process for the Hudson Tunnel Project has been completed ...
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Gulermak/Sam India JV gets ready to commence tunnelling on the Corridor-1 of Kanpur MRTS Project in India. Two 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines have been ...
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Selina, the giant TBM creating the final, easternmost section of London’s new super sewer has passed the halfway mark on her underground journey towards Abbey Mills Pumping Station in ...
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The first of Cross River Rail’s Tunnel Boring Machines has seen the daylight, for the first time in ten months.
The mega project is one of many being delivered by the Palaszczuk ...
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On 24/11/2021 Eiffage Genie Civil celebrated the breakthrough of TBM Armelle in Le Blanc-Mesnile station, Line 16, Grand Paris Express. Click here for the video, here and fr/127 for tunnel ...
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On the 24/11/2021 TBM Serena with a diameter of 6.85m, a length of approximately 300m and weight 1,500 t has reached the Brenner Pass. The TBM has excavated over 14 km of tunnel in 3.5 years. The ...
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