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Soil test aims to avoid rocky start for metro phase 2

29/08/2018

"We are looking at new specifications of tunnel-boring machine in Phase 2. We may raise them with tunnel-boring machine manufacturers," a senior ...

HC stay on Metro tunnel work to stay for a month

29/08/2018

The tunnel boring machine has been stopped for 20 days. ... Senior counsel S G Aney, representing MMRCL, said tunnel work had progressed till

ITA-Annual Meeting and World Tunnel Congress 2018 in Dubai

28/08/2018

Around 1500 tunnellers from 68 countries met from 21 to 25 April, 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The occasion was the 44th Annual Meeting of the ITA (International Tunnelling and ...

Elizabeth line news: how the £15 billion Crossrail project will change London

28/08/2018

A few years ago Prince Philip visited workers digging tunnels at one of the deep Crossrail stations. He spurned the safety gear officials tried to get him to wear and marched down the steep stairs ...

Murphy wins £35m Croydon power cable contract

27/08/2018

Murphy & Sons Limited has been awarded a £35m contract by National Grid to install an essential power cable near Croydon.

First tunnel across Qiongzhou Strait

24/08/2018

Local authorities have been studying the feasibility of the tunnel project for two decades, with the aim of tackling the island's transport dilemma and ...

U-turn for Herrenknecht TBM in Germany's Filder Tunnel

23/08/2018

In late July the moment came: tunnel boring machine “SUSE” (10.82 m OD) completely excavated the western tube of the Filder Tunnel in Stuttgart, ...

Tunneling work of Ahmedabad metro project halted after sinkhole appears

22/08/2018

The underground tunnel construction of the Ahmedabad metro rail project has been halted after a sinkhole near the project site forced the authorities

Musk’s tunnel-boring company seeks US tariff exemption for Chinese components

22/08/2018

A company owned by Elon Musk that is trying to lower the cost of building high-speed transit tunnels has asked US President Donald Trump’s administration to exempt it from tariffs for some ...

Vocational route to world-class tunnellers

22/08/2018

KUALA LUMPUR: Extreme karstic geological conditions in the Klang Valley are a major challenge for tunnelling works for the nation’s biggest urban rail network – the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit ...

Stantec Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire UK-Based Peter Brett Associates

15/08/2018

Since 2010, the firm has been actively working on the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, London's largest sewer upgrade since the Victorian era.

M5 tunnel more than 75 per cent complete, premier declares

15/08/2018

CONSTRUCTION on the mammoth new M5 underground tunnel motorway is now more than 75 per cent complete, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian ...

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