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TBM kicks off Italian high-speed rail project

14/10/2020

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) called Martina has broken ground to signal the start of the Brescia-Verona high-speed rail project in northern Italy.

Musk's Boring Co. Expands Vegas Tunnel Network

14/10/2020

Elon Musk may have finished digging his first Loop transportation project in Las Vegas, but he hasn't sent his tunnel-boring machine home just yet.

IRJ IN-BRIEF – Projects: Laos-China final tunnel complete; Lisbon awards metro extension

13/10/2020

(LCRC) has finished the last of 75 tunnels for its 414km rail project. ... been laid and 120km of tunnel has been bored since construction began in ...

German firm Herrenknecht to build HS2 London tunnelling machines

13/10/2020

HS2 has awarded the contract for the first two London tunnelling machines to a partnership including German construction manufacturing company Herrenknecht

October project update for Forrestfield

08/10/2020

Track laying within Tunnel Two (TBM Sandy's tunnel) is advancing on a daily basis, with more than 40 per cent of skeleton track (rail strings clipped to sleepers) in place, and almost 30 per cent of ...

LA Metro's Regional Connector Transit Project enters last phase of construction

08/10/2020

As part of the construction, the tracks from East Los Angeles and Azusa will both be connected to the tunnel. The current Little Tokyo/Arts District ...

Breakthrough marks end of Bumblebee’s journey

06/10/2020

The cool morning air was filled with excitement in a clearing near the intersection of Lexington Road and Grinstead Drive on the morning of September 22. ...

ZITRÓN wins a contract to supply the tunnel ventilation equipment for Trafikverket’s Stockholm bypass project

03/10/2020

ASSEMBLIN, under its contract FSE 903 with TRAFIKVERKET, the Developer of Stockholm bypass, has awarded ZITRÓN with the supply of the tunnel ventilation equipment for Stockholm bypass

75 tunnels for China-Laos railway project completed.

03/10/2020

An even longer tunnel, 15.2km in length, was bored in China's Yunnan Province by China Railway 17th Bureau Group. The extreme nature of the project ...

TBM Urvi at Sealdah, ready to cross flyover by tomorrow afternoon

03/10/2020

As the TBM (tunnel boring machine) crosses over to Sealdah station, it will be a historic moment. Two of India's busiest railway stations, Howrah and ...

4-mile MSD tunnel project makes major 'breakthrough'

30/09/2020

A 900,000 pound tunnel boring machine, named “Bumblebee” in honor of Muhammad Ali, finally finished its 4-mile journey 200 feet underground, ...

Ottawa Stage 2 LRT West Extension tunnel construction begins

29/09/2020

The west extension of the O-Train Line 1 includes more than 2 miles of tunnels that will be constructed using a cut and cover method.

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