First hole through for North Shore connector
14 August, 2008
The TBM driving the twin tunnels under the Allegheny river in Pittsburgh for the North Shore Connector light rail project has holed through on the first drive.
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News
Swedish nuke waste vault verdict in ‘09
14 August, 2008
A choice between two locations for the site of the proposed underground storage vault for nuclear waste in Sweden is expected to be made by mid-2009.
Eastlink opens in Melbourne…
13 August, 2008
The Eastlink road and tunnel opened at the end of last month in Melbourne – five months early – and recorded 275,364 average daily trips in its first seven continuous days of operation.
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Sydney plans mega-metro tunnels
8 August, 2008
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Tunnel bores advance in India hydels
14 August, 2008
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New prequals at Sey-Cap; Bilfinger countersues
14 August, 2008
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Waterfront tunnel option alive in Seattle
14 August, 2008
Business and Finance
London cable tunnel fiesta
19 August, 2008
Three cable tunnels in London with a combined length of almost 30km are out for tender by
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Crossrail procurement pushes ahead
19 August, 2008
Close on the heels of winning legislative approval, London’s £16bn (US$31.3bn) Crossrail project plans this month to invite prequalified firms to bid for contracts as framework consultants and delivery partners, and it expects to make appointments...
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BrisConnections picked for airport link
13 August, 2008
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Nepal water tunnel for Pöyry JV
19 August, 2008
Features
Brisbane’s central city tunnel
July 2008
Brisbane is currently building the longest road tunnel in Australia, for traffic congestion relief in the city centre. Report and photographs by technical journalist Adrian Greeman
LA’s soft ground cross passages
July 2008
Christophe Bragard and Brett Zernich, of Traylor Brothers, and Johannes Jäger, of Beton-und Monierbau, describe the SEM construction of cross passages through soft ground in Los Angeles
Victoria Relief
11 June, 2008
Plans for congestion relief at Victoria station, in London, call for two box excavations plus a series of weaving, mined foot tunnels that call for a major programme of jet grouting of waterbearing strata. Report by Contributing Editor,...
Convergency compatible support systems
11 June, 2008
E Schneider, of the Institute of Construction and Material Sciences at Innsbruck University, Austria, and M Spiegl, of SSP BauConsult GmbH, discuss yielding support systems and their possible applications
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The Arrowhead Tunnels project
13 August, 2008
Following the British Tunnelling Society’s Annual General Meeting, Brian Fulcher, project director for Shea-Kenny Joint Venture, and Mike Bell, resident engineer for Hatch Mott MacDonald, described overcoming difficult ground conditions...
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Crossing the Bosphorus and beyond
5 June, 2008
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