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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APAC tunnels and bridges conference will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 15-16th April, 2015. Click for conference agenda. More from roohi.taragi@fleminggulf.com. 47/14.
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Ritchie Bros will hold an unreserved public auction of plant and equipment at their premises in Caorso, Italy on 04.12.2014, where some 900 plant items will be for sale. Click here and visit ...
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At Poltinger Precision Systems we strive every day to improve both ourselves, and our products.
To suit our customers’ needs, and to implement their ideas for an even better PPS Guidance ...
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On 08.11.2014 breakthrough was achieved on the 3.9 km-long Val di Sambro tunnel on A1, between Firenze and Bologna. The contract was awarded to the JV Vianini Lavori/Toto/Profacta. Click it/21 ...
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On 11.11.2014 the final breakthrough in the first tunnel of Milan's M4 metro occurred at the Forlanini FS site. Excavations began last April, and to date 65 percent of the contract for the ...
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Atlas Copco has introduced its Meyco Versa mobile shotcreting unit suited to mid-size tunnels. Read the press release and contact michael.seitz@ch.atlascopco.com. 46/14
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On 29.09.2014 the TBM Alice completed the southbound tube of the 2.4 km Waterview tunnels from Owairaka to Waterview. The tunnels will connect Auckland's Southwestern and Northwestern motorways. At ...
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French manufacturer Acimex supplies vacuum devices for the handling of precast concrete segments in tunnels.
Acimex vacuum erector and segment trolley will be used in the 10.16 m-diameter EPB ...
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On 20.10.2014 TBM Ellie finished her journey at Victoria Dock Portal in east London, completing the 900 m drive from Limmo Peninsula, near Canning Town, to Victoria Dock Portal in just six weeks, at ...
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On 20.10.2014 construction of Grand St Bernard safety tunnel (GSS) restarted, following agreement with the old contractor JV Condotte that only 11 of 23 cross passages originally intended will be ...
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Eight Terratec 6.52 m-diameter EPBs are at work on Delhi Metro Phase 3. During the last two months, four significant breakthroughs have been recorded, and another 14 will be accomplished during the ...
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