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TERRATEC secures international orders
TERRATEC has announced that in the first half of 2016 it has secured orders for the supply of seven TBMs around the globe. In Turkey, following the impressive performance of the EPBM delivered by...
View ArticleLeighton in HK road tunnel award
Leighton Contractors (Asia) Limited (‘Leighton Asia’), in joint venture with China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited, has been awarded an A$1.58bn contract by the Government of the...
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Boring begins on Scotland’s Shieldhall
Construction of the 5km long Shieldhall Tunnel, the biggest waste water tunnel ever to be built in Scotland, has started after Roseanna Cunningham, the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate...
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Work starts on Brenner southern section
At an inaugural event attended by local and national officials along with representatives of the companies involved in the project, work began on the southern section of the 55km long Brenner Base...
View ArticleSingapore prepares tender call for DTSS 2
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency and the National Environment Agency of Singapore (NEA), will be calling tenders from this year onwards for the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) Phase 2, which...
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Breakthrough … the ITA Young Members’ Magazine
Digital editions for Breakthrough 2015 and 2016 To receive your free copy of Breakthrough please click here. We are now working on the 2017 edition of Breakthrough. For all editorial matters please...
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Revised Proposals Received for Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel
On July 15, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission announced that revised technical and price proposals had been received from all three teams in the competitive procurement to construct a new...
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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...
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Final government approval granted for York Potash
Sirius Minerals Plc has announced that it has received UK government approval for the Harbour Facilities element of its North Yorkshire polyhalite project. As a result, all major approvals for the...
View ArticleGranite scoops Connecticut tunnel contract
Granite Construction Incorporated has announced that the JV team comprised of Kenny Construction Company, a wholly-owned Granite subsidiary, and Obayashi Corporation has been awarded a $279M contract...
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Bertha resumes tunnelling as WSDOT counts the cost
Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement Program contractor, Seattle Tunnel Partners JV, resumed mining on July 18th following a month of routine and hyperbaric maintenance on Bertha, the 57.5ft...
View ArticleITA Tunnelling Awards 2016 finalists announced
On November 10th and 11th 2016, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association will hold the second ITA Tunnelling Awards, this year in Singapore. Participation has been highly...
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Thimble Shoal Tunnel awarded to Dragados
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission has awarded the Dragados Team a contract to construct a new parallel tunnel at the Thimble Shoal Channel. This award marks the end of a 3.5-year project...
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Half way reached in Laos
TERRATEC has reported its 5.74m diameter Double Shield TBM has passed the mid-way point of the 11.5km long tunnel on the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Hydropower Project in Laos. The TBM commenced round the clock...
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MAPEI ANNOUNCES TUNNELLING TRAINING EVENTS
Mapei have announced the addition of tunnelling seminars to their training and CPD event calendar for dates in September and November. Presentations on tunnelling will take place at Mapei’s...
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Melbourne Metro shortlist announced
Three consortia have been shortlisted for the $6bn Public Private Partnership (PPP) to build the Melbourne Metro Tunnel. The shortlisted bidders are: Continuum Victoria – comprising ACCIONA...
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Trans-Pennine Tunnel options released
Five routes have been shortlisted for the UK’s Trans-Pennine tunnel – the most ambitious road scheme undertaken in the UK in more than 5 decades. The Trans-Pennine tunnel study was launched by the...
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Terratec micro system for Thailand
On 26th August 2016, TERRATEC successfully completed the Factory Acceptance Tests of a new Microtunnelling System in its assembly plant in Guangzhou, China. The testing was attended by representatives...
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Europe’s largest EPBM accepted
August 29th saw the technical acceptance, and ceremonial turning of the cutting wheel, of the 15.87m diameter Herrenknecht EPBM to be used on Italy’s 7.5km long Santa Lucia Tunnel. The EPBM is now the...
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