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Registration opens for Colorado School of Mines Short Course
Registration is open for the highly anticipated Colorado School of Mines October 19-22 Tunneling Fundamentals, Applications and Innovations Short Course. Last year’s course sold out with over 150...
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Mining Equipment Acquires German Manufacturer Mühlhäuser
Mining Equipment Ltd. announces its acquisition of German manufacturer Mühlhäuser and the opening of its first European office in Breuberg, Germany. The new office, approximately 50 km south of...
View ArticleCREG EPBM launched in Copenhagen
The first of two 5.81m diameter EPBMs manufactured by China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (CREG) that will bore the Cityringen-Branch off to Sydhavnen CRSH1 metro tunnel in Copenhagen,...
View ArticleBoris Johnson announces HS2 to go ahead in full
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has just announced in the Commons that the HS2 high-speed rail link will be built in full, with work to start fully in the coming weeks. Phase 1 will travel between...
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Single Delta tunnel enters environmental review
On Januray 15, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released a Notice of Preparation (NOP) for a proposal to modernize water infrastructure in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, initiating...
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HNTB selected lead civil engineer for Chicago O’Hare tunnel system
In late January, the last major piece fell into place for the design of Chicago’s $8.5 billion expansion of O’Hare International Airport, as officials announced the signing of a $140 million,...
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TBC seeks expansion in Las Vegas as tunneling approaches first breakthrough
While Elon Musk’s The Boring Company (TBC) is expecting to achieve a breakthrough on the first of its two 4,300ft (1,310m) long tunnel drives for the Las Vegas Convention Center project later this week...
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Feds clear Gateway bridge funding but reject Hudson tunnel again
On February 10, The Trump administration announced that the Gateway Portal North Bridge project, a $1.7 billion replacement for New Jersey’s Hackensack River bridge (one of the two main components of...
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Austin officials unveil major LRT plan
On January 14, officials from the City of Austin, Texas, and the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Cap Metro) unveiled details of a potential light rail expansion plan, dubbed Project...
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First Forrestfield-Airport Link TBM completes challenging journey
In a major milestone for METRONET’s Forrestfield-Airport Link project in Perth, TBM Grace has broken through the Bayswater dive structure, marking the end of her 8km journey. Grace is the first of the...
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WTC 2020 in Malaysia postponed to September 2020
Due to the spreading Corona Virus in the Asia-Pacific region and more recently in Europe, the organisers of WTC 2020 have decided to delay the date of the World Tunnel Congress 2020 and associated...
View ArticleDresden to Prague Rail Link agreement signed
Following an official signing ceremony between Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German rail company, and Czech company Správa železnic, a €5.4bn high-speed rail link will now be developed between Germany and...
View ArticleEPBMs gear up for new Istanbul Metro line
The Gulermak, Nurol & Makyol JV is currently completing the on-site assembly of two 6.56m diameter Terratec EPBMs for use on the new Ümraniye-Ataşehir-Göztepe line, the latest addition to...
View ArticleFirst tunnel complete on Guangxi Province North Line Water Irrigation Project
In January 2020, contractor Guangdong No. 2 Hydropower Bureau Co., Ltd successfully broke through its Robbins 5.97m diameter Main Beam TBM in Guangxi Province, China, following the excavation of the...
View ArticleTutor Perini Corporation confirms possible company sale
Tutor Perini Corporation, a leading civil, building and specialty construction company, has confirmed that a Special Committee of its Board of Directors comprised of independent directors, on behalf of...
View ArticleRFQ for Scarborough Subway Extension and Eglinton Crosstown West Extension
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued two Requests for Qualifications (RFQs) for advance tunnelling work on the Scarborough Subway Extension and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension –...
View ArticleGreen light for Stonehenge Tunnel and LTC in UK budget
In the UK Budget today (11th March), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak has given the A303 road improvement scheme the go-ahead, green lighting the construction of the controversial 3.2km long...
View ArticleThree JVs shortlisted for Stonehenge Tunnel
Following submissions from organisations to undertake the design and build of the UK’s A303 Stonehenge project, Highways England has selected three international Joint Ventures for the next stage of...
View ArticleBreakthrough celebrated on Bangkok’s Orange Line
Contractor Italian-Thai Development PCL (ITD) has recently celebrated the breakthrough of its 6.39m diameter S70 EPB Terratec TBM on one of three underground civil works contracts for the first...
View ArticleBTS and TTS issue request for information on ‘Health, Safety and Wellbeing’
The British Tunnelling Society (BTS) in union with Transforming Tunnel Safety (TTS), a group of clients, contractors and consultants across the industry with the goal of improving health, safety and...
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