04/10/2017
Interest is strong in the project to build the Agua Negra Tunnel, which will connect Chile and Argentina. So far 10 consortia have been pre-selected to ...
02/10/2017
In 2015, a tunnel boring machine, affectionately named Ms. Chelsea, successfully excavated through 1,600 feet of rock (6,000 cubic yards), reaching ...
02/10/2017
American Journal of Transportation
The TBM, manufactured by Hitachi Zosen Corporation, measured 22ft. (6.7m) in diameter and weighed 570 ton (520 tonne) It had completed an.....
02/10/2017
Another idea earmarked in the 1870s was the infamous Humber Tunnel to ... would have to be used and that no new airport would be constructed.
26/09/2017
A Robbins Company slurry tunnel boring machine (TBM) has passed its factory acceptance test (FAT) to begin works on the Mumbai Metro Line 3 ...
20/09/2017
UK: The Crossrail 2 proposal to link railway routes in Surrey and Hertfordshire via a new tunnel under central London would not merely provide a ...
20/09/2017
Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel project breaks ground ... official start of work on the $756 million Thimble Shoals parallel tunnel construction project.
19/09/2017
During the two-year construction project, two XTR260 tunnel boring machines from XCMG, the world's leading manufacturing company, were used to ...
18/09/2017
THE last section of track for London Crossrail has been laid, and the event has been hailed as a ‘major milestone’.
The phased opening programme should mean that Elizabeth Line trains are ...
18/09/2017
The $2.1 billion dollar project created a new two lane tunnel under the Elizabeth River, upgraded the Midtown and Downtown tunnels and extended the MLK Expressway.
18/09/2017
Despite not having total funding in place, Amtrak officials said the $13 billion Hudson River tunnel project could begin as early as March 2018, when the environmental reviews are complete, ...
18/09/2017
As India gets its first Bullet Train which is slated to run between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, here are some interesting facts about India’s first bullet train that are worth reading.
