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Cavico in second Hua Na power station deal
Vietnam-based infrastructure construction specialist Cavico has signed a new agreement with state-owned Lilama for additional construction work at the Hua Na Hydropower plant in Vietnam.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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BAM Nuttall wins Blackwall Tunnel refurb contract
UK-based BAM Nuttall Group (BNG) will be refurbishing the northbound bore of London’s Blackwall Tunnel under a US$76 million contract, signed recently with Transport for London.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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New appointment at Normet
Normet International has appointed Odd-Bjørn Kleven as director of tunnelling and special projects, a position which he has already taken up.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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Positive start for Normet
Normet has announced a promising start to 2010 with a capacity expansion in Finland, a new spare-parts centre in Holland and a big order from Hong Kong
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18 Feb 2010 |
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UK tunnel/shaft lining spec nears
British Precast, the trade body for the UK concrete products industry, has started preparing a new specification for precast tunnel and shaft linings.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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Robbins TBM turns Mexican heads
Following an official cutter-turning ceremony in January, the largest TBM ever seen in Mexico began excavating the 7.7km tunnel for Mexico City’s Line 12 metro.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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Aquajet makes light work of Montreal tunnel
Extensive hydro-demolition is under way on Montreal’s Highway 720 Ville Marie tunnel, as part of refurbishment works necessitated by failing concrete.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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‘Unforeseen geological event’ closes hydropower station
A tunnel collapse has shut down Ethiopia’s newest and biggest hydropower station only weeks after it was opened.
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18 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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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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08 Feb 2010 |
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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.
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08 Feb 2010 |
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Skanska to build Kvis Tunnel
Scandinavia-based construction group Skanska has been awarded a US$60 million contract by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens Vegvesen) for the construction of an 8km stretch of road and tunnel in the country’s central region
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Four teams for Alaskan Way job
Washington State Department of Transportation has listed four consortia on its website with an interest in the SR99 Bored Tunnel Design Build project,also known as the replacement tunnel for the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle, US
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23 Dec 2009 |
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New CEO at Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed George J Pierson as chief executive officer, effective on January 1, 2010. He is currently president and COO of the firm’s Americas division, and succeeds Keith J Hawksworth, who becomes chairman
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Herrenknecht in German-Chinese trade event
Germany-based TBM-maker Herrenknecht recently participated in the German-Chinese ‘esplanade event’ held recently in the city of Wuhan, China
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Dredging under way on second Tyne Tunnel
A recent arrival on the River Tyne in northeast England, the cutter suction dredger ‘Vesalius’, has begun dredging the river in preparation for the placement of the immersed concrete tubes that will constitute the under-river section of the second Tyne Tunnel
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Promat receives M25 tunnel fire protection order
Promat, a UK-based manufacturer of passive fire-protection products, has received an order to supply its spray-applied system for a tunnel upgrade on London’s M25 orbital motorway
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Three JVs commence battle for Sydney Metro Stage 1
Sydney Metro has received tenders from three international consortia bidding for the right to build the tunnels and station caverns on Metro Stage 1
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23 Dec 2009 |
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STUVA bangs the drum for safe tunnelling
STUVA organisers have expressed satisfaction at the success of their recent tunnelling event in Hamburg, Germany, on 1-3 December
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23 Dec 2009 |
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LaserShell paper wins engineer award
A UK-based engineering manager working for infrastructure provider Morgan Est has won a prestigious prize for a paper he wrote on LaserShell, the sprayed-concrete lining method
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23 Dec 2009 |
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PEAB scoops yet another Swedish railway project
Leading Scandinavian contractor Peab is to build a 1.8km-long tunnel as part of a newly won US$78 million contract involving the construction of a section of the Hede-Älvängen railway between Gothenburg and Trollhättan in Sweden
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Tunnel talks between Chile and Argentina bear fruit
A recent agreement between
Chile and Argentina could result in
the construction of a series of road
and rail tunnels across their
common border.
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Lovat sells system
Lovat has sold a new hard-rock cutting head and main-drive system to The Kassouf Company for use on Fairfax Water’s Corbalis to Fox Mill Water Main Project 1859 Division 4 in Fairfax, Virginia, US
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Breakthrough for first Lovat TBM at Terrassa
One of two Lovat TBMs has achieved
breakthrough after completing its
first drive on the current phase of
the Terrassa Railways Project in
Terrassa, Spain.
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23 Dec 2009 |
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ALS shifts TBM from Canada to Buenos Aires
UK-based Abnormal Load Services (ALS) recently transported a 7.8m-diameter Lovat soft-ground EPB TBM plus back-up system from Canada to Argentina
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Brisbane looks down under for transport improvements
Proposals for an underground
rail network to be built in Brisbane,
Australia, form part of sweeping
plans to modernise public transport
in the city, which were unveiled recently by the Queensland State
Government.
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Normet establishes Canadian base
Normet, the Finland-based manufacturer of underground construction and mining equipment, has announced the formation of Normet Canada, the 15th country in which the company has gained a permanent presence
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Sandvik-BASF tie-up gets off the starting blocks
Further progress has been made on the recently-announced co-operation between Sandvik and BASF-Meyco
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Robbins' TBM trio head to Malaysia
Robbins is to supply three 5.2m-diameter, main-beam TBMs for use on Malaysia’s Pahang-Selangor Raw Water tunnel
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Good progress on Indian underground caverns
Excavation is progressing well
on India’s first underground crude
oil-storage caverns at Visakhapatnam
in the south of the country.
