Search Results: 'Lovat'

Tunnels facilitate first UK curved jacked-box structure
05 August, 2020
On 1 August 2020, UK-based Morgan Sindall broke through on the second of two tunnels on Network Rail's Werrington Grade Separation project. Advancing around 7m/day, a Lovat RM132 3.5m-diameter EPB machine has excavated two guide tunnels that form part of an ambitious civil engineering project that will see installation of the UK’s first-ever curved jacked-box structure.

Breakthrough on Thames Tideway West
31 October, 2019
Great Britain – The first breakthrough on the Thames Tideway project took place last week at King George’s Park in Wandsworth. A 3m diameter Lovat EPBM, Charlotte, is digging the 1.1km Frogmore Connection Tunnel from Wandsworth to Fulham. The breakthrough marked completion of the 500m southern section of the tunnel and the TBM will now be lifted from the shaft, taken back to Dormay Street and placed back into the ground to tunnel 600m north to Fulham.

Omaha CSO project celebrates TBM breakthrough
09 August, 2017
USA - The South Interceptor Force Main tunnel project in Omaha made its final breakthrough on August 5, following a year-long delay due to a stuck TBM in unexpected ground.

Breakthrough on UKPN tunnel
01 July, 2016
Great Britain – A 3km UK Power Networks (UKPN) tunnel has broken through in Tower Hamlets, east London. J. Murphy & Sons excavated the GBP 27M (USD 36M) 2.85m-diameter tunnel at a depth of 23-30m.

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.

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”.

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.

EPBs get ready for Moscow metro project
23 November, 2012
Three Robbins EPBs and one refurbished machine are ready to excavate two 1.8km long tunnels for Moscow's metro development scheme, it was announced last week.

Work resumes on SK Most Group's Adler - "Alpika Service" route
27 September, 2012
Operations of the track laying have resumed on the Adler - "Alpika Service" , the 48km road and rail link part of a new infrastructure connecting Adler, the Olympic Park and Krasnaya Polyana. The builders are working in tunnel No. 3 of the route, which is near the town of Kepsha.

Tunnel System Number Three drive complete for Sochi
08 March, 2012

Murphy bags London cable contract
27 October, 2011

Breathtaking end to Cleaner Seas for Sussex drives
04 July, 2011

Sinkhole spotted in Seattle
01 April, 2011

First Spadina Subway extension contract awarded to an Aecon JV
03 December, 2010

Breakthrough on Sochi
27 July, 2010

Toronto-York Spadina
25 November, 2009

Buenos Aires flood relief tunnel receives TBM
24 November, 2009

Lovat TBM for Fairfax
18 November, 2009

Activity mounts in Melbourne
10 September, 2009

W Ham sewer job for Lovat
20 April, 2009