London Underground (LU) yesterday officially announced its intention to award the contract to design and build the Northern line extension…
Month: August 2014
Cutting Edge 2014: Groundwater Control for Tunneling
The web site for the 2014 Cutting Edge Conference is now online, with delegate registration due to open at the…
Mexico's ICA wins $197 million tunnel contract
Mexico’s largest construction company, ICA, has won a 2.566 billion-peso ($197 million) contract to build a tunnel aimed at reducing…
LTA announces new underground line
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has announced the alignment and station locations for the Eastern Region Line, to be known…
Crossrail's Jessica breaks through
Crossrail’s 7.1m diameter TBM Jessica has completed a new train tunnel from Limmo Peninsula, near Canning Town, breaking into Victoria…
More breakthroughs on Delhi Phase III
TERRATEC has announced the first two TBM breakthroughs in New Delhi, India. The breakthroughs are on the CC-07 and CC-24…
HMM CEO to receive prestigious OPAL Award from ASCE
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has announced that Nick DeNichilo, President and CEO of the engineering firm Hatch…
8km Perth Airport Link tunnel revealed
Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett has released details of a new 8km long twin tube tunnel that will form the…
Delhi's double breakthrough
The HCC-Samsung Joint Venture, working on Delhi Metro’s Phase III expansion, has made a rare double TBM breakthrough, when “Riddhi”…
XRL TBM ‘Fan-li-hua’ resumes operation
’Fan-li-hua’, the TBM damaged in a flooded section of the Hong Kong MTR’s Express Rail Link (XRL) project tunnel in…