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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WHAT IS SYNMIX® HP? - Synmix® macro synthetic fibres, from industry specialist Bekaert, have set a new standard for safety reinforcement with their light weight, easy to handle ...
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GALL ZEIDLER Consultants, Senior Tunnel Engineer Dominic Reda will be presenting at the 12th Annual Breakthroughs in Tunneling Short Course in Denver, Colorado September 9th – 11th . ...
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In September, 2019 China started the shield excavation of the Jinan Yellow River Tunnel, known as the "first” tunnel of the Wanli Yellow River according to the China Railway Construction ...
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Compact TBM bores longest Rock Tunnel at 2.46 m Diameter
In August 2019, a small diameter Double Shield TBM made a big impact. The 2.46 m (8.07 ft) diameter Robbins machine completed 3,475 m ...
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The Public Hearing for the North East Link Environment Effects Statement (EES) which began on the 25th July will reach its conclusion in mid – September 2019.
Any individual and any groups ...
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In June 2019 the Gateway
Development Commission became a bi-state organization, with new authority and ability
to receive the federal grants and loans necessary to deliver the Gateway
Program of ...
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The Feasibility Study and Preliminary Design for the Lac Straulesti – Gara Progresu Metro
Line 4/Green Line extension in Bucharest has been completed. Metrorex the
operator of the ...
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ICE is
pleased to announce its first learning programme which has been accredited for
US Professional Development Hours (PDH).
This
programme, located on the ICE Learning Hub, has been ...
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On August 11th 2019 TBM Sibylle the first of two
TBMs involved in the construction of the Albvorland tunnel, completed 7,700 m of the northern tube after only 18 months. The Albvorland ...
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On August the 16th TBM Nancy broke through a wall
of rock at the site of the future Pitt Street Station, about 20m below the
heart of Sydney’s CBD. Nancy had clocked up 6km of tunnelling ...
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HCC-MMS JV achieves major milestone with Terratec machine
having broken through on the first full section of running tunnel to be
completed for Mumbai Metro Line 3, in India. In early-August, ...
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From the East to the West Coast, North America’s tunnelling industry is flourishing. In 2019, the eighth annual Cutting Edge Conference will be held in Hilton Miami Downtown, Florida from ...
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday
unveiled the rolling stock model of Metro Line 3, which has been named AquaLine. The MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation) has awarded the ...
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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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Extension of the Kommunarskaya Line
On 20 August, at the meeting of the Urban Planning Commission, the project for the extension of the Kommunarskaya line of the Moscow metro to the city of Troitsk ...
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On the 21st of August a summit to establish the
next steps for the construction of the 2.5km road tunnel under Monte Tondo was
held. The interested parties were the Municipality, the Province of ...
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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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