Search Results: 'Acciona'

Breakthroughs on Broadway
28 June, 2023
Tunneling is well underway with multiple early TBM breakthroughs on the Broadway Extension to the Millennium Line, in Vancouver

Latin drives
28 June, 2023
A variety of tunneling projects in Latin America are meeting key milestones in their progress, and TTNA takes a brief look at a few, in Peru and Brazil

River diversion by roadheader tunnelling
21 February, 2023
Roadheaders were used for the vital task of opening up river diversion tunnels to enable dam building at Site C hydropower project, in British Columbia, Canada

Approach to multiple drives
23 January, 2023
Acciona continues to manage multiple TBM tunnelling projects across the globe, employing a strategy that includes its own stock of shields as well as new machines, and significant data gathering and analysis

Varied tunneling challenges in BC
16 January, 2023
Two tunneling projects in British Columbia present Acciona with quite different excavationchallenges – Broadway metro extension, in Vancouver, and BC Hydro’s Site C

Northern exposure
27 September, 2019
A round-up of tunnel work in the Nordic Forum

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.

In sync
24 January, 2019
The successful logistics of staging four TBMs from one location has enabled the first pair of machines to make a breakthrough near Oslo, ahead of schedule. Nicole Robinson reports on the Follo Line’s first major milestone

TAC Directors’ Annual Reports
26 October, 2018
Each regional director for the TAC writes a report in October sharing the status of work and forthcoming projects in the five chapters across Canada

Quito Metro
25 July, 2018
Acciona, currently engaged in the construction of the Quito Metro, spoke with Alex Conacher regarding the project

Bolaños Tunnel
18 April, 2017
An innovative stabilisation system has allowed contractor FCC-Acciona to stay on track boring the Bolaños Rail Tunnel, which is a critical part of Spain’s high speed rail expansion

Nordic Neighbors
03 November, 2016
The ITA’s Nordic Forum provides an opportunity for canada and other nations to exchange information. Tunnels & Tunnelling looks at projects underway in the region

Oslo four
31 October, 2016
Two 20km tunnels are underway for the high-speed Follo line project, Norway's biggest scheme and one of the largest in Europe. Report and pictures by Adrian Greeman

Norwegian nous
19 September, 2016
The Norwegian tunnelling sector is seeing many positive trends. According to annual tunnelling statistics there is a steady increase in excavated volume over the last decade. Paola De Pascali reports

Euro Vision
31 December, 2015
The scale and ambition of tunnelling projects in Europe continue to push boundaries. Keren Fallwell Reports.

Sydney gets connected
28 July, 2015
Sydney’s ambitious WestConnex project aims to get the traffic owing freely – and two-thirds of it will be underground. Sally Spencer reports on the project, one of the NSW Government’s key infrastructure projects which aims to ease congestion, create jobs and connect communities, said to be the largest integrated transport and urban revitalisation project in Australia.

Leaving a legacy
25 September, 2013
April saw the first breakthrough on the two drives for Brisbane's Legacy tunnel, a new western city motorway link for its Transapex network. Adrian Greeman visited the project

Spain’s synthetic reinforcement
22 April, 2009
Rolando Justa Camara and Néstor Moyà i Rubiralta of Acciona describe work on Spain’s much needed Oliola water tunnel

Slide solution for Barcelona's Line 9
27 October, 2008
Rolando Justa, tunnel department director for Acciona Infraestructuras, describes the curved slide of a 12m diameter Herrenknecht EPBM and its back-up equipment through the open cut Sagrera Station box on Barcelona’s new metro Line 9, in Spain