On September 29th, at the Ingenbohl construction site, approximately 70 kilometers from Zurich, Switzerland, a new double-shield hard Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), designed and manufactured by China ...
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On Monday 7 October, the Secretary of State for Transport announced a new deadline for Government to make a decision on the Lower Thames Crossing Development Consent Order (DCO) application, the ...
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Press Release - Work to start in late November 2024 - We’re working with local stakeholders including the MP, councils, Derriford Hospital, Network Rail and GWR, as well as our construction ...
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The first of four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) designated for the excavation of tunnels in the Battipaglia-Romagnano section (Lot 1A) of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria high-speed rail line has arrived ...
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On 29/09/2024 the South Australian Government and the T2D Alliance have formally sealed a contract to purchase three initial TBMs from world-leading manufacturer Herrenknecht.
Infrastructure and ...
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TERRATEC TBM S81B celebrated its first tunnel breakthrough at Otteri Station for the 116.1 km Chennai Metro Rail Phase-II Corridor 3 project in India.
TERRATEC, a leading provider of tunnel boring ...
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The first 4 TBMs, manufactured by Herrenknecht, for SRL East will begin arriving on site next year. The TBMs will be in the ground in 2026 and they will drill 16kms of twin tunnels between ...
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On September 13, 2024, the Swiss Federal Council approved the construction of the final 3.5 km stretch of the N28 between the Fideris/Jenaz and Küblis/Dalvazza junctions. The current road is ...
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Line B - At the end of August 2024, the consortium Bessac, Soletanche Bachy, GTM Sud-Ouest TP GC with the TBM Clemence Isaure - 30m long and 5,28m in diameter - completed the second ...
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The ceremony has been held for the last breakthrough of the first main tunnel in the Austrian territory of the Brenner Base Tunnel. The breakthrough is at the Sill Gorge site, between lots H21 Sill ...
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The ITA-Aites judges selected the ITA Tunnelling Awards 2024 finalists from an outstanding pool of entries - over 100 applications from 19 countries! The finalists in the 7 categories have been ...
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On September 12, a 6.35m diameter TBM passed its FAT at CRCHI’s second industrial park in Changsha. It will now be shipped to Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where it will be used in the construction of ...
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The launch of the Wilma and Olga TBMs will take place on Wednesday 18th September 2024 at the BBT H53 Pfons-Brenner construction site.
The first components of the two TBMs - after ...
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Before the Norwegian Coastal Administration can issue the tender for the construction of Stad ship tunnel, all regulatory plans related to the ship tunnel must be approved. The Stad City Council ...
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On 11th September the TBM Hiwa-i-te-Rangi broke through into the 30-m deep shaft at the Western Springs site. The TBM Had tunnelled a little over 13km and installing over 8100 segment ...
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The Namma Metro’s TBM Tunga S-839 B - after tunnelling 936.6 m between Kadugondanahalli Station to Nagawara Station’s South Cut & Cover Shaft – broke through on 04th ...
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Eiffage Genie Civil on Wednesday, August 28th at 4:30 PM - after 18 months of intensive excavation - achieved the first breakthrough in the Bjonnas tunnel (2540 m) on the E18 Langangen - ...
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On August 28, 2024 the Gateway Development Commission (GDC) Board authorized GDC to enter into a final agreement in September with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for a EUR3.43 bn (USD3.8 ...
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TERRATEC 3.85m diameter Rock Slurry TBM has its first breakthrough in Malad West for Mumbai city’s 5.8 km Sewage Disposal Project-Stage II, PST-1 in India.
TERRATEC celebrates the first ...
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The construction of HS2’s gateway to Birmingham takes a leap forward as the huge 125-m-long TBM digging the first bore of the Bromford tunnel reaches the halfway point.
The 1,600 t ...
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On 3 September 2024 - following the positive conclusion of the Service Conference convened in March 2023 - the definitive project (PD) of the proposed variant for the Cefalù stop - Access ...
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On the morning of Tuesday, August 13, 2024, representatives of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications and the Santiago Metro attended the breakthrough of the future metro Line 7 of ...
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Sydney Metro West Mega Machines Touchdown at Sydney Olympic Park
The construction work to deliver the 24-km new Sydney Metro West railway power ahead. The mega project has recently achieved a slew ...
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Press release - The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has announced a landmark project—the construction of the E134 Oslofjord connection, Stage 2. With a contract value estimated at NOK ...
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A new tunnel boring machine will be deployed to help keep Snowy 2.0 on its delivery timeline, subject to approval by the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure.
New ground testing ...
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The registration for the World Tunnel Congress 2025 in Stockholm is now open. In less than a year, WTC2025 will take place at Stockholmsmässan in Stockholm. Join WTC2025 to connect with ...
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The first of two massive TBMs - 90 m long, 15.6 m high, and 4000 t weight - has begun digging the 6.5 km twin road tunnels between Watsonia and Bulleen that will take 15,000 trucks off local roads ...
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The TBM involved in the construction of the 6.5km North East Link road tunnels will excavate around 5 million tonnes of very deep underground dirt and rock: natural material that can be ...
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Press release - On July 15th, the Guangzhou Haizhu Bay Tunnel project achieved a significant milestone with the successful breakthrough of both tunnel lines. This project marks the construction of ...
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📅 Date: [Thursday 22nd AUGUST]
🕒 Time: [2 PM- 6 PM]
📍 Location: [Mapei World London City Showroom, 6 Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V ...
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Quartet of tunnelling machines boring the Northolt Tunnel between West Ruislip and Old Oak Common station have built half of the tunnel
New video and images shows the unstoppable momentum of the ...
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On 22 July, the TBM Ida celebrated the excavation of the first 4 km - out of its total 8.4 km - of the westbound line tunnel to the south at the Austrian H41 Sill-Pfons Gorge construction site. The ...
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TERRATEC celebrated a significant milestone in Mumbai’s ongoing water infrastructure development with the breakthrough of a 3.2m diameter Open TBM used by Contractor Soma Enterprise Limited on ...
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The TBM 1412, an EPB with a diameter of 9.48 m, set to excavate Fiumetorto - Lercara Diramazione section (Lot 1+2), as part of the Palermo-Catania-Messina railway line project, has successfully ...
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On July 5th, Changsha Xiangya Road river-crossing tunnel was opened to traffic. The tunnel is the largest diameter shield machine tunnel in Hunan Province, China. The opening of the tunnel will ...
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The works of RFI-Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (Leading Company of the FS Group Infrastructure Hub) for the major projects in Southern Italy continues at full speed. On 23 July the launch ceremony of ...
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