The 2 TBMs that will dig the North East Link road tunnels are a step closer to starting digging. The TBM cutterheads have been lowered into place in Watsonia. Next, the TBMs will be tested and ...
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On the 1st of July, Hassan Allam Construction celebrated the first successful TBM breakthrough for the Greater Cairo Metro Line 4 Project-Phase 1 from Station 6 to Station 7. Click here for the ...
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On 27 June, the TBM Cora Coralina, broke through at the Analia Franco station, the second TBM for the extension from Vila Prudente to Penha of the São Paulo Metro Line 2-Green.
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Press release - Greater Western Sydney is now home to landmark new 9.8-kilometre twin metro railway tunnels, with major tunnelling officially complete on the city-shaping Sydney Metro – ...
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A new TERRATEC TBM will take part in the Klong Saen Saeb Drainage Tunnel Project in Thailand. TERRATEC celebrated the successful Factory Acceptance Tests of a new 4.27m diameter Earth Pressure ...
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Last Chance Grade (LCG) is a 4.83 km (3-mile) segment of US 101 just north of Wilson Creek, between Klamath and Crescent City. Landslides and road failures have been an ongoing problem for decades ...
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Press release - The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has revealed more plans for Global Lifting Awareness Day (GLAD) on 18 July.
A multidimensional campaign has been running since the ...
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On Friday, June 14th Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) held a historic ground breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of its West Portal facility.
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Press Release - H53 Pfons-Brenner construction site: the first segments reach the construction site
The two TBMs Wilma and Olga - which from September 2024 will dig and line the twin tube 7.5km ...
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Italian company CM Lafer Srl in collaboration with Indian company Eurostar Engineering Pvt-Ltd has completed the supply of 30 formworks for in-situ final lining of tunnels excavated with NATM system ...
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Work continues on the construction of 13 km (Lot 3A) of the new railway line - almost entirely underground – linking to the future Brenner Base Tunnel. The new infrastructure will begin from ...
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Victoria, the smallest of the three TBMs working on Watercare’s Central Interceptor project, has completed her micro-tunnelling work beneath Auckland and joined Domenica at the finish ...
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On Saturday 8th June 2024 - at the Preda portal at 1,800 meters above sea level - the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) officially inaugurated the new Albula railway tunnel (5860 m).
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Every year BBT organises an Open Day for the Brenner Base Tunnel project. They take place at the Austrian construction site H41 Sill-Pfons Gorge, and at the construction site of the Eisack ...
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Funding has been confirmed to extend the Central Interceptor wastewater tunnel by more than 1 km from Grey Lynn to Point Erin, Herne Bay. This will reduce wet weather overflows and ...
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The long-awaited Gateway Tunnel project is officially moving forward. The $16 billion initiative has secured a $6.8 billion full-funding grant from the federal government, marking a significant ...
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Press release - Mega tunnel boring machines (TBMs) Catherine, Eileen and Peggy have completed their historic journeys to build metro rail tunnels for the Sydney Metro – Western Sydney Airport ...
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On Wednesday 29 May 2024, the Société des grands projets christened Awa, the latest TBM for Line 18. In June, Awa will start digging - from the future Guyancourt station - a 6.7 ...
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Chiltern tunnel TBMs dismantled - The Dismantling of the two Herrenknecht TBMs - 170m long and weighed 2,000 t - that built HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd’s Chiltern Tunnel have now been ...
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Futura will is the name of the second TBM used for the construction of the new Naples-Bari line. The TBM, whose name was chosen by the pupils of the E. Faceltti elementary school in Apice (BN), ...
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After a successful first call for abstracts WTC2025 is pleased to announce the deadline for submissions has been extended until Thursday June 13th. Take this opportunity to share innovative ideas, ...
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On 29 may 2024 Kolektor Construction and Euro-Asfalt completed excavation of the sixth and longest tunnel of the 2TDK project providing a second track between Divaca and the port of Koper. This ...
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TBM Jessie, the first TBM for the Sydney Metro West - Eastern Tunnelling Package, is about to be launched. It will carve out a 2.3-km tunnel from The Bays to Hunter Street in the ...
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On May 16th, two super-large diameter slurry TBMs, developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation Limited (CRCHI), were launched from opposite directions in Ningbo and Zhoushan ...
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On 14 May 2024 the TBM Ida, launched back in June 2023, reached its first 3 km of excavation towards the south, in the West line tunnel, advancing an average of 13 m/day and extracting ...
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Renny, the last West End Connectors’s TBM on the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension (ECWE) project, has officially completed its 6.3-km journey from Renforth Drive to the extraction shaft, ...
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Riverlinx CJV - the construction joint venture of Ferrovial Construction, BAM Nuttall and SK ecoplant working on behalf of Transport for London - completed construction works for the connections ...
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The BTS 2024 Conference and Exhibition is the largest gathering of tunnelling professionals in the UK. Taking place on October 8th – 9th, 2024 at the QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, ...
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Webuild, which was awarded the contract by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) for the Naples-Cancello lot of the Naples-Bari high-speed/high-capacity railway line, is using hyperbaric excavation ...
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Press release - For the first time, the Villarodin-Bourget/Modane underground construction site, where part of the Mont Cenis base tunnel, at the centre of the new Turin-Lyon railway line, is ...
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At the beginning of May, the TBM Margherita (10 m in diameter and 140 m long) reached 1 km of advancement in the excavation of the odd-numbered track tube of the 6.87 km-long, ...
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On 10 May 2024 the last northbound piece of the twin-tube rock Roseto 1 tunnel (1.2km) was demolished. The tunnel will be completed using concrete and pre-cast concrete segments for the final ...
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On 23 May 2024 the single shield hard rock TBM, manufactured by CREG and named Caucasus, completed the excavation of the 9 km tunnel, connecting the village of Kvesheti with the village of Kobiin, ...
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Work on the Connexion Ligne B is progressing! On Wednesday 15 May - after three months of work - the TBM Clemence Isaure - 30 m long, 5.28 m in diameter and reconditioned by the BESSAC company ...
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The 10th edition of the ITA Tunnelling Awards will take place in Genoa (Italy) on November 28, 2024 at the occasion of the ITA and SIG 50th anniversary celebration organized by the Italian ...
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In a significant milestone, the TBM Hiwa-i-te-Rangi, nearly 200 meters in length, has successfully breached into a shaft at a depth of 47 meters below ground. This achievement took place at the ...
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