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L.A. Metro’s tunneling machines reach future Wilshire/Fairfax Station as part of Purple Line Extension

28/05/2020

Both of L.A. Metro’s tunneling machines have reached the future Wilshire/Fairfax subway station near the La Brea Tar Pits in the Miracle Mile. Tunneling for the first three miles of this four-mile ...

Ceneri Base Tunnel tested to 275km/h (170mph)

27/05/2020

The new Ceneri Base Tunnel, in Switzerland, has now been tested to 275km/h. The tunnel is the fastest single-bore tunnel using Furrer+Frey’s Rigid Overhead Conductor-rail system.

Char Dham highway project: Big milestone achieved! BRO builds tunnel below Chamba town

27/05/2020

The construction of this 6 km road and 450 m tunnel is being done at a cost of Rs 88 crore. Earlier the date of completion of this project was scheduled ...

HS2 reveals first images of Tunnel Boring Machines

27/05/2020

HS2 ltd has revealed the initial images of its first two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) set to launch on the project later this year. The Tunnel Boring ...

VINCI Construction-led JV wins €799m Grand Paris Express contract

19/05/2020

The work for package 1 includes the digging tunnels spanning 11.8km using two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) and construction of Antonypôle, ...

Stockholm metro tunnelling contract awarded

16/05/2020

SWEDEN: The Subterra subsidiary of Czech company Metrostav Group has been awarded a KC5bn contract to undertake drill and blast tunneling for a 4·1 km western extension of the Stockholm metro Blue ...

Help us name the first HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines

16/05/2020

We need your help to name the first pair of tunnel boring machines to be used on the high-speed rail project.

Boring Company drill reaches end of second people-mover tunnel

16/05/2020

The Boring Company’s tunnel-making, dirt-clearing drill reached the end of the line for the second time in three months Thursday, making a pathway for Elon Musk’s untested underground people-mover.

Thames Water awards first £2.6bn AMP7 lots

16/05/2020

Thames Water has named its partner contractors for the first two lots in its £2.6bn AMP7 capital work programme.

Test train reaches 275km/h in Ceneri Base Tunnel

08/05/2020

Construction of the base tunnel began in 2006 and it is the final section of the Zürich – Milan corridor upgrade project, which also included the ...

BTSYM Workshop : Tackling Uncertainty in Tunnelling

08/05/2020

Assoc. Prof., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki The presentation argues that the use of classification ratings must be accompanied by an understanding of the actual rockmass behaviour in ...

Project Update: NEORSD’s Shoreline Storage Tunnel

08/05/2020

The Shoreline Storage Tunnel (SST) project is part of Project Clean Lake, a $3 billion, 25-year program that the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) began in 2011 to meet Clean Water Act ...

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