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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The detailed design of the Castelbello and Colsano ring road has been approved for the SS 38 in Stelvio. The tender is about the construction phase and will be reviewed in 2017, the value will be ...
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Wendlingen-Ulm Line
Steinbuehl Tunnel
On 06.11.2015 at the Todsburg portal the breakthrough took place of the 4847 m long Steinbuehl tunnel. This was originally expected in the spring of 2016 ...
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As part of the Koralm tunnel (lot KAT 3) two tunnels, which are 5.9 km long and with a 9.5 m external diameter, will be driven by a bi-modal TBM and will be lined with about 45,000 segments ...
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On 19.11.2015 the government announced the EUR6.08-7.43 billion (AUD9-11 billion) Melbourne Metro project in Australia can be procured as an availability based Public Private Partnership (PPP) ...
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Scottish Water reached a key milestone in the construction of the Shieldhall Tunnel in Glasgow. Bachy Soletanche, the UK company contracted last June by the JV VINCI Construction Grands Projets and ...
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The on-line registration has now opened the for the 2016 Underground Construction conference that will be held in Prague from 23.05.2016 to 25.05.2016. To register please visit the website ...
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A ceremony was held for the breakthrough of Line 3 of Riyadh's Metro, it is the longest part of the network at 40.7 km. The line runs from the west near the Jeddah Expressway and ends in the ...
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On 08.11.2015 Seli Overseas broke through at Al Wabb Station on the Doha Metro Gold Line and set a new production record for the line with 625 m excavated in one month. Seli Overseas subcontract ...
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STUVA-Expo 2015 - these 164 exhibitors are prepared for your visit!
3D Mapping Solutions GmbH, A.S.T. Bochum GmbH, AB Alvenius Industrier, ACO Tiefbau Vertrieb GmbH, ADCOS NV, Adolf Würth GmbH ...
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A TBM, built in Germany by Herrenknecht, will be assembled and lowered in the metro station ready to dig and build a tunnel under Nizza Street, first towards Moncalieri and then towards Lingotto for ...
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On 06/11/2015 the TBM Brenda reached the future station of the extension of the U District Northgate Link to Seattle, completing the third segment of the twin 3.5-mile tunnels being mined by JCM ...
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Sandvik Construction will not now be exhibiting at Bauma in April 2016. The reason for this decision is due to their continuing strategy of focusing on the real needs and requirements of their ...
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The Midtown Tunnel is comprised of 11 different concrete elements which are now complete. The final layer which is called armor stone will protect the tunnel from ship anchors in the Federal ...
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A referendum will be held on 28.02.2016 for Swiss citizens will make a decision about the federal government proposal to build a second tube for the Gotthard road tunnel under the Alps before ...
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The Ministry of the Interior for the technical regulations for fire prevention in the design, construction and operation of metropolitan railways have published their latest guidelines. Visit ...
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On 19.10.2015 a veteran Robbins Main Beam (diameter 4.20 m, weight 260 t) completed the excavation of the 5,084 m-long Sachseln safety tunnel on the A8 motorway, in Switzerland. Works, ...
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This Autumn the company SMU Engeocom from Moscow completed two tunnels for the third interchange (second circle line) of the Moscow metro, using two Robbins EPB TBMs. On 24.10.2015 the TBM Victoria ...
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