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Waterview Connection breakthrough
23 October, 2015
NEW ZEALAND – The TBM broke through on the second drive of Auckland’s Waterview Connection project last month. Billed by contractor McConnell Dowell as one of the largest TBMs ever used in the southern hemisphere, Alice, the 14.4m-diameter Herrenknecht EPBM completed its 2.4km-long journey.

Sydney gets connected
28 July, 2015
Sydney’s ambitious WestConnex project aims to get the traffic owing freely – and two-thirds of it will be underground. Sally Spencer reports on the project, one of the NSW Government’s key infrastructure projects which aims to ease congestion, create jobs and connect communities, said to be the largest integrated transport and urban revitalisation project in Australia.

Alice takes a breather
27 February, 2015
NEW ZEALAND – The backup train of the Waterview Connection TBM was in the process of being turned to join up with the cutterhead and shield already working on its second bore path as Tunnels and Tunnelling went to press.