Search Results: 'Long Island Rail Road'

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.

Go West
07 June, 2013
The market for megaprojects moves to the West Coast as tunnelling wraps up on most New York Subway drives, Nicole Robinson reports.

Blasting concludes under NY's Grand Central Terminal
26 April, 2013
Sandhogs working on the East Side Access project have concluded blasting under Grand Central Terminal, where they are building two caverns 160ft (49m) below street level that will house eight tracks for Long Island Rail Road trains, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced last week.