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 ...
12/12/2012
unnel boring machine (TBM) Helen is only 50 metre away from the Vidhana Soudha Metro station even as final word is awaited on shifting the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar in front of the Soudha. A senior ...
12/12/2012
SR99 Tunnel Boring Machine Bertha's cutterhead is installed in Japan for testing before being shipped to Seattle.
06/12/2012
Released earlier today by the TTC, it shows “Torkie” and “Yorkie”—two of the four massive tunnel-boring machines that are in the midst of digging an extension of the Spadina subway line—busting ...
06/12/2012
First agreement on the Malakand tunnel construction project was signed during a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Export Import Bank of Korea Chairman Kim Yong-Hwan here. Under the ...
06/12/2012
A lasting solution to the persistent ferry crisis at the Likoni crossing could be in the offing after President Kibaki ordered government agencies to either construct a tunnel or bridge across the ...
