Parliament continues to show very strong support for HS2, as the Bill for the extension from the West Midlands to Crewe – Phase 2A – is given Royal ...
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Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) has achieved its 36th breakthrough at CSMIA T1 Metro Station. With this 1.5-km long tunnel from Sahar Road Metro Station to CSMIA, T1 is now completed. The ...
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The winner to host the WTC2023 is Greece! The final voting result: Greece 33 vs Turkey 14. The theme will be EXPANDING UNDERGROUND - Knowledge & Passion to Make a Positive Impact on ...
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On 05/02/21 at the Manila North Centre Port Terminal an arrival ceremony was held for the Cutter Head for of the first TBM Kaunlaran. It will be used for the 15-station Metro Manila Subway 's ...
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With final German approval of the Fehmarnbelt project obtained in November 2020, construction of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Denmark and Germany is now well underway.
During 2021, ...
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Most of the preparation works for the City Rail Link (CRL) has been completed and project momentum is shifting to the heavy infrastructure programme. 2021 will see the Dame Whina Cooper ...
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Robbins Brand to continue under Global TBM Company - Global TBM Company, newly established by industry veteran Lok Home, is proud to announce the recent purchase of substantially all the assets of ...
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Line 16 (27.5 km) of the Grand Paris Express project will be entirely underground and three works lots are planned with the use of 8 TBMs. The works’ are scheduled to finish in 2030. Lot 2 - ...
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On 29/01/2021 the Enbridge Line 5 tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac got another step closer to being built. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy announced its approval of ...
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Roadheaders start tunnelling towards Boggo Road - Two 115t roadheaders have started to mine the remainder of the 870 m Cross River Rail twin tunnels between Woolloongabba and Boggo ...
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Excellent results were achieved in 2020 by FAMA, a world leading provider of sealing, connection systems and precast tunnel lining. The company’s budget shows a positive finish after an ...
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A major milestone was reached on the M4-M5 Link Tunnels project - 41 m underground at the St Peters Interchange - with roadheaders carving through to the M8, linking two WestConnex stages ...
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The NASTT 2021 No-Dig Show will convene in Orlando, Florida, March 28-31 at the Orange County Convention Center — offering in-person and virtual offerings to bring the trenchless industry to ...
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With over 55 live tenders for construction/development of new tunnels in just Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium at the time of writing this, it is safe to say that tunnel construction/ ...
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A refurbished 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machine has been delivered to a Joint Venture between Hindustan Construction Company Ltd. of India and Vensar ...
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With the start of the New Year, the HRBT Expansion Project begins new construction activities. You are invited to learn more during a Virtual Construction Open House to learn about upcoming ...
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SaMoTer, Veronafiere's triennial international construction machinery exhibition, will now take place in March 2023.
In 2021 they will showcase a new in-quarry demo event: the format will be ...
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The Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade (the project) - proposed by Transport for NSW - has been approved by the NSW Government (the Minister for Planning and Public ...
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TBM Alice has begun its journey beneath St Kilda Road and the Yarra River, to connect the Metro Tunnel’s new Anzac and Town Hall stations in Melbourne, Australia. It follows the December ...
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In Kiruna, Sweden, tests are ongoing to set a new world standard for sustainable mining. In the process to achieve this, LKAB has ordered industry-leading battery-electric vehicles from Epiroc to be ...
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In December TBM Buroh (diameter 4.6 m) completed the 1.3 km first tunnel drive of the DTSS Phase 2 in Singapore (Contract T-08). As part of DTSS Phase 2, the existing tunnel system will be ...
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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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