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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 technologies

The 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 sector

From the ground down

Innovative and patented ground-consolidation technologies were used for a series of structural and waterproofing measures on this tunnel project in Austria

Free 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 Demetri

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

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

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



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