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PortMiami tunnel's next leg to begin in October

24/09/2012

Workers at PortMiami have disassembled parts of the giant tunnel boring machine and are slowly reassembling them to begin digging the second leg of the under-the-bay project next month. The tunnel ...

Busy summer for ALS

21/09/2012

ALS also arranged the transportation of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) shell and cutting head weighing 76 tonnes and measuring 3.0 m in length, together with a tunnel boring machine stationary shell ...

Tunnel boring work at 2 CMRL sites by September-end

18/09/2012

Tunnel boring machines (TBMs) will begin burrowing beneath Washermenpet and May ... The spokesperson told City Express that the tunnel boring machines are ...

BASF's solutions help build Brisbane's gridlock-busting Airport Link tunnel

17/09/2012

The Brisbane Airport Link connects the CLEM7 tunnel, whose construction BASF was also involved in, at the northern bank of the Brisbane River with the main northern traffic arteries of the ...

Singapore Power to build cross-island tunnels for electrical cables

17/09/2012

The tunnels, which will be constructed 60 metres underground, will facilitate faster and more efficient maintenance and replacement of cables. SP has awarded six contracts to five construction ...

Hydro One ready to bore on $115-million Toronto electrical project

07/09/2012

Hydro One is about to begin the tunneling phase of a $114.85-million transmission cable project in Toronto. Energy Minister Chris Bentley was recently on hand with officials to unveil the tunnel ...

It's so big! Seattle tunnel boring machine

07/09/2012

Workers stand in the shadow of what will become the world's largest-diameter tunnel boring machine. Currently being assembled in Japan, the machine will dig the SR 99 tunnel beneath downtown Seattle ...

Metro tunnelling to begin at two more locations

03/09/2012

CHENNAI: The metro rail will kick-starttunnelboring atM ay Day Park and Washermenpet on the Washermenpet-Airport corridor,which passesthrough Anna ...

Record-breaking tunneling machine takes shape

30/08/2012

Other than being a few weeks early, there was nothing unusual about the flight. The plane took off from Germany and touched down in Japan. But at 1 ton each, its 36 passengers were not your average ...

2018 for second Mt Vic tunnel

30/08/2012

Although construction of a duplicate Mount Victoria tunnel has yet to be formally confirmed, the NZ Transport Agency has set a start date.

Moving ahead, slowly but steadily

28/08/2012

Tunnel boring machines plough their way 24x7 through the hard and rocky strata of Bangalore as part of the Namma Metro project. The Hindu team comprising Sharath S. Srivatsa, Anil Kumar Sastry, ...

Viaduct replacement crews digging giant launch hole for ferry-sized tunnel

24/08/2012

Crews are now drilling a launch pit to hold the massive tunnel-boring machine for the Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement project. The project will be using the largest diameter tunnel boring machine ...

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