Sydney’s new twin metro railway tunnels are now 70% complete as tunnelling reaches the heart of the city deep under Martin Place. TBM Nancy has arrived at the new Martin Place Station, 28 m ...
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Bane NOR invites suppliers to its Tender Conference where it will present upcoming plans about railway systems. The conference will be held on Wednesday, November 27th 2019, from 11.00 until 16.00, ...
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Press Release - CIFA and Blend are showing at the 2nd Conpaviper National Forum with EasyFloor A70 CIFA. They are at the forum with their full line of machines and solutions for the concrete sector. ...
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On October 2nd , a Metro Vancouver committee, created to provide input to the British Colombia provincial government on a new Massey crossing, has recommended that the existing 629 m George Massey ...
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The 26th World Road Congress is taking place in the city of Abu Dhabi from October 6th to 10th 2019, where professionals from all over the world will meet to discuss their ...
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EES public hearing wrap-up -
The Public Hearing for the North East Link Environment Effects Statement (EES) wrapped up on Monday 16th September. The independent Inquiry and ...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) issued a permit to HRCP - Hampton Roads Connector Partners to perform borings in the waters between the Hampton and Norfolk shorelines for the HRBT expansion ...
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The aim of this networking event is to celebrate the great achievements of tunnelling projects and tunnelling engineers in Australia and to promote the industry and its many professions to students, ...
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Press release from Highways England - The next phase of investigation work for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme near Stonehenge will focus on Countess roundabout over the coming ...
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There have been two new breakthroughs as part of the ongoing Mumbai Metro Line 3 in India.
The 18th breakthrough was TBM Wainganga-1 who broke through at the SEEPZ station after completing ...
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We are pleased to announce that the 16th Australian Tunnelling Conference will be held on 14-15 October 2019 at the Aerial UTS Function Centre in Sydney.
With a comprehensive, two-day ...
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iPS Powerful People and Nautech Services have agreed to intensively collaborate. With this agreement iPS Powerful People will strengthen their position in the Survey and Marine markets, and Nautech ...
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If you are attending this show EXPO Ferrovia in Italy today make sure you visit the stands of the companies that were chosen as the winners of the “DITECFER Railway Innovation Leaders ...
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Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mabel has broken through a wall of rock into the new Victoria Cross Station in North Sydney.
Mabel has excavated about 450,000 tonnes of sandstone and shale – ...
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Tunnelling has started this week, with Joan now digging from the North Melbourne Station site towards Kensington as part of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project.
TBM Joan is the first to break ...
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Copenhagen’s new metro will be inaugurated on Sunday, September 29th by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, accompanied by members of the royal family, Danish Prime Minister Mette ...
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3 Ways to Bore More Efficiently in Extremely Hard Rock: Maximize your TBM Advance through Minimized Downtime
When the rock seems unbreakable, stresses are multiplied: The cutters must be stronger, ...
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On September 23rd , 2019 the TBM Federica (diameter 11.26 m, length 125 m, weight 2400 t) built by the French company NFM Technologie , completed the excavation of the first 9 km section between ...
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Starting on September 18th, 2019 Martin Gradnitzer and Gilberto Cardola will take the helm of the Brenner Base Tunnel cross-border project company in Austria and Italy, replacing the ...
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The Narragansett Bay Commission has received a loan from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s WIFIA (Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act) Program to the amount of $268.7 ...
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Webinar Summary - Detlef Jordan, Robbins and Barrie Willis, iPS -
TBM maintenance: it’s one of the most important factors predicting project success, but it is often treated ...
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Strata Worldwide has launched a new leaky feeder solution
for underground construction. The DigitalBRIDGE Plus+ delivers powerful,
high-speed Ethernet and a full spectrum of VHF radio frequencies ...
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The Hinkley Point C project has reached another key milestone
with the start of tunnelling at the UKs first new nuclear power station in a
generation.
Work has started to install the 38,000 ...
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On Saturday 14th September, 2019 at the Braque pit site in Aulnay-sous-Bois the first TBM for the Grand Paris express was christened. The TBM was named Armelle after Armelle Martin who saved a ...
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Four finalists have been announced for the major project of the year
category which focusses on ‘Managing Urban Expansion’. The awards will be held
in Miami, USA from the 18th to the ...
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Penang is planning a massive transportation network that
includes four highways, an eight-lane highway in the Persiaran Gurney, a light-rail
transit (LRT) and an undersea tunnel. The ...
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Mapei's response to the growing
demand from the construction market was to create their Underground Technology Team
and product line. The Underground Technology Team (UTT), is dedicated ...
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A pioneering
civil engineering skills academy unlike anything else in the North East has
been officially opened in Hartlepool.
The new
skills academy from Seymour Civil ...
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Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, is proud to have
contributed engineering excellence to the Heung Yuen Wai Highway in Hong Kong.
The major transport infrastructure project will promote ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) allocated EUR113.15 million (USD125 million) to the Santa
Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) for the Bay ...
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An Australian-first tunnelling training centre will open next year in Oakleigh. The centre will train thousands of local workers to deliver tunnel projects in Victoria - including the Metro ...
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Its less than a month to go before the next edition of EXPO Ferroviaria in Italy. The EXPO will take place from the 1st to the 3rd of October at Rho Fiera in Milan. The event is for the ...
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TBM Grace has now tunnelled more than 5.6km and installed more than 3300 rings, on her journey to Bayswater. Grace is now tunnelling in Ascot - underneath the Tonkin Highway road reserve and is ...
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The final parts of the TBM Bella, the largest in the southern hemisphere have been lifted into place to start digging the West Gate Tunnel in Melbourne. The 450-t cutterhead has been lowered 27 m ...
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A second mega boring machine has arrived deep under the Sydney central business district at the new Pitt Street metro railway station. Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Mum Shirl started digging from ...
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The TBM DiGs conference will be held from November 13th – 15th , 2019 in Golden, Colorado USA.
TBM DiGs is an international conference series that provides a specialized technological ...
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