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Highways England awards Jacobs £162.5m Lower Thames Crossing contract
Highways England awards Jacobs £162.5m Lower Thames Crossing contract Highways England has awarded Jacobs the £162.5m Integration Partner contract which will see the company act as a catalyst for coll...
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Sandvik DD212 Development drill rig delivers versatility for narrow vein tunnelling
Sandvik DD212 Development drill rig delivers versatility for narrow vein tunnelling Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions introduces the new Sandvik DD212, a compact and intelligent single-boom electro-hy...
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Highways England gets the go ahead for A303 bypass around Stonehenge
Highways England gets the go ahead for A303 bypass around Stonehenge Here’s how future journeys past Stonehenge could look after Highways England’s plans to unlock congestion and transform journeys fo...
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Sika expanding production in France
Sika expanding production in France Sika has started production of shotcrete admixtures at its main plant at Gournay-en-Bray, north west of Paris. The set accelerator marketed under the Sigunit® brand...
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GHH and German Technology help deliver Alto Maipo Hydropower Plant
GHH and German Technology help deliver Alto Maipo Hydropower Plant For Chile, the Rio Maipo is a stroke of luck to supply the nearby capital Santiago with energy: In the mighty “Alto Maipo...
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Brenner Base Tunnel reaches new milestone with Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine
Brenner Base Tunnel reaches new milestone with Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine With the completion of the 16.7 km long exploratory tunnel, proud tunnellers at the Brenner Base Tunnel celebrated the...
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Herrenknecht hosts a special 2020 Training Day
Herrenknecht hosts a special 2020 Training Day Last Saturday, the plant gates were opened to young people from the company’s home region with a diverse range of insights into around a dozen appr...
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Doka special formwork perfect for tunnel system construction at CERN
Doka special formwork perfect for tunnel system construction at CERN The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the biggest particle accelerator in the world – and growing: to equip the LHC for new, m...
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Herrenknecht celebrates breakthrough of 7.5km tunnel in Italy
Herrenknecht celebrates breakthrough of 7.5km tunnel in Italy In Italy, the largest tunnel boring machine ever used in Europe successfully completed its drive in June. The supersize borer (Earth Press...
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Condat introduces IoT for Tunnel Boring sites
Condat introduces IoT for Tunnel Boring sites Condat, a global specialist in surface chemistry including industrial lubricants, today announced its partnership with Sigfox, the world’s leading I...
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Gammon awarded major tunnel project for Hong Kong International Airport
Gammon awarded major tunnel project for Hong Kong International Airport Gammon Engineering & Construction Limited has been awarded a HK$7.2 billion contract by the Airport Authority in Hong Kong t...
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Highways England searching for archaeologists for A303 upgrade near Stonehenge
Highways England searching for archaeologists for A303 upgrade near Stonehenge Highways England is today launching its search to find archaeological specialists to carry out excavation work ahead of t...
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Designing the Kinnet Tunnel to last a century
Designing the Kinnet Tunnel to last a century The Kinnet tunnel was designed to collect flood water from the entire Arava region and the city of Eilat, Israel. It is being constructed in a highly agg...
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Femern Link contractors receive go ahead for world’s longest immersed tunnel
Femern Link contractors receive go ahead for world’s longest immersed tunnel Femern A/S has issued the Commencement Notice to the Femern Link Contractors joint venture so they proceed with the e...
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Thousands of jobs promised as Sydney Metro tunnelling works tenders released
Thousands of jobs promised as Sydney Metro tunnelling works tenders released Australian Minister for Transport Andrew Constance has announced the start of the tender process to build almost 50 kilomet...
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EIB invests €90 million for expansion of the Karavanke Tunnel in Slovenia
EIB invests €90 million for expansion of the Karavanke Tunnel in Slovenia Millions of passengers on the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) will benefit from a safer, faster and more convenient r...
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Herrenknecht prestigious Golden Beaver awarded to Jack Brockway
Herrenknecht prestigious Golden Beaver awarded to Jack Brockway Jack Brockway, President of Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA, received the prestigious Golden Beaver Award 2020 in Los Angeles on Fri...
