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Robbins EPB sets record and installs innovative PVC liner

Having recently broken through ahead of time on a 5.7km-long sewer tunnel in Sacramento, US, a Robbins TBM is claimed to have achieved rates of up to 210m/wk, which, claims the company, sets new standards for progress in soft ground tunnelling.

Trio of firms bid for Brisbane's Northern Link

Northern Direct, Transcity and a joint-venture comprising Leighton, Baulderstone and Razel, are the three companies chosen to bid for Brisbane’s US$1.84 billion Northern Link twin-tube road tunnel. Bids must be submitted by May.

Partners picked to deliver Lee Tunnel

Joint-venture partners Morgan Est, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche (MVB) – three of the UK’s leading civil-engineering contractors – have been named as the preferred partners to deliver the Lee Tunnel in East London for Thames Water.

China set for summit

The 4th China Tunnel Summit will take place at the Radisson Hotel Shanghai Hong Quan in Shanghai, China, on March 18-19, 2010.

Cavico announces breakthroughs

Vietnam-based infrastructure development firm Cavico has announced that its subsidiaries, Cavico Mining and Cavico Power and Resource Construction (CPRC), have broken through at two major tunnel projects.

Contract awards mark first step in Hudson river tunnel construction

NJ Transit’s US$8.7 billion Mass Transit Tunnel – the rail project designed to double commuter capacity between New York and New Jersey – has got off the starting blocks with the recent approval of the first two of three tunnelling contracts.

Shortlisted bids for Crossrail tunnels revealed

Five JVs have been featured on the recently published shortlist of bidders for two of the main tunnelling contracts for Crossrail.

AECOM wins US$20m Canadian rail job

AECOM Technology Corporation recently announced that it has been awarded a US$20 million contract to provide programme management services for the extension of the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system in Edmonton, Canada
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Features

Poor rock is tough luck at Dakmi 4

Drill and blast tunnelling on Vietnam’s Dakmi 4 hydropower station is well under way, despite the difficult rock conditions being experienced

Water caverns a first for Hong Kong

Providing underground salt-water caverns for the University of Hong Kong proved an environmental and engineering challenge. TH Chan, Derek Arnold, Edwin KF Chung and Chris CW Chan report

Master of all he surveys

For more than a decade, Manfred Messing has headed-up tunnel guidance and surveying instrumentation company VMT. He talks to George Demetri

Safeguarding workers in the line of fire

Haukur Ingason and Anders Lönnermark (SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden), Håkan Frantzich (Lund University) and Mia Kumm (Mälardalen University) look at fire considerations during tunnel construction and some current research

Talking jumbos

Carly Lovejoy spoke to Pekka Nieminen of Sandvik Mining and Construction, Mathias Edhammer of Atlas Copco, and Witold Hnat of MineMaster

World Tunnelling Industry Leaders' Round Table

Welcome to the second World Tunnelling roundtable. We invited some of the top minds in international tunnelling from engineering consultancy, contractors and equipment manufacturers to meet last year in Hamburg on November 30 – the eve of STUVA – to discuss some of the most talked about issues in tunnelling. It turned out to be a memorable discussion.
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