Herrenknecht will deliver 15 x 7m diameter EPBMs to the Doha Metro, the company has officially announced. At the Herrenknecht plant…
Month: February 2014
Harbor Siphon’s Sandy restart
New York’s Harbor Siphon Tunnel project is set to restart in the coming months, with testing and final repairs to…
Three more for LTA's Thomson Line
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded another three civil contracts, T211, T221 and T226 with a total value of…
Record-Setting Robbins TBM breaks through in Mumbai
On January 21, 2014, a Robbins Main Beam TBM completed one of the longest and deepest water supply tunnels in…
Peru launches concession for US$400 million Lima water project
Peru’s private investment promotion agency ProInversión has launched the tender for a US$400 milion Lima potable water concession. The project…
Planning begins on a Northern California pumped‐storage hydroelectric project
The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD) has awarded a Jacobs Associates-led team the Owner’s Engineer contract for preliminary design and…
Caterpillar sells tunneling assets to Chinese partner
Caterpillar Tunneling Canada Corporation (CTCC) has entered into an agreement to sell substantially all of its assets (real estate, machinery,…
Lima Metro Line 2 award date pushed back
Peru’s private investment promotion agency ProInversión has pushed back the bid deadlines and award date for the US$6.5bn concession for…
Damaged main bearing seal is source of Seattle's SR-99 shutdown
Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) – Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) design-build contractor for the SR-99 (Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement)…