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ITA elects first female president

11/05/2019

Martin Herrenknecht, chairman of tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht, started his Muir Wood lecture by saying that the industry needed ...

Why the tunneling and underground space profession needs more collaboration, future-thinking and diversity

10/05/2019

Tunneling and underground space has evolved significantly in recent years. In emerging countries, rapidly growing cities are experiencing increased demand for infrastructure. At the same time, in ...

Controlling Water for Cross Passage Excavation

10/05/2019

Cross passage excavation in segmentally lined tunnel construction will continue to challenge our engineering capabilities, especially in unpredictable ...

Tunnel construction of China-Myanmar railway underway

10/05/2019

The construction of a tunnel along a section of the China-Myanmar international railway is underway in southwest ...

IBM releases AI-powered IoT offering to help manage and monitor aging bridges, tunnels, highways and railways

10/05/2019

IBM Corp. announced on Wednesday a collaboration with Sund & Bælt — which owns and operates some of the largest infrastructure in the world

Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon colonies

10/05/2019

As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging ...

LESOTHO: SCLC Polihali will build 2 water diversion tunnels to dams

01/05/2019

The tunnel construction project is part of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Supply Project. “Bypass tunnels are essential to facilitate the ...

World's highest highway tunnel open to traffic in Tibet

26/04/2019

Construction of the tunnel started in 2015 on the 5,018-meter-high Mila Mountain, and it was completed on Monday, helping shorten the 18-km ...

Four CREG TBMs Break Through at Shenzhen Metro Line

26/04/2019

A CREG double-shield TBM (“CREC383”) mining an access tunnel of Lot 6111 on Shenzhen Metro Line 6 successfully broke through on April 10, 2019

China's largest TBM arrives in Shenzhen

25/04/2019

The machine has a diameter of 15.8m - equivalent to the height of a five-storey building. China Railway Engineering Equipment Group has developed ...

Bullet train: Bids invited for India's first undersea tunnel

25/04/2019

Bullet train: Bids invited for India's first undersea tunnel ... commissioning for double line high speed railway using tunnel boring machine (TBM) and ...

Massive tunnel-boring machines delivered down under

23/04/2019

Heavy-lift carrier AAL recently moved two tunnel-boring machines, essential equipment for major metro rail projects, from Nansha, China, to Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

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