Austria and Italy have officially approved the launch of works on the 55km long Brenner Base Tunnel following the agreement…
Month: April 2011
Crossrail central London stations shortlist
Crossrail has announced the shortlists for the remaining central London stations – Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Liverpool Street and…
Indianapolis gears up to bid Deep Rock Tunnel Connector
The Indianapolis Department of Public Works is due to advertise its 7.5-mile (12.2km) Deep Rock Tunnel Connector (DRTC) project at…
CRCC sets Chinese EPBM record
The 11th Bureau of the China Railway Construction Corp, (CRCC) has set a TBM advance rate project record of 720m…
HMM wins coveted Alaskan Way CM
Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) has won the hotly contested US$11 million five-year construction management services contract for the 2.7km (1.7-mile)…
Powering to an early finish at Palomino
On Friday, April 8, Odebrecht Construcción y Ingeniería celebrated the breakthrough of its 4.6m (15ft) diameter Herrenknecht hard rock Double…
Tunnel woes force Leighton re-forecast
Leighton Holdings Limited has advised that a major review of its operations and asset base for 2010/2011 has shown the…
Crossrail awards last tunnelling contracts
Crossrail today announced its intention to award the remaining 3km of twin bore tunnel contracts, with the US$310M C310 for…
Two more awards on Singapore’s DTL 3
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded two more civil contracts, C930 and C932, with a total value of S$361.56M…
Blue Plains Tunnel awarded
In Washington DC, the DC Clean Rivers Project has awarded the first of its four major design-build tunnel contracts to…