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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 ...

An update on the latest Northern line extension construction works

09/03/2018

IanVisits (blog) Following the completion of tunnelling and the dismantling process of the tunnel boring machines (TBM's), the tunnel engineers handed the cross over box back to the station team. ...

Four contractors in line to build Auckland's $1.2 billion wastewater tunnel

09/03/2018

Construction of the 13km tunnel from Western Springs and crossing Manukau Harbour under the seabed to the Mangere wastewater treatment plan is due to start next year for completion in 2025. The 4.5m ...

Mumbai: Sole woman engineer calls the shots on Metro tunnel

07/03/2018

They are currently digging the shaft through which the tunnel-boring machine will be lowered. What made her choose this outdoor and grimy work? “I always wanted to be a civil engineer as my family ...

How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the earth

06/03/2018

For example, Tottenham Court Road had a gap so tight that had they not adjusted for the curvature of the earth, the tunnel boring machine that left Paddington would have been sufficiently out of ...

VINCI : VINCI Construction successfully completes tunnelling for the second automated metro line

06/03/2018

Rennes Métropole and transport authority Semtcar. Line b will run between the south-west and north-east of the urban area and will serve 15 stations by 2020. After 38 months of operation, tunnel ...

CRL tunnel boring machine has a name

06/03/2018

City Rail Link's latest tunnel boring machine has been named Jeffie after a hugely popular CRL social media naming contest. More than 30,000 people from as far away as the UK, USA, Europe, the ...

Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company Drill

05/03/2018

REUTERS/James Glover IIElon Musk speaks during a media tour of the Tesla Gigafactory, which will produce batteries for the electric carmaker, in Sparks, Nevada, July 26, 2016. Elon Musk is in love, ...

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