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Enbridge completes rock sampling for Michigan tunnel project

22/11/2019

Enbridge completes rock sampling for Michigan tunnel project ... Results will be used to design the tunnel and a machine to drill through bedrock ...

Terzo Valico dei Giovi: excavation surpasses 40% on project with 5,000 direct, indirect workers

19/11/2019

MILAN, November 15, 2019 – COCIV, the general contractor led by Salini Impregilo, has completed 40% of the excavation work for the underground section of Terzo Valico dei Giovi, a ...

China-Laos railway tunnel construction making breakthroughs

14/11/2019

LUANG PRABANG — China-Laos railway tunnels' construction has been continuing to make breakthroughs, as one more major tunnel was drilled through on Nov 8 in the tropical mountains of northern Laos.

Elon Musk's Boring Company to begin drilling underground tunnel in Las Vegas

14/11/2019

To officially kick off the tunneling phase of the company's first commercial project, the boring machine will be turned on 40 feet below ground.

Thames Water tenders £700m AMP7/AMP8 capital construction programmes contracts

14/11/2019

Thames Water has gone out to tender with a contract for its AMP7/AMP8 capital construction programmes for infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects worth an estimated £700 million in total.

Veidekke wins second Norwegian rail tunnel contract

11/11/2019

Veidekke has been awarded a second contract for the double track project Drammen to Kobbervikdalen on the Vestfoldbanen railway line. The new NOK1.83bn (£156M) contract, awarded by Norway’s rail ...

Next MRT Jakarta line to have seven underground stations, multilevel tunnel

11/11/2019

Next MRT Jakarta line to have seven underground stations, multilevel tunnel

Brenner Base Tunnel: Salini Impregilo completes 70% of Southern Lot Tunnelling

11/11/2019

MILAN, November 6, 2019 – Salini Impregilo and partners Strabag, Consorzio Integra and Collini Lavori have done 70% of the excavation work on the southernmost lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel project.

Second mega borer breaks through for Sydney Metro at Martin Place

29/10/2019

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Mum Shirl has broken through a wall of rock into the new Martin Place Station in the heart of Sydney.

Squeezed for burial space, Jerusalem prepares to open an underground city of the dead

25/10/2019

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Carved into the rock on the side of a mountain directly under the Har HaMenuchot cemetery here lies the entrance to Jerusalem’s newest necropolis, a city of the dead that its ...

West Trunk Sewer, Contract 2, Peel Region, Canada

25/10/2019

The Region of Peel is installing a large sanitary sewer pipe along Erin Mills Parkway, Lincoln Green Way and Lincoln Green Closer. This work is to improve existing water and wastewater services.

Dr. Sauer & Partners Wins TAC's Photo of the Year Award 2019

22/10/2019

The Tunnelling Association of Canada 2019 Workshop, AGM and Awards Banquet take place this week in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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