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Tunneling machine lowered into Los Angeles pit

20/10/2016

Workers prepare to lower the tail shield section of a tunnel boring machine into a 45 foot deep pit, during a ceremonial naming and lowering for the ...

New ‘Subway Vision’ maps show tunnels of the future

20/10/2016

Subways, everywhere. Under the Marina, under 19th Avenue, and even under the southeast leading to the Bayview — that’s the future of

Approval process for new $24 billion Hudson River tunnels fast-tracked

20/10/2016

The $24 billion plan to construct two rail tunnels beneath the Hudson River has been designated a priority, which will get it fast-tracked through ...

Norway mega-tunnel being planned

18/10/2016

This will make it the longest road tunnel ever constructed and at depths reaching 390m below sea level, also the world's deepest. The route runs from ...

Track11 releases UK airport expansion and High Speed 2 plan

14/10/2016

Track11 has developed a plan for expansion of Britain's airport capacity, and a complementary plan for a variant of High Speed 2 much better integrated with the existing railway system than HS2 ...

Work on underground stretch could delay Metro Phase II too

14/10/2016

Delays that dogged the tunnelling work of Namma Metro first phase may come back to haunt the proposed 13.79-km underground corridor of Namma Metro Phase II too

Maharashtra approves two Mumbai metro lines

12/10/2016

THE cabinet of the Indian state of Maharashtra gave the go-ahead on September 27 for two metro projects in Mumbai.

Gotthard Base Tunnel: World's longest passenger tunnel opens in December

27/09/2016

It is the world's longest and deepest traffic tunnel and when it opens officially ... The final breakthrough of the boring machine was shown live on Swiss ...

Doha Metro digging phase complete

26/09/2016

The tunneling works started in July 2014 and 111KM were covered ... included a presentation about the Doha Metro and a video on the 21 boring machines, ... With the completion of tunnel drilling, ...

TBM Kaveri Makes a Breakthrough at Bangalore’s Majestic Station

26/09/2016

16 months after the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Kaveri was commissioned from the Chickpet station in Bangalore, it finally made a breakthrough at the South-Shaft of the Majestic station!

You May Not Know It, But You're Living In The Golden Age Of Tunneling

25/09/2016

There's a reason why more record-breaking tunnels have been constructed since the year 2000 than in the previous 150 years.

Tender issued for Malta-Gozo tunnel Geological study

25/09/2016

With this call the Government has started the process for the construction of a tunnel between Malta and Gozo to facilitate access between the two ...

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