Correction: Robbins Signs Cooperation Agreement with Dalian Heavy IndustrialThere is a correction to our piece of news regarding The Robbins Company published in E-News Weekly 40/2004, p.1 dated ...
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Portland's West Side Big Pipe North Drive is CompletedA Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM named Lewis (machine S-232) has broken through on 31st August into Confluent shaft on Swan Island after a 4-month ...
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Dublin Port Tunnel Breaks ThroughThe Herrenknecht EPB TBM excavating the second tube of the Dublin Port tunnel broke through into the reception pit at Whitehall on the 18th August, 2004. The event ...
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Tunnel Collapse Kills 29 in IndiaTwenty-nine labourers have been killed on 2nd August after a tunnel shaft collapsed in the Himalayas as part of the works for the Tehri hydro project in the northern ...
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Lovat TBM Breaks Through Upper Reach Tunnel of NEIS - us/29The Traylor / J. F. Shea / Frontier Kemper / Kenny joint venture broke through on 16th July the 3.3 km Upper Reach tunnel of the North East ...
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Atlas Copco to Acquire Baker Hughes Mining ToolsAtlas Copco North America Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Baker Hughes Mining Tools, a division of Hughes Christensen, a division of Baker ...
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Hook Fiber Goes GlobalFrom its manufacturing base in Seoul, Korea, Hookfiber International Corporation (HIC) is bringing more competition into the steel fibre concrete and shotcrete reinforcement ...
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Robbins Breakthroughs in SydneyTwo breakthroughs in two days, on July 27th and 29th, made for an eventful week on the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line project in Sydney, Australia. Thiess-Hochtief ...
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Wirth-NFM Group To Build TBM for Pajares Tunnel in Spain - es/55The FCC / Necso JV has placed an order with the Wirth-NFM Technologies Group for one TBM to be used to drive one of the two parallel ...
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Wirth TBM Breaks Through Sabugal-Meimoa Water TunnelA Wirth hard rock TBM broke though a tunnel on 23rd June for the Rural Development and Irrigation Institute under the Portuguese Ministry of ...
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MHI Receives Order for Two TBMs from China - cn/28Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has received an order to supply two earth pressure balance shield tunnelling machines to China Construction First Group ...
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China and Argentina to Build Tunnel to Link Atlantic and Pacific - ar/20 & cl/24China and Argentina signed on 29th June an agreement in principle for building a 13.9 km tunnel across the Andes ...
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Wirth / NFM Technologies Group Creates Subsidiary in SpainThe Wirth / NFM Technologies Group has created NFM-Wirth Service S.A., a subsidiary located in Madrid. The new company has been operational ...
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Railway Concessionaire Orders Perthus TBM with Option for Second Machine - fr/16 & es/21Herrenknecht has received an order from TP Ferro, the concession company set up by ACS-Dragados of Spain ...
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Germany and Denmark Sign Declaration on Fixed Baltic LinkThe German and Danish transport ministers, Manfred Stolpe and Flemming Hansen, signed on 23rd June a declaration to pursue a fixed road and ...
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Nusantara Tunnel Project in Indonesia Needs ExpertsPT Nusantara Tunnel Indonesia is currently preparing to construct a 33 km subsea twin tunnel crossing the Sunda Strait in Indonesia. The tunnel ...
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Gjerstad for toughness, durability, and a long working lifeMost people in the tunnelling industry associate the name Gjerstad with side-tipping buckets, an item that they have produced for nearly 40 ...
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At the Heart of the LötschbergTwenty minutes are necessary to cover the 7 km southward between the Mitholz entrance of the Lötschberg base tunnel and the worksite to Ferden. Consortium Satco, a JV ...
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Harvey Parker - ITA President with a MissionDr Harvey W. Parker, PE, a tunnel and geotechnical engineer in private practice, has been elected to a three-year term as President of the International ...
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Spain Inaugurates First Phase of Test and R&D TunnelVicente Alvarez Areces, the president of Asturias in northern Spain, inaugurated on 25th May a EUR1.3 million high temperature fan test ...
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Goodbye WT, hello TTC!April edition of World Tunnelling magazine was the last of the series, and the title has closed after some 150 issues. Launched in March, 1988, WT was well-received by both ...
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France and Italy Sign Lyon-Turin High Speed Rail Link AgreementFrance and Italy on 5th May signed an agreement on the financing of a EUR12 billion transalpine high speed rail link between the cities ...
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Austria and Italy Sign Agreement on Brenner Base TunnelHubert Gorbach, the Austrian deputy chancellor and minister for transport, innovation and technology, and Pietro Lunardi, Italy's minister for ...
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EU Welcomes New TEN GuidelinesThe European Parliament and Council adopted 30 priority projects of the Trans-European transport Network (TEN) on 21st April, a few days before the enlargement of the ...
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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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Network Rail has delayed the tender race for the £900m Western Rail Link to Heathrow until Summer 2022 because of Covid-19...
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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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After our contribution to research and development about "blasting", the alternative follows now: mechanised tunnelling methods such as full-face machines and roadheaders.
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In a statement, Transport for London said that the additional costs were not linked to the construction of the project, which remains at £1bn. “All payments ...
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GUWAHATI: The construction of the Atal Tunnel connecting Manali with Leh, which is the world's longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet, has been ...
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The government opened international tender in June for the design of Llogara Tunnel engineering project. The tendering process for the construction ...
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Barhale has won a £22M contract to monitor Thames Water’s network of tunnels and aqueducts.
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KUNMING, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- The cross-border tunnel on the China-Laos Railway was completed on Sunday, according to local authorities.
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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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The high-speed railway, HS2 recently published a high-level report into its construction plans for the next few years. The timeline covers most of the concrete phase of the project before ...
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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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Switzerland's New Rail Link: Tunnelling and excavation. For Gotthard Base Tunnel, an astonishing 25 million tonnes of rock was excavated. For context, ...
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... covering 11 km of twin tunnels from The Bays to Sydney Olympic Park. ... of four tunnel boring machines expected to be in place by the end of 2022.
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The Ceneri Base Tunnel is scheduled to become operational at the end of 2020 and it is the third largest railway tunnel project in Switzerland after the Gotthard and the Lötschberg Base ...
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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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If you missed our webinar on high-speed tunneling in the Himalayas, we've got a video for you.
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The marquee construction elements are the £2bn Stonehenge tunnel to upgrade the A303 (Amesbury to Berwick Down) and the £7bn Lower Thames ...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in May 2018 laid the foundation stone for the Rs 6,800 crore project, billed as the Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, ...
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The system improvements include construction of nine tunnels to control sewer overflows. Upcoming tunneling components of Project Clear include ( ...
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