WestConnex Rozelle Interchange contract awarded
JCL Joint Venture (John Holland CPB Contractors) has been selected as the successful design and construction contractor for the Rozelle Interchange and Iron Cove Link, the final and critical component...
View ArticleRaft of contract awards on Singapore LTA’s NSC project
The Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded six contracts totalling S$3.14bn to design and construct the tunnels for six sections of the 21.5km long North-South Corridor (NSC): between...
View ArticleGerman approval of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel ready to be signed
The Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced today that the plan approval of the 18km long Fehmarnbelt immersed tube tunnel is ready to be signed. In accordance with German regulations,...
View ArticleTwo more EPBMs delivered to Istanbul Metro
TERRATEC has announced the successful site acceptance testing of two new 6.56m diameter EPBMs for the ongoing expansion of Istanbul’s Metro system, in Turkey. These EPBMs, along with another two new...
View ArticleHumber tunnel TBM reaches halfway mark
In the UK, National Grid’s 510 tonne Herrenknecht TBM ‘Mary’ is now halfway through its 5km journey under the River Humber, a major milestone in the project to secure 20% of Britain’s gas supplies via...
View ArticleBART Phase II awards General Engineering Services contract
In an important milestone for the Valley Transportation Authority’s (VTA) BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension, the VTA Board of Directors has awarded a US$125M contract to Mott McDonald/PGH Wong...
View ArticleCREG 10.5m EPBM ready for Alger Metro
On 15thJanuary 2019, a 10.5m diameter EPBM for the Alger Metro finished its Factory Acceptance Testing at the CREG workshop in Tianjin. It’s the first CREG TBM to be used for the metro construction in...
View ArticleBoring begins for third Sydney Metro TBM
Sydney Metro’s third of five Herrenknecht TBMs has now started tunnelling, marking the next stage in delivering the new 31km of metro twin 6m i.d. tunnels below the centre of Sydney and deep under...
View ArticleReport submitted for 100km Circular Collider tunnel
In Geneva, CERN’s Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration has submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for a 100km long large circular collider of the future. The large circular...
View ArticleFirst 15.6m diameter West Gate Tunnel TBM arrives
The first of the two Herrenknecht 15.6m diameter TBMs that contractor JV CPB Contractors and John Hollandwill use to build the $6.7bn West Gate Tunnel has arrived in Melbourne. Acting Premier James...
View ArticleLesotho Phase 2 appoints Panel of Experts
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has appointed an engineering Panel of Experts for Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. The appointments were finalised in December 2018...
View ArticleSnowy Mountains Phase 2 appoints preferred civils tenderer
Australia’s Snowy Hydro has appointed Future Generation, a JV between Australian company, Clough, and Salini Impregilo, as preferred tenderer for the civil works contract on New South Wales’ Snowy 2.0...
View ArticleFirst York Potash TBM soon to be shipped
Sirius Minerals, the client on the UK’s York Potash Project, has unveiled the first of its 1,800 tonne TBMs that will construct the company’s 37km long, 6m diameter underground mineral transportation...
View ArticleGrand Paris Express Line 17 contract award
Société du Grand Paris, the semi-public company developing the Grand Paris Express, has awarded the first of three civil engineering contracts for the development of its Line 17 (North) to a consortium...
View ArticleLTA announces alignment for its longest underground line
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has announced the alignment and station locations for the 29km long Phase 1 of the Cross Island Line (CRL), LTA’s longest fully underground line. When fully...
View ArticleFirst Kuala Lumpur SSP Line TBM breaks through
The first TBM breakthrough for Kuala Lumpur’s MRT Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya (SSP) Line has taken place on 29thJanuary at the Chan Sow Lin MRT Station site, marking a major achievement in the...
View ArticleLangmaack joins MC-Bauchemie
Lars Langmaack has joined MC-Bauchemie as its Technical Director TBM within the company’s Tunnelling Systems unit. In this function, he is responsible for product and system development as well as the...
View ArticleLTA awards North-South corridor tunnel contract
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. (Singapore) Pte Ltd. a S$615.9M contract to construct a road tunnel, an MRT station box and commuter facilities,...
View ArticleGerman approval signed for world’s longest Immersed Tube
February 6 saw the management of Femern A/S handed the signed German planning approval decision in Kiel, effectively green lighting the construction of the $8bn, 18.2km long Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, the...
View ArticleTerratec delivers two more EPBMs to Istanbul
TERRATEC has announced the delivery of a further two new 6.56m diameter EPBMs for the ongoing expansion of Istanbul’s Metro system, in Turkey, following successful factory acceptance testing. The new...
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