Due to the spreading Corona Virus in Asia-Pacific and also in Europe, the organisers of the WTC 2020 in Malaysia have decided to change the date of the Congress as well as any and ...
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Press release - Four giant boring machines are leaving Sydney after finishing tunnelling under the city, delivering 30km of twin metro railway tunnels. Their massive cutterheads, each weighing 100 ...
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The state of Finland will apply for funding from the European Commission for the planning process of the One-hour Turku-Helsinki Rail Link, of the Finland Railway, of the Espoo city rail link, to ...
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On the 23/02/2020 TBM Joan, named after former Victorian Premier Joan Kirner, broke through in a 13-m-deep shaft at Childers Street, Kensington, completing the first section of the Metro ...
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The international business conference Fehmarn Link Business Conference ´20 (FLBC) will be held on Thursday 12th March at Lalandia in Rodbyhavn. The conference is the launching pad for ...
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Five years after work began on the Metro Tunnel, the third and fourth TBMs are being assembled before starting work on Victoria’s biggest public transport project.
TBMs Millie and Alice ...
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E18 Langangen - Rugtvedt is part of the E18 Langangen - Grimstad section. The project is 17 km long and has a contract value of about EUR516,47 million (NOK 5.2 billion), excluding VAT.
The ...
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The following groups of contractors and consultants have qualified to supply offers and compete to build the new E6 Storhove - Oyer.
AF Gruppen - Norconsult
Arbeidsfellesskap ...
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iPS Powerful People and T&M Specialists Hong Kong, are two companies that have entered into a strategic business partnership agreement for civil construction projects in the Far East. T&M ...
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On the 18/02/2020 TBM Grace broke through at Bayswater Station, marking the end of her 8 km journey from Forrestfield to Bayswater after 32 months.
In late July 2017, TBM Grace set off from ...
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The Bözberg tunnel's slab track has been completed with the installation of the last sleeper. A great moment for all those involved and an important milestone for the largest single project ...
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On the 31st of January, the opening ceremony for construction of the new 13.6km section of a rail line between the towns of Nykirke and Barkaker, south of Oslo has was held.
The project contractor ...
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In June 2019, a preliminary consultation was carried out for the new Lyon metro line E project. Sytral chose the Alai - Bellecour route with the following 6 stations: Alai, Liberation, Menival, ...
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On the 5th of February 3 new TBMs manufactured by Herrenknecht were christened at the Verden site in Le Bourget, France. The consortium led by Eiffage-Génie Civil will use them to carry out ...
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On the 27/01/2020 the TBM Gaia (diameter 11 m) re-emerged at the Stevenshof district of the A44 in Leiden, after 6 months tunnelling and 2,250 m from its starting point at the A4 motorway. ...
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Crossrail is undertaking testing and safety certification
for each station, shaft, portal & railway system for the Elizabeth line.
The engineering team explain why the handover & assurance ...
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The Deer Creek Tunnel will be approximately 3.9 miles long, extending from
Clayton Road in the City of Clayton, to Interstate 44 in the City of
Shrewsbury. The tunnel is bored into deep rock ...
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On 17/01/2020 the Sao Paulo Governor, Joao Doria, and the Secretary Oof Metropolitan Transport, Alexandre Baldy, signed the service order for the immediate start of construction of the metro Line ...
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A new electricity cable tunnel south of the Thames National Grid is looking to renew and improve electricity infrastructure to ensure a continued safe and secure supply to London. Its London Power ...
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Ursula, one of six TBMs being used to dig London's new super sewer, has completed half of her stretch of the main tunnel, passing Waterloo Bridge in the process.
In March 2019, Ursula became the ...
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On January 09, 2020 Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Ian Borg and Minister for Gozo Justyne Caruana, announced Infrastructure Malta is inviting interested companies or ...
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On January 11th 2020 RTA (Roads and Transport Authority) revealed the intention to start a trial-run of drones to inspect the Dubai Metro tunnels which extend 14 km on both the Red and Green ...
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The 31st edition of SaMoTer, International Construction Equipment Trade Fair will be held from 21st to 25th March 2020 in Verona, Italy. The Exhibition is one of the international trade ...
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On December 30th , 2019 the Ryfylke tunnel - providing a permanent road connection between Strand in Ryfylke and Stavanger on Nord-Jæren - was opened for traffic. It has taken 40 years since ...
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On January 4th , 2020 the Harstad tunnel (1406 m) was opened to traffic, the tunnel is part of the Harstad package, a EUR164.21 million (NOK 1620 million, value 2016) road package signed by ...
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A mega boring machine smashing through a wall of sandstone on the edge of Sydney Harbour has marked the end of tunnelling in the city’s north.
Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mabel has reached ...
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On January 5, 2020 the Minister Of Urban Development Shri Eknath Shinde named the second TBM, after the River Mula. The TBM has been launched from Agriculture College site and it will dig one of the ...
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In December 2019, the City of Dallas, Texas, USA unveiled the largest hard rock TBM ever to bore in the U.S. The 11.6 m (38.1 ft) diameter Robbins Main Beam TBM will excavate the 8 km (5 mi) Mill ...
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TBM Allison has reached Villejuif IGR station on Line 14 South after six months excavation. The station will connect Line 14 South and Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express (Lot GC02) by ...
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Join VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II Industry Forum to learn about opportunities to participate in building this mega-transit project. This informational forum, to be held on February ...
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Press release - At present, the construction of the tunnels of the China-Laos Railway has entered the dry season. There are continuous reports of tunnel breakthroughs. The companies involved in the ...
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The Early Bird Registration for WTC 2020 is extended until 31st January 2020. The ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2020 and 46th General Assembly will take place in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia from ...
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The Cipe (Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning) at its meeting of 20/12/2019 approved the modification of the perimeter of the T3 section of line C of the Rome underground in order to ...
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur revealed that the 8.8km Rohtang Tunnel, renamed Atal Tunnel, will be opened by the end of June 2020 and will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra ...
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Patel Engineering will utilise a TERRATEC open hard rock TBM for the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai’s (MCGM) AMT-II water transfer project, in India.
TERRATEC is pleased to ...
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A HOCHTIEF joint venture has been awarded with a GBP 400 million contract to deliver the second phase of the London Power Tunnels (LPT2) project.
Scheduled to start in March next year, this ...
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