Alan Myers, Halcrow’s former Director of Major Projects has joined Hong Kong’s MTR Projects Division as Chief Civil Construction Engineer….
Month: May 2010
Shetland Tunnel plans near rejection
Shetland Island Council’s (SIC) finance chief, Graham Johnston, has said plans for a 6.3km long sub-sea drill and blast tunnel…
Chengdu Metro EPBM record
In March 2010, contractors celebrated a city-wide excavation record on the Chengdu Metro, of 457.5m in one month. The 6.26m…
Breaking news – In-Mo Lee voted ITA President
Korean candidate, Professor In-Mo Lee has been voted President of the International Tunnelling Association. Lee from the Korean School of…
SELI delivers TBM gold
Italian tunnelling specialist SELI has celebrated its 60th Anniversary by manufacturing a 400-ton, 6.18m diameter DSU TBM painted gold, for…
Hong Kong MTR’s South Island (East) Tunnels up for grabs
Hong Kong’s MTR has invited expressions of interest from contractors wishing to tender for works on the 7km long, US$1.4bn…
London Underground PPP terminated – updated 2.40pm
In a deal kept secret until after the UK’s general election, Transport for London has bought out the shareholders of…
Boston Big Dig convictions
Four former employees of Aggregate Industries, N.E. (Aggregate), have been convicted of various counts of mail fraud and highway project…
Xi’an Metro Line 1 TBM underway
On the 28th April, China Railway 11th Engineering Bureau Group Limited launched the first of its two 6.2m diameter Robbins…
Tunnelling Journal Exclusive – Two more for MTR's XRL
Hong Kong’s MTR has awarded two more tunnelling contracts on the US$5bn, 26km long twin-tube Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link…