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Hsuehshan Tunnel Opens in TaiwanThe 12.9 km Hsuehshan, or Snow Mountain, tunnel has opened to traffic on 16th June, 2006 in eastern Ilan county, Taiwan. It is the longest road tunnel in Asia ...
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Double Breakthrough with Two Lovats in Bologna
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Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Kicks off San Cristobal Tunnel at Groundbreaking CeremonyChilean president Michelle Bachelet, minister of public works Eduardo Bitran, and Karl Traub, ...
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Flood Relief Tunnel Starts in ParisAn impressive tunnel boring machine commences to work at the Ivry-Massena tunnel (TIMA) in Paris. Its mission is to dig Europe's biggest and deepest ...
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Last Breakthrough in the Uetliberg Tunnel with Tunnel Bore Extender (TBE) Using Undercutting TechniqueOn 18th May, 2006 the Uetliberg tunnel construction crew celebrated the TBE's last ...
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Angela Merkel Inaugurates New Central Station and Tunnel in Berlin as Germany Hosts Football World Cup
Berlin inaugurated its new central station on 26th May, 2006. The new station is ...
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Nordoya Tunnel Opens in Faroe IslandsThe 6.2 km Nordoya subsea tunnel opened on 29th April, 2006 in the Faroe Islands, three months ahead of schedule. This is a single-tube dual-lane tunnel, the ...
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First Sections of Variante di Valico to Open SoonThe upgrading project of the Apennine section between Sasso Marconi and Barberino di Mugello, first designed in 1993 and revised in 1999, goes from ...
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Construction Starts on Tunnel under Yangtze River in WuhanWuhan, capital of Hubei province, wants to decongest the only two bridges over the Yangtze River in the city centre. The 3,609 m-long ...
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East Rail's Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Extension in Hong Kong Nears EndIn Hong Kong's Northern New Territories lies a 25 hectare site of agricultural lands and ponds. This is the Long Valley ...
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Rome Presented Project Finance Scheme for Metro Line DOn 13th April, 2006 the project finance scheme of Line D, the fourth subway line in Rome, has been presented. This is a new line to be developed ...
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First Castellanza Tunnel Breaks Through on Saronno-Malpensa Railway SectionThe first tunnel built to place underground the FNM tracks in Castellanza broke through on 19th April, 2006. The ...
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Wirth Exports its Tunnel Bore Extender to JapanTo protect an endangered species of hawk during expansion of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway, a 1,000 m-long tunnel is not being blasted but bored ...
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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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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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The new Central Interceptor TBM has been officially named Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, as one of the Matariki stars to which Māori send their dreams or aspirations for the new year. Students from ...
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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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