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4th Arabian Tunnelling Conference 2017
Welcome to the 4th Arabian Tunnelling Conference and 20th Gulf Engineering Forum 2017! We are cordially inviting you to join us for the 4th Arabian Tunnelling Conference (ATC 2017), held in conjunction...
View ArticleNCC scoop Faroe double tunnel contract
NCC has signed a contract to construct two road tunnels in the Faroe Islands totaling 21.7km. The contract is split into two sub-projects and is conditional upon approval of project funding by the...
View ArticleMorgan Sindall BeMo JV appointed to London Underground framework
A joint venture between Morgan Sindall and BeMo Tunnelling has been awarded a place on London Underground’s ‘Future Stations’ Civils and Tunnelling Works framework. The eight-year framework is...
View ArticleProsecution confirmed for Crossrail incidents
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today (7th December) informed BAM Nuttall Limited, Ferrovial Agroman (UK) Ltd, and Keir Infrastructure and Overseas Ltd that they will be prosecuted in...
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Terratec double breakthroughs mark Delhi Metro III Pink Line completion
Two TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines made a historic double breakthrough on 14th November, marking the end of tunnelling works on the 58.6km Pink Line (Line 7) on Phase III...
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Istanbul wastewater breakthrough
Turkish construction company Eferay Yapi Ticaret A.S. together with the Canadian-Chinese Lovsuns Tunneling Canada Ltd, celebrated the breakthrough of the 3.91m diameter single shield EPBM being used...
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Riyadh Metro Line 3 progress
Salini Impregilo reached another milestone in the construction of Line 3 of the Riyadh Metro with the arrival of its 10.16m diameter TBM at what will be a major station on the longest line of the...
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Terratec breakthroughs mark end of Delhi Line 7 tunnelling
Two TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) Tunnel Boring Machines made a historic double breakthrough on 14th November, marking the end of tunnelling works on the 58.6km Pink Line (Line 7) on Phase III...
View ArticleProsecution confirmed for Crossrail incidents
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has informed BAM Nuttall Limited, Ferrovial Agroman (UK) Ltd, and Keir Infrastructure and Overseas Ltd that they will be prosecuted in relation to three...
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Two more Terratec EPBMs for Istanbul
TERRATEC has announced the delivery of a further two 6.56m diameter EPBMs for the ongoing expansion of Istanbul’s Metro system, in Turkey, following a factory acceptance test on December 6th. The new...
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Bolaños bores completion
FCC Construction has completed boring on the 6.7km long, 9.9m diameter twin Bolaños rail tunnels on the Madrid-Galicia High-Speed Line for client, Adif Alta Velocidad, the rail infrastructure...
View ArticleTfl announces £500M framework partners
Transport for London (TfL) has signed a £500M four-year framework deal with Costain, Morgan Sindall and Skanska to deliver complex tunnels and highways projects needed to improve London’s road network....
View ArticleLovsuns moves manufacturing from Canada to China
Liaoning Censcience Industry Co. Ltd. (LNSS) has adjusted part of its overseas subsidiary company LOVSUNS’ strategic functions and ceased manufacturing operations at its Toronto facilities effective...
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UK Government confirms Stonehenge Tunnel plans
Ambitious plans to transform the UK’s often congested A303 as part of a £2bn investment in the country’s south-west – which will see the construction of a major 2.9km long tunnel at the historic...
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Sydney Metro green light
The second stage of the Sydney Metro tunnels project, which will run under Sydney Harbour and the CBD in 15.5km of twin tunnel, has been given the go-ahead by the New South Wales Government....
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FEED nears completion for 22km long UK cable tunnel
Morgan Sindall Professional Services (MSPS) and its sister business Underground Professional Services (UnPS) is near to completing the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for a 22km underground cable...
View ArticleAtlas Copco proposes group split in 2018
Atlas Copco will propose to the Annual General Meeting 2018 splitting the Group into two listed companies, Atlas Copco and “NewCo” (working name), and to distribute NewCo to the shareholders. NewCo...
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Los Condores TBM progressing well
As of January 2017, contractor Ferrovial Agroman using its 4.56m Robbins Double Shield TBM had completed boring the 900m long access tunnel on Chile’s Los Condores HEPP, and was well on its way to...
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LA Metro poised to award $2.4bn Purple Line section
With $1.6bn in federal funding now secured to extend the Los Angeles Metro Purple Line subway to Century City, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is poised to...
View ArticleDr New warns of ’signature value’ at the BTS Harding Lecture
Senior consultants and engineers should stop putting their names to documents that they have not reviewed, said Dr Barry New of Geotechnical Consulting Group at this year’s British Tunnelling Society...
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