Phase 4A of the Cairo Metro public works contract was won by a Franco-Egyptian joint venture composed of Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Bouygues Travaux Publics, an Arab Contractor and Orascom ...
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Graeme Monteith, Tunnelling Engineering Manager at Barhale Construction, has been appointed chairman of the Pipe Jacking Association and Jim Kirby, an Associate at consulting engineer Donaldson ...
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Mike Rispin, Senior Vice President for Global Sales and Marketing at Normet Group, announces the following changes in Normet’s North American organization, effective December 1, 2016:
Gregory ...
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Tunnelbuilder websites can offer you far more than any other magazine or website for far less. Tunnelbuilder has a global reach and is being read by over 300,000 people in 128 different countries. ...
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Work is underway on Perth's Forrestfield-Airport Link (FAL) following a sod turning ceremony on 03.11.2016 at the site of the future Forrestfield Station. The FAL will provide a much-needed ...
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The NCE tunnelling summit is pleased to announce their full programme and speaker line up for this years tunnelling summit. The summit will be held on the 7th and 8th of December 2017 in London. For ...
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The 3rd Urban Underground Space and Tunnelling Conference will be held from the 27th March until the 29th in Singapore. This conference will cover technology of underground space and ...
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The Norwegian Tunnelling Society (NFF) has the pleasure to announce that the registration for WTC 2017 is now open . The world tunnel congress will be from the 9th to the 15th June in Bergen ...
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The rail expo will be held from the 2nd of March until the 4th 2017 at Istanbul’s Expo Centre.
Eurasia Rail is Turkey's and the Middle East's leading exhibition providing the perfect ...
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On the 14th November at 12.30am Condotte group achieved the final breakthrough in the Paniga tunnel in Morbegno. The tunnel is Lot 1 and the 2nd part of the SS38 Stelvio bypass ...
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ITA Croatia is organizing for 2017 the 7th International Symposium on Tunnels and Underground Structures in South-East Europe with the title "SEE tunnel". The Symposium will be held in the ...
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Edvirt to deliver simulator training and testing required for all operators in E4 Stockholm Bypass project - This autumn, construction will begin on the E4 Stockholm Bypass project. When finished, ...
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Robbins will be on Stand 54 at TBM DiGs on the 16th -18th of November in Istanbul, Turkey. Robbins has had a presence in Turkey for nearly 30 years. Robbins supplied the first TBM to ever bore ...
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The latest VMT Newsletter is now available. The newsletter
includes updates about VMTs current projects, product developments and general
topics that concern VMT. To view the newsletter please ...
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Management Authority for Urban
Railways (MAUR) of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee intends to undertake the
construction and implementation of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line 2 ...
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The 20th Gulf Engineering Forum in collaboration with the
4th Arabian Tunnelling Conference will be held in Dubai from
the 21st to 22nd February 2017 at the Ritz ...
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On 01.11.2016 the Board of Supervisors agreed to accept a EUR9 million state grant for the EUR70.43 million Interlake Tunnel project pending final terms. The supervisors adopted a resolution of ...
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The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is working on putting forth standards for the Tunneling industry. During a meeting held in October by the American Society of Mechanical ...
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At Mexico City’s Túnel Emisor Poniente II (TEP II), a Robbins
Crossover (XRE) TBM has excavated at record-breaking speeds through varying
geology – setting two national records ...
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Many companies make promises about their equipment and services. Sandvik however feel that “seeing is believing” and this has led them to create a selection of videos showing just ...
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Two 6.52m diameter TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines are ready to be delivered to Tata-Gulermak JV, for the North-South line (Phase 1 A) of the Lucknow Metro, in Uttar ...
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The latest ITA newsletter is now available please click here to read the newsletter which includes the following message from Tarcisio CELESTINO, the ITA President:
Dear ITA ...
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The Forrestfield-Airport Link will connect the existing Midland Line, near Bayswater Station, to Forrestfield through underground tunnels.
In September the Public Transport Authority (PTA) formally ...
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Free Webinar | Wednesday, November 2, 10am (Eastern Daylight Time) hosted by The Robbins Company.
High cover, squeezing ground, fault zones, water inflows … geological challenges arise but ...
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Andrew Wolstenholme, CEO at Crossrail Ltd has said that Crossrail is more than 75% complete. “There is a huge amount of work underway to complete the stations and fit-out the physical ...
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Swiftly-Assembled Machine to bore Emergency Water Supply Tunnel - After an Onsite First Time Assembly (OFTA) lasting just 2.5 months, Atlanta Georgia, USA’s newest TBM, dubbed ...
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The Third International Conference on Tunnel Boring Machines in Difficult Grounds (TBM DiGs 2017) will be hosted in Wuhan, China. Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts on various ...
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Since its
inception in 1994, the annual Microtunneling Short Course has been the premier
event devoted to advancing the industry. Much like the microtunneling market
itself, the Microtunneling ...
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The Metro Tunnel will transform public transport above and
below ground, including Melbourne's tram network.
During the construction of Domain station, trams will
continue to run along St Kilda ...
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Ragnar Wighus president of the IWMA announced today that the
17th International Water Mist Conference will take place in Rome,
Italy on the 20th and 21st September
2017. A venue has ...
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On September 23, 2016, Bangalore’s last
TBM for the city’s metro rail project broke through, marking the end of TBM
tunneling on the Namma Metro phase 1.
The Robbins-operated ...
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Datwyler, during the third quarter of 2016, has been involved in several projects in Argentina, Equador, India, Russia, USA and the United Kingdom. To read more about these projects ...
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On 26th September 2016, TERRATEC
celebrated the successful Factory Acceptance Test of a new 3.20m diameter Earth
Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (EPBM) destined for the Phra Khanong
Cable ...
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A 38km bridge in the South China Sea will form a fixed
crossing over the Pearl River Estuary between Zhuhai and Macau on the western
side and Hong Kong on the eastern side. The Y-shaped bridge ...
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The $1.25 billion Eurasia Tunnel, which is 14.6 km long with 3.4 km under the sea, connecting the European and Asian sides, will open to the public on 20.12.2016. Turkish President Erdogan had a ...
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The Board of Directors of Datwyler
Holding Inc. has appointed Torsten Maschke to the new CEO of the Sealing
Solutions division and made him a member of the Executive Management. The
47-year-old ...
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