WT December 09
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. Full story...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 Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...
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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. Full story...
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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...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 Full story...Features
Between a rock and a hard place
The Halcrow-designed Shis-Diftah road tunnel, currently on site in Sharjah and being drilled and blasted through the UAE’s highest mountain range, faces an array of challenges. George Demetri reports Full story...
Keeping Kentucky clean
Jack Burke looks at a sewage tunnel project in Kentucky, US, designed to improve local water quality and increase storage capacity Full story...A man for all seasons
San Francisco-based Dr Glenn Boyce, senior associate at Jacobs Associates, is one of few engineers to specialise in tunnelling and trenchlesss. By George Demetri Full story...Iranian TBMs continue steady march
Hamed Moammeri (Amberg, Iran) and Reza Ghaffarzadeh (Panah Saz Alvand Engineering) outline some recently completed TBM projects in Iran Full story...Site Search
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