In 2014 the restoration of the Rosemont reservoir began again, it had been commissioned by the Municipality of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tunnel construction comprises of a large diameter ...
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On 21.01.2016 at 12.00 noon and about 700 m away from the north portal at Camorino, the final breakthrough in the 15,289 meter long west tube of the Ceneri Base Tunnel took place. The breakthrough ...
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The countdown has begun - ExpoTunnel 2016 registrations are now officially open!
The third edition of the exhibition takes place in Bologna in October 2016 from the 19th until the 21st. Discounted ...
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ICE Engineering Underground Space 2016: Regeneration through Innovation will be held on the 15 March 2016, in Westminster, London at One Great George Street.
Many current and proposed ...
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Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is experiencing impressive population growth. The municipality has set out to address this situation and control impacts in terms of pollution, public health ...
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Normet, the innovative technology company offering continuous improvement to underground construction and mining processes, has agreed to acquire from Atlas Copco the assets of the MEYCO dry ...
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On the 14/01/2016 NFM Technologies in Le Creusot delivered the TBM Federica to Telt (Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin). The group of companies that are involved in the construction in Savoy, are led by ...
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In order to further improve its operations the Himal Hydro, the leading Nepalese construction company, has recently acquired a Sandvik Commando DC125R surface drill rig. The Commando DC125R is a ...
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Datwyler have released their latest newsletter to read please click here. For further information contact johannes.sutor@datwyler.com of visit the Datwyler website www.datwyler.com 02/16
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Please find below the link to the Sandvik Construction Yearbook which features a variety of case stories that have been published during 2015. These show the successful cooperation between our ...
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Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has said that construction of the 4.5km Kartal-Kaynarca extension of M4 Kadikoy-Kartal (21.8 km) metro in Istanbul has been completed and test runs will ...
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Bertha, the SR 99 TBM, is now tunneling in Seattle soil after breaking through the access pit wall on the 06.01.2016. Seattle Tunnel Partners has mined more than 22 m and installed 12 concrete ...
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Uzbekiston Temir Yullari the Uzbekistan Railway Company, will shortly open their new123.1 km electrified railway line between Agren in the Tashkent region and Pap in the Namangan region. ...
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4th European Forum of Road Tunnel Safety Officers - High Quality Meeting of Specialists in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from 9th to 10th March 2016.
There is a great demand of high quality knowledge ...
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Terratec is pleased to announce that its EPB TBM designated as S42 holed through on Friday, the 4th of December 2015 in Istanbul after completing the first half of its proposed run from Yenimahalle ...
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On 15th December 2015 TERRATEC successfully completed the Factory Acceptance Tests of two new Micro-tunnelling Systems in its facilities in Thailand for the MRTA Green Line (North) ...
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On the 23.12.2015 the Sparvo tunnel had its opening ceremony. It is part of the 32km La Quercia - Aglio section of the Apennine Road Bypass to Highway A1. In this section motorists will be ...
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The cutter head for the front of the Herrenknecht single shield TBM was fitted on 11th November 2015. The TBM which is 13.97 m in diameter, 2000 ton in weight and has a length of 75 m will start ...
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The 2016 World Tunnel Congress will be held on 22-28 April 2016 in San Francisco, California. With as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions visitors ...
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Sandvik Construction is adding a revolutionary rig-integrated, high precision, online rock mass analysis and visualization system to its existing offering for tunneling process optimization – ...
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Robbins Machine is the first TBM to break through in Two Decades.
A crowd of crew members gathered to celebrate in front of a newly emerged hard rock TBM on December 10, 2015 in northern Norway, ...
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In December the Midtown Tunnel’s tide gate was installed to protect the new tunnel from severe weather impacts, and the final bulkhead was removed between the Norfolk approach and Element ...
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The first Norwegian TBM to break through in over 20 years happened on December 10, 2015 at the Rossaga Hydroelectric Project. The TBM, nicknamed "Iron-Erna", is the first TBM used in Norway since ...
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In the Mexican state of Jalisco, the 5.5 km central section of the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3, between La Normal and Plaza de la Bandera stations, will be driven by a TBM EPB for almost 4 ...
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In 2014 the Mexican Ministry of Communication and Transportation (SCT- Secretaría de Telecomunicaciones y Transportes) awarded Sener the Guadalajara metro’s new Line 3 project. Sener ...
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Approximately 20 percent of the SR 99 tunnel was designed to be built without Bertha, the SR 99 TBM. Seattle Tunnel Partners had bored more than 305 m of tunnel before they stopped to repair Bertha. ...
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Normet has launched its new M and L-Series underground mining and tunnelling equipment offering with the European Stage IV/U.S. EPA Tier 4 Final power train technology (“Tier 4F”) based ...
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The 2016 World Tunnel Congress will be held on April 22-28, 2016 in San Francisco. WTC returns to the United States for the first time in 19 years. Exhibitors can register using the registration ...
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The railway tunnels through Hallandsas, in southwestern Sweden, were officially opened on 08.12.2015. The tunnels are the country’s most important railway infrastructure project in 40 years. ...
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On the 11.11.2015 the final blast underneath Lion Rock, finished the 2.4 km tunnel stretch from Hin Keng to Kai Tak for the Shatin to Central Link (SCL) Project. 60% of the tunnel excavation ...
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BBT received tenders from the following 6 groups for the construction of Brenner Base Tunnel, Lot Mules 2-3:
Astaldi SpA, Ghella SpA, Oberosler Cav Pietro SpA, Cogeis SpA, PAC SpA;
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In 2014 Sandvik introduced a completely new radio remote controlled drill rig to its surface top hammer drill rig offering, the Dino DC400Ri. The concept of this new drill rig drew extensively on ...
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See Robbins TBMs in a New Light - From Onsite Assembly to the first Breakthrough, watch EPB Tunneling at North Link Evolve. Watch Robbins latest video which documents the Onsite First Time ...
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On the 19th November 2015, 24 projects and their representatives, along with 8 engineers, 5 engineering companies and 5 contractors who were all candidates for this years ITA Tunnelling Awards in ...
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Tunnelbuilder is pleased to announce that A.S.T. Bochum of Germany has become a new advertiser on our website. A.S.T. Bochum is your specialised supplier for all Tunnelling, Microtunnelling as ...
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Zürich / Lyon, 13.11.2015: NFM Technologies and MÜHLHÄUSER have signed an exclusive agreement whereby Mühlhäuser will represent NFM Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) with ...
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