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SMART train project gets under way with San Rafael tunnel work
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The first work has already begun, a $25 million project to reopen the Northwestern Pacific Railroad’s tunnel near San RafaelRail contractors join forces to win Crossrail work
Transport Briefing - London,UK
Balfour Beatty, Beton-und Monierbau, Morgan Est and VINCI Construction have pooled resources to create the BBMV joint venture and set up a central London

Traumjob Tunnelbauführerin
Luxemburger Wort
Michèle Moos ist vom Tunnelbau begeistert und gleichermaßen fasziniert, „an Orte vorzudringen, an denen noch nie jemand zuvor war.

Crossrail tunnelling contracts out to tender
Contract Journal
By Neil Gerrard Crossrail Limited (CRL) has put a package of major tunnelling works for the £16bn Crossrail project out to tender.

New four-way JV announced for Crossrail bids
CN plus - London,UK
Balfour Beatty, Morgan Est and Vinci Construction are to form a joint venture with Austrian tunnelling specialist Beton- und Monierbau to bid for major

Four join to pounce on Crossrail tunnelling work
New Civil Engineer - London,England,UK
Balfour Beatty, Beton- und Monierbau, Morgan Est and VINCI Construction have formed a joint venture company specifically to bid for the prestigious

GAUTRAIN :: GAUTRAIN TUNNEL PROGRESS AT END JULY 2009
A portion of three kilometers of the tunnel between Park Station and Rosebank Station is excavated using a high-technology tunnel boring machine. The remainder of the tunnels are being done by traditional drill and blast technology

Tunnel to island airport by 2011?
Toronto Star
The Toronto Port Authority is hoping to tap into government stimulus cash it has requested for the $38 million project to build an underground tunnel

Road tunnel across Yangtze through in east China
Xinhua
It is the third traffic tunnel built under the Yangtze River, China’s longest river. The 3.3-billion-yuan (483-million-US-dollars) traffic tunnel

Iran to fund Uma Oya project
Ceylon Daily News
… underground Hydro-power station with 120mw installed capacity and 3.4 km long outlet tunnel from power station on Alikota-ara. Meanwhile

Mott MacDonald to develop Crossrail
Construction and Maintenance News
… new design contracts worth a total of around £10 million to help develop Crossrail, one of the biggest and most complex rail projects in the world.

Yes, the University of Windsor Has Tunnels! | Windsor Visuals - a …
By Owen (westerntragedy)
Yes, the University of Windsor has tunnels. No, you can’t go in them! For the longest time, it’s been known that their are subterranean caverns underneath.

LA officials tout first step in subway to the sea
San Jose Mercury News
Crews drilled up to 80 feet into the ground to assess soil conditions and determine how to best start digging a tunnel, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told

Boskalis Writes Off Thessaloniki Submerged Tunnel Project
Capital.gr (press release)
“The Thessaloniki tunnel project involves a very complex political situation and we find it prudent not to keep in it our order book further

MAX riders share photos, stories from their time stranded in tunnel
OregonLive.com
The scene as MAX passengers stuck in the Robertson Tunnel on Wednesday night waited for the next train. One rider posted this telling photo on his Flickr

Matilda and Florence strip off
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
“Each tunnel project is different with TBMs (tunnel borning machines) specifically designed for different drilling conditions,” Cr Newman said.

SSE shuts down Glendoe plant after tunnel rockfall
International Water Power and Dam Construction - London,UK
Lining support comprised bolts, steel ribs, mesh and shotcrete as required. In the catchment above the reservoir site a series of drill and blast drives

Matilda and Florence strip off in 24 seconds

Brisbane Times

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman said each tunnel was different and needed specific tunnel boring equipment to cope with the rock strata.

Rock fall halts new hydro scheme

BBC News
The tunnel carries water from a hilltop reservoir to a massive turbine on the £140m Glendoe project. It was officially opened by the Queen

Tunnel Vision
Gotham Gazette
… of whom have contributed funding to the project — as well as countless advocacy groups assert that the new tunnel will speed commutes

YouTube - Ortler Skiarena meets BBT (aka Brenner Basis Tunnel) in …
Munich Bolzano in 1 hour 30 minutes… forget about the car, let’s think futuristic and let’s go by train. The Brenner Basis Tunnel

‘Cracks appear in Tehran metro line two’
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
“We should have predicted the qanat subsidence in order to protect the workers,” he added criticizing head of the Tohid tunnel project

New tunnel will barely ease road freight
Swissinfo
That was the key finding of a study into the likely impact of the 57-kilometre-long Gotthard Base Tunnel, carried out for the organisation Alpine Initiative

Engineers check the drilling head of a tunnel boring machine
Tunnel under Han River Engineers check the drilling head of a tunnel boring machine Thursday being used to construct a tunnel 50 meters under the Han River

Millions of bats draw visitors to Texas tunnel | Bryan/College …
Millions of bats draw visitors to Texas tunnel was published on 8/16/2009 inside the The Eagle in Bryan / College Station, TX

Aug 14 Brightwater tunnel boring machine repair plan in the works
August 2009 - A project to repair Brightwater’s second damaged tunnel boring machine could begin later this month pending permit approval by the City

Big step toward starting construction on the Spadina subway …
By JordanC
Lovat, an Ontario-based company that makes tunnel boring equipment, has been awarded a $58-million contract to build four machines that will be used

The longest dig
Straits Times
‘At long last,’ a senior Land Transport Authority executive sighed as a massive tunnel-boring machine broke through a hollow-brick wall

128m pipe saves the Bay
New Zealand Herald
A custom-built boring machine - itself 70m long - did the drilling and lined the tunnel with precast concrete segments at the same time.

The Hindu : National : Massive tunnel boring machine launched
Jun 26, 2009 … ONGOLE: A massive tunnel boring machine (TBM) began drilling through the Nallamala hill range on Thursday to bring water to parched areas

Key milestone reached in Thames Water Ring Main extension
New Civil Engineer - London,England,UK
The event happened yesterday when Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) ‘Helen’ broke through at the Brixton shaft.

Subway to the Sea Moving Right Along

NBC Los Angeles - Los Angeles,CA,USA

For the actual subway, they’ll use high tech tunnel boring machines that maintain pressure as they drill, and station locations will be dug out

Government Partnership Creates Jobs With Toronto-York Spadina …

Government of Ontario News

The announcement was made during a tour of the LOVAT Inc. facility where the tunnel boring machines will be built

Big Becky turns three

Niagara Falls Review - Niagara Falls,Ontario,Canada
But Conservative energy critic John Yakabuski accused the government of approving the tunnel project without knowing the rock conditions

Engineers to Begin Surveying 300 Buildings as Precaution to …
By admin
We imagine that the biggest concern is if the tunnel boring machine will cause any damage to buildings. The best response WSDOT has at this time is that they will be “taking precautions to mitigate [the] potential impacts.

CIPE: MATTEOLI, 3-BLN EUROS IN INFRASTRUCTURE APPROVED

AGI - Agenzia Giornalistica Italia - Italy
Among the projects that were approved are the tunnel at the base of the Brenner, the high-speed/high-capacity Milan-Verona project

A vast and growing sinkhole has appeared near Denver City in the US state of Texas.