The Crosstown project, owned by Metrolinx and operated by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), is a light rail transit (LRT) line that will run across Eglinton Avenue between Mount Dennis (Weston ...
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The 2018 North American Tunneling (NAT) conference organizing committee has issued a call for papers which are due in by June 30th 2017. NAT 2018 will be taking place in Washington, D.C. from ...
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Moscow has built almost 21 km of metro tunnels since early 2016. Eight of 29 TBMs are currently tunnelling their way through the Moscow’s underground. Six of them, diameter 6 m, are ...
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Construction of the first section of the Moscow Metro Second Circle line (or Third Interchange Circuit - TIC, 61 km with 30 stations) from the station Business Center to the Petrovsky ...
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Putzmeister will launch internationally their automated formwork filling system, Formkret at the World Tunnel Congress which will be taking place from June 9th to the 15th in Bergen, Norway. ...
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The TBM Angeli, boring twin tunnels for the Regional Connector Transit Project, broke through at Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station at 2nd Place and Hope Street in Downtown Los Angeles on June ...
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On 28.04.2017 the joint venture Osafl Sf Marti Contractors (50%) and IAV (50%) from Reykjavik (Iceland), completed the driving operations on the Vadlaheidi road toll tunnel in Iceland. They blasted ...
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Senbay Madencilik - Kolin - Kalyon Joint venture has made good early progress on the Dudullu - Bostancı Metro Line, in Turkey, with TBM tunnel drives now fully underway .
Two TERRATEC ...
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Companies that are looking to buy heavy machinery for their current and next jobs may be able to secure a good deal at Ritchie Bros. upcoming auction in Ocaña (Central Spain). The auction - held on June 7 & 8 - features more than 2,000 pieces of equipment, trucks and other items.
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On 22.05.2017 the first stage of the “TELT at Work” roadshow was held in Turin. TELT is a project that covers the cross-border works for the Lyon-Turin railway line. The TELT ...
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VMT are pleased
to announce that the past year has been something of a good one for their
tunnel guidance systems as well as for all other product solutions of the VMT
portfolio – with the ...
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At the end of April 2017 the construction of the section 1 of the Tehran-Shomal Freeway (or Tehran-North Freeway) project, connecting Tehran to the city of Chalus at the Caspian Sea in the northern ...
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In April 2017, a ceremony was held to celebrate the
commissioning of the Dariali Hydropower Project in the Republic of Georgia.
Many attended the ceremony marking the first carbon-neutral ...
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On the 25.04.2017 the Los Angeles Metro held a pre-proposal conference for the Section 3 tunnel contract. They are using an innovative approach by delivering the stations and tunnels separately for ...
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Normet, the innovative underground technology company, has
won several new orders from Hindustan Zinc, India’s only and the world leading
producer of Zinc-Lead-Silver.
Hindustan ...
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BBC TWO’s (UK) The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway returns for a second series on 22 May at 9pm GMT to follow the construction of the Elizabeth line under London.
Crossrail provided exclusive ...
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The
conference webpage for the 17th International Water Mist Conference (IWMC) is
now active and online! The event will take place on 25th and 26th October 2017
in Rome, Italy. The conference ...
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Excavation of the downtown Bellevue light rail tunnel began in February 2017 and construction crews have been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on tunnel construction ever since.
Sound Transit ...
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tunnelbuilder opens the doors to all tunnelling companies, putting their products in front of thousands of qualified readers. All advertisers, large and small, have one thing in common – the ...
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On 5th May
2017, CREG’s 3.5m diameter gripper TBM LEA made its first breakthrough of its Tunnel
Drive 3 as part of the Greater Beirut Water Supply Project. A celebration was
held in ...
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Tunnelbuilder welcomes SWEDFAN as a new advertiser .SWEDFAN undertake the design, calculations, manufacturing and supply of complete underground ventilation systems with heavy-duty high pressure ...
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Tunneljobs is recruiting for a major tunnelling contract in the United Kingdom. So if you are looking for work currently or within the next 2 months please either send your current resume to the ...
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California High-Speed Rail will make a stop at the Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference (RETC) in San Diego, California, June 4 – 7.
Featuring 100 technical sessions, short courses and ...
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TERRATEC Tight Radius Shields (TRS)
facilitate a challenging curved alignment on a major new drainage tunnel
project for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) .
In April 2017, ...
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On 22.03.2017 a TBM broke through at Maniatika Station on the Athens Line 3 extension to Piraeus. By the end of March 67% of the tunnel had been completed which equates to 50% of the ...
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Preparation work for a hopper for Almohades in Casablancabegan at the beginning of 2017 has now finished. This will allow for tunnelling works to start shortly. In July 2016 the turkish company ...
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On 05.04.17 the TBM Aktor broke through at Analipsi station after opening the second of the twin 7.8km main shafts which are part of of the Thessaloniki Metropolitan Railway. The breakthrough ...
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The Call for Papers for the 8th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2018) is open. The symposium will be held at the Textile ...
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Early registration ends May 7 for the Rapid Excavation
and Tunneling Conference (RETC), June 4 – 7, 2017 in San Diego.
RETC 2017 is heating up in San Diego, California with
tunneling ...
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A Robbins TBM, recently christened “Augustine”, is being
commissioned to undertake its eighth bore after being launched by contractor
Eiffage Civil Engineering on March 3. The TBM, ...
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Normet Group and JCHX Mining Management Co Ltd have signed an agreement to form a joint venture to manufacture and sell underground mining equipment in the Chinese market.
The joint venture will ...
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The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) is a strategic project between the Governments of Malaysia and Singapore that aims to facilitate seamless travel between the two capital cities. The ...
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On 06.02.2017 the Turkish group Makyol completed the
excavation of a 5.2km sewer tunnel. The tunnel was driven by a TBM EPB
(diameter 6.5 m, lenght 87 m) and is part of the Super West Collector ...
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The Joint venture between Cimic a subsidiary of CPB Contractors and John Holland has been named as the preferred contractor for the West Gate Tunnel project in Melbourne, Australia. The joint ...
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PPS is looking forward to make 2017 a year of innovation in the PPS product lines. A new generation of pipejacking and micro-tunneling systems will be introduced and classical PPS guidance systems ...
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