Search Results: 'Robbins'

Subcontinent weathers the storms
14 December, 2010
The combination of crowded cities boasting impossibly over-capacity roads with an increasingly energy-thirsty nation has resulted in a number of government-led tunnelling projects made possible by readily available state funding and foreign development loans, Alex Conacher reports

Seymour Capilano’s successful second chance
13 December, 2010
Two Robbins TBMs overcame challenges in Vancouver’s hard granitic rock while constructing twin tunnels for the Seymour Capilano Water Filtration Project, Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis reports

Tunnelling to catch up
13 December, 2010
With major cities like Toronto and Vancouver growing steadily the past 20 years, and transportation and sewer systems struggling to keep up, there is no shortage of tunnelling projects in Canada, reports Nicole Robinson

Early breakthrough in British Columbia
03 December, 2010

The 2010 Harding Lecture (Part 2)
01 December, 2010
British Tunnelling Society, Harding Lecture, 15th April 2010

The 2010 Harding Lecture (Part 1)
01 December, 2010
British Tunnelling Society, Harding Lecture, 15th April 2010

Hybrid drive
11 November, 2010
First-time onsite assembly has begun with Robbins’ first hybrid EPB-hard rock TBM, which will be used to drive the Sleemanabad water tunnel, in India. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Making Mexico’s Metro
11 November, 2010

Spending heads south
10 November, 2010
Mexico, Panama and Chile are seeing tunnelling for many of their infrastructure projects, and they’re not alone in the region, Nicole Robinson reports

Robbins to supply Slurry TBM for subsea tunnel
22 September, 2010

Never so bored in NY
12 August, 2010
New York’s East Side Access (ESA) rail project has used a pair of TBMs to help cavern construction by lancing repeatedly into the rock below Manhattan. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Two Main Beam TBMs launched in China
27 July, 2010

Four tunnels completed beneath NYC
30 June, 2010

Design and construction of deep shafts
10 June, 2010
At the January meeting of the BTS Alan Auld of Alan Auld Group presented the methods and challenges of deep shaft design and construction

Long bores in remote India
02 June, 2010
Freak monsoons, remote jobsites and hard rock are testing the limits of the machines boring the hydration scheme in arid Andhra Pradesh, India. Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis reports

EPBM record on Chengdu Metro
25 May, 2010

Tunnelling started on Xi'an Metro Line 1
04 May, 2010

Mexico’s Urban Chall
23 March, 2010
Giant Robbins EPB Assembled in Mexico City’s Downtown Federal District is home to the first ever jobsite assembly of an EPB TBM. Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis reports

Robbins Single Shield launched in Laos
12 March, 2010

Mexico's largest TBM completed
09 February, 2010