Search Results: 'Robbins'

What goes up
19 December, 2013
Ensuring the correct lifting strategy is vital to the success of any tunnelling project, reports technical journalist Bernadette Ballantyne.

One machine, two modes
12 December, 2013
Hybrid machines gain ground in the industry. Desiree Willis, technical writer for Robbins reports on the increase in demand, and asks why.

Growing underground
11 December, 2013
Ever more efficient mine development infrastructure, and geotechnical planning, are key to expanding production at major mines. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Inroads below
04 December, 2013
TBMs, hybrids, and pipejacking technology are finding greater applications and opportunities in mining, reports Patrick Reynolds

Funding Gap
25 September, 2013
Highlights such as the Jubilee Line Extension stand out from the economic mire of the past 50 years. The second half of the 20th century was not kind to a Britain newly stripped of superpower status, or the capital’s metro, which following WW2 entered a half century of neglect and underinvestment

Invisible options
21 June, 2013
As urban infrastructure moves underground, SEM has proved to be a very flexible tool to construct complex underground structures. With blasting restrictions in many cities, roadheaders are providing reasonable production rates combined with low noise and vibration levels. Enrique Fernandez and Alejandro Sanz, both of Dragados, and Juergen Laubbichler of Dr. Sauer & Partners, explain why the industry should consider SEM in urban environments.

Massive metros
06 June, 2013
Desiree Willis, technical writer for TBM manufacturer Robbins looks to the logistical changes associated with the rise in grand metro schemes

Seattle Surge
19 February, 2013
The west coast of the US is home to a strong tunnelling market. Tunnels North America looks at Seattle in particular this issue, but let there be no doubt, other cities in the region are just as busy underground, Nicole Robinson reports

TBM LIFTS
19 February, 2013
Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis looks at the pivotal role of cranes in TBM assembly

Making a place for tunnelling in education
08 January, 2013
Hamed Zamenian, a graduate research assistant of the Construction Engineering Management Technology Program in Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI, explains how the Indy tunnel will bring together education and industry through the recently-developed Cuter program