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Revealed: Preferred route for €3bn MetroLink from city centre to Dublin Airport unveiled

28/03/2018

TRAINS will run every two minutes between Dublin city centre and the airport when the €3bn MetroLink opens for business in 2027. It will take 20 minutes to travel from the city centre to Dublin ...

Victoria orders four TBMs for $8.47bn Metro Tunnel in Melbourne

26/03/2018

The Government of Victoria in Australia has ordered four giant tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will work on the A$11bn ($8.47bn) Metro Tunnel in Melbourne. Each of these TBMs, scheduled to start ...

BSA awarded record fire protection contract for NorthConnex Project

26/03/2018

BSA Limited (ASX:BSA) has secured its largest fire protection contract which will see it involved in Australia's longest road tunnel project currently under construction in Sydney. However, the news ...

Tender process for first 40-km phase finalised

26/03/2018

The National Highways Authority of India has finalised the tendering process for the first phase of Kangra-Shimla four-lane project for the 40-km stretch between Kangra and Jwalamukhi. ... Three ...

175 Years Ago The First Modern Tunnel Was Built, Inspired By A Burrowing Animal

26/03/2018

The tunneling shield method is still in use today. The front of the tunnel is excavated, be it with explosives or a modern tunnel boring machine. Immediately after, just some feet away from the ...

Video: Watch Sweden Build the World's 2nd-Longest Tunnel Under Water

22/03/2018

But we're motivated by other priorities, not the least of which is to preserve the surrounding environment. For that, tunnelling is the best approach." The project began in 2014 and will eventually ...

TBM to punch diaphragm wall at East West Esplanade station today

22/03/2018

KOLKATA: The first phase of tunneling of the East-West Metro project is on the verge of completion. Prerna, the tunnel-boring machine (TBM) drilling the Howrahbound tunnel, is just 15m from punching ...

Heathrow Southern Rail link: Transport Secretary asks private companies to submit proposals to ...

21/03/2018

The rail link to Surrey and the south East would connect Britain's biggest airport with Waterloo, Clapham Junction, Hounslow , Putney, Twickenham, Richmond , Staines and stations in Surrey. It is ...

Zahid: Undersea tunnel connecting Bagan Datuk to Sumatra in the works

19/03/2018

Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi speaking during the launch of National Transformation 2050 (TN50) dialogue at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS), Serdang March 18, 2018. — Picture by ...

IJM wins RM1.12b LRT3 underground contract

15/03/2018

The contract requires IJM to deliver the design, construction and completion of the twin-bored tunnels, a station, ancillary buildings and other associated works. “The contract requires the use of ...

China exports largest tunnelling machine to Bangladesh

14/03/2018

A Chinese firm on Tuesday rolled out China's largest shield tunnelling machine for export, which is destined for Bangladesh to assist with a river tunnelling project. The export of the machine, ...

Metroselskabet awards contract for Denmark's Sydhavn Metro

14/03/2018

Vinci Construction Grands Projets Northern Europe, British Isles and Americas operations director Eric Chambraud said: “Eighteen years after the delivery of the Øresund tunnel and two years after ...

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