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Murum hydro dam project attracts 14 bidders
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
Abdul Aziz said to speed up the Murum dam project, SEB had carried out preliminary works to build a diversion tunnel.

Gautrain to arrive on time, despite delays
Creamer Media’s Engineering News - Garden View,South Africa
Meanwhile, the project is enabling substantial knowledge and skills transfer. Local workers have been trained to operate the tunnel boring machine

Tunnelling projects hit snags in Niagara Falls, York Region and …
Canadian Consulting Engineer (subscription) (press release) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Strabag is using “Big Becky,” the world’s largest tunnel boring machine (TBM) to dig the tunnel, which is 14.4 metres in diameter

Digging deep for Bogong hydro power station
Herald Sun - Melbourne City,Australia
… each going more than 30 storeys straight down, are being gouged out of the granitic rock with a tunnel-boring machine longer than the MCG

North Shore Connector Project Clears Allegheny River
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
PITTSBURGH — The big tunnel boring machine being used in the North Shore connector project has cleared the Allegheny River

Gautrain steaming ahead
iAfrica.com - Cape Town,South Africa
But the arrival of a custom-built tunnel-boring machine towards the end of 2007 has given extra impetus to work on the project.

Chile and Argentina consider tunnel through the Andes
International Herald Tribune - France
AP SANTIAGO, Chile: Chile’s public works minister says the country is considering a 14-mile (23-kilometer) tunnel through the Andes

Yangtze River Tunnels
By Road Traffic Technology(SPG Media Limited)
In late 2008 the first tunnel of the Chiangjiang under-river tunnel project to cross the Yangtze River in China will be completed.

North Shore Connector tunnel passes midpoint
The boring machine digging under the Allegheny River has traveled about 1500 feet on the way to Downtown.

Tunnel drilling under the Allegheny passes halfway mark
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
AP PITTSBURGH - Viewed from its starting point, the new Port Authority tunnel looks like an ivory umbilical cord swooping beneath the Allegheny River.

Tunnel link moves one step nearer
Shetland Times - Lerwick,Scotland,UK
A TUNNEL to Bressay is one step closer to replacing the bridge as official SIC policy. It could cost up to £44 million.

Interesting facts about a boring subject — tunnelling
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
The first modern transit tunnel, according to the glossy compilation Metro, was built under the River Thames in London, beginning in 1825

The Lærdal Tunnel - longest road tunnel in the world
By soelitaire
On our trip last month, we passed through the world’s longest road tunnel called The Lærdal Tunnel. It was built in 1995 - 2000 and was officially opened on 27/11/2000. This tunnel is an important link in the ferry-free road connection

Powering Ethiopia
By Shlomo Bachrach
The very idea of the project is to take the water that comes out of Gibe I power house and to divert the natural course of the river and take it to Gibe II power house through a 25.8 km tunnel.

Water Supply Tunnel Through the Andes
June 12 | GeoPrac.net
Engineers in Peru are building a 20-kilometer-long tunnel through the Andes Mountains to transport water from the rainy west flank of the Andes to the desert west side

ROTHERHITHE TUNNEL TURNS ONE HUNDRED
Southwark News - London,UK
By Jessica Chandler TO SOME it may just be another part of that congested daily drive to work, but there is far more to Rotherhithe Tunnel than a black hole

House OKs funds for tunnel study
Baltimore Sun - United States
Elijah E. Cummings, who championed the funding to study bypassing the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel. The 7700-foot passageway, which runs under Bolton Hill

Council adopts Bressay tunnel as policy
Shetland News - Vidlin,Scotland,UK
SHETLAND Islands Council is moving onto the next step towards building a tunnel to the island of Bressay. The SIC’s infrastructure committee is recommending

Leighton adds $490m Ballina bypass to bulging infrastructure book
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
FRESH from winning Australia’s biggest road and tunnel project, Leighton Holdings will add the $490 million Ballina bypass project to its workbook

Crews Prepare To Lower Tunnel-Boring Machines For 7-Line Extension
NY1 - NY,USA
Construction crews are digging two huge shafts through which they will lower tunnel-boring machines as part of the MTA’s 7-line extension serving Hudson

Costain scoops ￡90m M25 tunnel contract
Contract Journal - UK
By Roxanne Millar Costain has scooped a ￡90.4m contract to refurbish the Bell Common Tunnel on the M25 near Epping.

Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel bill moves to full House vote
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
Mark Udall (D-Eldorado Springs) who is co-sponsoring the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Remediation Act of 2008 with Rep. Doug Lamborn

Devil’s Slide Tunnel – Project Updates and Geotechnical Info
Caltrans’ Devil’s Slide Tunnel project is an effort to bypass that slide and make the heavily traveled roadway safe for drivers and to eliminate the maintenance and traffic hassles caused by slope failures blocking the road

Miami-Dade commissioner suggests private transit system
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
… and questionable tunnel project, you will have dozens of European and multinational companies vying to take over our transit department,” Souto said.

Oakland reaches deal over Caldecott bore
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek,CA,USA
… City Council will vote next week on an agreement with Caltrans to stave off a legal challenge to the $420 million Caldecott Tunnel fourth bore project

Underwater tunnel Limerick in six-day cycles
Construction and Maintenance News - Minsk,Belarus
Including the north and south entrance and exit ramps, the tunnel measures a total of 915 metres. Completion of the around ten kilometre long section

Turkey lays track on ‘Iron Silk Road’
The National - Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
Istanbul, where giant tubes of steel are being submerged as part of an ambitious rail tunnel. Kerem Uzel / Narphotos ISTANBUL // Giant tubes of steel

Bids for central section of new metro line submitted
Warsaw Business Journal - Poland
The lowest bid was made by a consortium with PBG, Hydrobudowa Polska, PRG Metro, German Alpine Bau and Spanish FCC Construccion

Trapped digging machine causing upheaval for big pipe plans
Georgina Advocate - Keswick,ON,Canada
In early May, a boring machine being used to excavate tunnels became stuck after soil poured into the tunnel, forcing workers to abandon it

A Good Neighbor, A Huge Project: Brightwater
By James Lupori
Frankly, I had no idea how complex the project is, nor was I prepared for the education I received. Both David and Derek were very generous in explaining the various aspects of digging a 14-mile long tunnel. There’sa lot to talk about

National Grid begins second phase of Croydon cable tunnel
Energy Business Review - USA
The tunnel is being built by National Grid and its principal contractor Morgan Est to reinforce the electricity transmission network in the southeast UK.

Final Muurla-Lohja section of E18 motorway between Helsinki and …
Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland
The section will also include the longest road tunnel in the country. The length of Lohja’s Karnainen tunnel is roughly 2.2 kilometres

Working on a boring project
Timaru Herald - Canterbury, New Zealand
Drilling and explosive work is under way beneath Timaru as construction of a $15 million tunnel takes shape for the city’s new sewer lines.

Firm awarded £16m contract for new Tyne Tunnel
News Guardian - North Tyneside,England,UK
By NEWS REPORTER THE firm Volker Stevin Marine, based on Gateshead, has been awarded the £16m contract to manufacture, transport and submerse the tunnel

Cavico completes tunnel bore for Nam Chien 2
International Water Power and Dam Construction - London,UK
Cavico has completed tunnel excavation work at the Nam Chien 2 hydropower project in Vietnam, and lining work is underway

An enormous cavern, painstakingly blasted
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The bottom half of the cavern will be blown away by mid-June, then a boring machine will be assembled in the 24-foot-diameter starter tunnel.

Cutterhead for biggest TBM tunneling project
SteelGuru - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
… has fabricated and shipped a 320 tonnes Cutterhead for a 12.4 meter diameter tunnel boring machine being built by The Robbins Company of Ohio

A Century In the Making Tunneling Into History
In the mountains of Peru a tunnel-boring machine named “Pacha Mama” is grinding through the heart of the Andes under rock as deep as 6890 ft. It is carving away at a 20.2-kilometer-long tunnel through the South American Continental

‘Super-collider‘ tunnel nears completion - Science, News - The …
By Alexander Higgins Saturday, 1 March 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse. The first element of the huge magnet

Between a rock and a hard place
Bowen Island Undercurrent - Bowen Island,BC,Canada
By Sam Cooper - North Shore Outlook - May 29, 2008 Metro Vancouver ousted water tunnel contractor Bilfinger-Berger this week.

Another tunnel, another wonder
Hindu - Chennai,India
MOVING AHEAD: Inside the brand new Delhi Metro railway tunnel on the upcoming Malviya Nagar-Hauz Khas underground section on Saturday.