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Lower Thames Crossing technical partner appointed
Highways England has confirmed the appointment of the LTC CASCADE JV, comprising engineering and programme management company CH2M, design and consultancy firm Arcadis and tunnel and bridge...
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Mega TBM Mobilization: The Logistics of Multi-Machine Project
Today’s TBM projects are being built on an ever larger scale. Not only are the machines themselves pushing the size limits, but the sheer number of TBMs being employed at once is also growing. From New...
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Breakthrough in Mexico
North America’s first Crossover TBM has broken new ground in Mexico City. At the end of last month, the 8.7m diameter Robbins XRE – a cross between a rock TBM and an EPB – emerged into an...
View ArticleParsons win in Dubai
Parsons has announced that it has been awarded a consultancy and supervision contract by the Dubai Municipality for two deep wastewater tunnels and associated link sewers. The total combined length of...
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EIB loan to Thames Tideway
The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide a £700M loan for the £4.2bn, 25km long, 7.2m i.d. Thames Tideway Tunnel, the biggest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry....
View ArticleSkanska confirms National Grid award
Skanska has confirmed its award of a contract by National Grid, in JV with PORR and A.Hak worth a total of £100m and £39.4m to Skanska, to design and build a replacement 5.4km long high-pressure gas...
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Tunnelling Journal acquires World Tunnelling
TGS Media Limited, publishers of Tunnelling Journal have acquired the rights to publish World Tunnelling and Trenchless World from Aspermont Media. The April 2016 issue of World Tunnelling and...
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BTS 2016 Conference and Exhibition
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, 11 / 12 OCTOBER 2016 … join us again this October and share in the success of this event! Register your delegate place today … click here Register your...
View ArticleShieldhall TBM parts arrive
The front sections of a Herrenknecht TBM have arrived in Glasgow ahead of the construction phase of Scottish Water’s US$160M project to build the biggest wastewater tunnel in Scotland. The 360 tonnes...
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Femern A/S confirm contract awards
Femern A/S has signed four major construction contracts worth almost US$4.5bn with the international contractor consortia that will be responsible for the construction of the 18km Fehmarnbelt immersed...
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York Potash preferred contractors revealed
The Hochtief Murphy Joint Venture has been selected as preferred contractor for the UK’s 37km long, 6m diameter York Potash mineral tunnel transport system development. AMC UK – a joint venture between...
View ArticleSR99 making progress
Seattle Tunnel Partners has reported it has now bored more than one-half mile of the SR 99 tunnel on Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program. As of June 13, Bertha, the 57.5ft diameter...
View ArticleDiamond Hill topping out celebrations
Hong Kong MTR’s Shatin to Central Link (SCL) project team celebrated the topping out of the Diamond Hill Station Extension on 6 June 2016. This is the third SCL station to be topped out, marking an...
View ArticleJohn Holland opens in Singapore
John Holland has opened a new South East Asia Office in Singapore. Regional General Manager, South East Asia, John Anderson, said the opening of the Singapore office was testament to John Holland’s on...
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Metrostav celebrates Czech breakthrough
Contractor Metrostav has announced the breakthrough of its 9.8m diameter Herrenknecht hybrid TBM on the first tube of 4km long Ejpovice twin railway tunnels near Pilsen in the Czech Republic. The...
View ArticleWestern Distributor Shortlist announced
A world-class field of construction firms have been shortlisted to build Melbourne’s second river crossing. Minister for Roads Luke Donnellan has announced three consortia have been chosen to tender...
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Bangalore breakthrough
June 8, 2016 saw one of two 6.4m diameter mixed-face EPB machines break through on the Namma Metro in Bangalore. After being launched in March 2015, the TBM named Kaveri made its way through its...
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John Holland secures early win on Melbourne Metro
John Holland has been awarded the first major Melbourne Metro Tunnel contract, which includes excavating massive shafts in the centre of Melbourne as part of preparations for the project’s 9km of twin...
View ArticleThe Robbins Company merge with NHI
An agreement between The Robbins Company and Northern Heavy Industries (NHI) Group was finalized on June 28, 2016 in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province. This initial agreement is...
View ArticleLondon Cable tunnel completion
Fionnuala, a 3.4m diameter Lovat TBM has completed a 3km journey between South East London and East London whilst building a £27M cable tunnel for Client UK Power Networks. UK Power Networks, which...
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