On the 25.04.2017 the Los Angeles Metro held a pre-proposal conference for the Section 3 tunnel contract. They are using an innovative approach by delivering the stations and tunnels separately for ...
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Normet, the innovative underground technology company, has
won several new orders from Hindustan Zinc, India’s only and the world leading
producer of Zinc-Lead-Silver.
Hindustan ...
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BBC TWO’s (UK) The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway returns for a second series on 22 May at 9pm GMT to follow the construction of the Elizabeth line under London.
Crossrail provided exclusive ...
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The
conference webpage for the 17th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) is
now active and online! The event will take place on 25th and 26th October 2017
in Rome, Italy. The conference ...
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Excavation of the downtown Bellevue light rail tunnel began in February 2017 and construction crews have been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on tunnel construction ever since.
Sound Transit ...
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tunnelbuilder opens the doors to all tunnelling companies, putting their products in front of thousands of qualified readers. All advertisers, large and small, have one thing in common – the ...
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On 5th May
2017, CREG’s 3.5m diameter gripper TBM LEA made its first breakthrough of its Tunnel
Drive 3 as part of the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project. A celebration was
held in ...
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Tunnelbuilder welcomes SWEDFAN as a new advertiser .SWEDFAN undertake the design, calculations, manufacturing and supply of complete underground ventilation systems with heavy-duty high pressure ...
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Robbins Company so you can catch up on all that they have been doing lately !
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Tunneljobs is recruiting for a major tunnelling contract in the United Kingdom. So if you are looking for work currently or within the next 2 months please either send your current resume to the ...
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California High-Speed Rail will make a stop at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) in San Diego, California, June 4 – 7.
Featuring 100 technical sessions, short courses and ...
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TERRATEC Tight Radius Shields (TRS)
facilitate a challenging curved alignment on a major new drainage tunnel
project for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) .
In April 2017, ...
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On 22.03.2017 a TBM broke through at Maniatika Station on the Athens Line 3 extension to Piraeus. By the end of March 67% of the tunnel had been completed which equates to 50% of the ...
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Preparation work for a hopper for Almohades in Casablancabegan at the beginning of 2017 has now finished. This will allow for tunnelling works to start shortly. In July 2016 the turkish company ...
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On 05.04.17 the TBM Aktor broke through at Analipsi station after opening the second of the twin 7.8km main shafts which are part of of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Railway. The breakthrough ...
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The Call for Papers for the 8th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2018) is open. The symposium will be held at the Textile ...
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Early registration ends May 7 for the Rapid Excavation
and Tunneling Conference (RETC), June 4 – 7, 2017 in San Diego.
RETC 2017 is heating up in San Diego, California with
tunneling ...
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A Robbins TBM, recently christened “Augustine”, is being
commissioned to undertake its eighth bore after being launched by contractor
Eiffage Civil Engineering on March 3. The TBM, ...
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Normet Group and JCHX Mining Management Co Ltd have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and sell underground mining equipment in the Chinese market.
The joint venture will ...
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The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) is a strategic project between the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore that aims to facilitate seamless travel between the two capital cities. The ...
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On 06.02.2017 the Turkish group Makyol completed the
excavation of a 5.2km sewer tunnel. The tunnel was driven by a TBM EPB
(diameter 6.5 m, lenght 87 m) and is part of the Super West Collector ...
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The Joint venture between Cimic a subsidiary of CPB Contractors and John Holland has been named as the preferred contractor for the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia. The joint ...
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PPS is looking forward to make 2017 a year of innovation in the PPS product lines. A new generation of pipejacking and micro-tunneling systems will be introduced and classical PPS guidance systems ...
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New threats like terrorist acts in tunnels and cyber-attacks to control systems could severely influence public life. Within a workshop on “New Security Challenges for Design and ...
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To view Amberg technologies latest newsletter please click here.15/17.
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The preferred route for the new Lower Thames Crossing between Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent has been announced. The new two-mile road tunnel will create a link between the A2 and the M25 ...
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On 06.04.2017 the TBM Harriet arrived at the Leimert Park Station completing the second tunnel of the underground section of the Crenshaw/LAX Line in Los Angeles.
The TBM began its work on ...
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The ITA video of Tunnelling Works over the world (updated)
has been released on youtube please view it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzY0QuF4gkM&feature=youtu.be
.14/17.
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STUVA-Expo 2017 – multiple communication options for
exhibitors available
Improving the efficiency of communication for our exhibitors
is currently the focus of the organizing team of ...
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The call for Abstracts for 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference has been extended to Monday the 10th of April. Submit in one of the following categories:
1. Urban Planning, ...
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The major phase of geotechnical investigations to inform
tunnel and station designs for the Metro Tunnel Project is now complete.
Over the past two years more than 270 boreholes have been
drilled ...
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Acciona Construction has completed the first of the 45 galleries connecting the two railway tunnels of the Follo Line project in Norway. These service galleries will be essential for carrying out ...
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The Robbins Company holds nearly 90% of world records for TBMs, and behind two thirds of those TBMs are continuous conveyor systems for rapid muck removal. Whether hard rock or soft ground, ...
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The Rapid Excavation and Tunnel Conference (RETC) will be held in San Diego, California June 4-7, featuring 100 technical sessions, short courses and more.
Covering topics from contracting to ...
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On March 18th 2017 SELI Overseas completed the 11,4 km long headrace tunnel at the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Hydro Power Plant, in southern Laos, using a 5.84 m diameter Double Shield TBM built by TERRATEC ...
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On 07.03.2017 Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) fabricated the first tunnel ring for the 33.5 km Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro-3 corridor project at the Wadala casting yard. About 40,000 segment ...
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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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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) T61 nicknamed Tapi-1 operated by the J Kumar Infraprojects – China Railway Tunnel Group JV...
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All the information you need to know about the Gotthard Tunnel...
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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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The Woodsmith Project is a deep mine and associated transport, processing and shipping infrastructure development under construction in North Yorkshire, UK.
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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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Normet Finland Service Center is specialized for third party emulsion charging system assemblies to Normet’s Charmec charging platforms. Normet’s new business model provides declaration of ...
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The high-speed railway, HS2 recently published a high-level report into its construction plans for the next few years. The timeline covers most of the concrete phase of the project before ...
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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 project was first proposed in 2010, after which a feasibility study was conducted in 2013 and construction began in 2019. The New Mutwal Tunnel is ...
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More than 700 men are working in shifts to complete the 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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