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LTA Awards Contract for Johor Bahru – Singapore RTS Link
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the second civil contract for the construction of the Johor Bahru – Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link to China Communications Construction...
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Jacobs awarded LTC Integration Partner contract
Highways England has awarded Jacobs the US$221.97M Integration Partner contract which will see the company act as a catalyst for collaboration between Highways England and the Lower Thames Crossing’s...
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Robbins brand to continue under ‘Global TBM Company’
Global TBM Company, newly established by industry veteran Lok Home, has announced the recent purchase of substantially all the assets of The Robbins Company. The company will operate as Robbins and...
View ArticleKeller VSL JV awarded £167M HS2 contract
Keller Group plc (‘Keller’) and VSL International announce their 50:50 joint venture (KVJV) has been awarded a £167M contract to deliver geotechnical work as part of the C1 package on High Speed 2...
View ArticleHigh Court hearing granted to Stonehenge challenge
UK campaigner group, Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS), has secured a hearing in their judicial review challenge on the decision to allow a new A303 dual carriageway and tunnel that it...
View ArticleNew Tunnelling Masters at Turin
Italy’s Politecnico di Torino, well known for its Post Graduate Masters’ course in Tunnelling and Tunnel Boring Machines, is opening up a new MSc course track to overseas students. “Our Tunnelling and...
View ArticleFinal Grand Paris Express Line 16 contract award
On February 22, 2021, Société du Grand Paris awarded the third and final civil engineering contract for Line 16 on the Grand Paris Express, for the construction of the section between...
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Australasian Tunnelling Conference (ATS2020+1)
The Australasian Tunnelling Conference (ATS2020+1) is fast approaching and will be held between the 10th and 13th of May 2021 in Melbourne. The conference is the Australasian tunnelling industry’s...
View ArticleTenders invited for Chennai Metro’s Line 4
The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has issued invitation to bids for two contract packages on Line 4 of the Chennai Metro which total in the region of 10km of twin-bore tunnel and eight underground...
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HS2 north portal TBM launch site complete
Excavation has been completed on the north portal site of HS2’s Long Itchington Wood Tunnel, ready for the launch of the TBM that will bore under the ancient woodland in Warwickshire. The works were...
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CMC di Ravenna TBM drive underway on the Agua Sur tunnel
Terratec has announced that the 4.66m diameter EPBM ‘Eva’ has passed its site acceptance test and is currently being driven by Italian tunnel contractor CMC di Ravenna on the 13.5km long Río...
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Sydney Metro Rail Line tunnel shortlist announced
Construction of Sydney’s new Metro railway line, which will service Greater Western Sydney and the new Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, is one step closer after three consortia...
View ArticleLA Metro reports Purple Line breakthrough
Los Angeles Metro has announced that its first TBM, ‘Elsie’ has broken through into the Wilshire/La Cienega subway station in Beverly Hills on Section 1 of the Metro D Line (Purple) Extension project....
View ArticleWebuild best bidder for Fortezza – Ponte Gardena design and build contract
Webuild Group has been selected as best bidder to design and build a €1.07bn high-capacity railway for some 22.5km between Fortezza and Ponte Gardena in Italy. The line travels through two twin-tube...
View ArticleScarborough Subway and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension FNPs announced
Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have identified Strabag and West End Connectors as the First Negotiations Proponents (FNPs) to design, build and finance the tunnels for the Scarborough Subway...
View ArticleLTA awards Cross Island Line Phase 1 contract
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the civil contract to design and construct the bored tunnel between Aviation Park station and Loyang station for the Cross Island Line Phase 1...
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Granite wins Lower Olentangy Tunnel project
Granite has announced that it has been awarded the approximate 5.6km long, 3.6m diameter Lower Olentangy Tunnel project by the City of Columbus in Columbus, Ohio for a contract price of US$261M. The...
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Green light for Norway’s Stad Ship Tunnel
The Norwegian Coastal Administration has received an assignment letter from the country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, which gives a green light to start preparations for the construction...
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Auckland City Rail Link TBM moved into position
The 450 tonne shield of Auckland’s City Rail Link 7.15m diameter Herrenknecht EPBM has been successfully positioned in front of the Mt Eden tunnel portal after a 500m long truck drive into place that...
View ArticleWebuild EPBM prepared for launch in Paris
Webuild has celebrated the baptism of its 9.87m diameter CREG EPBM “Mireille” that will begin boring a 5.3km long section of metro tunnel later this month for Line 16 in northern Paris, as part of the...
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