23/03/2012
Construction of Crossrail's tunnels will get underway next month when the first tunnel boring machine is launched from Royal Oak. By late 2014, the construction of over 21km of twin-bore tunnel, ...
22/03/2012
After 10 months, a huge tunnel boring machine finished its two-mile journey from Husky Stadium to Capitol Hill. The machine drilled about 5 feet every two hours for the two-mile stretch to the ...
20/03/2012
The MMC-Gamuda joint-venture unsurprisingly won the tunnelling job for the My Rapid Transit (MRT) line between Sungai Buloh and Kajang with its bid of RM8.2 billion, project owner MRT Corp announced ...
15/03/2012
The first of eight highly specialised Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM), which each weigh nearly 1,000 tonnes, is being positioned at Royal Oak in west London.
15/03/2012
The 300m underground station contract will go to a consortium led by Züblin. The tunnelling has been split into two parts, one led by Hochtief and the other by Baresel.
09/03/2012
On or about March 12, crews will start work to install new underground BC Hydro power lines, which will supply the tunnel boring machine during construction.
09/03/2012
The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on Thursday said its tunnel boring machine (TBM) Margarita reached Central College
29/02/2012
In a futuristic scenario decried by labor leaders and mining opponents, trains hauling iron ore across vast stretches of Australia’s Pilbara region will by 2014 be operating without drivers.
29/02/2012
By APP The Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project is likely to be completed about two years ahead of schedule now that Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) have reached ...
28/02/2012
Indian Rail has begun tunnelling work on the Rs48.74bn ($993.5m) East-West Metro Corridor Project of the Kolkata Metro to link the IT hub Sector V in Salt Lake
23/02/2012
The company spent two years developing a new version – dubbed Quietstone
FR30 – for the tunnel, which is under construction. Managing director Roland Phillips hopes the £2.5m project will act as a ...
13/02/2012
The project, on behalf of Berlin's transportation authority, comprises the construction of two tunnel bores approximately 1.6km in length along with work for a track-switching system and two new ...
