Technology makes tunnel feasible
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
… leader for bored-tunnel projects including the Channel Tunnel (France/UK), the Groene Hart Tunnel (The Netherlands) and the Chong Ming Tunnel (China).
Dulles Derailed?
McLean Connection - VA,USA
By Nicholas M. Horrock, The Connection If the backers of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project had been listening carefully to Secretary of Transportation
China plans to build new tunnel under Yangtze river
Xinhua - China
28 (Xinhua) — Authorities in central China’s Wuhan City are reviewing builders’ bids for a new tunnel beneath the Yangtze River
With the Dulles Rail Deal All but Dead, What’s a Gridlocked State …
Washington Post - United States
Even now, the federal agency says the Dulles corridor indeed is in desperate need of relief from road congestion
Worlds Busiest Airport is getting bigger! - SkyscraperCity
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport(Atlanta).
Engineers begin tunnelling for A3 Hindhead bypass
Transport Briefing - London,UK
The A3 Hindhead Improvement scheme will create a new 6.5km road, including a 1.83km tunnel
Key Dates in the Dulles Rail Project
Washington Post - United States
1990 The Virginia transportation board adopts a program for the Dulles corridor that includes rail service.
North Shore Tunnel Boring Machine Tested
KDKA - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Nice film: Worlds first female TBM-Operator!
Japanese engineers bless the tunnel digging with sake
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Employees of North Shore Constructors participated in the brief Japanese ritual Monday at the machine that soon will start digging two transit tunnels
Cavico wins hydro tunnel contract at Dak My 4
International Water Power and Dam Construction - London,UK
Vietnamese contractor Cavico Corp has won US$11M of contracts to build a headrace tunnels and surge tank for the Dak My 4 hydropower scheme in its home
Argentina awards $1 bln contract for rail project
Reuters - USA
The first phase envisions the construction of 9 kilometers (5.5 miles) of tunnel in three years
Decision day
Fairfaxtimes.com - USA
By including the tunnel through Tysons and moving quickly to hold a competitive bid, the project will be improved and the community will unite behind it.
Out-SMARTing floods
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
We would sit with him for hours, learning all about the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) and the challenges the design and construction team faced.
Reykjavík City Greenlights New Road as Tunnel
IcelandReview - Reykjavik,Iceland
Reykjavík City Council accepted plans to construct a tunnel for the new road Sundabraut, between the capes Gufunes and Lauganes and underneath Videyjarsund
Devils Slide Caltrans Tunnel-Photographs:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/dslide/dsphotos.htm
Thames Water tenders for London sewer in Aug-source
Reuters - USA
The Lee Tunnel will be the first part of the 2.2 billion pound Thames Tideway project, a 32 km (20 mile)-long concrete and steel tunnel to collect sewage
Planned Miami port tunnel: Can we dig it?
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
BY LARRY LEBOWITZ Stalled on drafting tables and in dusty studies for two decades, the Port of Miami Tunnel
Devil’s Slide Project Nears Milestone
In the meantime, work continues on the $272 million, three-quarter mile tunnels. So far, construction crews have burrowed 280 feet into the mountainside to create the northbound tunnel
Gautrain construction goes underground
BuaNews Online (press release) - Cape Town,South Africa
New page for Brenner Base Tunnel added in my Blog:
Klick http://www.tunnelproject.com/?page_id=38
Crews raise tunnel roofs to accommodate double-stacked rail cars
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
(AP) - Crews are working to raise the roofs of railroad tunnels in southern West Virginia and Virginia to let double-stack freight cars
Glendoe Hydro tunnel makes breakthrough
BBC News - UK
A huge boring machine is expected to complete a five mile tunnel for a £140m hydro-electric scheme it started digging 15 months ago
South African Gautrain project enters crucial phase
Afrique en ligne - Angers,France
The 160-metre, 885-ton tunnel-boring machine which was shipped in from Germany , is now drilling into rock below the surface
Symbolically, a door closes for nuclear dump at Yucca
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Closing up the tunnel
The 5 Most Unusual Bridges
By John
One example, Euroroute (pictured above), would literally take drivers through the White Cliffs of Dover to an island five miles into the English Channel where a tunnel would bring drivers the twenty remaining miles to France.
Golden Beavers Announce 2008 Award Recipients
Associated Construction Publications - Norcross,GA,USA
Beginning as a project engineer for a 4-mile soft ground tunnel project in Seattle, Traylor held positions of increasing responsibility, culminating with …
Bosporus tunnel tender set for March
Turkish Daily News (subscription) - Ankara,Turkey
… tunnel designed for motor vehicles will be held on March 18, 2007 while six international joint proposals are expected to contest for the project