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23 Dec 2009 |
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Aqualiner in new patent bid
Aqualiner has filed a patent for its non-disruptive method for remaking service connections that follow drinking water main rehabilitation
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Parsons Brinckerhoff appoints UK and Europe managing director
Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Nick Flew as managing director of UK and European operations just days after the infrastructure consultant was acquired by Balfour Beatty
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25 Nov 2009 |
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University rail link to go ahead
Sound Transit’s plan to build the University Link light rail extension in Seattle now looks certain to go ahead, following a decision by ST’s board of directors to proceed with the project
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Technology innovation book launched
CRC Press has launched a reference guide to help reduce the time, cost and risk involved during the construction and maintenance of underground facilities
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25 Nov 2009 |
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InnoTrans organiser claims healthy bookings for 2010 exhibition
Display space at the rail-transport-technology fair InnoTrans 2010 is almost all booked up, according to organizer Berlin-based Messe Berlin
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Jacobs appoints senior associate
Dan Dobbels has joined the Boston, US, office of Jacobs Associates as a senior associate
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Rail tunnel to be switched to road use
A rail tunnel in Pakistan will be converted for road use less than a year after it was completed
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Civils salaries fall
The average basic salary of civil engineers in the UK has dropped for the first time in seven years, a survey by the Institute of Civil Engineers has found
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Florida prepares for blasting conference
The International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE) will hold its 36th annual conference on explosives and blasting technique at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida, from February 7 to 10, 2010
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25 Nov 2009 |
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CRA launches e-bulletin for concrete specialists
The UK-based Concrete Repair Association has launced an email bulletin that will include industry updates, advances in the sector and new publications and intiatives
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Chinese infrastructure spend aids growth
Anyone doubting the beneficial effect of good ol’ government stimulus spending à la Keynes should take a look at the Chinese economy
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25 Nov 2009 |
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NCC wins road and tunnel construction deal
NCC Construction Norway has won a US$93.6 million road contract in Norway that includes the construction of a 300m tunnel
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Sandvik opens largest production facility
Sandvik Mining and Construction has opened a new 24,000m2 plant in Shanghai, China, which it says is the largest production facility it has opened to date
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25 Nov 2009 |
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NFM reveals nuclear capability
NFM Technologies does more than just make tunnel boring machines, it seems. The French-based manufacturer has designed and manufactured handling equipment that will be used to load and unload M51 intercontinental ballistic missiles (IBM) onto French nuclear submarines
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Chengdu contract bears fruit for Robbins
A commissioning ceremony for a 6.26m-diameter TBM was held by US-based The Robbins Company in Chengdu, China, last month
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Koralm phase two bids invited
Austrian Federal Railways is expected this month to invite bids for the construction of Phase 2 of the US$3.5 billion Koralm tunnel
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Bouygues triumphs in Miami
France’s Bouygues Travaux Publics has won a US$656 million contract to build the long-awaited Port of Miami tunnel in Florida, US
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25 Nov 2009 |
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MorganEst lowers TBM into Barry shaft.
UK infrastructure provider Morgan Est recently lowered an 18t Iseki Unclemole TBM into a shaft in Barry, near Cardiff, Wales
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25 Nov 2009 |
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MorganEst sacks half its tunnelling division
As delays on infrastructure projects and cutbacks begin to bite further in the UK, it was revealed in London last month that around 45 tunnelling staff from infrastructure provider MorganEst have been laid off
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Strabag bags US$222 million Indian tunnel contract
One of Europe’s largest construction companies, Strabag AG Austria, has been awarded the tender for the construction of the 8.8km Rohtang Pass Highway Tunnel in the western Himalaya region of northern India
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25 Nov 2009 |
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NATM flies to Delhi airport
Johann Brandl of Salzburg-based Geoconsult ZT in Austria checks the progress of NATM tunnelling works to Delhi Airport – only the second time it has been used in India
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25 Nov 2009 |
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World's biggest tunnel project ends
Imagine cities without cars, where carcinogenic dust and noise are confined to below ground and city parks form the refreshing, clean oases that they are meant to be
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25 Nov 2009 |
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Alpine surfaces at Delhi airport
After ten months of tunnelling, Alpine, the second biggest construction group in Austria and part of the FCC Group, has announced that it has competed the final breakthrough on the Airport Metro Express Line in New Delhi.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Equity partners sought for Bosporus
The Korean-Turkish consortium that will build and operate the US$1 billion Bosporus road tunnel is seeking new capital from interested parties.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Skanska secures Slovak tunnel job
Skanska has announced that it has won a US$78 million contract to construct a tunnel that will form part of a major rail expansion in Slovakia.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Certification for skilled nozzlemen
EFNARC, the European Federation for Specialist Construction Chemicals, has announced the launch of its Nozzleman Certification Scheme as a key link in providing high quality sprayed concrete.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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HCC to build NE India hydro plant
Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has secured a US$59 million contract from the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) for the construction of Pare Hydro Power Project in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Conference focuses on tunnel fire safety
The first annual Fire Protection and Safety in Tunnels conference will take place in Paris on November 17-18.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Civils 2009 ready to roll
On November 25-26, Earls Court 2 in London, UK, opens its doors for the Civils show, hailed as the UK’s definitive civil engineering showcase comprising manufacturers, suppliers, contractors and consultants from all areas of the industry.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Meyco in Sandvik global team-up
Meyco Equipment, a division of BASF Construction Chemicals, has signed an agreement with Sandvik Mining and Construction regarding a global cooperation on sprayed concrete equipment in the tunnelling and mining sectors.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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US$1.6bn EIB loan boosts Crossrail
The importance of London’s Crossrail scheme has been affirmed by the recent agreement between Transport for London (TfL) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a US$1.6 billion loan to finance part of TfL’s contribution to the scheme.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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STUVA gears up for Christmas event
STUVA, the bi-annual tunnelling and underground construction conference, will this year be held at the Congress Centre in Hamburg, Germany, on December 1-3 2009.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Herrenknecht crosses under Yangtze
Herrenknecht recently announced that two of its mixshield TBMs, each with a diameter of 14.93m, have crossed beneath the Yangtze River to reach Nanjing after bores of almost 3km.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Impregilo scoops US$243m Abu Dhabi tunnel contract
Italy’s largest construction firm Impregilo has won a US$243m contract to build a waste water tunnel in Abu Dhabi as part of plans to upgrade the capital’s infrastructure.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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UAE's longest road tunnel emerges
The first of two tunnel breakthroughs has been hailed as a milestone as Sharjah’s – and the UAE’s - longest rock tunnel, located on the Diftah-Shis highway.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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More promotions at Jacobs
US-based Jacobs Associates has announced two promotions to Associate level.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Balfour Beatty acquires Parsons Brinckerhoff
London-based contractor Balfour Beatty has agreed to acquire New York-based global engineering infrastructure company Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) for US$626 million.
