International tunnelling recruitment specialist iPS is seeking managers, planners and QS for a tunnel project in Norway, starting immediately and with two-year duration. ...
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Some 19 TBMs are currently engaged in constructing tunnels of Phase 3 of Delhi Metro, where 74 separate tunnelling drives are planned. Around 41 km of tunnelling and 33 tunnelling drives have been ...
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Terratec was incorporated in Australia in 1990 to satisfy the local market for TBMs and RBMs. Since then, the company has expanded its sales coverage into China, South East Asia, India, Europe and ...
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The1.8 km-long Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel in Montreal is the only underwater tunnel in Quebec. Opened in 1967, the tunnel connects the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River to the Island ...
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The Brenner Base Tunnel, the 64 km-long heart of the new Brenner rail line between Munich and Verona, is progressing apace, with work starting on the Ahrental main tunnel in Austria. Many important ...
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The Twin Tunnels project on the North Shore is nearing completion near Vancouver, Canada. Two tunnels, 3.8 m in diameter and 7.1 km long, have been constructed beneath Grouse Mountain and Mount ...
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International recruitment specialists iPS are looking for experienced horizontal directional drilling personnel for a four-week assignment near Calgary, Manitoba, Canada. Click here for further ...
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On 16.03.2015 the EUR14.2 million fourth part of SS 508 Val Sarentino upgrading project starts, including the final work in the 1,520 m-long and 2 km-long tunnels constructed by Consorzio Stabile ...
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Four years ago, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) began studying the environmental impacts of continuing the ...
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In Sydney, Australia on 02.03.2015 Florence, the second North West Rail Link TBM, broke through into the new Norwest Station area. All four 900 t TBMs are now in the ground ahead of schedule and ...
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TBM Bertha reached her stopping point in the SR 99 tunnel access pit in Seattle, US on 03.03.2015, clearing the way for Seattle Tunnel Partners to begin a disassembly process that will likely take ...
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The abstract submission deadline for Tunnels and Underground Construction 2015has been extended to 31.03.2015. The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn, Zilina, Slovakia. Contact ...
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Last 17.02.2015 the City Council approved the final project of Collegno-Cascine Vica section, Line 1 of Turin metro. The project will be now evaluated by other authorities and MIT (Ministry of ...
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Work is underway on the Lingotto-Bengasi (Line 1) section of the Turin underground. On 07.07.2014 Infra.To awarded to C.C.C. (Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni), replacing Seli/Coopsette JV, the ...
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Companies from all over Europe and Asia will participate in the Follo Line Project in Norway, a 22 km-long double track line between Oslo Central Station and the public transport hub at Ski. Key to ...
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On 24.02.2015 Maurizio Lupi, the italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, and Alain Vidalies, the French Secretary of State for Transport, signed in Paris an integration to the 2012 ...
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Call for Papers for the 7th International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security (ISTSS 2016), to be held Montreal, Canada, 16 - 18th March 2016 is now open. Manuscripts and posters submitted for ...
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On 28.01.2015 the 3.8 m-diameter TBM EPB Pat completed the last metres of the 2.9 km-long tunnel between Brooklyn and Staten Island. The tunnel, part of the New York City Harbor Siphons Project, is ...
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Compressed Air Work GmbH has developed the first mobile automated system for decompression chambers for personnel known as CAIS – Compress Air Intervention System. Fundamentally, the system ...
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Work on the tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel is in full swing on different fronts. Excavation of the new Tulfes-Pfons section officially began on 18.09.2014. In 5 months, at 16.02.2015, ...
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Construction on the extensions of seven lines to add 87 km to the Shenzhen, China metro system will start between 2015 and 2017. The Shenzhen Rail Construction Office plan for this third phase of ...
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In Auckland, NZ, by early-February, 2015 Waterview TBM Alice had advanced 125 m from the northern approach trench, in the second of the motorway tunnels, the northbound tunnel. When the TBM reaches ...
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In Seattle, WA contractor STP is making final preparations for TBM Bertha’s move into the 36.57 m-deep pit from which the machine will be hoisted to surface for repairs. STP has injected grout ...
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Last November, in northern Portugal, the consortium Teixeira Duarte/EPOS started completion work on the bi-tube 5.7 km-long Marao tunnel. Work on the missing link on the 32 km-long A4/IP4 connection ...
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Intermat 2015, the international exhibition for equipment and techniques for the construction and materials industries, will take place 20-25th April, 2015 at Paris Nord Villepinte, France. Online ...
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On 02.02.2015 the contracts between the proponents Transurban and Westlink M7 shareholders and the NSW Government were signed on the $3 billion NorthConnex project, which will be funded through toll ...
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On 29.01.2015 TBMs Eva and Minerva arrived at the station box at Copenhagen Central station of the Cityringen metro circle line.
The 15.5 km-long automated metro line is due to open in July 2019, ...
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Excavation works at the 902 m-long Karaula tunnel, section Kladanj-Podpaklenik, which lies on the M-18 Sicki Brod-Sarajevo road have been completed, with the official ceremony held on 28.01.2015. ...
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Driving and lining works have been completed in the 530 m-long Basci tunnel, on the new Aurelia road section from Albisola to Savona in Liguria, Italy. The Consortium Letimbro, headed by CMC, ...
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The Cross Harbor Freight Program (CHFP) aims to improve the movement of freight across New York Harbor between the east-of-Hudson and west-of-Hudson regions. Ten viable build alternatives have been ...
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The new Midtown Tunnel is currently under construction at Sparrows Point, MD, US. The tunnel is comprised of 11 concrete elements, which, once complete, will be towed down the Chesapeake Bay to the ...
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On 29.01.2015 the European Investment Bank announced it will provide GBP480 million for the extension of the Northern Line to Battersea. The long-term loan represents nearly 50 percent of the ...
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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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