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Eiffage negotiates unexpected cavern in France
Contractor Eiffage Civil Engineering has successfully negotiated its re-built 3.5m diameter Robbins Main Beam TBM through an unexpected cavern studded with stalactites and stalagmites and measuring...
View ArticleMusk’s Boring Company shortlisted for Chicago O’Hare Express Link
Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel has announced the selection of two teams to proceed with competing to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the O’Hare Express operating system. Elon Musk’s The...
View ArticleIstanbul TBM record advance claimed
In early March, the Senbay Madencilik-Kolin-Kalyon JV (SKK-JV) achieved what is claimed to be a record-breaking TBM production shift of 19 rings, or 26.6m in 12 hours, during excavation of the...
View ArticleHerrenknecht to supply Melbourne Metro TBMs
The four 7.2m diameter TBMs that will build the $11bn Melbourne Metro’s 9km long twin tunnels have been ordered from Herrenknecht. The TBMs will be designed in Germany where key components will be...
View ArticleSecond Perth Forrestfield-Airport TBM stopped
On March 28 the second of Perth’s Forrestfield-Airport Link’s two tunnel-boring machines was temporarily halted. TBM Sandy stopped when it came within 40m – the minimum distance – of the stationary TBM...
View ArticleStrabag awarded 13km York Potash tunnel drive contract
Sirius Minerals has entered into a design and build contract with STRABAG AG for the construction of the first drive on its 37km long, 4.7m diameter mineral transport system (MTS) tunnel between Wilton...
View ArticleStonehenge commercial services contract awarded
Turner & Townsend has been appointed to provide commercial services for Highways England’s flagship $2.2bn A303 Stonehenge scheme. The project includes plans to build a 2.8km long road tunnel near...
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GoFundMe donations for Jan Babendererde
On Sunday, March 25th, Tunnelling Journal’s friend, Jan Babendererde, was badly hurt in a dirt bike accident in his home state of Washington, USA. He was air-lifted to hospital with a serious spinal...
View ArticleTwo tunnel California Waterfix gets the go ahead
The board of directors of California’s Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has voted to provide the additional financing necessary to proceed with the full California WaterFix project,...
View ArticleSSE wins appeal in Glendoe collapse case
The Scottish Court of Session has, by a majority of two-to-one, allowed a reclaiming motion by power company, SSE against a previous Court ruling that contractor Hochtief was not liable for the tunnel...
View ArticlePorr wins Austria’s largest tunnel contract
PORR has secured the largest tunnelling project in Austria’s history – lot H51 Pfons-Brenner on the Brenner Base Tunnel, with a length of around 18km. The works will begin in early summer 2018, headed...
View ArticleKeller and Hayward Baker acquire Moretrench
Keller and Hayward Baker have acquired New Jersey-based Moretrench, a a geotechnical contracting company operating predominantly along the east coast of the US, from its employee shareholders for...
View ArticleKuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail PDPs selected
Client body for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (‘KL-SG HSR’),MyHSR Corporation Sdn Bhd (‘MyHSR Corp’), has completed its Project Delivery Partner (‘PDP’) tender and selected two consortia...
View ArticleGrace re-starts tunnelling on Perth’s Forrestfield-Airport Link
On April 17th 2018, the Salini-Impregilo (SI-NRW) JV restarted TBM Grace on Perth’s Forrestfield-Airport Link, with the project’s second TBM, Sandy due to follow shortly ‘at a safe distance behind...
View ArticleDSI Underground Australia to acquire Fero Group
DSI Underground Australia and Fero Group Pty Ltd (Fero) have signed an agreement under which DSI Underground Australia will acquire 100 per cent of privately owned Fero. “The acquisition of Fero will...
View ArticleTERRATEC EPBM heading to Bangkok
At the end of April, TERRATEC celebrated the successful Factory Acceptance Test of a new 4.27m diameter EPBM destined for the Chidlom Cable Tunnel Project in Bangkok, Thailand. The event was attended...
View ArticleThree candidates announced for Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion
Three private-sector teams will be invited to submit technical proposals and prices to design and construct the Interstate 64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion. The Virginia Department of...
View ArticleFunding and single bore option secured for BART San Jose extension
San Francisco’s VTA has reached a significant milestones for extending the BART system that will include a 5 mile (8km) tunnel section to downtown San Jose and into Santa Clara with a $730M shot in the...
View ArticleCOWI acquires US tunnel arm of ILF Consultants
COWI North America (COWI) has announced that it will welcome the addition of tunnel professionals from the US operating company of ILF Consultants, Inc. The addition of key staff to its North American...
View ArticleDublin MetroLink appoints Designer
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc in consortium with Idom, has been appointed by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) as Employer’s Designer for the development and implementation of Ireland’s first metro...
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