Press release - Applications are now sought for this year’s BTS Harding Prize. The competition is open to all tunnelling engineers of the age of 33 or below at the end of the previous year. ...
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Since the launch of TBM Sofia at the beginning of 2020, all construction sites for the future stations of the line 11 extension have been focused on the passage of Sofia through the station ...
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On Thursday 21st January 2021 at 18:00 hrs [GMT] Online at : https://youtu.be/SN3htCiU3FA Lok Home – President, The Robbins Company will be hosting a webinar on youtube called Three ...
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As part of the program to improve water quality in Narragansett Bay, the Narragansett Bay Commission has issued to CB3A joint-venture notice to proceed with the work on the Pawtucket Tunnel Project. ...
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On the 11/01/2021 the official launching ceremony for the TBM named Mavala was held, to see the ceremony please click here for the video.
The TBM will dig the 3.45 km twin tunnel from Princess ...
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The team on TBM Selina at Chambers Wharf has broken ground on the final 5.5km stretch of the super sewer.
The machine is the last on the project to get underway journeying from Bermondsey to ...
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TBM Krishna 1 has reached the Dadar Metro Station: it’s the 35th breakthrough on metro line 3 in Mumbai, click here for the video. With this, MMRC has successfully completed the 10.96-km long ...
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At the end of 2020 two TBMs Katarzyna and Faustina began their tunnelling journey between the Lodz Fabryczna station and Lodz Kaliska e Lodz Zabieniec in Poland.
Katarzyna - the ...
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Implenia, together with project partner HOCHTIEF, has been awarded the contract to build the 2.2-kilometre-long Altona noise protection tunnel on the A7 motorway in Hamburg. The net contract is ...
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TBM Else - the first of Cross River Rail’s two 1350 t TBMs in Brisbane - has been moved into position underground in the Woolloongabba site’s station cavern to commence tunnelling on the ...
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On 15/12/2020 the CDPQ (Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec) unveiled the new Eastern extension project for the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) in Montreal, ...
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In December TBM Joan broke through into the State Library station’s cavern 32 m under Franklin and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Australia. Thus completing the 1km stretch between ...
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During the London December`s BTS (British Tunnelling Society) evening Andy Alder, Tideway Programme Director, gave an update on the Tideway Projects current progress and the approaches being used. ...
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Line 15 South - On the 08/12/20, after a 4 km drive between the Robespierre shaft (in Bagneux) and Fort d ' Issy - Vanves - Clamart, TBM Ellen began driving a further 700 m section of the ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for procurement packages for the Ontario Line subway project. Teams have been shortlisted and invited to bid ...
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At the beginning of December 2020 the TBM MamaJo, whose name is derived from the three rivers that flow through the Fort Wayne city, reached the 4.82km (3 mile) point of its journey for the ...
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1. Summary - VTA intends to award a Progressive Design-Build (PDB) contract for the design and construction of all tunnel and trackwork required for this Project. VTA’s intended PDB ...
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Crews continue to prepare for the arrival of the HRBT Expansion Project ‘s TBM and are working on expanding the existing North and South islands to accommodate the new twin tunnels. ...
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On the 21/12/2020 the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) approved the PC-I document and design of the 364-km motorway that will connect Peshawar with Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan and ...
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A TERRATEC Micro Tunnel Boring Machine (MTBM) achieved a major milestone on the city Ahmedabad’s new sewage tunnel system in India. It is the first time, the city has used the ...
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HS2 today shortlisted bidders for its Track Systems and for Tunnel and Lineside Mechanical and Electrical (M&E) systems. The winning organisations will go on to deliver around 280km of ...
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Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation is implementing the Pune Metro Rail Project, which has two corridors: one from Vanaz to Ramwadi which is an elevated line and the other from PCMC to ...
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Minister for Transport and Main Roads - The Honourable Mark Bailey.
Cross River Rail’s twin massive Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) have been named after two groundbreaking Queensland ...
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Construction of the Victorian Tunnelling Centre (VTC) at Holmesglen Institute in Chadstone in Australia is now finished.
The facility will cater for the next generation of construction and ...
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Tunnelcraft Ltd has won the award for Specialist Tunnelling Supplier of the Year at the NCE Tunnelling Festival Awards 2020. The judges felt that TunnelCraft showed clear innovation in management ...
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The second annual No-Dig North Show will be held at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The call for abstracts is now open and the deadline is March 1, 2021. Case ...
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The NASTT 2021 No-Dig Show - the largest tradeshow and conference solely devoted to the trenchless technology industry - will be held in Orlando, Florida, at the Orange County Convention ...
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Catastrophic fires in tunnels have resulted in loss of life, significant asset damage and operational interruption. The ignition and spread of fire in rail applications remains one of the most ...
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The foundation stone for Phase II of Chennai Metro Rail Project – estimated at a cost of Rs.61,843 crores - was laid through video conferencing on 21-11-2020 at Kalaivanar Arangam. ...
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On the 13/12/2020, the 15.4km Ceneri Base Tunnel, between Camorino and Vezia started operating marking the completion of the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA) after 28 years of ...
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Eastern Section - At the beginning of December TBM Anna after 1296 m and 858 rings installed as part of the left tunnel behind Kondratowicza C20 broke through to the C19 Zacisze ...
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The assembly process of the 98 piece Slurry-TBM (101 m long, 2740 t weight and 13.5 m diameter) has begun. This TBM will bore the road tunnel under the Swina river, connecting the ...
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HS2’s first two giant Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) have arrived in the UK and will be ready to start work on the UK’s largest infrastructure project early next year.
The two ...
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MineArc took their most popular TunnelSAFE Gantry Design Refuge Chamber and brought it to new heights.
What makes this refuge chamber unique is its ability to continue to operate on an ...
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At the end of November 2020 the tunnelling averages for the Purple Line (Line D) Extension were Section 1: 94.4% complete and Section 2: 2.9 % complete.
Section 1
The twin TBMs ...
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On St Barbara's day the 4th December a blessing ceremony was held at the Anzac Station site in Melbourne Australia for TBM Millie and all her personnel, to wish them a safe journey to the Town Hall ...
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