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Herrenknecht’s Suse, Sibylle, Wanda and Käthchen set a fast pace in Swabia
Herrenknecht’s Suse, Sibylle, Wanda and Käthchen from Baden set a fast pace in Swabia All the machine-driven tunnels for the Stuttgart-Ulm rail project were quickly and quietly excavated in just...
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DOKA Formwork enables Sweden’s biggest road and tunnel project
DOKA Formwork enables Sweden’s biggest road and tunnel project A 21 km motorway bypass is being constructed to relieve traffic in Stockholm: E4 Bypass Stockholm, or in Swedish “E4 Förbifart Stoc...
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KfW IPEX-Bank supports PPP financing of Silvertown Tunnel project in London
KfW IPEX-Bank supports PPP financing of Silvertown Tunnel project in London KfW IPEX-Bank has joined forces with numerous other international banks and institutional investors to finance the Silvertow...
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Silvertown Tunnel passes another major milestone with contract signing in London
Silvertown Tunnel passes another major milestone with contract signing in London Transport for London (TfL) and the RiverLinx consortium – comprising Macquarie Capital, Cintra, Aberdeen Standard Inves...
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Magway revolutionary subterranean delivery network opens up for Crowdfunding investment
Magway revolutionary subterranean delivery network opens up for Crowdfunding investment Magway, the British start-up that has developed a ground-breaking, sustainable delivery utility designed to tran...
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Sydney Metro proves to be Doka’s largest tunnelling civil works project
Sydney Metro proves to be Doka’s largest tunnelling civil works project The new Sydney Metro standalone railway will deliver 31 metro stations and more than 66 kilometres of new metro rail, revo...
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Brenner Base Tunnel concrete produced by two Liebherr Betonmix 3.0 mixing plants
Brenner Base Tunnel concrete produced by two Liebherr Betonmix 3.0 mixing plants Two Liebherr Betomix 3.0 mixing plants produce concrete for the Brenner Base Tunnel major project. This is one of the m...
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London Liverpool Street tunnel has almost a mile of track replaced
London Liverpool Street tunnel has almost a mile of track replaced Almost a mile of track has been replaced on the approach to London Liverpool Street, the third busiest station in the UK, to provide...
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ACOEM scales up tunnel air monitoring with acquisition of DynOptic Systems
ACOEM scales up tunnel air monitoring with acquisition of DynOptic Systems ACOEM Group has broadened its technical expertise and market presence in air and gas monitoring following the acquisition of...
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ITA Tunnelling Awards announces 2019 nominees
ITA Tunnelling Awards announces 2019 nominees From November 18th to 20th 2019, in Miami-USA, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association is organizing the fifth edition of its ITA T...
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A look at the reconstruction of the world’s longest road tunnel
A look at the reconstruction of the world’s longest road tunnel Reconstruction of the Coastal Highway Route E39 is not only Norway’s biggest ever infrastructure project – but the Rogfast road tu...
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National Audit Office reports on the A303 and Stonehenge Tunnel
National Audit Office reports on the A303 and Stonehenge Tunnel The Amesbury and Berwick Down project – which involves building a tunnel beneath the Stonehenge World Heritage Site – is at an early sta...
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New Zealand’s Awakino Tunnel Bypass work set to begin
New Zealand’s Awakino Tunnel Bypass work set to begin Work will start on the Awakino Tunnel bypass on SH3 between Taranaki and King Country later this year. The 2.3km bypass will take traffic aw...
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Massive Tunnel Boring Machine arrives in Melbourne for the West Gate Tunnel project
Massive Tunnel Boring Machine arrives in Melbourne for the West Gate Tunnel project The first of the two massive tunnel boring machines that will build the West Gate Tunnel has arrived in Melbourne. A...
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German approval of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel ready to be signed
German approval of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel ready to be signed The Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced today that the plan approval of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In...
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Inland Rail tunnelling ahead in Queensland
Inland Rail tunnelling ahead in Queensland The 1700 kilometre Inland Rail project is moving ahead thanks to the Liberal and Nationals’ Government, with ground-breaking geotechnical work underway for o...
