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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On the 13th of February 2019 a fifth TBM breakthrough was reached for Mumbai Metro 3 corridor at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) - T2 metro station. The TBM Wainganga 3, ...
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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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