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		<title>BBMV JV complete first Crossrail SCL tunnels</title>
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Crossrail’s BBMV JV (Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, Alpine BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction) has completed the projects’ first two sprayed concrete tunnels. The tunnels, under Finsbury Circus in the City of London, are part of the C510 contract – Early Access Shafts and Spray Concrete Lining works for Whitechapel and Liverpool Street station [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/bbmv-jv-complete-first-crossrail-scl-tunnels/</link>
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		<title>Beijing Line 9 breakthrough</title>
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April 10, 2012, marked a milestone in the construction of the 16.45km long Metro Line 9 in Beijing, when a 6.28m diameter Cat® EPBM made a major breakthrough in a section with very difficult geological conditions.
The project owner, Beijing MTR Corporation, together with the contractor, Beijing Urban Construction Group (BUCG), held a celebration ceremony at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/beijing-line-9-breakthrough/</link>
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		<title>First Crossrail TBM breaks ground</title>
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Crossrail’s first TBM, Phyllis, has broken ground at Royal Oak to begin construction of the mega-project’s first section of tunnel between Royal Oak and Farringdon.
Keith Sibley, Crossrail Area Director West said: “Tunnelling for Crossrail has now commenced. Phyllis is now beginning to slowly disappear below ground and will steadily ramp up to the planned average tunnelling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/first-crossrail-tbm-breaks-ground/</link>
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		<title>Arup wins Chile Metro work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arup has been appointed by Metro de Santiago to lead the concept design of 11 stations in the Chilean capital. The scope of the project covers some of the most challenging stations on two new lines being built by the operator – Lines 3 and 6 – and the work will involve creating interchanges with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/arup-wins-chile-metro-work/</link>
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		<title>25 TBMs for Delhi Metro Phase 111</title>
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Delhi Metro Managing Director Mangu Singh has announced the 41km of twin tunnel to be built on its103km long Phase III will utilize 25 TBMs at the peak of construction to hit the scheduled 2016 completion deadline.
“In Phase-III the underground component is quite high and it is expected that during peak period about 25 tunnel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/25-tbms-for-delhi-metro-phase-111/</link>
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		<title>Holey breaks through on Spadina</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, May 1st, ‘Holey’ one of two owner-procured 6.134m (20ft) diameter mixed face EPBMs built by Caterpillar Tunneling Canada for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) broke through on the first northern heading for the Southern Tunnels Contract of the 8.6km (5.3-mile) long Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE).
‘Moley’, the second TBM to get going on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/holey-breaks-through-on-spadina/</link>
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		<title>Bank Station shortlist announced</title>
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London Underground (LU) has announced the four bidding groups shortlisted to go through the new Innovative Contractor Engagement (ICE) procurement process for the US$391M – US$782M Bank Station Capacity Upgrade project. Works include the constructing a 570m long new section of the southbound Northern Line tunnel and the transformation of the existing southbound platform and running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/4306/</link>
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		<title>Ferrovial Agroman wins Pardonelo Tunnel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ferrovial Agroman, a construction subsidiary of Ferrovial, has been awarded a contract to build the Padornelo Tunnel-Lubián section of the Madrid-Galicia high-speed railway line, for US$143M. This section of line, which is 7.6 kilometers long and will have a single-track 8.5m wide bed, crosses the Requejo and Lubián municipalities, in Zamora province.
The project includes the construction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/ferrovial-agroman-wins-pardonelo-tunnel/</link>
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		<title>Monitoring training courses now available</title>
		<description><![CDATA[University College London and itmsoil, a UK manufacturing and monitoring services provider are establishing training courses to give practicing engineers a sound understanding of monitoring in civil engineering. 
They will also be helpful for clients who want to understand the value of monitoring and how best to procure it; researchers interested in state of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/training-courses-on-monitoring-now-available/</link>
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		<title>Year long delay for Fehmarnbelt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Construction work on the 18km long fixed link tunnel under Fehmarnbelt linking Germany and Denmark is set to commence about a year later than originally planned – in the middle of 2015 instead of 2014. Femern A/S, the company responsible for the planning of the link, said the delay was due the planning approval process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tunnellingjournal.com/news/year-long-delay-for-fehmarnbelt/</link>
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