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14 Oct 2009 |
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Continental to join Joy
Continental Crushing and Conveying, the UK-based manufacturer of belt conveyor systems and belt conveyor components, is being integrated into Joy Mining Machinery (JMM)
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18 Sep 2009 |
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LTA awards two Downtown Line contracts
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded contracts C913 and C920 for stage 2 of the Downtown Line (DTL2), together worth a total of around US$545 million
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Black & Veatch wins design deal for Chicago reservoir tunnel
Global engineering consultancy Black and Veatch has been selected by the US Army Corps of Engineers as design engineer for the McCook Reservoir Main Tunnel in Chicago
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18 Sep 2009 |
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TPA to proceed with pedestrian tunnel to airport
Toronto Port Authority (TPA) has issued a formal request for proposals to carry out an environmental assessment as part of it efforts to build a US$35million pedestrian tunnel under the lake to the airport
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18 Sep 2009 |
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BASF TBM conference announced
BASF Construction Chemicals, a supplier of underground construction technical solutions, has confirmed that its annual TBM conference will be held this year in Singapore on November 5-6
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Tentative start to Sydney's West Metro project
Rock and soil testing on Sydney’s West Metro route began last month in preparation for tunnelling, despite uncertainty as to where exactly US$7 billion of funding will come from for the 24km-long underground rail route
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Qingdao approves subway spend
China’s picturesque coastal city of Qingdao (TsingTao) is to build a 54.7km subway line across the city, following the approval of a US$4.2billion plan that is scheduled for completion around 2016
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18 Sep 2009 |
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NFM in Cairo Line 3 deal
French TBM manufacturer NFM Technologies has signed a contract for the supply of a 9.46m-diameter EPB tunnel boring machine for the second phase of Line 3 of the Cairo Metro
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18 Sep 2009 |
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London-based JV prepares bid
Competition is heating up for Crossrail contracts – the east-west London rail line that will include around 21km of tunnel under central London
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Lone TBM from Robbins battles on in Sino water tunnel
China’s Pinglu tunnel, which is part of the ambitious Yellow River Water Diversion Project, has seen the installation of its 15,000th ring
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Expressions of interest invited on two key tunnelling contracts
Expressions of interest for two principal tunnel contracts totalling 18km on London's Crossrail have been invited through notices published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Mott MacDonald wins US$16 million design packages
Design contracts totalling US$16 million have been awarded to the Mott MacDonald engineering consultancy for the development of London’s Crossrail project, the east-west rail project running through London that is one of the world’s biggest and most complex
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Blocked tunnel forces power station closure
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has stopped power generation at the recently opened Glendoe Hydro power plant in Scotland following internal rockfalls that have partly blocked the top of the headrace tunnel carrying water from the reservoir to the power station
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Breakthrough on London mains extension
Morgan Est, one of the UK’s leading infrastructure specialists, has broken through on the US$63 million extension of London’s Thames Water Ring Main
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Lovat TBMs to excavate York, Ontario sewer
Lovat will supply four of its RME 142SE EPB mixed-face TBM’s to the regional municipality of York, Ontario, Canada, for use on the construction of the Southeast Collector Trunk Sewer (SeC)
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Veidekke wins Norwegian tunnels and motorway contract
Scandinavian contractor Veidekke is to build a stretch of motorway in Norway that includes an assortment of road tunnels
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Cavico to build hydro tunnel
Hanoi-based infrastructure company Cavico and its joint venture partners General Construction and Infrastructure Development Company and Song Da Corporation have signed a US$16 million contract with Dakdrinh Hydropower Company for the construction of a water tunnel at a hydro-power plant in central Vietnam
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Are you ready for 2010?
