The @DonegalTunnelTigers are preparing to erect a memorial in honour of all Donegal miners that have died as a result of accidents while working in tunnels or those that have passed due to tunnel ...
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Press release from Michels - Final drive completed 3 months
ahead of schedule. Congratulations to our crews, partners and customer for the
successful completion of the final drive on the 4.5-mile ...
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MineARC is the global leader in controlled environments and safety technologies for the underground mining, tunnelling, chemical processing, disaster relief and biotechnology industries. MineARC ...
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Delivering a multi-billion-dollar,
multi-record-breaking infrastructure project under immense public scrutiny is
no easy feat – but it’s part of the challenge for James Holbrook, ...
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On 8 October 2018 the joint venture between Cipa Spa (LEAD),
Injectosond Srl and Paolo Barchi Srl finished the tunnel underneath the San
Martino hospital in Genoa. The tunnel was created to ...
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On the 2nd of October 2018 the 5860 m Albula
Tunnel broke through, it is part of the Rhaetian Railway. The tunnel
has been built between the Albula valley and the upper Engadine in the Canton
of ...
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This October
the drill & blast excavation of the 2km La Piramide tunnel in the Recolet
municipality started . The tunnel is one of the sections of the Americo
Vespucio Oriente I (AVO I) which ...
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On the 24.09.2018 the TBM Wainganga completed its first
tunnel for the 33.5-km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz (Metro-3 line). The 1.26-km tunnel
between Pali ground in Marol, Andheri (East) and the ...
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Palmieri Group launched its new website http://www.palmierigroup.com/ at the
22nd edition of Geofluid. Visit it the site today to see the changes that make
the site easier to use and is full of ...
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The 35.6 km long Mumbai/Bombay Coastal Road will connect the
southern part of Mumbai from Marine Lines with Kandivali in the north. It will
have 8 lanes, two of which are reserved for the Bus ...
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On September 18, 2018, a Robbins mega-sized slurry machine, measuring 13.7 m (44.8 ft) in diameter, made its first cut into hard rock. The epic launch at an urban jobsite was made possible by Onsite ...
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On Tuesday, October 2nd , the Metropolitan Public Company Metro de
Quito informed the public that the TBM Luz de America reached the El Arbolito
extraction shaft, completing the Quito Metro ...
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NIB and the Norwegian toll-road operator Ferde AS have
signed a EUR 104.5 million (NOK 1 billion) loan with a maturity of 17.5 years to
finance the construction of a new 23km section of four-lane ...
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The 18th International Symposium on Aerodynamics, Ventilation and Fire in Tunnels Call for Papers is now open! ISAVFT 2019 will be taking place in Athens, Greece from the 25th -27th of September ...
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The verdict involving Ossa and Statens Vegvesen (Norway) has
been announced. The Spanish firm Ossa, a specialist in the construction of
underground works, has won an appeal against SVV (Statens ...
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On September 20, 2018, the last CREG TBM (ø 7.54m)
successfully broke through into the Carlibach Station in Tel Aviv, Israel. The project used 6 sets of CREG EPBs and the
contractor ...
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The deadline to submit papers for WTC 2019 has been postponed until September 23rd 2018. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc) and PDF (.pdf not zipped) and according to the ...
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The bi-annually German underground infrastructure trade fair will take at the Kassel Exhibition Center from May 8th to 10th, 2019. Around 300 exhibitors are expected from around 20 ...
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RFI and the Italian-Spanish consortium SIS celebrated the breakthrough of the Notarbartolo-Belgio tunnel for the Palermo railway. The Marisol TBM (diameter 9,40 m) completed the tunnel excavation ...
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The Karavanke tunnel between Slovenia and Austria has been undergoing maintenance and renovation work. The complete renovation of the tunnel is scheduled to be finished between 2020 and 2021. The ...
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On the 11th of September 2018 the Maharashtra government approved the implementation of two metro projects for Mumbai: the Dahisar-Mira Bhayander section for the metro Line 9, and the 3.17 km ...
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The deadline to submit papers for WTC 2019 has been postponed to September 16th 2018. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc) and PDF (.pdf not zipped) and according to the official ...
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The international trade fair for Transport Technology, Innovative Components, Vehicles, Systems will be held at the Berlin Messe from the 18-21st September, 2018.
The European Commissioner for ...
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Massive XRE Machine breaks through at Akron OCIT
On August 29, 2018, a 9.26 m (30.4 ft) diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM crossed the finish line at the Akron Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel ...
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Celebrations as the TBMS of The Follo Line breakthrough at the same time.
The tunnel excavation in the Nordic region's longest rail tunnel has just reached its target towards Oslo city ...
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Royal double breakthrough in Oslo. After about 9 kilometers each through tough
gneiss, on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 the twin tunnel boring machines from
Herrenknecht "Queen Eufemia" and ...
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For almost 60 years CTS Cordes tubes & seals GmbH &
Co.KG (Division of CORDES Group) from Germany has been a reliable industry
partner in providing sealing solutions for pipeline and ...
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Victorians will play an important part in the Andrews Labour Government’s Metro Tunnel and West Gate Tunnel projects, naming the six gigantic tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will begin ...
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The Andrews Labour Government today unveiled detailed
designs for the North East Link – giving Victorians their first look at the
state’s biggest ever road project.
With the ...
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This year, you have the unique chance to visit the entire
underground area between the Ahrental access tunnel, Aldrans and Ampass and to
see the different steps required to build a tunnel lining ...
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In July this year the BIM & DIGITAL Awards 2018 were
launched. The awards are part of the SAIE program taking place in Bologna,
Italy from the 17th to the 20th of October 2018.
The aim of the ...
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Work continues on the construction of the Turin Metro, the
TBM Masha, completed the excavation of the Lingotto-Bengasi tunnel line 1, and has
been dismantled and extracted from the back station of ...
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Press release from Bane Nor
Follow the tunnel race in Oslo: The event will be streamed from inside the mountain hall and you are most welcome to take part in the event on this website, ...
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Abstract Submission Deadline - September 30, 2018
Method of Submission - please click here On-line
Abstract Submission Form
Guidelines for submission of abstracts
All
abstracts must ...
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On the 27.08.2018 the TBM ‘Luz de America’ reached the La
Alameda Station, Line 1 of the Quito Metro. The TBM, started excavating from
the Solanda Station in April 2017, and has driven ...
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The Toyo tunnel project includes 18 tunnels divided into two
sections. On the 26.01.2018 FCC Construccion began building section one, this section
will improve connectivity between Medellin and ...
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