New concrete pressure pipe will start as gravity pipe, then become …
Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
It requires fewer personnel to operate and consumes less power than a tunnel-boring machine
Chief Minister launches TBM works
Siasat Daily - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India
He launched a mega 135-metre long tunnel boring machine (TBM) works near Mannevaripally village in Achampet mandal, which would drill a 44-km long tunnel
Ready for a rumble? Actually, official says, tunneling shouldn’t …
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
The tunneling contract, awarded to a consortium of Triad Engineering Inc. and Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc.,
Helsinki-Tallinn Rail Tunnel Link?
YLE News - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland
Planning work is to start for a railway tunnel beneath the Gulf of Finland linking Helsinki and the Estonian capital Tallinn.
Roman Abramovich ‘to drill US-Russia tunnel‘
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich plans to buy the world’s largest drill, which has sparked media speculation that he intends to make a Channel Tunnel-style
Billionaire Chelsea boss Abramovich buys £80million biggest drill …
Daily Mail - UK
And the purchase by Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich immediately raised speculation it could be used to build the world’s longest tunnel
Greece’s longest tunnel opens
Athens News Agency - Athens,Greece
A 4.8km-long road tunnel, the longest in Greece, will open to traffic in April. The Egnatia Motorway’s two-way tunnel at Driskos
Tunnel boring machine breaks through at Sweden’s Malmö Central Station
Progressive Rail Roading - Milwaukee,WI,USA
Anna the tunnel boring machine, that is. Anna began her trip in November 2006, making two Christmas stops and several maintenance stops along the way
Abromovich orders colossal German tunnel borer
The Local - Berlin,Germany
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has commissioned German manufacturer Herrenknecht to build the world’s largest tunnel borer.
The Trans-Hudson Tunnel: Now to Grand Central, too?
Crain’s New York Business - New York,NY,USA
Known as Access to the Region’s Core, or ARC, the new tunnel project would enable New Jersey Transit to take an additional 60000 commuters
China’s Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental Catastrophe?
Scientific American - USA
This past November, the ground gave out near the entrance to a railway tunnel in Badong County, near a tributary to the Three Gorges reservoir
Delhi metro tunnels its way South
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
Tunnel Boring Machine: A TBM is a machine that has a circular cross-section and is meant to excavate a smooth tunnel without disturbing the soil around
China to help Pak build major hydroelectric project in PoK
NDTV.com - New Delhi,India
The river diversion tunnel is to be built 98 per cent underground ensuring it is safe from natural hazards except earthquake
New Tunnel Planned for North Iceland
IcelandReview - Reykjavik,Iceland
The Icelandic government has added a tunnel through Mt. Vadlaheidi, between Akureyri and Húsavík in northeast Iceland, as a priority to the current plans
Water Board awards major Lake Mead project contract
KVBC - Las Vegas,NV,USA
The Water Board chose Vegas Tunnel Constructors for the $447 million project. The intake shaft will be built at the bottom of the lake
Devil’s Slide behaves itself as tunnels grow
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The contractor, Kiewit Corp., is digging the Devil’s Slide tunnel using the Austrian tunneling method
TBM 3 breaks through in the Dubai Metro Project
AME Info (press release) - United Arab Emirates
The first Tunnel Boring Machine on the Green Line known as TBM 3 which tunneled its way from Union Square to SalahAlDeen, has broken through.
Kashmir Valley to have longest tunnel in Indian Railway network
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
With an aim to connect the Kashmir valley with the rest of the country through rail link, work on a 11-km tunnel, the longest in Indian Railway network,
Former railroad tunnel for sale
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
… the Sorrento Tunnel in the mid-1980s with plans to store 3 million bushels of wheat. Prairie Grain received state and federal licenses for the project
Thames Water Appoints CH2M HILL as Programme Manager for Thames …
Earthtimes - London,UK
The project will involve the construction of London’s deepest ever tunnel — the Thames Tunnel — up to 80 metres beneath ground level
Work on tunnel tracks proceeds steadily
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
By Ashfaq Ahmed, Chief Reporter Dubai: One of the most critical phases in the Dubai Metro project is the construction of 12.6km underground tracks
Standedge Tunnel reopens to visitors
Huddersfield Examiner - Huddersfield,UK
BRITISH Waterways Yorkshire is opening its Standedge Tunnel site on Saturday for the new 2008 season.
State puts EW Metro on fast track
Times of India - India
The tunnel will be cut with the help of hi-tech boring machines and hence, would create no obstruction on the surface.
Cooling the London Underground
By Ian Mansfield
The key issue as it turns out is that the tube traps heat over time and if not vented away it will linger in the London clay which the tubes predominantly tunnel through and build up over time. Indeed, most tube tunnels reach the point
A boring job can also be exciting
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
The huge tunnel-boring machine from Italy broke through a final crust of rocks at the deep subway pit along Granville Street yesterday
Like a giant sea snake, sewage pipeline is manoeuvred into position
The Press - Christchurch,New Zealand
The tunnelling used an automated boring machine which will be recovered when the pipeline is connected to the tunnel in about two months
Hakuna and Matata and the train
Joburg - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
The tunnel boring machine arrived in Joburg in December and started work in January, boring the tunnel southwards towards Park Station.