Starting in January 2010, World
Tunnelling will be giving its readers
the chance to promote their tunnel projects in our ‘Project 2010’
feature. Projects can be recently
completed or near completion
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Breakthrough marks end of Circle Line tunnelling
Following a TBM-breakthrough on August 17, tunnelling work on Singapore’s 33.3km-long Circle Line has been completed after seven and a half years and a tragic collapse in 2004
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Tyne Tunnel dredging passes environmental test
The UK’s Environment Agency has given the go ahead for the dredging of the River Tyne in northeast England for the construction of the second Tyne Tunnel (TT2) to start on September 26
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Federal fraud convictions for four Big Dig aggregates managers
Four former managers of Aggregate Industries Northeast (AIN) have been convicted on charges of conspiracy and fraud by a US federal court
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Expressions of interest invited on two key Crossrail tunnel contracts
Expressions of interest for two principal tunnelling contracts totalling 18km on London’s Crossrail have been invited through notices published in the Official Journal of the European Union
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18 Sep 2009 |
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Contract signed for Cairo metro 3
VINCI Construction Grands Projets has announced that it has recently signed a contract, as consortium leader, with Egypt’s National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) for the civil engineering works package of Cairo’s metro Line 3.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Thames Tideway boreholes sunk
Boreholes have been sunk into the river Thames to probe ground conditions that lie along the alignment of the proposed Thames Tunnel.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Robbins TBM completes first leg of sewer tunnel
Good progress is reported on Melbourne’s Northern Sewerage Project, involving a series of deep sewer tunnels designed to reduce the city’s propensity for huge wastewater overflows.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Herrenknecht breakthrough
Herrenknecht announced recently that one of its TBMs has broken through six months ahead of schedule on the Erstfield-Amsteg leg of the eastern tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel(GBT) project in Switzerland.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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New president for UK body
A business development manager formerly with UK-based infrastructure services provider MorganEst has been appointed the new president of the UK’s Institution of Highways and Transportation (IHT).
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Lovat makes headway
Seattle’s Brightwater Conveyance System (West tunnel construction) is making excellent progress, according to recent reports from the Jay Dee, Coluccio, Taisei JV.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Deadline extended for Prague 2010
The deadline for receipt of abstracts for the Underground Constructions Prague 2010 conference has been extended to September 15.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Dhaka seeks Chinese aid for river tunnel
Bangladesh is seeking Chinese support for the construction of a tunnel running underneath the Karnaphuli river.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Thessaloniki metro benefits from EIB loan
Thessaloniki, Greece, has seen its much-awaited metro system take a further step to fruition following the recent approval of a €250 million (US$353.6 million) European Investment Bank loan.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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NFM launches Kazan-bound TBM
NFM Technologies will transport a 5.89m diameter Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunnelling machine for use on the westward extension of Kazan’s Line 1 in the Russian Federation.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Golden short course ready for take-off at CSM
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Family presence ends at Lovat
Having purchased TBM-maker Lovat just over a year ago, Caterpillar announced recently that both Lovats – father and son – have voluntarily left the company.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Jacobs sub wins Chinese rail-link contract
A subsidiary company of Jacobs Engineering Group has won a US$3 million contract to provide engineering services for the design and site investigation phase of the US$5 billion Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL).
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Daybreak at India's Banihal rail tunnel
India’s longest tunnel edged closer to completion following Indian Railways’ ‘daybreak’ operation last month.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Golden short course ready for take-off at CSM
‘Breakthroughs in Tunnelling’ is a three-day short course (September 23-25 2009) to be held at the Colorado School of Mines, US.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Skanska wins Frisco rail extension work
Skanska USA Civil has won a contract to build the rail extension for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Jacobs sub wins Chinese rail-link contract
A subsidiary company of Jacobs Engineering Group has won a US$3 million contract to provide engineering services for the design and site investigation phase of the US$5 billion Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL).
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10 Aug 2009 |
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More gloom for UK construction
A significant deterioration in the prospects for UK construction has been seen over the past three months, according to the London-based Construction Products Association (CPA).
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Federal support for New Jersey ARC tunnel
President Obama has designated US$200 million towards the construction of the ARC Mass Transit Tunnel in New Jersey.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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"Avant-garde" proposal
Chilean architects have proposed the construction of a 150km tunnel from landlocked Bolivia to an artificial island in the Pacific Ocean.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Morgan Est finishes National Grid work at Croydon
UK infrastructure firm Morgan Est has announced the breakthrough at its 10km, US$98.3 million Croydon electricity tunnel for National Grid.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Robbins aids Baku irrigation project
Robbins has completed the assembly of an EPBM machine in Guangzhou, China, for use at the Samur-Apsheron Irrigation Project in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Lovat's Olympic training
LOVAT has begun a series of TBM deliveries that will play a vital role in building infrastructure tunnels for the 2014 Russian Winter Olympics.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Robbins to deliver TBM to Laos
Robbins has announced that it is to deliver a TBM for a new hydroelectric project in Laos.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Crossrail construction begins
The first of almost 400 18.5m-deep, steel, tubular piles, have been placed, signalling the start of construction on London's Crossrail project.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Heathrow to get biggest baggage system
Work has begun on Heathrow Airport’s world-beating integrated baggage system.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Minova expands resin production
Mining and construction consumables producer Minova has expanded its Minetek plant in Hyderabad, India.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Water-recycling project scoops prize
A Singapore water-recycling scheme has won ‘Water Project of the Year’ at the annual Global Water Awards.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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CzTA calls for papers on transport and city tunnels
The Czech Tunnelling Association (CzTA) has announced a call for papers for the 11th International Conference of Underground Construction, held in Prague, Czech Republic, on June 14-16, 2010.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Herrenknecht's Bosporus break
