08/04/2013
Likely 200% over budget and why could they not use a local tunnel boring machine  contractor like Robbins in Kent WA and keep the money for the work in the state. Not to mention the shipping costs ...
08/04/2013
Tunnel boring machines are quite the rave for softer rock tunneling. These five story high machines look like particle accelerators connected to a long steel worm. Tunnel boring machines are able to ...
02/04/2013
Bertha, the world's biggest tunnel boring machine, is expected to dock in Seattle sometime tomorrow. It should be quite a sight.
20/03/2013
“The size of this project and the size of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) are both on a scale the likes of which we have never seen before in New Zealand,” said New Zealand Transport Agency State ...
12/03/2013
Five tunnel boring machines (TBMs), each one weighing 1,000 tonnes and 148m long, are currently underneath the capitals streets chewing through the earth at a snail-like 100m a week. Together they ...
08/03/2013
Bertha, the world record 5-story-tall boring machine, will begin work in Seattle soon. But first, Bertha's 41 pieces – the largest weighing up to
900 tons – are being loaded on a single ship. The ...
25/02/2013
Rio Tinto has initiated trials of a 64-metre long tunnel boring machine at its Northparkes mine as part of the Mine of the Future program. The German-built machine was designed and developed by Rio ...
05/02/2013
TBM starts operation at 969MW Neelum-Jhelum project. 05 February, 2013.
LAHORE: The imported Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) has started its operation on the 969 megawatts (MW)-Neelum Jhelum Hydropower ...
29/01/2013
The custom made 1,000 tonne and 150 metre long machines are giant underground factories ...
29/01/2013
Eight giant tunnelling boring machines, or TBMs, are being used to construct the new tunnels ...
28/01/2013
BANGKOK, 25 January 2013 The MRT blue line extension from Sanam Chai to Tha Phra stations will proceed after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday introduced a tunnel boring machine capable ...
04/01/2013
The construction is part of a $49.5 million project aimed at updating electrical, lighting, air control and ventilation systems in the tunnels and repairing the walls, among other changes. Drivers ...
