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Herrenknecht TBM completes Belchen rehabilitation tunnelling

17/07/2017

Herrenknecht’s custom designed 13.91 m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM) completed 3.2 km of tunnelling for the Belchen rehabilitation project last month, 3 months ahead of schedule. The ...

Troubled Carillion wins HS2 building contract

17/07/2017

Construction giant Carillion - which issued a profit warning this month as it grapples badly-performing contracts - is among the companies that have been chosen to build phase one of the HS2 rail ...

City Rail Link’s ‘big dig’ starts today

17/07/2017

New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project – the City Rail Link (CRL) – has reached another important milestone: the start of bulk excavation work for the cut and cover rail tunnels under Albert ...

Salini wins US$580 million US tunnel build

12/07/2017

Salini Impregilo and Lane Construction will be joint-venture partners on a US$580 million sewer tunnel to be built in Washington DC. Salini will hold a 30% stake in the project – which was ...

Inside the Northern line extension

12/07/2017

When the second phase of Battersea Power Station was completed in the 1950s – giving the building its iconic four chimneys – the site around it on London’s South Bank was part of the capital’s ...

Budimex and Ferrovial win €233m railway contract in Poland

12/07/2017

Polish infrastructure and services company Budimex and Spanish engineering firm Ferrovial have secured a €233m contract from Poland's railway operator PKP PLK to upgrade two sections of line 7, ...

Stockholm's new Citybanan commuter line is here

11/07/2017

After nine years of development, Stockholm's Citybanan train line has opened, expected to double the capacity of the city's commuter infrastructure in a milestone for rail traffic in the capital.

Dh30bn deep-tunnel sewerage system in Dubai by 2025

11/07/2017

The emirate of Dubai plans to have a new deep-tunnel sewerage system costing around Dh30 billion by the year 2025 as part of the emirate's efforts to accommodate any future growth and meet long-term ...

Contract awarded for $580m US sewer tunnel

11/07/2017

The Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) is designed to increase the capacity of the sewer system, significantly mitigating the frequency, magnitude and duration of sewer flooding and improving the ...

Work On Massive Hartford Sewage Tunnel Underway

11/07/2017

t is the biggest, most expensive project of It is kind in Connecticut history: a $279.4 million, 4.1 mile-long tunnel dug through solid rock 200 feet below the streets of the capital city. And it's ...

Queensland Urban Utilities Bulimba Creek Stage 2 Sewer Upgrade progresses

11/07/2017

Work on the project includes a new 4.25 km sewer main southeast of Brisbane, between Wecker Road, Mansfield, and Cadogan Street, Carindale. The existing Bulimba Creek Trunk Sewer comprises 62 km ...

John Hart Dam workers in Campbell River reach milestone

05/07/2017

With close to 500 workers in any given month, the construction site for the new John Hart Dam is a busy place. One of the contractors has just finished blasting out the project's tunnels and ...

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