TBM manufacturer CREG has supplied the world’s largest rectangular boxjacking EPB machine to a project in Zhengzhou, China. Read the press release and visit www.crectbm.com. Contact ...
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Seattle Tunnel Partners, WSDOT’s contractor for the SR 99 tunnel project, has started building the circular pit to access and repair their TBM. Rigs have begun work to install the 75 piles ...
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A Robbins Double Shield TBM broke through at the Black River Tunnel Project on 29.04.2014 in Lorain, OH. The 1.7 km-long EPA-mandated tunnel will prevent heavy rains from triggering sewage overflows ...
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The license has been approved for the construction of the new Albula rail tunnel on the Thusis-Tirano section, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2008. The existing Albula tunnel, opened ...
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The companies CIFA, Gei-Impianti, Mantovani Benne Mbi, MB Spa, Nord-lock and Venieri Spa have each secured a Samoter 2014 International Innovation Award. The prize is awarded to manufacturers who ...
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The triennial Samoter exhibition is underway in Verona, Italy at a time when sales of construction machinery are increasing by 20 percent year on year, signalling an end to the recession in the ...
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As the Channel Tunnel celebrates the 20th anniversary of its inauguration, CBE Group reflects upon its own origins in 1987 as supplier of concrete segment manufacturing facilities for Sangatte at ...
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ES Rubber, producers of segment gaskets and fixings, is entering the South American market and invites all tunnelbuilder readers to visit their stand number 40/41 at WTC Brazil 09-15.05.2014. Click ...
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Three Robbins 5.23 m-diameter main beam TBMs with continuous conveyor systems have completed the 44.6 km-long Pahang Selangor raw water tunnel in Malaysia. First use outside Japan of a fast setting, ...
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As the recession lifts in the US and Europe, tunnelbuilder readership is growing rapidly, indicating over 1 million visits for 2014. During March, tunnelbuilder.com alone registered 25,027 unique ...
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Sandvik TCAD+ is an aiming tool designed for accurately executing pre-designed drilling plans. It features face drilling, long hole drilling and bolting hole plans on the drillrig screen. ...
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On 04.04.2014, 150 m-long TBM Victoria broke through into Whitechapel tunnels to reach the 32 km (over 75 percent) of Crossrail tunnelling completed.
Victoria began the drive at Limmo Peninsula in ...
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Two months after completing her 2.7 km tunnel drive from Pudding Mill Lane to one of Europe’s largest mined caverns at Stepney Green, the TBM Jessica made a 5 km journey to her next launch ...
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International employment consultants iPS have started their recruitment drive for Doha Metro project in Qatar by posting six top management and engineering vacancies.
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NFM Technologies of France will supply a 10.16 m-diameter TBM to excavate the 6 km-long underground section of the proposed Metro Riyadh Line 3 in Saudi Arabia. Read the press release and visit ...
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Electricity feeds to key equipment such as TBM and utilities is a focus of attention at construction sites, to ensure continuity of excavation and production. The necessary switchgear and MV/LV ...
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The first Tunnel Expo Turkey will be held in Istanbul, Turkey from 28-31st August, 2014 sponsored by the Turkish Tunnelling Society. For more visit www.tunnelexpoturkey.com and www.tunelder.org. ...
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The railway project to connect Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 of Malpensa Airport in Italy will cost EUR115 milllion, funded by Regione Lombardia (EUR31 million), Government (EUR45 million), EU (EUR23 ...
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The triennial earthmoving and building exhibition takes place once again at Veronafiere, Verona, Italy from 8-11th May, 2014. Co-located with Asphaltica, SaMoTer has a complete section devoted to ...
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On 03.04.2014 construction of Riyadh metro system commenced with excavation of F G1 station, at King Khaled International Airport, two months ahead of schedule. The project will build line 4, ...
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Femern A/S has received 17 tenders from nine major international contractors prequalified for the four major construction contracts for the fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt. Some of the consortia ...
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On 01.04.2014 breakthrough was achieved at the1,840 m-long Cesana tunnel, part of the EUR131 million upgrading project of trunk road SS 24 Monginevro, section Cesana-Claviere. Work was interrupted ...
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The MC 30 TX, the new Comacchio tunnel drilling rig featuring advanced design, can be converted into a standard drilling rig as well. The MC 30 TX Comacchio is designed to perform sub-horizontal ...
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The EUR5.6 billion North West Rail Link project includes construction of twin 15 km tunnels from Bella Vista to Epping – Australia’s longest rail tunnels. The EUR770 million tunnelling ...
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CP Technology leader for formwork and equipment for infrastructures, has delivered the gantry for steel reinforcement for construction and completion of Tampines West Station and tunnels for ...
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On 16.03.2014 the Australian and NSW Government announced the preferred scheme for the M1-M2, now called NorthConnex, a tolled motorway linking the M1 Pacific Motorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 ...
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DATEC has given the green light to the EUR1.6 billion (CHF1.95 billion) work programme 2014: EUR495 million (CHF604 million) for the construction of new sections, EUR1 bn (CHF1.25 billion) for ...
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The 1.73 km section of the N5 highway which includes the Serrieres tunnel (829 m, 733 m) has been inaugurated. Click here for further information on the project and ch/60 for tunnelbuilder ...
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Normet has unveiled its latest version of the Spraymec shotcreting jumbo which incorporates a number of new features. Read the press release and visit www.normet.fi. 14/14.
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MineARC will supply eleven of its refuge chambers to TBMs mining Doha metro. These will each have the capacity to shelter up to 20 people for 30 h. Read the press release and visit www.minearc.com. ...
