WT Nov 2008
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. Full story...Global News
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. Full story...
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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...Normet enters Chile with Semmco buy
Finland-based tunnelling and mining-equipment manufacturer Normet Group has acquired Chilean-based Semmco. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...…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. Full story...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’. Full story...…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. Full story...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. Full story...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. Full story...Features
Passing under Pasila
Multi-utility tunnels can house a host of different services, making digging up the roads a thing of the past. George Demetri visited such a tunnel being driven by drill and blast under the Finnish capital Full story...
Another fine mesh
Tunnelling conjures up numerous foreseen and unforeseen difficulties on site, such as inducing settlement to buildings in the vicinity of the tunnel. But, when these are protected heritage buildings, any movement has to be strictly minimised to avoid damage and problems with the municipality. Full story...Hydrodemolishing the Söderled tunnel
High-pressure water jets are being used to remove damaged concrete to restore the Central Bridge and Söderled Tunnel in Stockholm Full story...Fire-suppressing the Silver Forest
Towards the end of 2006, Fogtec, the German-based manufacturer of water-mist fire-suppression systems, was awarded the contract to protect the complete Silver Pine Tree Forest tunnel in the heart of Moscow, Russia. The tunnel design comprises two parallel tubes, each measuring 2.1km long with a diameter of 14.2m and double-deck construction: vehicles will travel along the top deck while the metro will use the lower one. Full story...Assessing the risk
The Channel Tunnel fire that occurred on 11 September is the latest in a number of incidents that have put the spotlight on fire safety. Thankfully, in this case, there were no fatalities. Full story...A cost-effective solution
Einar Broch, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Eivind Grøv of SINTEF, Norway, discuss sectional tunnel construction in Norway and make a few cost comparisons with Swiss tunnels Full story...Fixing a TARIF for security
How do we make tunnels safer in the face of heightened terrorist threats? Dr George A. Munfakh, senior vice-president at Parsons Brinckerhoff’s geotechnical & tunnelling division, outlines recent work on the issue Full story...Issue: WT Nov 2008
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