This years Cutting Edge conference will take place at Renaissance Seattle Hotel in Seattle, WA – from 13th to 15th…
Month: September 2017
Lucknow Metro's first TBM breakthrough
Workers from the Gulermak-TATA Projects JV, representatives from TBM manufacturer, TERRATEC, and officials from the Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC)…
ATS 2017 conference program released
The conference program has been released for the 16th Australasian Tunnelling Conference taking place in Sydney from 30 October –…
Slurry acceptance for Mumbai Metro
The first of two Slurry TBMs, a rebuilt 6.65m diameter machine, passed its factory acceptance on September 4, 2017 in…
NorthConnex tunnels hit halfway
Construction of Sydney’s 9km long NorthConnex twin tunnels has reached the halfway point. Contractor JV on the $2.9bn design build…
LTA awards three contracts on CCL6
Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded the first three civil contracts for Circle Line 6 (CCL6) totalling S$1.75bn. Works…
COWI to design one of Scandinavia’s largest metro projects
A joint venture between COWI A/S and Multiconsult ASA has won the contract to design the Fornebu Line (Fornebubanen), an…
Ultra-high strength sprayed concrete challenged
Some projects in the Middle East are using ultra-high strength sprayed concrete which reaches strengths of 80 to 90 MPa…
Green light for Stonehenge Tunnel
The route for the UK’s £1.6bn A303 upgrade, a key part of the ‘South West expressway’, has been published by…
First batch of DTSS 2 contracts awarded
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, has appointed Ed Zublin AG (Singapore Branch), Penta-Ocean Construction Co., Ltd. and Koh Brothers Building…