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China Tunnel Summit 2008The Millennium Hongqiao Hotel in Shanghai will host the China Tunnel Summit 2008 on 20th and 21st March, 2008. The summit will bring together scholars, senior experts and ...
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Vancouver Celebrates Breakthrough of Canada Line TunnelThe Canada Line rapid transit project reached a major milestone on 2nd March, 2008 when a 440-tonne, 86 m-long Lovat tunnel boring ...
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TBM Finishes Drilling under Beacon Hill in SeattleA Mitsubishi 600-tonne, 91 m-long, 6.4 m-diameter tunnel boring machine has punched on 5th March, 2008 the second tunnel through Seattle's ...
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NFM Technologies Receives Order for Water Diversion Project in ChinaTwo 5.75 m-diameter hard rock tunnel boring machines have been ordered to NFM Technologies as part of the project to divert the ...
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Tunnelling Ends on First La Cabrera Tunnel on Madrid-Valencia High Speed LineA joint venture formed by FCC and Sando completed the first tube of the La Cabrera tunnel, the longest tunnel on ...
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... double tunnels, with a total length of 24 km, which will be built using four tunnel boring machines (EPB-TBM), with an excavation diameter of 9.80 m.
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The German and Czech railway infrastructure managers, DB Netz and SZ, have announced a public tender for design work of the zoning decision documentation under the Dresden–Prague railway ...
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The world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel design, the Fehmarnbelt link gets a go-ahead. The 18 km infrastructure, the longest of its kind, connecting Denmark’s Lolland Falster ...
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The government opened international tender in June for the design of Llogara Tunnel engineering project. The tendering process for the construction ...
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CAMORINO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Switzerland officially opened the Ceneri Base Tunnel on Friday, the final piece in a direct, flat rail link connecting northern Europe to the ...
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LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), August 31 (SeeNews) – Turkey's Cengiz will complete the construction of the second pipe of the Karavanke motorway tunnel ...
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... covering 11 km of twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. ... of four tunnel boring machines expected to be in place by the end of 2022.
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Afcons, in a joint venture with Strabag, has constructed the world's longest motorable tunnel 3,000 m above sea level. The Atal Tunnel will reduce the distance between Manali and Leh by ...
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Three world-leading consortia have been short-listed to construct twin twenty kilometres of tunnel as part of two works packages on one of Sydney’s biggest rail tunnelling projects.
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Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long-established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders, welcomed its first rail freight delivery of aggregate at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in ...
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Early in 2021, two 2000 tonne tunnelling machines measuring over 170 metres each will be launched at a site by the M25 to bore 10 miles each underneath the Chilterns in Buckinghamshire.
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The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...
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