Search Results: 'Herrenknecht'

German minister visits Indian tunnel project
27 November, 2012
Germany's minister of economic affairs, Philipp Rösler, visited a Herrenknecht jobsite in India earlier this month, the company announced. Rösler, visited the "Mandi House" metro jobsite in New Delhi at the beginning of November 2012, gaining in advance an idea of German-Indian economic relations.

EPBM supplied for Rio's metro Line 4
10 October, 2012
A TBM with a 11.46m diameter has been supplied for the construction of the new metro Line 4 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian construction companies Construtora Norberto Odebrecht S.A/Construtora Queiroz Galvao S.A/Carioca Christiani Nielsen Engenharia has accepted the Herrenknecht AG machine, which will be used to bore a 4.6km long section of the 14km metro line.

Change in Herrenknecht's supervisory board
26 September, 2012
Lothar Späth resigned from the position of supervisory board chairman for Herrenknecht due to age reasons at the company's supervisory board meeting earlier this week. Späth, who held the position for 14 years, is succeeded as supervisory board chairman by the chairman of the board of management of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Hans-Jörg Vetter.

TGV Paris-Strasbourg milestone reached ahead of schedule
12 September, 2012
TBM Charlotte has reached the west side of the Vosges Mountains, completed excavation for the first tube of the Tunnel de Saverne, two months earlier than planned. The tunnel, which is part of the TGV Paris-Strasboug line, was completed in late June 2012, Herrennecht announced last week.

Early brekthrough at Tunnel de Saverne
07 September, 2012
The first tube has broken through on Tunnel de Saverne. The machine boring the high speed rail project in the Vosges Mountains in eastern France reached the western side two months ahead of schedule. Contractors Spie Batignolles TPCI and Dodin Campenon Bernard worked for client Resau Ferre de France.

World's largest TBM completes first drive
21 August, 2012
The TBM being used to build a twin-tube Sparvo road tunnel located between Bologna and Florence, broke through the northbound tunnel of on 25 July.

European research project tunnel system completes
08 August, 2012
Excavation of a tunnel system for the XFEL European research facility in Hamburg, Germany, has completed successfully, when the AMELI TBM entered its last target shaft in June 2012. In three years time electron and x-ray light will be flowing from the project tunnel system, Herrenknecht announced late last week.

Herrenknecht celebrates anniversary
18 July, 2012
The TBM giant recently celebrated its 35-year anniversary as well as the chairman of the board of management's own milestone birthday, Herrenknecht revealed earlier this week.

STFA completes Bosphorus water tunnel
22 June, 2012
Turkish group STFA has announced the construction of a water supply tunnel underneath the Bosphorus strait, which spans the Bosporus linking Asia to Europe.The tunnel will be operational next month.

Ohio’s largest TBM ready to start digging
15 June, 2012
Crews with the Northeast Ohio Regional District lowered the 27ft (8m) diameter Herrenknecht TBM in place to excavate the 5.5km Euclid Creek Storage Tunnel earlier this week. It took several hours to position the machine down the 61m shaft to prepare it to begin boring.

Bridge used to leverage giant TBM
02 May, 2012

TBM moves for London Power
25 April, 2012

First U220 breakthrough
03 April, 2012
Breakthrough was reached on the first bore of the U220 University Link Light Rail in Washington, D.C., US.

Crossrail TBM started up with call for Crossrail Two
13 March, 2012
Today Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for Transport Justine Greening pushed the button to fire up the first Crossrail TBM.

Tunnel System Number Three drive complete for Sochi
08 March, 2012

First Crossrail TBM assembled
29 February, 2012

Herrenknecht China hosts world leaders
15 February, 2012

TBM starts work on Panama Metro
30 January, 2012

Oberosler and Edilmac move to hydropower project
05 January, 2012

Breakthrough at Lai Chi Kok main tunnel
05 January, 2012