The new year is off to a great start for Robbins their Double
Shield Rockhead, launched in July 2018 has broken through. The TBM broke
through on January 1st 2019 after boring the 640m-long ...
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Four giant Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) are needed to dig
the Metro Tunnel.
Lowered into the ground at North Melbourne and St Kilda Road
in pieces and then assembled, they operate as moving ...
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On the 19.12.2018 the largest TBM currently working in Spain
ended the excavation of the 3048 m tunnel of the new railway to Terminal T1 of
the Barcelona-El Prat airport. The first phase of the ...
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Press release - As of the 21st December 2018, the Germany-based
company Ott GmbH & Co KG, acquired by Datwyler Holding Inc. in September
2016, officially changed its name to Datwyler ...
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For more than 25 years, the Microtunneling Short Course has
trained over 3,500 professionals, ranging from contractors and engineers to
owner agency representatives. The three-day intensive course ...
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Good communication systems are fundamental to all aspects of a tunnelling project, including risk management and emergency response.
Emergency communication systems in tunnelling are used to ...
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The Lower Thames Crossing online consultation, which closed on
the 20.12.2018, has seen over 26,000 replies. The consultation is arguably the
most significant that has ever been held into a UK ...
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The Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol joint venture conduct TBM
testing on-site for the new Ümraniye Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro line, the latest
addition to Istanbul’s transportation ...
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On the 28.12.2018 the Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced that the planned approval for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In accordance with German regulations, Femern ...
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Moscow in 2018 set a record, commissioning 17 underground metro stations, building 33 km of tracks and 3 train maintenance facilities: on 22.03.2018 the 3 new stations (Okruzhnaya, Verkhnye ...
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On the 26.12.2018 the Mumbai Metro-3 (Colabata-Bandra-Seepz)
Wainganga 2 TBM broke through at the future Seepz station in Andheri.
The TBM was originally launched on the 23.08.2018 from
Sariput ...
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Stockholm dependence
on electricity has incresed, their electricity network needs to be strengthened
and renewed to meet Stockholm’s future need of secure electricity ...
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Common Questions About Refuge Chamber Servicing - Are you
aware of the hidden risks of poor servicing?
There are many common misconceptions about refuge chamber
servicing, which we have briefly ...
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Leading Experts to Gather in Boulder, Colorado, Feb.
5-7th 2019
The agenda topics for the annual Microtunneling Short
Course at the University of Colorado Boulder February 5-7, 2019, has ...
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An invitation to attend STUVA 2019 -
We cordially invite you to the STUVA Conference 2019! At
this "family meeting of the tunnel industry" you will meet more than
3,000 other top-class experts. ...
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For 40 years STUVA has conducted an annual survey of
authorities, construction companies and planners with an aim to capture the volume
of tunnelling in Germany.
The statistics also include a ...
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WTC 2019 news release - The Italian construction system continues to grow in foreign
markets despite global tensions and the hardships in the market of Italian
public works. The 35 "top" companies ...
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OUR Favorite moments - 2018 has been a great year for Robbins. It was a year full of breakthroughs, new developments, and record-setting bores. As the year comes to a close, we wanted to take a look ...
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Message from Tarcisio Celestino -President of ITA 2016-2019
Each year, the ITA Tunnelling Awards conference brings better news. During a whole day, high-level presentations by the finalists have ...
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Thames Tideway Press release – ON the 12th December
2018 the giant machine that will dig a 4.5km tunnel through south-east London was
assembled and made ready to begin work ...
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Following the recent breakthrough of the southern portal of the Brenner Base Tunnel, European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, visited the BBT construction sites near Fortezza.
The ...
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On St Barbaras day the 4th of December 2018 the
southern portal of the Brenner Base tunnel near Fortezza Station broke through.
93 km of the total 230 km that will make up the Brenner Base tunnel ...
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ITALY’S A1 ROAD EXPANSION SUCCESS - Known to many as the Spinal Cord of Italy’s road network, the A1 Autostrada in Italy connects Naples in the south to Milan in the north via Rome and ...
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You can view the winners of the 2018 tunnelling festival by
clicking HERE. 49/18.
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When finished, the tunnel on the Lyon-Turin train line is expected to stretch for nearly 60 kilometers across the French-Italian border"
When finished, the tunnel on the Lyon-Turin train line is ...
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Neustadt an der Donau is a town in Lower Bavaria region of Germany, located on the River Danube. Recently there was requirement for the installation of a new 1,000 mm diameter gas pipeline over a ...
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Press Release - Draka’s Firetuf cable series has grown! The new
Firetuf OFC-LT-SWA fire resistant loose tube cable with steel wire armour, is
designed for harsh environments and to ...
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BART is taking early steps to build a second Transbay rail crossing, perhaps a second Transbay Tube.
Despite BART’s plan to increase capacity through the existing San Francisco’s ...
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Auckland’s Watercare have selected Ghella-Abergeldie Harker Joint Venture as the preferred bidder for the construction of the Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel.
The Central Interceptor ...
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Robbins PR Manager Desiree Willis writes about her adventures visiting the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project in Nepal. To read the blog “Namaste Nepal: How I Learned to Live ...
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This morning (30/11/2018) the Minister of Transport and Communications of Finland Anne Berner and Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure of Estonia Kadri Simson are in a meeting in Helsinki ...
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HUGE DIGGER AT WORK BENEATH CBD
The Metro Tunnel Project has reached another significant construction milestone, with the launch of a massive roadheader machine that has begun creating the huge ...
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CIPA press release - On the 25.11.2018 the last diaphragm of the RT 3010 Tunnel was demolished: the first tunnel in the rail link between the cities of Relizane and Tiaret, which is part of the new ...
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The 14th International Conference entitled “Underground
Construction Prague 2019” will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 3rd to the 5th of June
2019.
On-line ...
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TERRATEC Press release - A new 4.27 m diameter TERRATEC tight radius TBM will enable a challenging alignment on the Bangkok Metropolitan Electricity Authority’s Klong Daan Cable Tunnel , in ...
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The North East Link has gone out to market, and they are
calling for expressions of interest from builders.
Builders are invited to apply to deliver the $200 million
early works package, expected ...
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