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Mexican TBMs roll off global assembly line
TBM manufacturing is becoming a truly global affair. George Demetri reports on a project in Texas which brings together a world-wide manufacturing and shipping effort
Where are we with slurries?
Barry L Sorteberg, president of Clean Slurry Technologies, looks at the current state of play in slurry technologiesThe big fair with the best ware
With Bauma just around the corner on April 19-25 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany, we take a look at selected exhibitors from the tunnelling sectorFrom the ground down
Innovative and patented ground-consolidation technologies were used for a series of structural and waterproofing measures on this tunnel project in AustriaFree as a bird
A geologist and civil engineer by training, Boston area-based geoconsultant Dr Peter J Tarkoy is a controversial and self-styled visionary in the tunnelling industry. He talks to George DemetriWater 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 reportMaster 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 DemetriPoor 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 experiencedSafeguarding 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 researchTalking jumbos
Carly Lovejoy spoke to Pekka Nieminen of Sandvik Mining and Construction, Mathias Edhammer of Atlas Copco, and Witold Hnat of MineMasterNEWS BY SUBJECT
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