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Ground conditioning over the decades
27 November, 2023
Lars Langmaack, Technical Director (TBM) of MC-Bauchemie Müller GmbH’s tunnelling business unit, gives a personal review of EPB tunnelling development, including the development of soil conditioning additives in recent decades, and ways ahead

T2D substation construction under way
23 August, 2023
Work has started to construct a dedicated electricity substation to power the TBMs that will excavate the first two tunnels for South Australia’s River Torrens to Darlington project (T2D).

Taiwan: Metro Expansion in Taoyuan
26 June, 2023
The city of Taoyuan, in Taiwan, is expanding its Mass Rapid Transit network. For underground works on part of the central Green Line, the final pair of EPBMs have been delivered to work on the Lot GC03 contract.

Terratec EPBMs delivered to Taoyuan MRT
31 August, 2021
Terratec has announced that – on behalf of group company JIMT – it has delivered two of four 6.24m-diameter EPB tunnel boring machines (EPBMs) that will be used on Taoyuan MRT Green Line in Taoyuan District, Taiwan.

Manila accepts first two of 25 TBM army
09 September, 2020
Officials from the Philippine’s Department of Transportation have accepted the first two of 25 TBMs that will be used to bore the US$7bn Metro Manila Subway Project.

International Iberia
10 April, 2019
Paola De Pascali interviews Spanish infrastructure companies and the Spanish Association of Tunnels and Underground Works to understand how the financial crisis affected the tunnelling industry and how the companies became active abroad, getting a strong presence on the international tunnelling market.

West Gate Tunnel
20 December, 2018
Paola De Pascali talked with Shane D’Rozario, technical director from West Gate Tunnel Authority, and Andrew Shepherd, tunnel zone manager from CPBJH joint venture, about the main challenges they expect to meet during the construction of the West Gate Tunnel

JIM Technology formalises Terratec relationship with shares purchase
15 October, 2018
Australia/Japan – The Japanese business partner of Australian TBM manufacturer Terratec has purchased 50% of the company’s shares.

Japanese TBM manufacturers sign consolidation basic agreement
05 June, 2015
JAPAN – IHI Corporation, JFE Engineering Corporation (JFEE), Japan Tunnel Systems Corporation (JTSC) (a consolidated subsidiary of IHI with 49 per cent of the shares held by JFEE), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), and MHI subsidiary Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems all announced the conclusion of a basic agreement for the integration of their respective shield tunnelling machine businesses.

Eastern promise
26 August, 2014
Previously driven by the oil and gas sector, tunnelling in the Middle East is enjoying a new boom as metro systems and new sewer networks are developed throughout the region. Bernadette Ballantyne reports

New metro line inaugurated
21 May, 2014
Cairo inaugurated the second phase of metro Line 3 on 7 May when Egypt's president Adly Mansour, prime minister Ibrahim Mahlib and transport minister Ibrahim El Demeiri officially opened the 7.7km eastern section between Abbasiya and Haroun El Rachid station in the district of Heliopolis.

Three groups shortlisted for East West link
07 November, 2013
Three consortia have been shortlisted by the Victorian Coalition Government for Melbourne¹s East West Link. East West Connect, Inner Link Group and Momentum Infrastructure have been shortlisted to tender for the tunnel in Victoria, Australia.

TBM emerges from below Zhanjiang Bay
21 February, 2013
A 6.26m Robbins slurry TBM excavated the Zhanjiang Bay Sub-Sea Tunnel at the end of 2012, the company announced late last week. The tunnel, which runs 56m below water level, is expected to become operational in March this year.

Which ever way you slice it
27 December, 2012
It is easy to get ‘tunnel vision’ in examining the possible methods of excavation. If engineers were happy with that then disc and roller cutters for hard-rock TBMs would never have been developed as an alternative to drill and blast. Maurice Jones asks what has been tried before and what might still be valid

Time to take charge
19 November, 2012
Tunnels North America editor Nicole Robinson this month looks at the booming Canadian tunnelling market and the mega projects of the US. Last month’s sell out Tunnelling Association of Canada’s conference was a clear indicator of interest in the country and the numerous upcoming hydropower and transport works.

High pressure sea crossing
18 October, 2012
A slurry TBM is cutting through the sands deep under Zhanjiang Bay, China, to provide a crucial water link to and island steelworks. A tight schedule and a 42m head of water are upping the pressure on the project. Tunnels editor Jon Young visits the site

Andean tunnel project proposed
10 October, 2012
A plan to build the longest tunnels in the Americas right through the Andes is being imagined by South American engineers. The mountains create a costly physical barrier for nations ever-more-depended on trade with Asia, US news reports stated earlier this week.

Singapore Power sources funding for cable tunnels
13 May, 2012
Six local and foreign banks have been hired by Singapore Power to provide a SGD 1.5bn (USD 1.2bn) finance loan for its power cable tunnels project.

ESP filtration use and developments
08 February, 2012
Mountainous Japan was the first country to use electrostatic precipitators to filter tunnel air. Arnold Dix of the University of Western Sydney and Atsushi Katatani of Panasonic Ecology Systems give a history of the improvements and use of ESPs in Japanese tunnels

Hitachi Zosen TBM to excavate Alaskan Way tunnel
18 July, 2011