WT MAY 2009
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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...Tunnel or bridge?
Linking Denmark and Germany, the Fehmarnbelt marine crossing will, when complete, be the world’s longest combined road and railway tunnels. Full story...Global News
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. Full story...
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. Full story...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”. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...'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 Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...Tunnel or bridge?
Linking Denmark and Germany, the Fehmarnbelt marine crossing will, when complete, be the world’s longest combined road and railway tunnels. Full story...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. Full story...Features
Rehabilitating the Chekka Road Tunnel
A completely new, steel-reinforced, cast-in-place concrete lining with PVC sheet membrane was what was originally intended to waterproof the Chekka Road Tunnels in Lebanon. Full story...
Paving the way for a talc mine
MAIN contractor Skanska BS is using drill and blast to excavate a 4.2km access tunnel for the development of a talc mine in Slovakia. Full story...Testing times for bentonite
Ian Morrison takes an altogether more critical view on the use of bentonite as a TBM slurry Full story...The art of drill plan design
DRILL plan design and drilling equipment accuracy play a significant role in the overall control and productiveness of a tunnelling construction site. Full story...Back in business
With the Channel Tunnel now fully re-opened, Carly Lovejoy reviews the damage and subsequent repair work that followed the fire in September 2008 Full story...Classy tunnel offering
Mining engineer Pekka Nieminen is global product line manager of tunnelling and underground civil engineering at Sandvik, Finland. He joined Tampella Tamrock, now Sandvik, in 1987 and has been with the company ever since. With ten years’ tunnelling experience, Pekka has headed Sandvik’s tunnel division since 2006 Full story...Innovation
Putzmeister's wet spray
Two of Putzmeister’s SPM 500 PC wet-spray concrete machines are being used to apply shotcrete on the B29 Schwäbisch Gmünd by-pass road tunnel in Germany Full story...Atlas Copco core drill relaunch
TWO hand-held hydraulic core drills have been relaunched by Atlas Copco. The LCD 500 (shown below) and LCD 1500 are designed to allow operators to be in complete control, even when drilling holes of 200mm diameter. Full story...Brookville advances
Brookville Equipment Corporation (BEC), manufacturer of custom underground haulage locomotives and personnel carriers, has announced it continues to make improvements to the efficiency, safety and comfort of its rail-mounted units. Full story...Site Search
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