Tunnel boring and station construction for Crossrail
Contract Journal - UK
James Stagg examines what the timing and scope of work will be for Crossrail. It’s been a long time coming, but the new railway set to link central London
Breakthrough for UK’s longest road tunnel on land
Contract Journal - UK
By John Leitch The UK’s longest land road tunnel – running 1.8km through a Surrey … its way up the Devil’s Punch Bowl and through the town of Hindhead.
| Breakthrough for UK’s longest road tunnel on land - PHOTOS - 27/02 … The UK’s longest land road tunnel has seen daylight as a result of the excavations by Balfour Beatty from the two opposite entry points which have at. |
Breakthrough for longest tunnel
RAC - Norwich,Norfolk,UK
Tunnel excavations deep under the Surrey Hills which will form the UK’s longest … Construction teams working on the £371 million project near Hindhead
Black & Veatch And HGBD Earn Award For Sewer Tunnel Replacement
Public Works.com - Horsham,PA,USA
“We couldn’t have chosen a more competent project team and contractor to complete the tunnel replacement project in such a timely and professional fashion
Teaching Geologic Map Interpretation with Google Earth
Resources in this collection
- A highly effective, non-traditional approach for using Google Earth to teach strike, dip, and geologic map interpretation, with assignments and activities (Barbara Tewksbury, Hamilton College)
- A geologic map interpretation activity for structural geology using Google Earth (Charlie Onasch, Bowling Green State University)
- A collection of fabulous locations in Google Earth for teaching geologic map interpretation.
Ronaldo hit with tunnel bill for £20k
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
By Tom Bryant 20/02/2009 Cristiano Ronaldo is facing a £20000 bill for the damage he caused when he crashed his Ferrari in a tunnel.
Construction of Korea’s Longest Tunnel Completed
조선일보(영문판) - South Korea
Construction of Korea’s longest tunnel in the city of Busan was completed this week, spanning more than 20 km.
The Holland Tunnel
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
The Eighth Wonder of the World, it was called, twin vehicular tubes beneath the Hudson River, the world’s longest underwater tunnels
Devil’s Slide tunnel project nears halfway point …
By By Julia Scott San Mateo County Times
Coastsiders living just south of the Devil’s Slide project, which officially broke ground in May 2005, may be anxious to hear an update on where construction stands — and to hear reassurances about how their quality of life will be …
Border Patrol discovers underground tunnel in Otay Mesa
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
By Debbi Baker Border Patrol agents discovered a tunnel in Otay Mesa on Saturday believed to be used for drug smuggling.
Eurostar returns to full service
BBC News - UK
Eurostar is due to restart a full service through the Channel Tunnel for the first time since a fire last year. Work to repair fire damage cost over £60m
| A closer look at the planned bored tunnel Westseattleherald.com - Seattle,WA,USA Project engineers were on hand to answer questions about the bored tunnel and other modifications as well as how to access the tunnel from West Seattle |
Govt contracts Chinese firms for Melamchi tunnel construction
Nepalnews.com - Kathmandu,Nepal
The government has contracted two Chinese companies for the construction of tunnel connecting Melamchi with Sundarijal and related works on Thursday.
Tunnels to be considered for high-speed rail
Palo Alto Online - Palo Alto,CA,USA
by Gennady Sheyner As Palo Altans continue to define their love-hate relationship with the high-speed-rail project
Two down, one to go in tunnel project
Timaru Herald - Canterbury, New Zealand
Heavy artillery: Whakataka Taitapaunui, an operator for Harker Underground Construction, guides part of the tunnel boring machine, being used to bore
And Now, Let the Boring Begin
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
S3II Tunnel Constructors — a joint venture of JF Shea Construction, Skanska USA Civil Northeast, and Schiavone Construction — won a $1.14 billion contract
Crews Lower Giant Drill Into 7 Line Tunnel
NY1 - NY,USA
The machine will soon begin drilling a new tunnel beneath 11th Avenue. Bloomberg says the project will not only create jobs now
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$3.5 billion. 200 feet deep. 20 miles long. 15 years.
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Doing the work will be a tunnel boring machine, a cylinder the length of a couple of school buses and about 25 feet wide in diameter.
The Tunnel Rats of Atlantic Avenue
New York Times - United States
If all goes well, the project could take the story of the man and the tunnel into the stratosphere. The tunnel draws people from all over the city and
Transportation benefits from stimulus
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Caltrans plans to use much of the money it receives to ensure that bond projects such as the Caldecott Tunnel’s fourth bore get built
Light at the end of the tunnel
Auckland stuff.co.nz - Auckland,New Zealand
The tunnel is part of Watercare’s Project Hobson, a $118 million project to replace the ageing sewer pipe that bisects Hobson Bay.
