Search Results: 'Vinci'

Divik Bandopadhyaya Interview
30 December, 2021
Aged 27, Divik Bandopadhyaya has just completed a one-year stint as chair of BTSYM. He discusses his education, interests and career to date, offering along the way some advice to newly-qualified tunnel engineers. George Demetri reports

Works progress on multiple fronts at Hampton Roads
08 December, 2021
VDOT (Virginia Department of Transportation) has provided an update on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project (HRBT) in Virginia, US, with all indicators pointing to a relatively untroubled construction process.

HS2 launches first TBM on Midlands stretch of high-speed line
03 December, 2021
Having pushed the big red start button, HS2 CEO Mark Thurston initiated the launch of the first tunnel boring machine to dig the Midlands stretch of the UK’s high-speed railway.

Vinci piloting ‘world first’ ULC concrete segments at Grand Paris Express
06 October, 2021
In what has been claimed a world first, tunnel segments made of ultra-low-carbon concrete are being used by Vinci Construction and Société du Grand Paris as part of a pilot project at a Line 18 worksite of the Grand Paris Express metro.

Vinci wins Toronto storm sewer contract
30 September, 2021
French company Vinci Construction has announced that, via its microtunnelling subsidiary Bessac (Soletanche Bachy), and in consortium with Canada-based EBC, it has won a contract to build the Fairbank-Silverthorn Storm Trunk Sewer System for the city of Toronto, Canada.

Five firms invited to tender for LTC road contracts
27 September, 2021
National Highways – formerly Highways England – has announced a shortlist of five construction and engineering companies to design and build the roads leading to the proposed Lower Thames Crossing (LTC).

Delivering Selina
27 July, 2021
Shannon O’Keeffe, Senior Tunnel Agent for Costain Engineering looks at the complex logistics that were initiated to ensure the successful delivery of a TBM to a Thameside site for the boring of Tideway (Eastern Section)

Factory for Fehmarn
27 July, 2021
Main construction has started at Fehmarn for the world’s longest immersed tube tunnel. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Tunnel work worth US$3.55bn awarded for Lyon-Turin line
08 July, 2021
Tunnel Euralpin Lyon-Turin (TELT) has awarded contracts worth €3bn (US$3.55bn) to three consortia for work on the base tunnel of the Lyon-Turin rail line between France and Italy.

Crossing the roads
18 June, 2021
The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion scheme will bring new life to the most congested route in Virginia. Julian Champkin reports

Herrenknecht TBM passes factory testing
07 June, 2021
Herrenknecht has announced that ‘Mary’, the TBM that will excavate the HRBT twin tunnels in Virginia, US, has passed its factory acceptance tests at the firm’s Schwanau facility in southwest Germany.

Three JVs picked for BART extension
20 May, 2021
Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has chosen three joint ventures (JV) to submit proposals for the estimated US$2bn track and tunnel work contract for the BART Silicon Valley Extension into Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara, California, US. The teams are:

Three bidders shortlisted for Lower Thames Crossing
07 April, 2021
Highways England has named three construction/engineering companies which it has shortlisted to build the proposed Lower Thames Crossing – destined to be the longest road tunnel in Britain and hailed as the most ambitious UK roads project for a generation.

HS2 Warwickshire site now ready for TBM launch
26 February, 2021
Completion of site excavation at HS2’s north portal at Long Itchington Wood Tunnel, Warwickshire means the site is ready for the launch of the tunnel boring machine (TBM).

Vinci wins Grand Paris shaft contract
02 February, 2021
Two Vinci Group subsidiaries (Construction and Energies) have won a US$78.5m contract to build a series of shafts on Line 15 of the Grand Paris Express metro expansion.