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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Drill and blast tunnelling on Vietnam’s Dakmi 4 hydropower station is well under way, despite the difficult rock conditions being experienced
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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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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
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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
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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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For more than a decade, Manfred Messing has headed-up tunnel guidance and surveying instrumentation company VMT. He talks to George Demetri
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