On the 08/06/2020 the TBM EPB S-900 Herrenknecht (diameter
15.87 m) completed the excavation of the 7551 m Santa Lucia tunnel on Barberino
di Mugello - Calenzano section, A1 Motorway in Italy. ...
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ELAPAS (Empresa Local de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado Sanitario) from the city of Sucre, Bolivia, has published the Prior Information Notice for the Sucre III Water Conveyance System (Lot ...
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ITA-AITES and the Danish Society for Tunnels and Underground
Works (DFTU) call for abstracts for the World Tunnel Congress 2021 in
Copenhagen 16-19 May 2021 has been extended to the 16 June 2020. ...
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The Big 5, the annual trade event connecting the global
construction community in Dubai, is moving dates from 23-26 November 2020 and
will be held next on 12-15 September 2021, at the Dubai World ...
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Don't forget to stop by the Robbins booth at the North American Tunnelling (NAT) virtual trade show, where you can view a curated selection of Robbins latest news, white papers, videos and ...
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Are you ready for the North American Tunnelling (NAT) Virtual Conference? Register and get a week full of informative talks on intriguing topics from June 8-12. Visit ...
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The call for entries has been extended until the 23rd June 2020 for the 6th edition of the international tunnelling and underground space awards. The ITA Awards will take place at the ...
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Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for the Ontario Line project. The Ontario Line is a 15.5-km stand-alone rapid transit line that ...
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On 28/05/20 Larsen & Toubro began lowering parts of TBM DZ669 (named Avni) and DZ671 (named Vindhya) into the Shivajinagar and Cantonment stations, respectively, for driving tunnels on the ...
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Balfour Beatty today announces that its 50:50 joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$7.2 billion (c. £760 million) contract to deliver tunnels and associated works for an ...
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Acciona and Nye Veier, the Norwegian state highway authority, have reached an agreement to proceed to the next stage of the design and construction of the E6 Ranheim-Værnes highway.
Work is ...
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On the 06/05/2020 Deutsche Bahn reached another important milestone as part of the Stuttgart 21 project, by breaking through the east tube of the 9.5-km-long Filder tunnel: the last of four tunnels ...
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A number of TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance TBMs are achieving great progress rates on new lines for Istanbul’s ongoing metro expansion despite the Covid-19 outbreak.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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The Penetron Italy team were approached to provide a waterproofing solution for an underground pedestrian tunnel, elevator shafts, and different concrete structures for the new San Martino ...
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The 2020 ISRM International Symposium will be held on 12-14 October 2020. The event will take place at the same venue in Trondheim, Norway. All associated ISRM meetings will also be moved to new ...
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Metro tunnel in Australia have reached another major
milestone, with tunnel boring machines (TBM) Millie and Alice now both on their
way to South Yarra.
The green TBM Alice, named after wartime ...
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There are four TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta, Maria and Anna that are being used to tunnel the central Targowek and Wola sections of the Warsaw metro line 2. TBMs Krystyna and Elisabetta will now ...
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On the 19/05/20 in Francavilla Marittima in Cosenza province, the first stone was laid for the Mega Lot 3 of the SS 106 Ionian Highway. The EUR980 million project, was commissioned by state road ...
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Strata Worldwide is excited to announce the global launch of its next generation emergency refuge chamber; the Strata ERCX.
The Strata ERCX is a steel-sided, walk-in refuge chamber for use ...
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Work is underway to improve brightness and visibility in the George Massey Tunnel. Claire Trevena, Canadian Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, said the government continues to move ahead ...
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This year’s Swiss Tunnel Congress will be taking place in
the form of a webinar due to the current worldwide pandemic (COVID-19). A video of
the recorded congress will be published on the ...
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The next generation of high performance, eco-friendly tail sealants for shielded tunnel boring machines have been introduced into the Normet TBM product range. The new range of ...
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The winning name for City Rail Link’s TBM is Dame Whina Cooper. City Rail Link’s TBM will share the name of Dame Whina Cooper, a woman who spent most of an illustrious life leading the ...
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London’s biggest infrastructure project has re-started
tunnelling work on the super sewer urgently needed to clean up the River
Thames.
Tideway, the company building the 25km super sewer ...
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TBM Gaia has started drilling the second 2.25km RijnlandRoute tunnel in the Netherlands. After Gaia was blessed on 07/05/2020, tunnelling began, the route will pass under the Vliet, the ...
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The Eglinton Crosstown light rail transit project has seen plenty of progress! Recently, the project reached an important milestone. As part of a testing and commissioning phase, a light rail ...
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From the 11/05/20 the REM (Reseau Express Metropolitain) construction sites in Montreal will gradually resume their operations, after a stop time that started on the 24/03/20. This is following the ...
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The new GEOFLUID show will take place from the 19th to 22nd May 2021 at the Piacenza exhibition centre in Italy . The current pandemic has considerably influenced the decision to cancel, ...
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The Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology has
been postponed from 7-10 September 2020 to 30 August - 2 September 2021 at the
same venue in Mallorca, Spain. Due to the rescheduling, ...
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At Tideway, our aim is to inspire the engineers of tomorrow
by promoting the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and maths.
We also want to showcase some of the many talented people ...
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On Monday, April 27, 2020 the excavation of the second tube of the 2.06km Zakopianka tunnel under the Lubon Maly Mountain in the Beskid Wyspowy was completed. The teams boring the tunnel from both ...
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Paradigm Flow Services Ltd (PFS) has successfully applied their game changing digital dry deluge testing system, Dry-Flo® on a non-oilfield project on a major transport tunnel construction ...
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On the 23.04.2020 the TBM named Aysylu was launched to start the construction of the first 5.37 section of the second metro line in Kazan from Fuchik – Sakharov, the contractor is ...
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CIPA is hiring and looking for workers for its Italian and foreign sites:
• Mechanics and drivers (with license ...
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In March 2020 Hampton Roads Connector Partners (HRCP), the joint venture consisting of Dragados USA, Flatiron Constructors, Vinci Construction and Dodin Campenon Bernard, commissioned ...
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On the 27/04/20 Metro Tunnel reached another major milestone
with TBM Millie launching from the site of the new Anzac Station in Melbourne.
Millie is digging the first tunnel between Anzac Station ...
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