NFM Technologies has received an order for a 6.6 m-diameter earth pressure balance TBM to drive a section of the second circular line of Moscow metro.
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The prequalification process will still start this year, even though the planning of the fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt will take one year more than expected.
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On 7 June King Albert II inaugurated the new Diabolo railway infrastructure and reached by train the new Brussels Airport station.
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ITA has produced a video dealing with urban tunnelling at a time when it is estimated that migration will result in 70% of the world’s population living in cities.
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Geofluid, the biannual international show specialised in subsoil fluid prospecting extraction and transport, geological and geophysical drilling, deep foundations, no-dig technology and construction of tunnels
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Thirty years’ experience in locomotive rebuilding has given American specialist Mining Equipment a unique insight into the requirements for successful operation in the rigorous tunnelling environment.
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On 06.06.2012 consortium Condotte Cossi completed TBM excavation of the emergency tube of the Grand St Bernard tunnel. The 5,760 m-long drive, lined with precast concrete segments, was completed in 18 months.
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Nodavia, a JV of Coopsette and Ergon, secured the EUR709 million contract for the Florence high-speed rail tunnel and station.
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Two years after acquiring a strategic 40 percent shareholding in TAM International, Normet has now proceeded to full ownership.
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Three Robbins 5.23 m-diameter hardrock TBMs are returning fast advance rates in widely varying rock strengths and water
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Some 32 km of cable tunnels, 14 shafts and four connecting tunnels with associated chambers are under TBM construction by Costain between Hackney and Willesden (3 m-diameter) and between Kensal ...
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Bentley Systems Inc provides comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure from buildings to bridges, transit to utilities, and clean energy to clean water.
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Costruzioni Elettrotecniche CEAR has thirty years experience supplying electrical and automation solutions to main contractors worldwide in the construction,
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On 23.05.2012 excavation of the 1,102m Olabarrie tunnel started, including the 75 m section in cut/cover at the adit.
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iPS is currently looking for a shift engineer whose responsibilities will include supervision of shifts, monitoring TBM operating parameters,
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On 14.05.2012 Alpine Bau GmbH broke through the 2,174 m-long left tube of the Markovec bi-tube tunnel on the motorway
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The XVI International ERMCO Congress, returning to Italy after 26 years, will be in Verona from June 21st – 22nd.
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The Listec RDU 316 Remote Display Unit is reassuring for Rome metro tunnel operations.
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WTC is taking place in Bangkok, Thailand from 18th to 23rd May. Congress theme is Tunnelling and Underground Space for a Global Society.
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On 11.05.2012 Cipa SpA broke through the north tube of 840 m-long Trigoni tunnel, lot DG22 of SS106
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On 02.04.2012 the south tube of Grizzana tunnel on the La Quercia-Lagaro section lot 5 of Variante di Valico broke out.
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On 23.04.2012 the JV Danya Cebus/China Civil Engineering Construction Corp (CCECC) began work on a 4.6 km-long twin-bore tunnel at a depth of 100 m
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Four Robbins 6.5 m-diameter EPBs with mixed-ground cutterheads have been successfully launched and brought up to speed on two lines of the Nanjing metro in Jiangsu province of China.
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The Brussels Regional Government has given the go-ahead for the renovation by a Private Public Partnership of the 2.5 km-long Leopold II road tunnel
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Qatar Railways Company (QRail) has invited some five tenders for the first phase of the metro rail transit system in the country
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At the World Tunnel Congress 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand 18-23 May, CIFA, a company in the Zoomlion Heavy Industries Group, will present the new CST 8.20 shotcrete jumbo with telescopic boom designed specifically for applications in small size tunnels and mining drives
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Construction of the A4 Delft-Schiedam motorway commenced on 26.04.2012 under a EUR298 million design and construction contract awarded last year to consortium A4ALL, comprising Boskalis, Heijmans and VolkerWessels.
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In July, 2011 Transport Malta appointed Mott Macdonald to carry out a preliminary analysis of road tunnel link options between Malta and Gozo. A fixed link would reduce average journey times by at least 40 minutes.
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Emcor has 30 years of experience in the manufacture and supply of machines and consumables to the underground sector, helping Spanish tunnelling contractors to become the most efficient in the world.
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Sandvik provides comprehensive tunnelling and underground civil engineering equipment and expertise across a range of methods including drill/blast, mechanical cutting and breaking.
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Funding of EUR927.41 million including VAT has been approved for work on four sections, in Zamora and Ourense provinces,
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That the tunnelling industry is growing can be measured by the steady increase in bids and awards reported at tunnelbuilder.com
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Three 8.93 m Robbins EPBs with continuous conveyor systems are tunnelling from shafts up to 150 m deep through watery clays and large
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The 15.62 m-diameter EPB Martina, built by Herrenknecht for the 2.5 km-long twin-tube Sparvo tunnel on Italy’s Variante di Valico project
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The sixth international conference, dealing with extreme crossings and new technologies, takes place in Bergen, Norway on 16-19 June
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On 03.04.2012, breakthrough was achieved on the 2,834 m south tube of the SS77
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... double tunnels, with a total length of 24 km, which will be built using four tunnel boring machines (EPB-TBM), with an excavation diameter of 9.80 m.