On April 13, a Herrenknecht TBM reached its target shaft on the Asian side of Istanbul having tunnelled under the Bosporus.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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NCC renovates Freifjord tunnel
Norway's NCC Construction has been commissioned to renovate the 5km-long Freifjord tunnel in Vestlandet, Norway.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Parsons Brinckerhoff re-employs duo
Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) has reinstated former employees David McAlister and Paul Morris to senior management positions
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Transport expert set to join Halcrow
Bob Brownstein will join Halcrow’s consulting business group as VP and regional director.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Jacobs Associates appoints new principal
Underground engineering specialists Jacobs Associates has promoted Rafael Castro to the position of principal.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Big clean-up
Work to bore a 3.3km-long tunnel beneath West Ham, East London, began on April 28 as part of a US$106 million scheme that will be in place by next spring to protect over 600 homes from sewer flooding.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Gautrain hits the 90% mark
Dr Barbara Jensen, a spokesperson for Gautrain, has confirmed that 13,552m – 90% –of the 15km tunnel, which will form part of the Gautrain network, is now complete.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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German company to survey Bosnian HEP site
Essen-based technology services provider DMT has been commissioned to carry out a geodetic survey for a feasibility study for a new hydro-electric power plant near Vrelo, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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MRT project to face tunnel challenge
Indonesia’s first mass rapid transit (MRT) project in the capital Jakarta will face some big challenges, especially from the tunnel construction element, reports Syed Rashid Ali in Pakistan.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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New tunnel for Auckland
Transport minister Steven Joyce announced last month that the construction of a new tunnel in the New Zealand city of Auckland, designed to relieve the congested central motorway system, has been brought forward by nearly a year.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Saudi tunnel will boost tourism
Saudi Arabia is looking into the possibility of constructing an 11km tunnel that would drastically reduce the travel time between the cities of Mecca and Taif in the western part of the Saudi kingdom, reports Syed Rashid Ali.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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More hydro power tunnel contracts for Cavico
Hanoi-based Infrastructure company Cavico has announced it has won a US$4.9 million contract for the construction of a diversion tunnel and coffer dam at the Hua Na hydro-power plant in Vietnam. The award was made by the state-owned Lilama company.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Five-week delay for TT2
Work on the second crossing beneath the River Tyne in northeast England has fallen behind schedule by around five weeks due to unforeseen geological conditions.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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'Tunnelling Academy' for London
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced details of a Crossrail ‘tunnelling academy’ that will offer a variety of courses considered essential to the delivery of the US$21.9 billion rail project
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Jacobs wins major Crossrail role
Following a competitive tender process, Jacobs Engineering has been appointed project representative for Crossrail, the 118km east-west rail link to stretch across Greater London and include 21km of tunnels.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Tunnel or bridge?
Linking Denmark and Germany, the Fehmarnbelt marine crossing will, when complete, be the world’s longest combined road and railway tunnels.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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CIRIA guide will protect wildlife habitats near UK tunnels
UK-based CIRIA has announced that it will publish a best practice guide to techniques for conserving and enhancing biological diversity within large civil infrastructure projects.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Indian infrastructure wheels start to turn slowly
Infrastructure spending may be starting to have a beneficial effect on the Indian economy, given the recent flurry of activity on the hydro-electric front.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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PSD wins Queen's award
UK-based Pigott Shaft Drilling (PSD), which designs, manufactures and hires solid separation equipment, has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of its “outstanding achievements in international trade”.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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GPR reveals tunnel teams were slightly out
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been used to analyse a water tunnel buried deep inside a hill in Cumbria, England.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Budapest opens its doors to WTC
Budapest, Hungary, will be hosting the 2009 World Tunnel Congress and 35th ITA-AITES General Assembly between May 23 and 28.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Aecon JV to complete Vancouver filtration tunnels
Canadian infrastructure specialist Aecon announced last month that it is part of a joint venture that has been awarded a US$181 million contract by Metro Vancouver to complete the twin tunnel component of the Seymour Capilano Filtration project in the Greater Vancouver area.
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30 Apr 2009 |
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Dix optimistic on stimulus packages
Despite the global economy almost going into free fall, opportunities for tunnelling consultants are better than ever, according to Professor Arnold Dix, chairman of the Contractual Practices Group at the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Transcend confirmed for Crossrail
A further sign that progress is being made on London’s US$21.9bn Crossrail project is the news that Transcend – a joint venture between AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group – has been confirmed as ‘programme partner’.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Wirth completes German bore
Wirth has announced that one of its machines, a 10.24m-diameter TBM, has broken through on the new, parallel tube of the Schlüchterner tunnel in Germany, having bored nearly 4km.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Accolades for Rhode Island CSO scheme
One of the largest civil works projects in the history of Rhode island, US, has been awarded UCA 2009 ‘Project of the Year’ by the Underground Construction Association.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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RETC in Vegas
RETC (Rapid Excavation and Tunnelling Conference) will be held this year in Las Vegas, US, on June 14-17.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Antonov flies tunnelling equipment into Sochi
An Antonov AN-124-100 freighter belonging to Volga-Dnepr Airlines delivered the first 94t consignment of tunnelling equipment to the Russian city of Sochi on behalf of tunnel-construction specialist OAO Bamtonnelstroy.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Norwegian tunnel scholar dies
Tor Brekke, viewed by many as a leading light in the US tunnelling firmament, died recently, aged 75.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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DLR Extension picks up ICE award
An ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) London Merit Award for Infrastructure has been awarded to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Woolwich Arsenal Extension in East London, UK.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Black & Veatch win award for Charleston
Global engineering consulting and construction company Black & Veatch, in association with consulting engineer/architect Hussey, Gay, Bell and de Young, has received the 2009 Engineering Excellence Honour Award for its work on Charleston Water System’s Sewer Tunnel Replacement Program in Charleston, South Carolina, US.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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'Imitate or Innovate' theme for tunnel symposium
