MAPEI Underground Technology Team (UTT) is fueling the company’s growth across the region thanks to a number of recent, high-profile successful projects, which have helped the company achieve a 4.36 per cent increase in the turnover in the Middle East in 2017 compared to 2016.
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Today 23rd of April 2018 is the official opening of the World Tunnel Congress which is being held in Dubai, UAE, at the World Trade Centre. The theme is ‘The Role of Underground Space in ...
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NEW FIBRE ANCHORED GASKETS - As a leader of innovations, Datwyler
has now enhanced its glued and ‘feet’-anchored
gaskets. Following requests from their customers, they are now ...
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Posted by Doug Harding | Apr 16, 2018 | Insights in Brief
Purchasing a Tunnel Boring Machine is no small
consideration. Many factors are equally important to the price, and they
can mean ...
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On April 4th 2018, Mapei Group acquired FILI & FORME Srl, a company that has been operating for more than 10 years in the building industry as part of the Istrice brand.
Fili & ...
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Route 2020 a joint project between Acciona and Gulermak has
now completed 50% of the tunnel drilling works of the project. Acciona and Gulermak are jointly responsible
for the civil ...
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The approximately $6 billion Transbay Transit
Center/Caltrain Downtown Extension (TTC/DTX) project in San Francisco consists
of following three interconnected elements. A replacement of the the ...
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A study on a fixed link from Newfoundland to Labrador,
funded by the province and the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, was
completed by Memorial University's Leslie Harris Centre of Regional ...
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To qualify for the tunnelbuilder Chamber of Horrors, a project must have set out for the Hall of Fame and lost its way. The list we have is by no means complete, because failures in tunnels are ...
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Further to its announcement on 5 January 2018, Keller today announces that it has acquired the entire issued share capital of Moretrench Inc., a geotechnical contracting company operating ...
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March has been a productive month for Tideway with work on the Thames Tideway Tunnel making huge strides ahead of the start of tunnelling later this year.
Tunnel Boring Machines, Millicent and ...
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WTC 2018: Short course on the Main Opportunities and Technical Issues in Tunnelling
The United Nations estimates that by 2050, around 70% of all people will live in cities. Managing urban areas has ...
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Strange things sometimes happen at tunnelling sites. Maybe they are not so
funny at the time, and nobody wants to talk about them. Then, as the years go
by, the tale will unfold, embellished by ...
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At tunnelbuilder we have decided to visit some of our past readers submissions about tunnelling successes and mishaps. We are also going to look at what tunnellers thought may or may not ...
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Four giant tunnel boring
machines (TBMs) will start arriving early next year to build the $11 billion
Metro Tunnel that will transform Melbourne’s transport network.
Minister for ...
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Be brought right up to date about the Melbourne Metro
tunnelling project by reading their latest newsletter here. 14/18
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Almost 2/3 of the Follo line tunnel has now been completed by, the
joint venture between Ghella and Acciona. They have bored 24,000 m through
extremely hard rock which has been interspersed with ...
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In August 2015 the Government of Bangladesh awarded to the China Communication Construction Company Ltd the contract to build the Karnaphuli road tunnel (3.5 km long, 10 m wide) in Chittagong, ...
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A reminder about the abstract submission deadline The IRF
Global R2T Expo & Conference. The
abstract submission deadline has been postponed to April 6, 2018, click here
for more. ...
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VIP-Polymers Ltd is taking its latest innovation in tunnel
segment gaskets - a major step forward in cast-in gasket design - to the
ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress in Dubai.
The patented ...
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Is Your TBM in a Tight Spot? How to Get Through Squeezing
Ground, Rock Bursting and More
With Brad Grothen, Sindre Log
Date: May 16, 2018
If you’ve ever faced mountainous tunneling ...
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In early
March, Senbay Madencilik - Kolin - Kalyon JV achieved a record - breaking TBM
production shift during excavation of the Dudullu - Bostancı Metro Line, in
Istanbul .
At 7am, ...
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Workhorse Machine makes progress in
Difficult Ground
A rebuilt Robbins 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
diameter Main Beam TBM has yet another milestone to add to its storied career:
an unexpected ...
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On 15 and 16.02.2018 Swietelsky Tunnelbau GmbH & Co KG, a subsidiary company of the Swietelsky group, reached an important milestone in the construction of the Froeschnitzgraben tunnel (SBT ...
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NORTH EAST BOUNDARY TUNNEL in the USA or the DUBAI DEEP STORM WATER project in the United Arab Emirates are two of the new projects signed by CBE Group at the beginning of the year. As active as ...
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The first of five mega TBMS designed, built and to be delivered by Herrenknecht, will be in the ground before the end of this year to drive the twin 15.5km metro rail tunnels between Chatswood and ...
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Pickles is Australia’s leading asset remarketing organisation with thousands of assets available across vehicles, industrial, salvage and general goods. We’re currently taking EOIs for a Wirth roadheader T3.20.
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The Twin Peaks Tunnel (3.54 km-2.2 miles) first opened for service on 03.02.1918, and still is a vital connection between downtown San Francisco (California, USA) and its southern and western ...
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The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has approved the rehabilitation and upgrading of the Chenani - Sudhmahadev section of National Highway 244 to two lanes with paved shoulders ...
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The Indian government on Tuesday approved a Rs 1,384 crore tunnel project in Uttarakhand as part of ‘Char Dham’ project to connect the pilgrimage sites - Badrinath, Kedarnath, Yamunotri ...
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On 27.02.2018 the TBM Luz de America, one of the 3 machines used by Acciona in the Quito Metro Line 1 Consortium, reached its third station, La Magdalena. It travelled 1,700 m and installed 1,134 ...
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On the 28.02.2018 the JV led by Dodin Campenon Bernard which included GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, along with Spie Batignolles TPCI, Spie ...
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Sytral, from November 2016 to January 2018, studied the feasibility of a new metro line connecting the center of Lyon to Alai station in Tassin-la-Demi-Lune (at the border between Francheville and ...
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On the basis of the final report published in February on the railway tunnel project between Helsinki and Tallinn, the FinEst Link, the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications has set up a ...
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Just-in-time delivery of materials and products becomes more and more important in our daily rush hour world. What this means for the working process, how much logistic work and what preparations ...
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Country : United States
City : Columbus, OH
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