First TBM Starts Line 9 of Barcelona MetroAn Earth Pressure Balance shield built by NFM Technologies, Wirth's sister company based in Lyon, started driving line 9 in Barcelona from Can Zam in Santa ...
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Developing DSL BroadbandAccess to DSL Broadband is increasing rapidly, allowing us to install downloadable publications for more tunnelbuilder readers. However, the spread of DSL is not uniform. ...
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Zürich Thalwil Tunnel InauguratedSwiss transport minister Moritz Leuenberger inaugurated the second double-track line Zürich-Thalwil on 6th June, 2003. This 10.7 km line allows long-distance ...
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Hsuehshan Tunnel Section Breaks ThroughTaiwan's Premier Yu Shyi-kun presided over on 31st May, 2003 the breakthrough ceremony of the 5.7 km western section of the maintenance and emergency gallery ...
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Atlas Copco Displays Impressive Product Line at IntermatAtlas Copco has been at the forefront at the big Intermat show held in Paris 13th to 17th May, 2003. Among the highlights from the Atlas Copco ...
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Extensive Geological Campaign Under Way for Stuttgart 21Stuttgart 21 is one of Deutsche Bahn's largest projects consisting mainly of a comprehensive redesign of Stuttgart's dead-end central station, ...
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Mott MacDonald sponsors tunnelintelligence.comMott MacDonald is taking up a foundation sponsorship of tunnelintelligence.com, the industry's favourite bids and awards website from tunnelbuilder. ...
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EuroTest Survey Assesses Safety in 25 European Road TunnelsThe survey "Safety in Road Tunnels 2003" carried out by several European motoring associations for the European ADAC motoring consortium ...
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Atlas Copco at Intermat 2003Visitors to this year's Intermat exhibition which will be held in Paris 13th to 17th May will be greeted by an array of equipment from the Swedish manufacturer Atlas ...
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Meet IPS at AmsterdamIPS, the supplier of specialist personnel to tunnelling projects, has improved its website so that vacancies and available personnel can now be searched by department. This ...
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Madrid Metrosur Commissioned on Schedule - es/24Madrid, Friday 11th April, 2003 Metrosur was officially opened today, completing the Madrid Metro 1999-2003 extension programme in just 40 months. ...
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Northbound Tunnel Opening for Boston's Big DigThe 2.4 km northbound tunnel on Interstate 93 opened to motorists on 30th March. The tunnel runs under Atlantic Avenue starting near South Station. The ...
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On December 22, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a loan agreement with the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in Kathmandu, the capital city, to provide a ...
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New Zealand's biggest transport infrastructure job leapt forward today with the arrival of the $13.5 million tunnel-boring machine for the $4.4 billion ...
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The £33m project involves the detailed design, build and commissioning of four foul water and surface water sewer diversions in Birmingham, ahead of the upcoming HS2 railway works.
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Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company has appointed PBE as main contractor for powering the construction of twin bored tunnels from Changi Airport Terminal 5 (T5) towards Changi Airport ...
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For this project, a high speed railway line is going to be built to connect London to the north of England in order to open up these areas, served by overcrowded and outdated trains...
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Join the Australian Tunnelling Society as they present the Use of Fibre Reinforced Concrete (FRC) in Precast Segmental Tunnel Linings in Asia – Focus on QA/QC...
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The Zheleznitsa tunnel is set to be Bulgaria's longest road tunnel. A tie-up between Bulgarian companies GP Group, Global Construction and Via Plan ...
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Work on High Speed 2 is ramping up ahead of tunnelling on the first phase of the route...
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A tunnel boring machine (TBM) called Martina has broken ground to signal the start of the Brescia-Verona high-speed rail project in northern Italy.
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Elon Musk may have finished digging his first Loop transportation project in Las Vegas, but he hasn't sent his tunnel-boring machine home just yet.
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(LCRC) has finished the last of 75 tunnels for its 414km rail project. ... been laid and 120km of tunnel has been bored since construction began in ...
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HS2 has awarded the contract for the first two London tunnelling machines to a partnership including German construction manufacturing company Herrenknecht
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Track laying within Tunnel Two (TBM Sandy's tunnel) is advancing on a daily basis, with more than 40 per cent of skeleton track (rail strings clipped to sleepers) in place, and almost 30 ...
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As part of the construction, the tracks from East Los Angeles and Azusa will both be connected to the tunnel. The current Little Tokyo/Arts District ...
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The cool morning air was filled with excitement in a clearing near the intersection of Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive on the morning of September 22. ...
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ASSEMBLIN, under its contract FSE 903 with TRAFIKVERKET, the Developer of Stockholm bypass, has awarded ZITRÓN with the supply of the tunnel ventilation equipment for Stockholm bypass
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An even longer tunnel, 15.2km in length, was bored in China's Yunnan Province by China Railway 17th Bureau Group. The extreme nature of the project ...
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As the TBM (tunnel boring machine) crosses over to Sealdah station, it will be a historic moment. Two of India's busiest railway stations, Howrah and ...
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A 900,000 pound tunnel boring machine, named “Bumblebee” in honor of Muhammad Ali, finally finished its 4-mile journey 200 feet underground, ...
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The west extension of the O-Train Line 1 includes more than 2 miles of tunnels that will be constructed using a cut and cover method.
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VANCOUVER -- The results of a feasibility study show five options for rapid transit to Metro Vancouver's North Shore.
The list was revealed Tuesday by the provincial government, and ...
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The TBM bore through complicated terrain near the Serravalle Designer Outlet and the existing Genoa – Turin line that required the use of an innovative ...
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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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Construction of the initial twin tunnels near the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) was complete in May. The system is expected to be ready for ...
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Concrete pouring has begun at the Chiltern Tunnel site on HS2 for the Tunnel Boring Machine launch pad. Two TBMs will begin wok next spring to dig ...
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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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At 4 a.m. early on the morning of June 20th, a glow appears on the horizon. It spreads over the meadows of Wiltshire, the area in southern Britain home to Salisbury and its medieval ...
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A view of an under construction site of Nagdhung tunnel at Sisnekhola in Dhading district, on Monday, September 07, 2020. Photo: Keshav Adhikari/THT.
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The Woodsmith Project is a deep mine and associated transport, processing and shipping infrastructure development under construction in North Yorkshire, UK.
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