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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On 14.06.2013, the Swiss Federal Council approved the 3.8 km-long extension of Bruenigstrasse,
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At WTC2013 in Geneva earlier this month, the three-floor exhibition was fully sold out with more than 100 exhibitors. Some 1,500 visitors attended the event.
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The India representative for Ein Shemer, Trikausch India Pvt Ltd, has been working on two significant sections of Delhi metro with a total length of bored tunnels exceeding 18 km.
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WTC2013 was a successful congress, with more than 1,800 participants, some 110 exhibitors and several very well attended social events.
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On Friday 24.05.2013 the first of three Robbins EPBs excavating the Moscow Metro made its breakthrough.
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For a number of years, Ein Shemer Rubber (ES) has participated in the programme of the Office of the Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy in Israel.
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The east tube of the Morazzone rock tunnel (GN71) is 2,089.7 m-long from P.K. 2+899.00 to P.K. 0+809.30.
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Legacy Way, or Northern Link as it was formerly known, is Brisbane City Council’s 4.6 km-long road tunnel that will connect the Western Freeway
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Robbins has produced its latest video of time-lapse assembly of the first of two mixed ground EPBs for San Francisco Central Subway where they will excavate tight turns under low cover
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On 30.04.2014 drill/blast excavation started on the1,710 m with 106 m in cut/cover right tube of the Lubian tunnel on the Madrid-Galicia high speed railway.
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The Land Transport Authority (LTA) invited the public to vote for their preferred station name for 16 Thomson Line (TSL) stations earlier this year.
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On stand 1310 at the upcoming RETC in Washington, VMT will be showing examples of its navigation systems and segment quality control services. Apart from precision 3D measurements of segment moulds,
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