Line B extension of the Lyon metroIn July 2009 the JV headed by Chantiers Modernes Rhone-Alpes, a subsidiary of Vinci Group, with the nine companies SPIE Batignolles, TPCI, Dodin Campenon Bernard ...
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Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway A3 design approvalOn 28.01.2010, Anas approved the executive design and the start of work on the third mega lot, third part of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway ...
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NFM Technologies improves on Spanish recordWhen TBMs of sizes greater than 9 m-diameter complete more than a kilometre in a month, the talk turns to records. NFM Technologies already held the ...
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Telvent tunnel management system for BrazilSpanish IT firm Telvent will install a tunnel management system on the El Morro Alto tunnels in Brazil to enhance safety and reduce accidents.Under the ...
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Work starts on Caldecott fourth tubeCaldecott tunnel is on Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in California, US. It handles 160,000 vehicles/day through its three tubes, and is overloaded. Work is ...
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Madrid-Castilla La Mancha-Valencia-Murcia high speed line progressExcavation has been completed at the 2,437 m-long El Regajal rail tunnel on the 4.7 km Aranjuez-OntÃgola section of the ...
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Robbins EPB assembled at Mexico jobsiteMexico City officials have celebrated the erection of the country's largest ever TBM with a cutterhead turning ceremony. Next week, the 10.2 m-diameter Robbins ...
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Portugal court suspends Marao tunnel constructionConstruction of the twin-tube 5,655 m-long Marao motorway tunnel on the new Amarante-Vila Real highway in Portugal has been suspended following ...
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Padley & Venables worldwidePadley & Venables is one of the largest international manufacturers of a wide range of quality tools and bar steels for use in the mining, tunnelling, quarrying, ...
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GIA working well in Hong Kong small diameter drainage tunnelsContractor Dragages-Nishimatsu has taken delivery of a fleet of GIA locomotives, shuttlecars and Haggloaders to assist in small diameter ...
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Devil's Slide improvementOwned and operated by Caltrans, the Devil's Slide project is located on State Route 1 in San Mateo County between the City of Pacifica and the town of Montara, California. ...
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Terratec sponsors tunnelbuilder.comTerratec, our old friends from Tasmania, are starting 2010 with a bang, sponsors of tunnelbuilder.com! For 20 years Terratec has been manufacturing Total ...
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Singapore Downtown Line progressingContractor Soletanche Bachy is excavating trenches for the slurry walls that will contain the important Bugis interchange station on the new 40 km-long, 33 ...
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New guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels designANAS has published updated guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels design, with more information about Italian Risk Analysis Method and ...
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Korea Mould for precasting equipmentKorea Mould supplies high quality segment lining products for the world's tunnelling industry and a range of similar products for railway, pipejacking, spun ...
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Normet increases investment in tunnelling market2009 proved to be a good year for Normet, promoting the decision to invest another EUR1 million at their plant in Iisalmi, Finland. 2010 has started ...
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Jondal tunnel length decidedThe alignment and length of Norway's Jondal tunnel has finally been decided. The tunnel will be 9,970 m-long and will run through Kvinnherad and Jondal municipalities. ...
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Petrobras prepares Gastau tunnelPetrobras has already contracted for a 6 m-diameter tunnelling machine in Germany for the excavation of the underground portion of the 98 km-long Gastau gas pipeline ...
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Twenty years of TerratecIn 1990, Tony Peach and Al Jones, after long experience working on projects around the world with The Robbins Company and its affiliates, decided to move to Australia. ...
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IPS Group New Year greetingsThe IPS group would like to extend best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year to all our clients and personnel.As we embark on our 22nd year in business as an ...
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Terratec celebrates 20th anniversaryTerratec, the renowned Australian designer and manufacturer of TBMs, raise borers, and specialized tunnelling and mining systems, is celebrating its 20th ...
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Breakthrough at Gondar Station on Rome Metro B1On 03.12.2009 the 6.76m-diameter EPB TBM (odd track) entered the Gondar station of the B1 Metro line in Rome, having started its drive at Conca d'Oro ...
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Design approval for refurbishment of Fossino tunnelANAS has approved the design for A3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway, km 148,800 - 153,400 section, between Fossino tunnel and Laino Borgo exit in ...
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Sandvik rigs score in Indian oil storage projectFour Sandvik DT 820 underground jumbo drill rigs are being used for the construction of India's first underground crude oil storage cavern, located at ...
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Intertunnel 2010 gains paceAs the only Italian exhibition dedicated exclusively to the tunnelling industry, Intertunnel is drawing some of the great names to Torino for 8-10th June, 2010. Palazzoli ...
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Breakthrough of Barritteri tunnel on the A3 Salerno-Reggio CalabriaOn 04.12.2009, the Consortium Salerno-Reggio Calabria, composed of Impregilo and Condotte, broke through the EUR105 million, 2.5 ...
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Hedinsfjardargong opening delayedAt the beginning of April, 2009, the last 40 m of the Hedinsfjardargong tunnel between Ólafsfjördur and Siglufjördur in north Iceland was blasted open. The tunnel ...
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New Zealand Rosedale sewer outfall holedThe 3.3 m-diameter EPB employed by McConnell Dowell on the 2.95 km-long Auckland Rosedale outfall has holed through into the prepared subaqueous shaft, some ...
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Robit Rocktools to sponsor tunnelbuilder.comFinland-based Robit Rocktools has gone from strength to strength since the company first became a tunnelbuilder advertiser. Now a major player in the ...
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IPS Group Tunnelling Department introduces Keith GillIPS Group is pleased to announce that Keith Gill has joined the company and is now representing the IPS Tunnelling Department in the United ...
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Sandvik rigs for Vietnam hydroThe Dakmi 4 hydro plant project in Vietnam experienced unforeseen severe rock conditions near the portal of the 3.37 km-long tailrace tunnel, requiring the driving of a ...
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BASF launches improved ecological tail sealantZurich-based BASF Construction Chemicals has launched a specially developed tail sealant with low ecological impact designed for open mode EPB and hard ...
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Herrenknecht breakthrough at BuettenbergOn 20.11.2009 the 2,500 t Herrenknecht TBM broke through on the first tube of the 1,230 m A5 Buettenberg tunnel on Biel bypass. It will now be moved to ...
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Breakthrough for Thessaloniki metroIn 2007, Attiko Metro of Athens awarded the EUR958 million contract for design, construction and commissioning of the 9.5 km Thessaloniki metro to an Italian-Greek ...
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RITCO joins tunnelbuilder.com Royal Industrial Technology Corporation, or RITCO, is the largest tunnel management engineering company in Korea, with 90% market share for roads tunnels of 1-5 km in ...
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Tunnel safety and security conferenceThe fourth international symposium on tunnel safety and security, ISTSS, will take place in Frankfurt, Germany from 17-19th March, 2010. Online registration is ...
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