The 2020 Graduate Program is now open for the Major
Transport Infrastructure Authority. If you’re looking for an opportunity to get
involved in Victoria’s Big Build in Melbourne ...
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Stockholm is one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions
in Europe. The population is increasing by 35,000 a year. Stockholm needs more
housing and better public transportation and as a result ...
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On the 11th of March 2019 the board of TELT, the
Italian-French company building the tunnel for the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail
link, approved the call for tenders for the tunnel, on the French ...
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“Why paint trains with high-performance solar reflective
paint ..... .....and fit low emissivity glass windows?”
(N.B. The focus of this document is on mixed surface and
sub-surface ...
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The existing outfall pipe at the Bergen Point Waste Water
Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Babylon, Suffolk County, NY, has to be replaced. A
4.33 km (14,200-foot) tunnel, with a 3.05 m (120-inch) inner ...
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The Belchen Tunnel, built in the 1970s, had to be rehabilitated due to damage to the tunnel support structure. In order to keep the traffic restrictions to a minimum, the Belchen rehabilitation ...
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Through the initiative of ITACUS, THINK DEEP groups have
been established in recent years or are in the process of being established in
several countries. These groups aim at raising awareness of ...
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Assembly is underway on the first of the two TBMs that will build the West Gate Tunnel, the Victoria’s alternative to the West Gate Bridge. It will take around 75,000 working hours to assemble ...
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Are you interested in finding out comprehensive information about
all the tunnels that have been built in Switzerland? Use this link ...
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EnigmaCG’s Tunnels 10x10x10
The number 10, for EnigmaCG symbolises us being10 years old. For you it means the first 10 Delegates get a 10% discount for the 4th Annual Innovation in ...
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The excavation of the French Saint-Martin-la-Porte
construction site (SMP4) with the Fedrica TBM exceeded 77% of the 9 km planned
by the end of February. Also in February, the target of 30 m/day ...
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Dynamic Testing has now commenced for the Crossrail Project.
Testing is being carried out through the 21 km of new tunnels under central
London. Over the next 6 months all the railway’s ...
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EUROCK 2020, is the international symposium of the ISRM, and will be taking place at the Clarion Hotel & Congress in Trondheim from June 15th to 19th 2020. The EUROCK 2020 Program Committee ...
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On the 27.02.2019 the Dogus Construction-Via Group Construct-Ultrastroy Joint Venture, completed the 5978 m tunnel using a TBM for the Sofia Metro Extension Project Line3, Lot 4 in Bulgaria.
The ...
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iPS – Powerful people has opened a local office in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia and in Manama, Bahrain. iPS is constantly looking for new opportunities to grow and expand our current business ...
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The high-speed rail project will connect the city of Oslo
with the town of Ski via twin 19.5 km tunnels, the longest in Scandinavia.
28 February 2019- ACCIONA and Ghella have completed ...
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The first of seven TERRATEC TBMs being used on Mumbai Metro’s highly anticipated 33.5km underground Line 3 corridor, in India, breaks through on its inaugural drive. In mid-February, TERRATEC ...
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TBM Catherina-Amalia broke through on the 10th of
January 2019 to complete the Victory Boogie Woogie tunnel in the Hague. The TBM
was 80 metres long and 11 meters in diameter and bored a tunnel ...
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In February 2019 the
European Commission (EC) endorsed the EUR 517 million funding dedicated to a
section of the M6 metro line planned to
link the Bucharest airport ( Henri
Coanda in ...
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On 26.02.2019 at 14h00 Bane NOR reached an important milestone
with the final double breakthrough on the Follo Line project. Anna and Magda,
the last two of the 4 Follo Line TBMs broke through at ...
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In this complimentary 40-minute webinar, Robbins Engineering
Director Brad Grothen and Elisa Comis, Associate at McMillen Jacobs, will
discuss what rapid excavation really looks like in the field. ...
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On the 25.02.2019 the second of the two TBMs that are
excavating the tunnels of the Western Section of the M4 in Milan reached
Frattini Station. In only 22 days the TBM excavated approximately 570 ...
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Rachel, the TBM digging the west section of the Thames Tideway
Tunnel, has been lowered 35 m down the shaft at Tideway's Carnwath Road site in
Fulham. Over the coming months, she will begin her ...
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THE WORLD TUNNEL CONGRESS 2019 IN NAPLES, ITALY FROM MAY 3RD
TO MAY 9TH 2019.
The whole underground industry will meet in Naples to study
and discuss the state of art of tunnelling in connection ...
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On the 20.02.2019 Mumbai Metro 3 Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ
corridor achieved a 6th TBM breakthrough at Sahar Road Metro station, which is
being built under Mumbai’s crucial Tansa water ...
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STUVA Expo 2019 - one of the world's leading and largest
events in the tunnel. The current demand to exhibit at STUVA Expo 2019 in
Frankfurt am Main again indicates a strong participation. Already ...
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On the 7th of February the shield for the fourth
TBM, which will drive 3.4 km of the Line 15 South for the Grand Paris Express
was lowered into place. The TBM will begin its journey at what will ...
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Breakthrough in the Tulfes–Pfons section - On February 12th,
2019, the last breakthrough by blasting took place in the Tulfes-Pfons section.
On that occasion, a small ceremony was held for ...
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Paris, 19 February 2019 - The Board of Directors of TELT (the public promoter entrusted by Italy and France with the construction of the cross-border section of the Lyon-Turin railway line), ...
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The People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang
Ninh want to build an undersea tunnel at Cua Luc Bay. They have submitted the
pre-feasibility report to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan ...
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Excavation of Turkey’s longest water tunnel came to an end on December 18, 2018. To get there, a 5.56 m (18.2 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM and the contractor JV of Kolin/Limak had ...
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Two ITACET training sessions will be organized on the 3rd and 4th of May during WTC2019.
• Tunnelling 4.0 information ...
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There have been ten offers for the design and construction of the 13.2 km Struma motorway in the 23.6 km section between Kresna and Krupnik, through the Kresna Gorge (Lot 3.2.1). The Lot 3.2.1 ...
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The last truck of spoil excavated from the NorthConnex tunnel was delivered to Hornsby Quarry on 25.01.2019. More than one million cubic metres of spoil was placed to partially fill the quarry, ...
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Press release-Bahrain announces consultancy tenders for phase one of its metro project.
Bahrain's Ministry of Transportation has launched tenders for the appointment of a transaction advisor and ...
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The fourth of five mega tunnel boring machines (TBMs) has started tunnelling under Sydney.
TBM Mabel has been launched at Chatswood to help deliver 31km of tunnels between Marrickville and ...
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