Search Results: 'Hochtief'

York Potash announces preferred contractors
09 June, 2016
Great Britain – Sirius Minerals has revealed that the Hochtief Murphy joint venture is favoured to construct the mineral transport system at its North Yorkshire polyhalite project. This is the highlight of the York Potash job for the tunnelling industry and consists of a 23-mile (37km), 4.1m-diameter tunnel to transport ore from the mine site to the nearby port.

Fehmarnbelt conditional contracts signed
01 June, 2016
GERMANY/DENMARK - Conditional contracts have now been signed with the consortia chosen to construct the Fehmarnbelt fixed link. Following the previous announcement, pen has been put to paper. A slight delay caused the contracts to be signed at the end of May rather than mid-May, and this was due to a complaint being received.

Turkish lessons for Tyrol
14 March, 2016
Tunnels and Tunnelling visits the Gemeinschaftskraftwerk Inn hydropower project in Tyrol, Austria just as access tunnel construction has been completed and one of two TBMs has been moved to the face. The manufacturer claims that lessons from the Kargi HEPP have driven improvements for this type of project.

Powering Peru
18 February, 2016
With a burgeoning market for hydropower development, tunnelling work is seeing an uptick in South America’s third largest country. Nicole Robinson looks at two recent projects

Hochtief to Build A7 Tunnel in Hamburg-Stellingen
22 January, 2016
Germany - Hochtief annouced January 19 it has been awarded an approximately EUR 154M (USD 166.77M) contract to construct Tunnel Stellingen in Hamburg with Franki Grundbau.

East meets West
31 December, 2015
Eight Herrenknecht TBMs turned in exemplary performances during tunnel excavation on the Crossrail project. Sally Spencer reports.

TAC Reports
03 November, 2015
Every October the four Tunnel Association of Canada (TAC) regional directors provide anoverview of the market in their annual reports

Eastern expanse
29 October, 2015
Construction for metro projects, with events such as the World Cup on the horizon, is driving the demand for tunnelling Qatar. Other cities in the Middle East are also investing in infrastructure development, growing the market for tunnelling across the region. Keren Falwell reports.

Implenia, HOCHTIEF and Thyssen JV to build Gloggnitz Tunnel
25 June, 2015
ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG has jointly awarded Hochtief Infrastructure Austria, Implenia Austria and Thyssen Schachtbau the contract to build the Gloggnitz Tunnel, Hochtief announced on Friday, June 12. The total contract volume for the "SBT 1.1 Tunnel Gloggnitz" joint venture (JV) is some EUR 457M (USD 511M). Hochtief’s share is worth around EUR 183M (USD 204.6M), representing a 40 per cent stake in the JV.

CBE announces Rastatt mould supply contract
30 April, 2015
GERMANY – CBE announced its participation in the Rastatt Tunnel project that will form part of the high speed railway line between Karlsruhe and Basel. Some 42 segment moulds will be delivered to the German precast supplier Max Bögl, which is in charge of the production of approximately 15000 concrete segments for the tunnel with a total length of 4.27 km crossing beneath Rastatt from east to south.

TAC Review
30 January, 2015
The Tunnelling Association of Canada’s regional directors give their annual reports on the industry.

In Review
06 November, 2014
In partnership with the Tunnelling Association of Canada (TAC), every October Tunnels & Tunnelling North America publishes the annual TAC regional director’s report. The four directors take a look at the country’s current marketplace for tunnelling and underground construction, as well as milestones over the past year.

Crossrail C310
10 October, 2014
Geotechnical and tunnelling related specifics in urban tunnelling, and a river crossing with low overburden are covered in this BTS presentation on Crossrail contract C310, Thames Tunnel.

Züblin-Hochtief to build Bremerhaven harbour tunnel
22 September, 2014
GERMANY - BIS Bremerhavener has commissioned a joint venture of Ed. Züblin AG (technical leader/JV share 37 per cent), HOCHTIEF Solutions AG (commercial leader/JV share 33 per cent) and Züblin Spezialtiefbau GmbH (JV share 30 per cent), to build the Cherbourger Straße harbour tunnel in Bremerhaven, Germany, the companies announced on September 11.

London's Bank station box fit-out awarded
12 September, 2014
GREAT BRITAIN - Transport for London (TfL) has awarded the contract to fit out the brand new Waterloo & City line station entrance 'box' at Bank to construction specialists Hochtief UK Limited. The contract will provide a new step free entrance at the station giving passengers direct access to the Waterloo and City Line from Walbrook Square.

Zublin/Hochtief to build Rastatt rail tunnel
12 August, 2014
GERMANY/SWITZERLAND - A joint venture led by Züblin and Hochtief was commissioned by DB Netz AG to deliver the shell construction of the "Rastatt Tunnel". The tunnel project is part of planning approval section 1.2 of the new railway route between Karlsruhe and Basel. The contract volume amounts to approximately EUR 312M (USD 417.6M).

Hochtief-Zublin JV secures Cityringen contract
18 June, 2014
Hochtief, together with Züblin, signed a EUR 150M (USD 203.15M) contract with public transportation company Metroselskabet I/S to expand the subway network in Copenhagen, the company announced on June 11.

Rail package evokes 'tremendous' interest among international firms
16 April, 2014
A prequalification process, launched by Oman Rail with the aim of identifying competent bidders for its main construction package, has elicited interest from a record 102 civil engineering/construction firms from around the world, including a number of international heavyweights.

Prague metro
04 June, 2013
Ermin Stehlik and Vaclav Soukup of Metrostav return with the most recent chapter, and final part of the article, on prague metro’s history. in this portion, epBms fire into action on running tunnels on the V.a. extension

Norra Laenken’s novel lining
17 May, 2013
In the January BTS meeting, technical and risk manager Andreas Raedle, construction manager Jörg Steppuhn and site manager Felix Lenzen, all of Hochtief Solutions, presented on the Norra Laenken road tunnel project in Stockholm, Sweden. This article gives an overview of both the design and construction for the Lot NL 35project, including the pre-grouting works, the drill and blast operations and a new concept for inner lining