Anyone involved in tunnel ventilation may be interested to know that BHR Group is inviting registrations for its 13th International Symposium on tunnel aerodynamics & ventilation, to be held in New Brunswick, US, on May 13-15.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Wayss & Freytag share Silbertunnel contract win
German tunnel specialist Wayss and Freytag Ingenierbau, owned by the Dutch Royal BAM Group, is part of a JV awarded the contract to build the 7.4km-long Silberberg rail tunnel near Grossbreitenbach, Germany.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Transcend confirmed for Crossrail project
A further sign that progress is being made on London’s US$21.9bn Crossrail project is the news that Transcend – a joint venture between AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group – has been confirmed as ‘programme partner’.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Underground corrosion course
West Virginia University in Morgantown, US, will host the 54th annual Appalachian Underground Corrosion Short Course (AUCSC 2009) on May 19-21.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Miami tunnel put on hold for now
It has been years in the making, but the Port of Miami tunnel is once more in the doldrums. Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) secretary Stephanie Kopelousos recently recommended abandoning the existing arrangement due to serious questions over the funding provided by Miami Access Tunnel (MAT), the project’s private partner.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Nanjing bore passes Yangtze mid-point
Good progress is being made on Nanjing’s cross-river development – a project seen as representing the pinnacle of Chinese underwater construction technology.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Euroform segment order for Laos hydropower project
Herrenknecht subsidiary Euroform has won a contract to supply segment moulds and related carousel equipment for the US$240 million Theun Hinboun hydro project in Laos.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Lovat breaks through on Auckland sewer tunnel
On January 30, a Lovat RME170SE Series 23700 TBM broke through on the Orakei Main Sewer Hobson Diversion (OMSHD) tunnel project in Auckland, New Zealand – 17 days ahead of schedule.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Edison, Einstein, Hawking...and now Robbins
Richard Robbins (pictured), former president and CEO of TBM maker Robbins, has been awarded the 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering by the Philadelphia-based Franklin Institute.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Robbins TBM sets Delhi Metro record
One of 14 TBMs used on the excavation of the New Delhi Metro in India has surpassed its fellow machines in operational performance by achieving a best weekly advance rate of 202m, which equates to 168 rings.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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NFM enters the subcontinent
It looks as if French TBM-maker NFM Technologies is to supply the rapidly expanding Indian underground infrastructure market.
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20 Apr 2009 |
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Channel Tunnel back in business
Following the repair of the fire damage that occurred on September 11, 2008, the Channel Tunnel has reopened to traffic. UK Secretary of State for Transport Geoff Hoon gave the signal for the reopening on February 9, calling the repair of the tunnel a “fantastic achievement”.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Robbins TBM changes diameter on Turkish HEP project
A Robbins main beam TBM capable of adjusting to different tunnel diameters is being used on Turkey’s Akköy II Hydroelectric Project. Launched in winter 2008/2009, the 4.8m-diameter TBM and back-up is excavating a series of headrace tunnels for contractor Kolin Construction Co. Inc.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Lovat sets record in Moscow
Russian contractor Mosmetrostroy’s completion of the first of several escalator access tunnels for the Moscow metro has set a record: for the first time in tunnelling history, a large-diameter EPB TBM has excavated, mucked and erected tunnel linings on a 30° decline.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Mexico City to build largest wastewater system
Mexico City is embarking on what has been billed as the world’s largest inner urban wastewater system – the East Tunnel wastewater duct, which will cost in the region of US$832 million. Once it is completed, the Mexican government hopes to have solved the massive wastewater problems faced by the conurbation, which has a population of more than 20 million people.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Wirth bounces into 2009
Despite the global economic slowdown, TBM-manufacturer Wirth has announced that its recently restructured Mining & Construction business had a good start to 2009 after receiving several orders.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Pre-qualification submittals sought for New York ARC project
Expanding New York’s Trans-Hudson tunnel capacity has edged a step closer. It was recently announced that NJ Transit is to request special pre-qualification submittals (SPQs) from firms interested in proposing for the first tunnel contract on the US$8.7 billion Access to the Region’s Core (ARC)/Trans-Hudson Express (THE) tunnel project.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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World tunnellers mourn ‘father of modern tunnelling’
Sir Alan Muir Wood, one of the world’s leading tunnellers, has died of cancer. He passed away peacefully last month, aged 87.
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Early finish for Honam railway promised
As part of an effort to promote balanced national development, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea recently pledged to build a 233km railway as soon as possible for high-speed trains through the country’s south-western provinces, reports Syed Rashid Ali.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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Lee Tunnel tenders announced
Thames Water has announced that four bidders are in the running to construct the US$600 million Lee Tunnel; the first of two major infrastructure projects, which, when complete, will make up the proposed London Tideway Tunnels.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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First tunnel element immersed in Olso harbour
Oslo harbour has become the scene of intense activity following the recent immersion of the initial element for the US$400 million Bjørvika Tunnel, the first-ever immersed tunnel project in Norway.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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Lovat in action in Spain and China
TBM-maker Lovat has seen action on numerous fronts in recent months. Firstly, it has supplied the first of two 6.9m-diameter RME270SE EPB TBMs to Spanish contracting joint venture FCC/OHL/Copisa. Both TBMs will be used in the construction of the Terrassa Railways Tunnel Project in Terrassa, Spain.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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NFM supplies China Railway with EPB TBMs
Following the signing of a contract on January 12, NFM Technologies will supply two 6.28m-diameter earth-pressure balance (EPB) TBMs for Line 10 of the Beijing metro.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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Robbins EPBs to connect Chinese cities
One of two 6.3m-diameter EPB TBMs from Robbins has been launched to excavate Lot 12 of Guangzhou’s Guang-Fo line.
The machines are being launched from a common 16m-deep shaft, with each tunnel being bored in two sections between stations, totalling around 2.6km in length. Parallel tunnels will be bored to connect the three stations of Jushu, Xilang, and Hedong.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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Global steel woes gather momentum
In a further escalation of the global economic downturn, the World Steel Association recently announced that world crude steel output fell by almost 25% in December; a dramatic contrast to the 1.2% slide recorded for the whole of 2008.