Work in progress in underground tunnel of Dubai Metro
Gowealthy.com - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Dubai Metro achieves another milestone with the completion of the underground tunnel boring work on the Green Line.
Dubai Metro: Green Line gets first tunnel
XPRESS - Dubai,Dubai,United Arab Emirates
Although the Green Line is shorter, it has more underground stations (and tunnels) than the Red Line which is mostly elevated.
abc7news.com: A sneak peak inside the Devil’s Slide tunnel project …
A look inside a project that will change the way commuters get around on Highway 1.
Dresden should build tunnel not bridge
Khaleej Times - Dubai,United Arab Emirates
PARIS - The German city of Dresden should build a tunnel under the River Elbe, rather than a bridge that could cost it its UNESCO World Heritage status
Hi-tech solution to tunnel jams
Shields Gazette - South Shields,England,UK
NEW technology has been drafted in to ensure motorists using the Tyne Tunnel have up-to-date information at their fingertips.
Tunnel Boring Machine Emerges from Seattle Beacon Hill
Mining is complete for the second of two light rail tunnels through Beacon Hill. The tunnel boring machine emerges from the east side of the hill in this brief Sound Transit video.
Sound Transit punches second tunnel under Seattle’s Beacon Hill
Seattle Times - United States
A boring machine has punched another tunnel through Seattle’s Beacon Hill for the Sound Transit light rail line between the city and Sea-Tac Airport
Sandhogs: Who knew?
By Select Editions(Select Editions)
One of the sandhogs’ biggest projects right now is building Water Tunnel Number 3, which is the largest capital construction project in New York City’s history. <http://www.sandhogproject.com/>
Slow going
Prague Post - Czech Republic
In Prague, the award for the most visible road improvement work goes to the Blanka tunnel project, near Letná Park.
EC welcomes progress Brenner Base tunnel project - News article at …
The Brenner Basis tunnel will reinforce considerably the competitiveness of railway traffic along the strategic Munich-Verona stretch
Idiot Drives the wrong way down Dublin Port Tunnel
By Roy, Dublin Taxi Driver(Roy, Dublin Taxi Driver)
Short video from Primetime showing a driver do a u-turn in one of the port tunnels. The guy was sent a summons for |Dangerous driving; Here’s the video
‘Unstable’ rock conditions make for slow digging
Niagara Falls Review - Niagara Falls,Ontario,Canada
Progress on the Niagara Tunnel Project continues to be slower
Sander unveils ambitious 40-year plan during State of the MTA
By Benjamin Kabak
… four tunnel-boring machines operating to expand the subway and regional rail systems. Sounds impressive?” he said. “Right now, Shanghai has 90 such machines at work on rail and other projects…Our biggest global competitor, China
Major part of Canada Line completed as tunnel boring machine …
The Canadian Press - VANCOUVER
The breakthrough by the massive, 440-tonne tunnel boring machine was marked by a ceremony attended by Premier Gordon Campbell, several Canada Line officials
Workers celebrate Canada Line’s bored-tunnel breakthrough
Journal of Commerce - Burnaby,BC,Canada
A critical phase of Canada Line construction was completed on Sunday, March 2, 2008 when the project’s 440-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through
City unveils four transit, tunnel options
Ottawa Business Journal - Ontario, Canada
The four options outlined in the report include: a bus-based tunnel plan with an O-train component; a bus and light rail transit (LRT) tunnel
Second Milford tunnel plan unveiled
Southland Times - Queenstown,New Zealand
By AMY MILNE - The Southland Times | Thursday, 28 February 2008 A new company has entered the race to become the first to build a Routeburn-Hollyford tunnel
Historic buildings protected
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
By Zhang Jun 2008-2-28 SHANGHAI will do its utmost to prevent heritage buildings at the Bund from sinking during construction of the new Bund tunnel project
Chinese contractors bag $1.5 bn river project deal in POK
Times of India - India
The project involves a 42-km underground tunnel that will divert the waters of Neelam river in POK to Jhelum, which flows through the plains of Pakistani
Newman blasts ’smear campaign’ after positive debt report
Courier Mail - Australia
He made the announcement while inspecting the second tunnel boring machine due to start work soon on the $3 billion North South Bypass Tunnel.
Gautrain might recycle energy
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
He said the Gautrain management was also negotiating the uninterrupted supply of electricity at sites where the tunnel-boring machine was being used
Metro digging work gets more teeth
Hindu - Chennai,India
Ready to roll: The Tunnel Boring Machine weighing over 88 tonnes being lowered into a shaft at INA to start tunnelling work in New Delhi on Tuesday.
* President opens the longest tunnel in Sri Lanka
Colombo Page - Colombo,Sri Lanka
Feb 24, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened the longest Tunnel in Sri Lanka at Ramboda yesterday (Feb 23, 2008).
520 project moves forward
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
That plan features a 3100- foot tunnel beneath the north end of Foster Island and under the lake, bypassing the arboretum itself. Another tunnel
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