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The German and Czech railway infrastructure managers, DB Netz and SZ, have announced a public tender for design work of the zoning decision documentation under the Dresden–Prague railway ...
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Network Rail has delayed the tender race for the £900m Western Rail Link to Heathrow until Summer 2022 because of Covid-19...
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Moments ago, Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) T61 nicknamed Tapi-1 operated by the J Kumar Infraprojects – China Railway Tunnel Group JV...
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All the information you need to know about the Gotthard Tunnel...
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The world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel design, the Fehmarnbelt link gets a go-ahead. The 18 km infrastructure, the longest of its kind, connecting Denmark’s Lolland Falster ...
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After our contribution to research and development about "blasting", the alternative follows now: mechanised tunnelling methods such as full-face machines and roadheaders.
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In a statement, Transport for London said that the additional costs were not linked to the construction of the project, which remains at £1bn. “All payments ...
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GUWAHATI: The construction of the Atal Tunnel connecting Manali with Leh, which is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet, has been ...
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The government opened international tender in June for the design of Llogara Tunnel engineering project. The tendering process for the construction ...
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Construction of the initial twin tunnels near the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) was complete in May. The system is expected to be ready for ...
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Concrete pouring has begun at the Chiltern Tunnel site on HS2 for the Tunnel Boring Machine launch pad. Two TBMs will begin wok next spring to dig ...
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Barhale has won a £22M contract to monitor Thames Water’s network of tunnels and aqueducts.
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KUNMING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The cross-border tunnel on the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sunday, according to local authorities.
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At 4 a.m. early on the morning of June 20th, a glow appears on the horizon. It spreads over the meadows of Wiltshire, the area in southern Britain home to Salisbury and its medieval ...
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A view of an under construction site of Nagdhung tunnel at Sisnekhola in Dhading district, on Monday, September 07, 2020. Photo: Keshav Adhikari/THT.
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The Woodsmith Project is a deep mine and associated transport, processing and shipping infrastructure development under construction in North Yorkshire, UK.
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CAMORINO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland officially opened the Ceneri Base Tunnel on Friday, the final piece in a direct, flat rail link connecting northern Europe to the ...
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Find out how HS2 is protecting and enhancing woodlands, habitats and wildlife as we plan and build the railway.
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Normet Finland Service Center is specialized for third party emulsion charging system assemblies to Normet’s Charmec charging platforms. Normet’s new business model provides declaration of ...
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The high-speed railway, HS2 recently published a high-level report into its construction plans for the next few years. The timeline covers most of the concrete phase of the project before ...
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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration is in the process of creating the world’s first floating highway.
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LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 31 (SeeNews) – Turkey's Cengiz will complete the construction of the second pipe of the Karavanke motorway tunnel ...
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Switzerland's New Rail Link: Tunnelling and excavation. For Gotthard Base Tunnel, an astonishing 25 million tonnes of rock was excavated. For context, ...
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... covering 11 km of twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. ... of four tunnel boring machines expected to be in place by the end of 2022.
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The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2020 and it is the third largest railway tunnel project in Switzerland after the Gotthard and the Lötschberg Base ...
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The new Central Interceptor TBM has been officially named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, as one of the Matariki stars to which Māori send their dreams or aspirations for the new year. Students from ...
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Afcons, in a joint venture with Strabag, has constructed the world's longest motorable tunnel 3,000 m above sea level. The Atal Tunnel will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by ...
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Three world-leading consortia have been short-listed to construct twin twenty kilometres of tunnel as part of two works packages on one of Sydney’s biggest rail tunnelling projects.
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Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long-established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders, welcomed its first rail freight delivery of aggregate at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in ...
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Early in 2021, two 2000 tonne tunnelling machines measuring over 170 metres each will be launched at a site by the M25 to bore 10 miles each underneath the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.
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If you missed our webinar on high-speed tunneling in the Himalayas, we've got a video for you.
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The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in May 2018 laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,800 crore project, billed as the Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, ...
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The project was first proposed in 2010, after which a feasibility study was conducted in 2013 and construction began in 2019. The New Mutwal Tunnel is ...
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More than 700 men are working in shifts to complete the tunnel...
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The system improvements include construction of nine tunnels to control sewer overflows. Upcoming tunneling components of Project Clear include ( ...
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Plans are moving forward for the construction of the Hangzhou Genshan East Road Crossing River Tunnel in China. The TBM that will be used for the ...
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