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Balfour Beatty plans to slash onsite construction 25% by 2025

29/08/2018

Earlier this year Balfour Beatty said it would use offsite construction to build a $331m Hong Kong tunnel contract, and last year predicted that the ...

Chennai Metro | CMRL plans a Metro rail museum at Choultry at Central

29/08/2018

CMRL will have an interesting display at the museum like the built tunnels, metro train models and models of tunnel boring machines and major ...

Construction of Forrestfield-Airport Link continues

29/08/2018

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Grace has travelled 2.5 km from the dive structure in Forrestfield after leaving the Airport Central Station box in June, ...

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 ...

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