Search Results: 'Lovat'

Cable guy
10 October, 2013
A new cable tunnel has gone seemingly without a hitch in the Willesden/harlesden neighbourhoods of North London. Alex Conacher tours the site with Murphy’s tunnelling project manager Keith Pollard.

Mansky excavation completed
17 July, 2013
Tunnelling has been completed on the 2.5km Mansky Railway Tunnel. Contractor SK Most undertook work in the Krasnoyarsk Region in central Russia over approximately 18 months.

Down and out: caterpillar tunneling
04 June, 2013
There is no escaping the big story this month. The company that was going to change the way we buy TBMs and ultimately the way we design tunnels has abandoned the industry. Caterpillar last month announced the closure of it's Toronto-based TBM manufacturing business Caterpillar Tunnelling Coporation Canada (CTCC) and exited the TBM market.

Caterpillar to abandon tunnelling business
03 May, 2013
Caterpillar Tunneling Canada Corporation (CTCC) revealed last night that it will exit the tunnelling business and cease all production by mid 2014. The company was created following Caterpillar’s purchase of Lovat in 2008. Caterpillar said the enterprise no longer represented a “strategic growth opportunity”.

The sweet spot
26 April, 2013
Canada is a great place for work with projects in nearly every major province and an influx of foreign companies who have taken notice. Tunnels North America spoke with several to see what they are seeking.

TYSSE TBM makes final breakthrough
26 March, 2013
One of the four 6.12m diameter Cat EPBs mining the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSEE) completed its final drive last week.