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Large 120 ton telescopic crawler crane ideal for small tunnels in Dubai
Large 120 ton telescopic crawler crane ideal for small tunnels in Dubai Dubai is spreading relentlessly into the arid desert region. The terrain is being developed through micro-tunneling projects tha...
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Queen Eufemia and Queen Ellisiv breakthrough in Oslo
Queen Eufemia and Queen Ellisiv breakthrough in Oslo After about 9 kilometres each through tough gneiss, on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 the twin tunnel boring machines from Herrenknecht “Queen E...
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Lower Thames Crossing to boost road capacity by 90 percent
Lower Thames Crossing to boost road capacity by 90 percent A major new road linking Kent, Thurrock and Essex would nearly double road capacity across the river Thames and almost halve northbound journ...
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The longest tunnel of the Bar-Boljare Highway Project in Montenegro breaks through
The longest tunnel of the Bar-Boljare Highway Project in Montenegro breaks through After 694 days of hard work, Vjeternik Tunnel, the longest tunnel of Bar-Boljare Highway Project in Montenegro jointl...
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Biral launches road weather sensor designed for road tunnel applications
Biral launches road weather sensor designed for road tunnel applications Meteorological equipment specialist Biral has just launched its new RWS-30 Road Tunnel Weather Sensor. The sensor is easily int...
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Bold new designs unveiled for Melbourne Metro Tunnel Stations
Bold new designs unveiled for Melbourne Metro Tunnel Stations Melbourne will boast five new stunning landmarks when the underground stations for the Metro Tunnel open in 2025. Minister for Public Tran...
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STRABAG awarded tunnelling contract for Sirius Minerals Yorkshire Polyhalite Project
STRABAG awarded tunnelling contract for Sirius Minerals Yorkshire Polyhalite Project Sirius Minerals Plc. has hired the European construction group STRABAG SE to build an approx. 13 km tunnel section...
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Fifteen-foot icicles block UK Railway Line
Fifteen-foot icicles block UK Railway Line Network Rail engineers are working to remove 15ft-long icicles which have formed in a railway tunnel between Manchester and Buxton. The icicles, in Eaves Tun...
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Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Construction to finish a year ahead of schedule
Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Construction to finish a year ahead of schedule Victoria’s biggest ever public transport project the Metro Tunnel is on track to open a year earlier than expected. The A...
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Highways England record investment in South West England will achieve big milestones
Highways England record investment in South West England will achieve big milestones Plans for the tunnel set to be built as part of the £1.6 billion upgrade of the A303 near Stonehenge will go on pub...
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Balfour Beatty Far East jv awarded two contracts worth HK$7.7 billion
Balfour Beatty Far East jv awarded two contracts worth HK$7.7 billion Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces its 50:50 Far East joint venture, Gammon Construction, has...
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STRABAG to build rail tunnel in Canada
STRABAG to build rail tunnel in Canada STRABAG SE, the publicly listed European-based technology group for construction services, has had an infrastructure contract in Toronto awarded to its Canadian...
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Tunnel Boring Machines on the way to build Australia’s West Gate Tunnel
Tunnel Boring Machines on the way to build Australia’s West Gate Tunnel The biggest tunnel boring machine (TBMs) in the southern hemisphere are on their way to Melbourne, with an order now place...
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R2T Global Expo 2018
R2T Global Expo 2018 Date: 7 – 9 November 2018 Country: USA Location: Las Vegas Convention Center 3150 Paradise Rd Las Vegas, NV 89109, USA Website: www.r2t.global/ Details: The Road2Tunn...
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Final breakthrough in gigantic road tunnels at the Suez Canal
Final breakthrough in gigantic road tunnels at the Suez Canal On the Christmas weekend, Egyptian President H.E. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi rang in a new era for the Sinai Peninsula: on Saturday, December 23...
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BAM / NCC joint venture win €385 million Swedish tunnel project
BAM / NCC joint venture win €385 million Swedish tunnel project The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) has selected Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG – the German tunnelling specialist...
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Balfour Beatty awarded Thames Tideway Tunnel contract to supply plant and accommodation
Balfour Beatty awarded Thames Tideway Tunnel contract to supply plant and accommodation Balfour Beatty’s Plant & Fleet Services business has been awarded a contract in excess of £2 million to supp...
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