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HRBT Expansion Project's first gantry extracted and lifted

15/08/2024

Mary the Tunnel Boring Machine exited the tunnel and made her U-turn back in June. Work on the second tunnel will begin in September of this year...

Gateway Board Forms Search Committee for CEO to Lead $16B Tunnel Project

15/08/2024

The Gateway Development Commission, which leads the $16.1-billion Hudson Tunnel Project between New Jersey and New York, has launched a board ...

Costain awarded £6.6m by Thames Water to upgrade Hertfordshire treatment sites

15/08/2024

Costain, the infrastructure solutions company, has been awarded a contract with Thames Water to upgrade strategic treatment assets in Markyate and Brickendon in Hertfordshire...

National Grid switches on first 2.5km circuit of £1bn London Power Tunnels 2

09/08/2024

The LPT2 project has seen 32.5km of new tunnels bored under the capital city between Wimbledon and Crayford to host a new high voltage 275kV network. The 3m diameter tunnels were bored by ...

_Goregaon-Mulund Link Road Nears Completion, Set To Cut Travel Time To 25 Minutes

30/07/2024

The tunnels, which will be excavated using a tunnel boring machine with a diameter of approximately 14.2 metres, will be equipped with lighting ...

Snowy 2.0 Tunnel Boring Machines Update

30/07/2024

The Snowy 2.0 project continues to make significant strides with its Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) advancing the construction of critical ...

Vancouver's Broadway subway tunnel boring equipment arrivin

30/07/2024

The tunnels will serve all six stations of the Millennium Line SkyTrain extension project, from Great Northern Way to Arbutus Street. Each boring ...

IN MEMORIAM - OLIVIER VION (1962-2024)

23/07/2024

Through the past decades, the energy and foresight to lead the management of the ITA International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association has been in the hands of Olivier Vion, a man of ...

Amtrak awards construction contract for East River Tunnel rehabilitation

17/07/2024

The $1.6 billion project calls for demolishing all existing tunnel systems down to the liner, then restoring both tubes. During the project, one tube ...

Strabag in €110 million deal to equip transalpine tunnel

17/07/2024

Austrian contractor Strabag has won a €110 million (US$120 million) to equip a transalpine tunnel linking Austria and Slovenia...

19 tunnel boring machines for Manila subway set

09/07/2024

A close-up of the tunnel boring machine head, with a diameter of 6.9 meters. ... The first cutter head of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM), named ...

$16 billion Gateway Tunnel Project gets federal funding boost after years of delays

09/07/2024

The $16.1 billion project includes a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey — and is set to be open by 2035 ...

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