On 29.01.2015 the TBM Elizabeth (1,000 t weight and 7 m diameter) successfully broke into the eastern end of Liverpool Street Crossrail station in London, UK. The breakthrough, 40m beneath the City, ...
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The City of Toronto, together with the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), is planning an extension to the Bloor-Danforth Subway (Line 2) to better serve Scarborough’s 650,000 residents. The ...
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The two TBMs driving the western segment of the 10 km-long underground tunnel on Toronto’s Eglington Crosstown reached the half-way point of their journey on 21.01.2015, breaking through into ...
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The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's economic planner, agreed to review and support the high-speed railway project under the Bohai sea connecting Dalian in Liaoning ...
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On 24.01.2015 the 4.9 km-long first lot of Varese orbital motorway opened between A8 interconnection at Gazzada Schianno and Vedano Olona near Varese municipality.
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The APAC tunnels and bridges conference is scheduled for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 15-16th April, 2015. Themes are design, construction, maintenance and inspection, with 23 speakers from government ...
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The one-day ICE conference on this topic takes place on 18.02.2015 at One Great George Street, Westminster. It will explore the solutions and opportunities that underground space presents for ...
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On 14.01.2015 the fourth TBM, named Maria after 19th century Aboriginal rights advocate Maria Lock, started boring for North West Rail Link in Sydney, Australia. The 900 t TBM was delivered to the ...
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Setronic Verona Srl, specialized in design, manufacture and after sales service for optical beam smoke and fire detectors, opacity analyzer, calibrating and testing equipment, and accessories, will ...
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Our readers have to be advised promptly and accurately of the bids and awards on which their business depends. That is why tunnelbuilder websites are updated whenever there is news, even at weekends ...
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The 188 m-long Grana tunnel on the 5 km-long new Aurelia road section from Albisola to Savona in Italy has been completed using conventional methods. Meantime, TBM excavation of the 530 m-long Basci ...
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On 19.12.2014 TBM Elaine was named for excavation of an 8 km-long tunnel for the 13 km-long metro Line B in Rennes. The line, which will serve 15 stations and connect the southwestern and ...
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In New Zealand, the huge Waterview TBM has been successfully turned and on 17.12.2014 resumed tunnelling, heading south on the second of the motorway tunnels. The machine will advance far enough to ...
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The Boomer M-series drillrigs, the medium sized single and twin boom rigs favoured by tunnellers, have been the subject of a major upgrade. Read the press release and contact ...
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The construction for the Evergreen line includes a 2 km-long bored tunnel with tunnel portals located in Port Moody and Coquitlam, Canada. The tunnel is being constructed with a 10 m-diameter TBM, ...
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On 10.12.2014 the hybrid TBM launched in 2011 holed the 4.5 km-long tunnel beneath the bed of Lake Mead. The project involves the construction of a system for collecting and transporting the waters ...
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International tunnelling recruitment specialist iPS is seeking a design engineer for heavy hydraulic systems to be located in France on a permanent basis, starting Q1/2015. See below for more ...
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The construction of the 86th Street Station cavern of the Second Avenue Subway in New York has been completed this week. Work began in August of 2011. This project, valued at EUR272 million ...
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The management and staff at tunnelbuilder ltd send greetings and good wishes to all our readers and clients around the world at this festive time. While the international financial news has not ...
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Obermann becomes the first acquisition in the 100-year history of Muhlhauser, the Germany-based global market leader in tunnelling logistics. Read the press release and visit www.khmte.com. ...
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Terratec, after a successful test on 06.12.2014, has delivered a new Double Shield TBM to Seli Overseas S.p.A. of Italy, the tunnelling subcontractor for the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Hydropower Project, ...
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On 17.11.2014 the 6.65 m-diameter Robbins TBM EPB began its journey south into the city of Seattle, Washington, USA. The machine, for contractor JCM North Link LLC (a JV of Jay Dee, Coluccio, and ...
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The WestConnex motorway is an EUR7.41 billion, 33 km continuous motorway which links Sydney’s west and south-west with the CBD (Central Business District), Sydney Airport and Port Botany ...
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International recruitment specialist iPS is seeking engineers to fill a range of positions on a project commencing early next year in Melbourne, Australia. Click below for more, and visit ...
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Robbins have completed their very successful webinar series for 2014 and are making recordings available to tunnelbuilder readers until the end of the year. Click here for access and visit ...
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Putzmeister has announced Minelift 4 scissor lift platform with lifting height 4 m and 4 t load capacity for underground use. The machine is suited to both personnel and equipment lifting. Read the ...
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The EUR6.58 billion New Suez Canal Project features a new 72 km-length parallel branch of the 190 km-long Suez Canal from Deversoir to al-Balah which will cost EUR3.22 billion and six new tunnels to ...
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Intertunnel 2015, the 7th edition of the International Tunnelling Exhibition, will take place at the VDNKh in Moscow from 27 to 29 April, 2015.
In a country as vast as Russia, tunnels are playing ...
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Another opportunity will occur for sub-contractors when Femern A/S offers two more major contracts in December, 2014. These concern the electrical and mechanical installations to be fitted inside ...
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Normet is introducing its latest generation of underground equipment at Bauma China in Shanghai. Apart from being endowed with improved overall ergonomics, the new machines are ready for Industrial ...
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The Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction (MOHR) is building a dual carriageway connecting Erbil to Haji Omaran in Kurdistan, Iraq.
The project comprises two main sections. The first 8.822 km ...
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Ritchie Bros’ upcoming auction in Caorso, Italy on 04.12.2014 currently features more than 1,400 heavy equipment items, tractors and trucks. All items will be sold to the highest bidders on ...
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On 06.11.2014, construction of the 1.7 km-long Paci tunnel was completed on the southbound carriageway of Italy’s A3 motorway, between Scilla and Campo Calabro. It is the longest tunnel among ...
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International recruitment specialist iPS is seeking qualified and experienced managers to fill the following tunnelling vacancies:
00542 Planning manager ...
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On 30.10.2014 the loan agreement was signed between Montenegro and the Chinese Exim Bank on financing construction of the first 41 km-long section Smokovac-Uvce-Matesevo of the 169.2 km-long ...
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On 17.11.2014 the TBM completed the 12,878 m emergency tunnel parallel to the existing Frejus tunnel (T4) and arrived at Bardonecchia, Italy, where it will be dismantled during the next three ...
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