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Numerous full-scale fire tests have been carried out under the SOLIT project, which sets out to justify installation and integration of fixed firefighting systems into tunnels. The results are ...
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Switzerland-based Haeny is the trusted source for modern mixing and injection technology, supplying state-of-the-art mixers, agitators, grout pumps, grout plants and recording systems to clients ...
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Symposium on Zagreb Underground takes place March 27-28th in Zagreb, Croatia sponsored by ITA. More from www.zagrebtunnel2014.com. 12/14.
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WTC 2014 takes place this year in Iguacu, Brazil from May 9th to 15th, 2014 . A total of 129 lectures will be presented orally and probably the same number as poster. During the opening ceremony the ...
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Celebrating 50 years, ChemGrout continues to manufacture the world’s largest selection of grouting equipment. Starting in 1963 as a grouting contractor providing cement and chemical ...
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A Robbins 6.15 m-diameter EPB machine completed an impressive run on 13.01.2014 in China’s capital. In only three months, the machine for contractor China Railway Engineering Corporation ...
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... double tunnels, with a total length of 24 km, which will be built using four tunnel boring machines (EPB-TBM), with an excavation diameter of 9.80 m.
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The German and Czech railway infrastructure managers, DB Netz and SZ, have announced a public tender for design work of the zoning decision documentation under the Dresden–Prague railway ...
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Network Rail has delayed the tender race for the £900m Western Rail Link to Heathrow until Summer 2022 because of Covid-19...
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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) T61 nicknamed Tapi-1 operated by the J Kumar Infraprojects – China Railway Tunnel Group JV...
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The world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel design, the Fehmarnbelt link gets a go-ahead. The 18 km infrastructure, the longest of its kind, connecting Denmark’s Lolland Falster ...
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After our contribution to research and development about "blasting", the alternative follows now: mechanised tunnelling methods such as full-face machines and roadheaders.
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In a statement, Transport for London said that the additional costs were not linked to the construction of the project, which remains at £1bn. “All payments ...
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GUWAHATI: The construction of the Atal Tunnel connecting Manali with Leh, which is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet, has been ...
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The government opened international tender in June for the design of Llogara Tunnel engineering project. The tendering process for the construction ...
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Construction of the initial twin tunnels near the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) was complete in May. The system is expected to be ready for ...
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Concrete pouring has begun at the Chiltern Tunnel site on HS2 for the Tunnel Boring Machine launch pad. Two TBMs will begin wok next spring to dig ...
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Barhale has won a £22M contract to monitor Thames Water’s network of tunnels and aqueducts.
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KUNMING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The cross-border tunnel on the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sunday, according to local authorities.
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At 4 a.m. early on the morning of June 20th, a glow appears on the horizon. It spreads over the meadows of Wiltshire, the area in southern Britain home to Salisbury and its medieval ...
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A view of an under construction site of Nagdhung tunnel at Sisnekhola in Dhading district, on Monday, September 07, 2020. Photo: Keshav Adhikari/THT.
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The Woodsmith Project is a deep mine and associated transport, processing and shipping infrastructure development under construction in North Yorkshire, UK.
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CAMORINO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland officially opened the Ceneri Base Tunnel on Friday, the final piece in a direct, flat rail link connecting northern Europe to the ...
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Find out how HS2 is protecting and enhancing woodlands, habitats and wildlife as we plan and build the railway.
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Normet Finland Service Center is specialized for third party emulsion charging system assemblies to Normet’s Charmec charging platforms. Normet’s new business model provides declaration of ...
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The high-speed railway, HS2 recently published a high-level report into its construction plans for the next few years. The timeline covers most of the concrete phase of the project before ...
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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is in the process of creating the world’s first floating highway.
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LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 31 (SeeNews) – Turkey's Cengiz will complete the construction of the second pipe of the Karavanke motorway tunnel ...
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Switzerland's New Rail Link: Tunnelling and excavation. For Gotthard Base Tunnel, an astonishing 25 million tonnes of rock was excavated. For context, ...
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... covering 11 km of twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. ... of four tunnel boring machines expected to be in place by the end of 2022.
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The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2020 and it is the third largest railway tunnel project in Switzerland after the Gotthard and the Lötschberg Base ...
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The new Central Interceptor TBM has been officially named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, as one of the Matariki stars to which Māori send their dreams or aspirations for the new year. Students from ...
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Afcons, in a joint venture with Strabag, has constructed the world's longest motorable tunnel 3,000 m above sea level. The Atal Tunnel will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by ...
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Three world-leading consortia have been short-listed to construct twin twenty kilometres of tunnel as part of two works packages on one of Sydney’s biggest rail tunnelling projects.
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Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long-established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders, welcomed its first rail freight delivery of aggregate at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in ...
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Early in 2021, two 2000 tonne tunnelling machines measuring over 170 metres each will be launched at a site by the M25 to bore 10 miles each underneath the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.
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If you missed our webinar on high-speed tunneling in the Himalayas, we've got a video for you.
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The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in May 2018 laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,800 crore project, billed as the Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, ...
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The project was first proposed in 2010, after which a feasibility study was conducted in 2013 and construction began in 2019. The New Mutwal Tunnel is ...
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The system improvements include construction of nine tunnels to control sewer overflows. Upcoming tunneling components of Project Clear include ( ...
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Plans are moving forward for the construction of the Hangzhou Genshan East Road Crossing River Tunnel in China. The TBM that will be used for the ...
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