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Fehmarn Belt Tunnel opening set for mid-2029

16/08/2024

This reduces waste and simultaneously strengthens the supply security for the project by producing steel grids to size and on demand. Setting up for ...

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 ...

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