Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering Group with about 37,000 employees with a strong commitment to enhancing customer productivity, profitability and sustainability.
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The WTC2022 Organizing Committee and the ITA announce that the WTC 2022 in Copenhagen will take place from Friday September 2 to Thursday September 8, 2022, instead of April 22 to 28 at BELLA ...
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On the 21/01/2022 Delia, the first TBM to excavate beneath the city of Lima (Peru) and launched in July 2021, has completed the 720-m tunnel section between San Juan de Dios (E-19) and ...
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At the beginning of January 2022 L&T completed the 2072 m long tunnel from Priyadarshini Park to Girgaon Chowpatty/Girgaum Chowpatty/Girgaon Chaupty. It’s the first breakthrough for the ...
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The invitation to tender for construction of electrical and lighting installations, piping, data connection cables, control units, etc. for the visitor centre at the Turin-Lyon construction site in ...
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Two 1266 tonne, 165 m long double-shield, hard rock, gripper-type TBMs have been ordered to build the city’s next metro rail tunnels as part of the Sydney Metro West project, with the first ...
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As of January 2022, 4 main construction lots are under construction: Mules 2-3, Isarco River Underpass (Italian project area); Sill gorge, Sill gorge - Pfons (Austrian project area).
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On the 15/01/2022 the 2nd TBM, named Yuan Ching, with a 7.56m diameter, broke through at around 60m below ground for the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System Phase 2, Contract T-09. The TBM has completed its ...
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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:
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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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