Search Results: 'VMT'

A Look Beyond Only Physical: Virtual Master Rings
31 October, 2022
Florian Werres of VMT describes a digital approach to achieving the assurance of segmental quality for bored tunnels without always physically erecting master rings.

The third way
16 December, 2020
Genoa has a magnificent sea port but desperately poor communications inland. A third route is being developed under the mountains that surround the city. Julian Champkin reports

Canadian distance record
20 November, 2020
Microtunnelling can save costs, surface disruption and inconvenience to the public, while the distances that can be covered are increasing. Julian Champkin looks at a 5km project in Canada and asks whether the technique can stretch even further

A Kit of Parts
25 August, 2020
Precast concrete segments are made to exacting tolerances and demand streamlined manufacture and transportation. Julian Champkin investigates the challenges

Trans Euro Express
17 July, 2020
The Magistrale is a 1,500km high-speed rail project that will link France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Julian Champkin reports on the tunnelling through Germany’s Swabian Alps.

Ward & Burke sets new Canadian microtunnelling record
30 June, 2020
Ward & Burke has successfully completed a record microtunnelling drive of 1,132m on the York Durham Sewage System (YDSS) Forcemain Twinning Project in Newmarket, Ontario. Completed on 8 June 2020, the drive breaks the Canadian distance record and the project’s own record of 950m set four days earlier into the same reception shaft.

VMT updates microtunnelling offering
18 March, 2020
Germany – VMT released it TUnIS Navigation MT system in January 2020, replacing the previous UNS gyro navigation system. From mid-2020 onwards, the associated stand-alone version based on the new MT connect optimised hardware platform will also be available, replacing the SLS microtunnelling product series.

City & Southwest
20 January, 2020
Alex Conacher visits the Sydney Metro’s second phase to speak with Terry Sleiman, project director for the contractor John Holland CPB Ghella, Hugh Lawson, project director for the client, and Kate Cole, occupational health and hygiene manager for Transport for NSW

Better than ever
20 January, 2020
Planners are capitalising on modern improvements to tunnelling technology in a boost to the Australian industry. Alex Conacher reports

Manila Aqueduct
31 October, 2019
At the June 2019 meeting of the British Tunnelling Society, GHD’s practice leader for tunnels, Brendan Henry spoke about the NBAQ 4 project to deliver water to seven million residents in the Manila metropolitan area. Alex Conacher reports

Humber estuary tunnel breaks through
01 October, 2019
Great Britain – The Humber tunnel has broken through. The drive was completed by a joint venture of Skanska, Porr and A. Hak is utilising a VMT-guided, 4.4m-diameter Herrenknecht machine.

To the next century
08 March, 2019
Alex Conacher visits the Elan Valley Aqueduct project in Wales, where tunnellers are constructing three bypass sections adjacent to the existing Victorian asset

Segment documentation
22 June, 2018
Alex Conacher and Florian Werres discuss current practices and future developments for segment tagging in tunnelling

Known unknowns
19 June, 2018

Ismailia TBMs break through after Suez drives
12 January, 2018
Egypt - Two breakthroughs for the new Ismailia road tunnel project took place in December 2017. The first was on 4 December, while the second machine met daylight on 23 December.

Karlsruhe cuts
28 June, 2017
Creating the first underground metro line for Karlsruhe in Germany has required a trilogy oftunnelling methods and extensive monitoring to protect the busy city

Shaping up
29 March, 2017
Tunnel navigation specialist VMT has partnered with US geo-positioning expert Topcon to create what they claim is the best solution yet for deformation monitoring

Growth spurt
28 April, 2016
The Bowness offload sanitary Trunk project will be operable this summer, well ahead of schedule. choosing trenchless technology instead of open cut construction has made this award-winning project a major success, Nicole Robinson reports

VMT partners with Topcon
18 April, 2016
US - Topcon Positioning Group announced the launch of Topcon Delta, its new deformation monitoring solution for construction, tunnelling and mining, in partnership with tunnelling specialist VMT GmbH, on April 12.

WTC 2016
01 April, 2016
Registration is open for the worldwide tunnelling event of the year, with as many as 600 unique technical presentations, short courses and breakout sessions, and more than 200 exhibitors from around the world. Here’s a look at the highlights planned for this year’s conference and be sure to visit Tunnels & Tunnelling at Booth 1215 at this year’s WTC in San Francisco.