First TBM (length 225 m, weight 1,800 t), after final checks in Germany, is ready to be shipped to Wilton International, Redcar. The TBM will be reassembled and start tunnelling in the second ...
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On the 09.02.2019 Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the Sela Tunnel Project in Arunachal Pradesh. The Project (BRO) will be completed in the next three years. The ...
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The first tunnel boring machine (TBM) breakthrough for the MRT Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya (SSP) Line took place on 29 January 2019 at the Chan Sow Lin MRT Station construction site, marking a ...
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On Friday January 18, workers operating TBM Grace reported a potential mechanical issue with the machine. Since then tunnelling experts from SI-NRW and German TBM manufacturer Herrenknecht have been ...
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On 06.02.2019 Femern A / S received the signed German regulatory approval for the Fehmarn tunnel in Kiel. The German approval concerns only the construction on the German side. Activities on ...
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On the 16.01.2019 Sydney Metro’s third mega TBM started digging the 6.2 km of tunnel from Chatswood to the edge of Sydney Harbour at Blues Point. This marks the next stage in delivering the ...
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The cutter head of the more than 400-foot long TBM MaMaJo was lowered nearly 200 feet down Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. The machine will drill a 5-mile tunnel designed to protect rivers from sewer overflow ...
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The TBMs Wonder Woman and Niki Haley breakthrough into the Ben Gurion station shaft. This completes 18.5 km of the 20km of tunnelling on the eastern section of the redline project in Tel Aviv. The ...
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On the 01.02.2019 the Supreme Court decided not to grant ‘leave to appeal’ in the case of awards for construction of the West Link (Vastlanken) railway project in Gothenburg.
The ...
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On the 28.01.2019 AFD (French Development Bank) and DEA (Department of Economic Affairs) on behalf of the Government of India signed a Credit Facility Framework agreement in New Delhi for extending ...
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On 31.01.2019 Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) witnessed a twin tunnel breakthrough of the third and fourth TBM of Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro3 corridor at Dadar Metro Station.
Krishna 1, the ...
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A Brief History of Rapid Excavation in 7 Key Points
Posted by Brad Grothen | Jan 29, 2019
Rapid Excavation: It’s a term bandied about throughout our industry, but what does it mean? ...
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The new Chirajara-Villavicencio roadway represents the final third of the Bogotá-Villavicencio corridor, between the departments of Cundinamarca and Meta, with a total length of 22.60 ...
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The Northgate Link light rail extension in Seattle is about
70% complete and on track to open in 2021.
Progress on Sound Transit's Northgate Link construction
includes track installation, which ...
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The 22nd of January 2019 saw the breakthrough of
the tunnel for the future Sesto Restellone and Monza Bettola stops on the Metro
Line 1 in Milan, Italy.
The Sesto Restellone station construction ...
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TERRATEC is pleased to announce the delivery of a further
two new 6.56m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs)
for the ongoing expansion of Istanbul’s Metro system, ...
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Elon Musk has promoted the concept of Hyperloop in tunnels but considers this viable only if the cost of tunnelling can be reduced by a factor of ten or more. His suggestion is that this could be ...
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On the 26th of January the fifth TBM, made by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Group, for Moscow’s Big Circle Line was launched in the south-western section. The TBM Mary (6 m ...
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On the 23rd of January 2019 a second TBM broke through in to what will be the future Gelsomini station. This is one of the TBMs driving tunnels in the West section from San Cristoforo to Solari ...
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The deadline for submission of entries for the Harding Prize is usually 31 January, but for 2019 only it has been extended to 14 February.
The Harding Prize is awarded each year in April. Entry is ...
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Following negotiations in Dubai during January 2019 the
Tunnelling and Civil Construction division of iPS have decided to enter into a
partnership with the Hong Kong based Tunnelling company ...
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This conference will be held between the 11th and 12th April 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Partial Topics Covered ...
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The Austroads Road Tunnels Task Force coordinates updates to
the Austroads Guide to Road Tunnels, and coordinates the development of
technical research projects considering all aspects of road ...
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The Purple Line Extension Transit Project in Los Angeles is adding two more
TBMs to its fleet. These TBMs will be part of section 2 and will join Elsie and
Soyeon which are currently digging the ...
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Don't miss out the next WTC2019, submit your registration
before 31.01.2019 and take advantage of substantial discounts!
You will be able to attend conferences and workshops,
discover the latest ...
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Information provided by Skyscrapers & MegaProjects
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The infrastructure plans will cost Norway no less than $47 billion and would ...
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Zitron is a leader in the manufacture of ventilation systems for mining, public works and the naval sector; transport, drilling and lifting equipment.
Zitron, located in large manufacturing ...
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This article has been submitted by Calvin R Barrows it is a different way of looking at the causes of the heat build up in the summer on the London underground. Please read through the article and ...
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Find out how mechanized tunnelling from Herrenknecht shapes
the world of tomorrow.
Has the future at Herrenknecht ever been as exciting as it
is today? I’m sure we will not run out of stuff ...
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The first of 4 TBMs that will build the Melbourne Metro
Tunnel is on its way to its launch site in North Melbourne. The TBMs are being
engineered in Germany and built in China, before they are ...
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Underground construction is high risk; the extensive length
and size of a tunnel build through unknown rock strata poses the continual
threat of fire or rock fall. To manage this risk ...
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GETECH srl can count on consolidated experience, thanks to 30 years of research, development and application in the field of solid/liquid separation with Centrifugal Plant up to more than 150mc/h. ...
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A cause
near and dear to the hearts of the 26th Annual Microtunneling Short
Course organizers is helping the men and women who have served in the United
States military successfully return to ...
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Do you want to find out what will be presented at the World
Tunnelling Conference 2019? Do you want to know which topics will be the focus
of the AAA sessions? Do you want to see an example of an ...
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Just in time for its 20th anniversary PPS has announced the
newly developed guidance system platform PPS-UNP (Universal Navigation
Platform). The UNP can be used for all types of underground ...
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Bella, the first TBM that will build the West Gate Tunnel, has
arrived in Melbourne. The TBM is 90 m long, 15.6 m high and weighs 4,000 t. The
hundreds of pieces that make up Bella will be ...
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