A joint venture comprising of three companies established to support the Crossrail tunnel construction has been fined a total of…
Month: July 2017
Terratec to supply four more EPBMs to Istanbul
Australian-based TBM manufacturer, TERRATEC, has secured an order to supply four new 6.56m diameter EPBMs for Istanbul’s Ümraniye-Ataşehir-Göztepe Metro Line…
Argentinian President resides over TBM ceremony
Argentinian President Mauricio Macri has inaugurated the start of preparatory works for the excavation of a 12km long, 4m diameter…
Westconnex New M4 breakthrough
Tunnelling on Sydney’s New M4 on the WestConnex Project has reached a major milestone with the first underground breakthrough achieved…
Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel project reaches major milestone
A project to expand the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel in southeastern Virginia, US, and widen Interstate 64 between Hampton and Norfolk reached…
Belchen breakthrough
TBM works for Switzerland’s Belchen rehabilitation tunnel completed in Eptingen in the canton of Basel-Country on June 21, 2017, three…
HS2 contract winners announced
The winners of the £6.6bn of major construction contracts for Britain’s HS2 have been announced today (17 July 2017). The…
CYP wins Melbourne Metro contract
The Cross Yarra Partnership (CYP) – a consortium led by Lendlease Engineering, John Holland, Bouygues Construction and Capella Capital –…
Final Túnel Emisor Poniente (TEP) II project breakthrough
In June, 2017, a select group of project officials, including Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto, celebrated the breakthrough of an…