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12 Feb 2009 |
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NFM makes symbolic start on Chinese metro expansion
Two NFM Technologies TBMs began their excavation work in China last month to work on Line 3 of the Shenzhen underground system.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Herrenknecht making good progress on Gotthard
Herrenknecht has announced that its hard-rock gripper TBM S-210 has passed the Piora Basin – a critical zone of the Gotthard massif – without any problems.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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SOL adds 19 titles
‘Tunnelling engineer’ and ‘geotechnical specialist’ are just two of 19 ground engineering job titles included in the new ‘Shortage Occupations List’ (SOL), which was drawn up by the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee and recently highlighted by the UK-based Ground Forum.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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BGA invites papers for competition
The British Geotechnical Association is inviting young, geotechnical engineers to submit papers for the 40th Cooling Prize competition.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Robbins completion at Ceneri adit
High cover and squeezing ground proved no problem for a 9.7m-diameter Robbins main-beam TBM, which recently completed the 2.4km-long Ceneri adit tunnel on time after ten months of boring in the Alps, Switzerland.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Guide to underground spaces
A collection of papers presented at the recent International Conference on Underground Spaces at the Wessex Institute of Technology in England, Underground Spaces is a 224-page book that recognises the increasing importance of the potential of the underground.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Lovat TBM breaks ground in Seattle
Breakthrough has occurred on the King County Brightwater-East project in Seattle, Washington, US.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Sandvik jumbos in Andean hydro project
Main contractor Hochtief-Tecsa Joint Venture is using six Sandvik DT series tunnel-drilling rigs and three Sandvik DC300 surface-drilling rigs to excavate the tunnels on the US$350 million La Confluencia hydroelectric project, currently on site in the Chilean Andes.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Minova to open new production plant
Global roof-bolt supplier Minova is to set up a production plant in Tai’an in the People’s Republic of China that will open in March.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Electricity tunnels for London
Four deep tunnels, totalling 40km in length, that will house 400kV cables will be built by the UK National Grid electricity-supply authority.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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WT readers’ views invited on skills dearth survey
In an effort to gauge the extent of skills shortages in the large-bore tunnelling sector, World Tunnelling, in conjunction with New York-based consultant Peter J Tarkoy (see article on pp 25-28), is to produce a written summary of the extent of the shortage in the various sectors of the industry.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Herrenknecht completes Cabrera tunnel
Herrenknecht has announced that the excavation and lining
of the two tubes of the Cabrera Tunnel near Valencia, Spain, is complete.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Crossrail to be greener than expected
It looks as if the proposed Crossrail project across London will give new meaning to the term ‘green tunnelling’. Spoil that is excavated from the project could be used to create a large wildlife habitat to the east of the capital in Essex, under new proposals masterminded by Faber Maunsell/Aecom and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Infrastructure investment key to economic recovery, says AEM
US-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) forecast continued business declines of 8.6% in the US to the end of this year, followed by flat growth of 0.04% in 2009, according to its annual outlook survey.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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CDA to hire consultants for Margalla study
Pakistan’s Capital Development Authority (CDA) is to shortly hire consultants to conduct a feasibility study of the Margalla tunnel project in Islamabad, northern Pakistan, writes Syed Rashid Ali.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Hallandsås beset by more problems
Unforeseen complications with rock and water conditions have added even further costs and delays to the troubled Hallandsås tunnel project. Swedish railway admini-stration body Banverket announced last month that the project would be ready for traffic in 2015, not in 2012 as originally planned.
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27 Nov 2008 |
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…and progress of a sort over in Hong Kong
Robbins has opened a new office in Hong Kong to service the Asia Pacific region. It is the company’s fourth office in Asia and will focus on sales, technical support and procurement.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Amelia Rose ready for North Shore big dig
Auckland city officials last month unveiled the US$5.8 million TBM that will excavate a 2.6km tunnel for ten months beneath the city’s North Shore for the US$67 million Rosedale tunnel and marine outfall project.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Lovat expands its disc cutter range…
LOVAT has announced that it will now offer 17in-diameter disc cutters to supplement its existing 15in and 15.5in-diameter ranges that have been available since January 2007.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Halcrow wins UK excellence award
Global infrastructure consultant Halcrow has won the British Quality Foundation’s UK Excellence Award in recognition of its ‘outstanding performance, commitment to excellence and business improvement’.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Break for Gautrain
The first tunnel breakthrough has been achieved on Gautrain, South Africa’s 80km mass rapid-transit railway system that will link Johannesburg with OR Tambo International Airport.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Progress in New Delhi for Robbins…
One of two Robbins EPBMs that are boring parallel, 2km-long tunnels in the second phase of India’s New Delhi Metro Extension Project has completed its first bore, after five months of tunnelling beneath the Indian capital.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Normet enters Chile with Semmco buy
Finland-based tunnelling and mining-equipment manufacturer Normet Group has acquired Chilean-based Semmco.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Melbourne rail tunnel will boost local economy
Victoria’s economy will slow dramatically if plans to build Sir Rod Eddington’s proposed US$4.7 billion metro rail tunnel in Melbourne, Australia, are shelved. The warning comes from Graham Currie, a leading transport academic and chair of public transport at Monash University.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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…and breaks through in Istanbul
The Gulermak-Dogus joint venture has announced the Lovat RME257SE Series 23100 tunnel-boring machine (TBM) has broken through at Guney Sanayi Station.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Movers at Häny
Häny AG, the global grouting systems manufacturer, has appointed Bernhard Korfitsen (pictured) as the new manager of its MIT (mixing and injection technology) division, effective from January 1, 2009.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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BAA to invest US$365m in Crossrail
UK airport operator British Airports Authority (BAA) has pledged to invest in London’s Crossrail project because it wants to improve access to Heathrow.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Investors sought for US$1.2bn urban rail project
The private sector is being encouraged to invest into Hanoi’s estimated US$1.2 billion urban railway No. 5 under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme, reports Syed Rashid Ali.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Two new electric lines for Bangkok
Traffic congestion in Bangkok could be alleviated thanks to Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat recent agreement to a plan to build another two electric rail routes in the Thai capital.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Extra cash for second Hudson River tunnel
An extra US$124 million has been allocated to complete the preliminary design and begin the final design of the second Hudson River Tunnel in New York. The decision was made last month following a vote by the New Jersey Transit Board of Directors.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Symbolic start for New Tyne Crossing
Work has begun on a second road tunnel as part of the US$415 million New Tyne Crossing project, which will also include the refurbishment of the existing road tunnel beneath the River Tyne in northeast England.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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Steel demand to stay static until late 2009
Eurofer, the federation of EU steel producers, has said that the European steel market is now entering a period of “temporary instability and over-supply”, which may last throughout most of 2009.