NJ Transit encouraging tunnel bids
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
By George Spohr NEWARK, NJ — NJ Transit is encouraging small businesses to bid on elements of the massive rail tunnel
Crossrail advertises Tunnelling Academy post
Contract Journal - UK
By Neil Gerrard Crossrail has started to advertise for a project manager to lead a new ‘tunnelling academy’, designed to address a national skills shortage
| And now, BMC plans a tunnel road Indian Express - New Delhi,India Mumbai: After the state Government proposed to construct a tunnel as part of the Western Freeway Sea Link project |
Giant drill finally pushes out into light
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
The replacement operation marked the first time a tunnel boring machine has been used in New Zealand.
Smooth first ride on Gautrain
Joburg - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
Rosebank and Killarney residents will be pleased to know that the tunnel boring machine has finished its work of constructing a tunnel from the Rosebank
Tunnel plan burrows through state Senate
Seattle Times - United States
The tunnel is the biggest piece of a Highway 99 rebuild that costs $3.1 billion, including a new elevated segment and interchange in Sodo.
Tube staff protest over job cuts
BBC News - UK
Transport for London (TfL) said LU is carrying out an operating cost review but the … the transfer of Metronet to TfL after the PPP consortium’s collapse
Channel Tunnel back to full service after blaze
AFP
FOLKESTONE, England (AFP) — A fire-damaged section of the Channel Tunnel reopened to freight Monday, the day before Eurotunnel returns to a normal timetable
Delays block China’s giant water scheme
BBC News - UK
Engineers will have to tunnel under the Yellow River in two places to send the water north. The recently announced delay has occurred on the central route
Highway construction to complete in three years for China’s last …
Xinhua - China
Workers were digging a 3.3-km tunnel through the Galung La mountain in Nyingchi Prefecture, which has an average altitude of about 5000 meters.
Cavico Subsidiary Awarded a $6.2 million Contract at the Theun
Plant Automation (press release) - Horsham,PA,USA
The company expects to complete the construction in 24 months and the first phase of the project will involve road preparation
Ground-breaking project for Auckland
TVNZ - New Zealand
A giant cutting machine has finally seen the light after eight months of round-the clock drilling a three-kilometre tunnel under central Auckland.
NJ/NY rail tunnel will benefit commuters
NJ.com - NJ,USA
… as future funding permits — construction that is impossible now until a new water supply tunnel for New York City is completed in the next decade.
The colorful saga of Los Angeles’ first subway tunnel
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Los Angeles Conservancy conducts a tour of the subway tunnel once used by the Red Cars that ran between downtown and Glendale Boulevard near 1st Street.
Old railroad tunnel gets new life
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Wayne Freedman SAN RAFAEL, CA (KGO) — An old railroad tunnel in Marin County is getting new life that will include trails for bicycles and hikers
New Technology Keeps Riders Informed on the L Subway Line in Brooklyn.
New York Times - United States
Look down the tunnel. The electronic screens — formally, they are known as train locator consoles — were unveiled Thursday at the station for a test run,
Austria-Italy rail tunnel project in doubt: report
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK
The rail tunnel beneath the Brenner mountain pass on the Austrian-Italian border is planned to improve the connection on the important route between Italy
Historic tunnel will reopen in the Gorge
KATU - Portland,OR,USA
By Margy Lynch KATU News and KATU.com Staff COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE - After being shuttered for more than 60 years, a historic Columbia River Gorge tunnel will …
Bristol’s 40-year sewer project nears completion
Contract Journal - UK
… of Wessex Water and effectively its in-house contracting arm - the Bristol City Centre Flood Alleviation Tunnel project will lop 57 buildings from that.
Detroit seeks $100M for tunnel agreement
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada
The cost of entering into any kind of a tunnel agreement with the City of Detroit has soared to US$100 million under a new proposal unveiled by Mayor Ken
Phase II of Delhi Metro construction work sped up
Times of India - New Delhi,India
NEW DELHI: Work on tunnelling for Phase II of Delhi Metro construction is being sped up as the last of the 14 Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) was put to use
Will meet airport-station link deadline, says Metro
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
New Delhi With the last tunnel-boring machine (TBM) getting to work on the 22.7-km long Airport Express Link between the New Delhi Railway Station
Everything one size bigger - Richter Maschinenfabrik AG
Drilling heads for example, for drilling railway or motorway tunnels through … for the Russian Olympic town Sotschi are to be dug through the Caucasus
