For driving the Eurasia tunnel beneath the Bosphorus, Turkish-South Korean construction consortium Yapı Merkezi Insaat ve Sanayi AS/SK Engineering & Construction ordered a specially developed 13.6 m-diameter Herrenknecht TBM Mixshield.
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Marti Group will employ four intelligent computer-controlled Sandvik DT1 series jumbo drilling rigs at 14.3 km-long Solbakk tunnel, the world’s longest subsea road tunnel
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For those who like railways, metros and tunnels, the ninth Railworld Summit takes place in Bangkok, Thailand 23-25th October, 2013.
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The British Tunnelling Society conference and exhibition is billed as the UK tunnelling event of the year, with over 50 booths sold.
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Call for papers for the fifteenth edition of this triennial event to be held at Hilton Hotel, Sydney 17-19th September, 2014.
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Metro Fortaleza will be the first application of Robbins EPBs in Brazil. Four 6.92 m-diameter machines have been ordered ahead of contractor selection.
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The first edition of the trade show dedicated to all product sectors related to underground, for the creation of underground works as well as the investigation and exploration of ground conditions, will take place on 17th-19th October, 2013 at Bologna Fairground.
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On 30.07.2013 TBM Bertha, involved in the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement
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Contractor Bayburt has ordered seven Sandvik rigs for its Turkish State Railway project
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International recruitment consultant iPS is currently looking for personnel for an upcoming project in Europe starting mid-September.
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Florian Mussner, provincial commissioner of public works at Bolzano, presented the 13 variants for the construction of a bypass in San Giorgio/Brunico.
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On 26.07.2013 the Robbins EPB, named Mom Chung, started digging, kicking off construction of San Francisco’s new subway tunnel.
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On 29.07.2013, after only eight months tunnelling, the 15.62-diameter TBM Martina, built by Herrenknecht for Toto Costruzioni Generali, broke through the 2,600 m south tube of Sparvo tunnel
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Terratec has completed factory acceptance tests for a 1.5 m-diameter microtunnelling system to be used in the Bangkok metropolitan area.
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Tunnelling has been concentrated in Italy, Norway and Spain over most of the 15 years during which tunnelbuilder has been monitoring activity.
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Major Russian and Brazilian delegations will be introduced at ExpoTunnel in Bologna, 17-19th October, 2013 as part of the internationalisation plan for the show.
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Just two weeks after Tony Kanaan set the fastest winning average speed of over 300 km/h in the Indy 500, a 37 year-old, 6.2 m-diameter Robbins
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On 18.07.2013 the fourth and last TBM, the S238 named Roberta driving the underground section between Monumentale and Tre Torri stations, reached Pozzo Orafi,
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At a large industrial auction held by Ritchie Bros. in Caorso (Piacenza) on 11.07.2013, a selection of 1,130 heavy equipment items and trucks were sold to a large crowd of bidders.
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Breakthrough in the second Val Sarentino road tunnel is scheduled for midday on 19.07.2013.
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The first parts of the 15 m-diameter, 100 m-long NFM TBM ordered for the twin 3.9 km tubes of the Caltanissetta road tunnel have arrived at site.
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On 20.07.2013 a public celebration took place at TBM Bertha’s launch site to mark the start of the SR 99 tunnel beneath Seattle.
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On 28.10.2009 the JV Astaldi (Italy), Gulermak (Turkey) and PBDiM (Poland) signed the EUR780 million contract for design and construction of Warsaw Metro Line 2,
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Just as you were thinking you might get a quiet, unstressed holiday season, the tunnelbuilder active tenders list has hit 70 for the first time.
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The latest issue of the informative CBE newsletter has been published, with topics such as special precast facilities, interviews and project updates.
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The Crossrail Moving Ahead newsletter has been released giving full updates on this project, which is now in its fourth year.
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The Union Cabinet has approved the Mumbai Metro Line-3 Colaba-Bandra-Santacruz Electronics Export Processing Zone (Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ) corridor.
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On 26.06.2013 the 11 km Pir Panchal railway tunnel opened as the longest tunnel in India.
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World-renowned auctioneer Ritchie Bros is selling a variety of heavy equipment at 08.30h on Thursday, 11.07.2013
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Both 12.4 m-diameter TBMs excavating the Legacy Way tunnels from Toowong to Kelvin Grove in Brisbane, Australia have now holed out some two months ahead of schedule
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The fifth conference on fire protection and safety in tunnels will be held in Copenhagen, from 11th to 12th September, 2013
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The ninth Railworld Summit will take place in Bangkok, Thailand on 24th and 25th October, 2013.
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Acimex, the handling equipment branch of CBE, has supplied a clamp to feed complete piles of segments to the TBM
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Crossrail’s second TBM has reached Canary Wharf box, breaking through on 06.06.2013.
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On 13.06.2013 Adif completed the drilling of the Corga de Vela railway tunnel.
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On 14.06.2013 Anas started work on the four-lane adaptation of the 11.56 km Lanzo-Ornate section in Civitella Paganico
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