On 11.09.2017 a ceremony was
held for the start works for First High Speed Train Project (popularly referred
to as the Bullet Train) between Mumbai and Ahmedabad. The actual works will ...
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On 04.09.2017 a 6.65-m diameter NFM Slurry TBM rebuilt by Robbins for the Mumbai Metro Line 3 project passed the FAT (factory acceptance testing) in Singapore. The slurry TBM will be ...
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It has just been announced that Cardiff based tunneljobs Ltd CEO Samantha Heard – Evans has been shortlisted for the 2017 NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards in the #GoDo ...
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The
5km long Waterview Connection, which connects Auckland’s Northwestern (SH16)
and Southwestern (SH20) Motorways, opened to traffic on 02.07.2017. Data shows
there was a 20 minute time ...
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On 31.08.2017 the joint venture between Collini Lavori Spa (Trento), Costruzioni Casarotto Srl (Villa Agnedo, TN), Misconel Srl (Cavalese, TN) and Ediltione Spa (Tione, TN) broke through on the 1 km ...
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On the 04.04.2017 the TBM Bertha completed its tunnelling and on the 23.08.2017,crews lifted the final pieces of the 8,000-ton out of the SR 99 tunnel’s disassembly pit near ...
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The Metro (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) in Los Angeles, is inviting students from kindergarten through to 12th grade to participate in an art and naming contest for the two TBMs that will ...
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It's a great pleasure to announce the second and last extension of the deadline for abstract submission to the ITA - AITES World Tunnel Congress 2018 that will take place in Dubai from 20 - 26 April ...
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On the 29th August 2017, CREG was awarded a new contract for the supply of a 15.8m slurry TBM. This TBM will be used for the Chunfeng tunnel project in Shenzhen and it will be the biggest slurry TBM ...
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TunnelTech 2017: Breaking ground in new technologies
26–27 September 2017
One Birdcage Walk, London
With an increase in tunnelling project investment and more tunnels having ...
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Manuscript abstracts for the 5th International conference on Fires in vehicles to be held in Boras (Sweden) from 3 to 4 October 2018 have to be submitted to the Secretariat by email to five@ri.se by ...
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Tunnelling awards 2017 are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2017 Tunnelling Awards.
They would like to thank everyone who took the time to enter this year, and congratulate ...
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Terratec, the Australian-based TBM manufacturer, has secured an order to supply 4 new 6.56m diameter TBMs EPB for Istanbul’s Umraniye-Atasehir-Goztepe Metro Line from the Turkish tunnelling JV ...
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WARR Hyperloop team, which was put together by the Technical university of Munich from Germany, has won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition on Sunday, with their prototype pod reaching a speed of ...
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A one-day only Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions Seminar will take place at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London on the 13.09.2017.
Items on the agenda are:
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The Italian company Cipa SpA (Sorrento, NA) have been building two tunnels RT3010 (1120m) and RT3030 (660m) for the new railway line (185km) Relizane - Tiaret - Tissemsilt (RTT) in Algeria.
On ...
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How can you better prepare for unknown challenges in your tunneling operation while keeping the excavation process as efficient as possible?
In this complimentary 60-minute webinar from ...
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Highly efficient products optimize TBM performance
The MasterRoc product range offers a single source of solutions for shielded TBM (tunnel boring machine) excavation in soft ground and hard rock, ...
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On 21.07.2017, after a 3 years and 10 months of construction, the second tube of the Gleinalm tunnel in Styria, Austria has been opened to traffic. The joint venture of Wayss & Freytag ...
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The International Tunneling Symposium in Turkey has issued a call for papers which are due in by the 11th September 2017. Tunnel Turkey 2017 will be taking place at the Wyndham Grand İstanbul ...
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Posted by Doug Harding |
Aug 01, 2017 | Redefining the Industry
For underground
construction professionals and manufacturers, there is some confusion about the
current TBM designations and ...
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On August 1st, a 9.03 m hard rock TBM named ‘‘Caiyun’’ was unveiled in spring city Kunming. This big machine was designed and manufactured by CREG, and has been integrated ...
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Johnson Controls, a global leader
in building technologies, is pleased to announce the newest addition to its TYCO
line of special application sprinklers with the launch of the MODEL ...
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Irrigation and Hydroelectric Project to Ease Food Crisis in Mid-Western Region of Nepal
Nepal will welcome its first TBM ever this summer, a 5.06 m (16.6 ft) diameter Double Shield machine ...
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On 25.07.2017, the EBITAN ad hoc committee (Entidad Binacional Túnel de Agua Negra) held an important meeting with the Administration Committee in Santiago de Chile. The objective was the ...
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BASF’s Construction Chemicals division offers advanced chemical solutions under the global umbrella brand Master Builders Solutions for the construction, maintenance, repair and renovation of ...
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The Crossrail project team continues to work around the clock to deliver the Elizabeth line, the new railway for London and the South East.
Over the summer the final central station platform was ...
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The world tunnel congress will be held in Dubai from the 20th to the 26th April 2018. For more information please visit their website www.wtc2018.ae and see their video.
The call for ...
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High Speed Two (HS2) Limited today announced that ALIGN, the bidding joint venture (JV) of Bouygues Construction, Sir Robert McAlpine, and VolkerFitzpatrick, with its design partners, Jacobs and ...
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November 13-16 2017 will see leading international specialists in the global tunnelling sector attend the AFTES Congress in Paris which will include a special one-day event: November 15 will be ...
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Applications are now open for the 2018 Graduate Program.
The Graduate Program provides recent graduates the opportunity to work with world-class industry experts on four of the biggest megaprojects ...
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“Har HaMenuchot is the largest cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel. The hilltop burial ground lies at the western edge of the city adjacent to the neighborhood of Givat Shaul, with commanding views ...
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Reserve your trade fair stand for STUVA Expo 2017 now, your business platform for the tunneling industry. Take advantage of this opportunity to make new contacts, strengthen business relationships ...
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Do you know about New Civil Engineer’s Tunnelling Awards, which takes place on 7 December?
Now in its eighth year, the Tunnelling Awards attract entries from the industry’s ...
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Posted by
Dennis Ofiara | From the Field
TBMs have
become well accepted in civil construction tunneling and excavate a high
percentage of civil construction projects each year. But each year in ...
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On 24.10.2017 the 103 m long TBM named Al Wugeisha Expo 2020
was launched at the Discovery Gardens for tunnel drilling works for the Route 2020
Project. The TBM will cross the underground station ...
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