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26 Nov 2008 |
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New software
NEW software developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in the US can give engineers a detailed view of rock that is encountered during a tunnel excavation thereby it is claimed increasing safety on the project. Engineers will have the ability to see a tunnel’s mechanical behaviour properties far ahead of the current excavation limit.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Abu Dhabi to expand sewerage system
ABU Dhabi is investing US$3.27 billion in expanding its heavily-overloaded sewerage system in the next five years to meet the needs of the rapidlygrowing emirate.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Tyne Crossing consultants named
HPR construction and management consultants have been appointed to design and manage the Tyne Crossing by Frenchowned Bouygues Travaux Publiques.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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New Rockmore thread design
ROCKMORE has introduced a new thread design to satisfy underground drillers’ requirements for a more powerful drill string for drifting and tunnelling operations.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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PB Senior VP receives award
JAMES Monsees senior vicepresident with Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) was recently awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Underground Construction Association of The Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Jobs at Jacobs Associates
JACOBS Associates has announced that Mark D Havekost PE (below left) who manages the company’s Portland Oregon office has been promoted to vice-president. A trained civil engineer Havekost has more than 14 years’ underground construction experience particularly in the areas of tunnel design and geotechnical engineering. He is currently project manager for design on the Portsmouth Force Main in Portland and has also worked on the Brightwater Conveyance System in Seattle and the Northern Sewerage Projec
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Herrenknecht celebrates 30 years
IT’S been 30 years since the founding of TBM maker Herrenknecht AG. To celebrate the anniversary the company staged a gala dinner and ceremony (pictured) in the Baden Arena in Offenburg south Germany. Around 1 550 employees and 450 guests including customers politicians and customer representatives attended the event entitled ‘Thirty years of Herrenknecht – together through thick and thin’.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Propex fibres get CE mark
PROPEX Concrete Systems has announced that its range of reinforcing fibres for concrete have achieved CE marking which means that they comply with the ES EN1 4889 European Standard.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Breakthrough on Shanghai tunnell
BREAKTHROUGH occurred last month on the 2.67km Xizang Road S. Tunnel being constructed beneath the Huangpu River in Shanghai China.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Crossrail finally gets the green light
ROYAL Assent has been granted to Crossrail the east-west rail link that is expected to add around 10% to London’s public transport capacity and thereby provide a major boost for London’s rail infrastructure. This follows Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s announcement last year of a US$32 billion funding package for the scheme.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Warsaw metro plan suffers setback from high bids
WARSAW city officials got a shock recently when bids for the city’s second metro line came in at over double what had been expected. Instead of the anticipated US$1.4 billion the actual bids ranged between US$2.8 billion and US$3 billion.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Bilfinger sues for damages on Vancouver tunnel contract
BILFINGER Berger the German company that is boring the twin 7km-long tunnels on the Seymour- Capilano water filtration plant is suing Metro Vancouver claiming that it is owed over US$22 million in unpaid invoices as a result of the regional government cancelling the project without proper reason in May.
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Collaborative approach is best
A COLLABORATIVE approach to risk by contractors brokers owners and insurers has helped secure the long-term viability of tunnelling schemes around the world. This was the concensus of delegates at a recent seminar in London hosted by risk consultant Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) involving engineers contractors owners and lawyers.
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CFE awarded Delft rail tunnell
BELGIAN construction and services group CFE – part of the Combinatie Cromme Lijn joint venture – says it and its partners have been awarded the first phase of a US$557 million rail tunnel project in Delft Holland. Its partners include Dura Vermeer and Haverkort Voormolen TBI Infra.
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Lovat TBMs in multi-tunnel advances
GOOD progress is reported by contractor Constucciones Sando SA on the construction of the Coslada sewer tunnel project in Coslada Spain. Following its launch last February the Lovat RME185SE Series 20202 earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine (EPB TBM) is currently excavating the first of two tunnels.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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Robbins doubles efforts on Delhi metro, advances in New York City
ROBBINS recently delivered the second of two MHI EPB tunnel boring machines (TBM) to excavate a new set of tunnels for the Delhi metro extension on which a total of 14 TBMs are being deployed. The two 6.5m-diameter Robbins machines have been built at the company’s facilities in China from parts designed and manufactured in a cooperative effort with MHI in Japan China and the US.
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01 Aug 2008 |
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MWH appointed on Pakistani hydroelectric project
COLORADO-based environmental engineering and construction services provider MWH has been selected by Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority to provide engineering and construction management on the US$2.2 billion Neelum-Jhelum hydroelectric project in Pakistan.
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