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Revisiting the construction of Japan's now 30 year-old Seikan Tunnel

14/03/2018

The Seikan Tunnel runs beneath the Tsagaru Strait, connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. Surveying of the geological outlay of the area began in 1946, with construction eventually ...

30 years on, world's longest undersea tunnel faces challenges

13/03/2018

According to data by Hokkaido Railway Co., it took about 24 years and cost about 690 billion yen ($6.47 billion) to complete construction work with the involvement of some 14 million workers. ...

Vinci Hochtief JV wins £409M Copenhagen Metro project

13/03/2018

Two parallel tunnels will be built using two earth-pressure tunnel boring machines (TBMs), along with five underground stations and two crossover passages. Tunnels will have an interior diameter of ...

TBM world market

13/03/2018

In the TBM world market, the demand for Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Industry is anticipated to be high for the next six years.

Inside London's £15 billion Underground upgrade which opens next year

13/03/2018

Inside London's £15 billion Underground upgrade which opens next year

Skanska JV pulls out of £1bn Silvertown Tunnel race

12/03/2018

The company confirmed that its JV with Austrian contractor Strabag and investment firm Meridiam would no longer be bidding for the contract to build the tunnel connecting Greenwich with Silvertown.

Tunnels now complete for John Hart Generating Station Replacement Project

12/03/2018

Most of the John Hart Generating Station project is deep underground, a maze of huge tunnels, some that will be used for the flow of water to the generators, while other tunnels were built just to ...

An inside look at how Sweden is building the world’s second-longest tunnel

12/03/2018

Stockholm is a city known for its waterways. Founded on an archipelago of some thirty thousand islands, bodies of water are rarely more than a stone's throw away in the Swedish capital.

Dubai Route 2020 tunnel drilling 50pc completed

12/03/2018

Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said the tunnelling work on the Route 2020 Project, which span 15 km from Nakheel Harbour and Tower Station up to the site of the Expo, is progressing ...

White Bay, parks eyed as construction sites for $14b tunnel project

12/03/2018

White Bay in Sydney's inner west and parks on the north shore have been earmarked as potential construction sites for a $14 billion road tunnel project, which will require the disposal of more than ...

Maharashtra govt proposes to make Samruddhi ‘zero fatality’ corridor.

12/03/2018

The entire corridor will have several tunnels and viaducts... The packages in Nashik and Thane itself will have five tunnels and 17 viaducts. The tunnel connecting Nandgaon Sado in Igatpuri with ...

SWCC awards engineering services contract to Pöyry

12/03/2018

The giant Tunnel Boring Machine, known as Al Wugeisha Expo 2020, commenced tunnel drilling work at Al Furjan. It passed across Discovery Gardens and reached the underground station near Jumeirah ...

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