Search Results: 'Robbins'

Squaring the circle
29 December, 2021
Lok Home, owner of Robbins, once sold his company to the Chinese then bought it back because he disliked what they were doing to it. He makes TBMs that cut the hardest of hard rock. Now he has made a TBM that breaks all the rules. Report by Julian Champkin

Tunnels facilitate water flow
29 November, 2021
Water system upgrades are keeping the North American tunnelling industry busy. Keren Fallwell reports

Robbins TBM hailed as world’s ‘fastest’ over 13m diameter
17 November, 2021
Crews and personnel from Robbins, Kolin Construction and Turkish State Railways (TCDD) have witnessed the breakthrough of what is claimed to be the world’s fastest TBM over a 13m diameter.

Pioneering blast-free technology could have big impact on tunnelling
01 November, 2021
Hillgrove Resources has announced what is claimed to be the world’s first portal to be excavated using blast-free continuous mining technology developed by Komatsu for the Kanmantoo copper mine in Australia.

Digging the deal on infrastructure
11 October, 2021
George Demetri takes a look at the state of US infrastructure, the possible causes of its lacklustre performance and how it may be improved, taking in along the way the views of some high-profile engineers and consultants

Robbins unveils rectangular rock-mining innovation
02 September, 2021
Robbins has designed and supplied an innovative machine which bores rectangular tunnels in hard rock, resulting in flat inverts that can be used immediately by rubber-tyred vehicles.

Robbins TBM sets new world records
03 August, 2021
TBM-maker Robbins has announced that one of its machines – a 13.77m-diameter Crossover XRE TBM – has set new world records for best day, week and month performances in the 13-14m-diameter range.

Robbins TBMs in final Mumbai Line 3 breakthrough
20 July, 2021
Robbins has announced that its 6.65m-diameter Crossover XRE TBM (the second of two) recently made its third and final breakthrough on India’s Mumbai Metro Line 3, following its sister machine’s final breakthrough made in late April.

TBM undergoes in-tunnel diameter conversion
14 July, 2021
US-based TBM maker Robbins announced recently that its 11.6m-diameter Main Beam TBM (‘Big Tex’) – the largest rock machine ever to bore in the US – has recently undergone a diameter change during tunnel excavation.

Robbins TBM launched to bore Turkey high-speed tunnel
26 May, 2021
Robbins has announced that one of its TBMs – a 13.77m-diameter Crossover XRE machine – was launched in the spring to bore the Eşme-Salihli rail tunnel in western Turkey.

Learning from three great challenges
07 May, 2021
Mehdi Hosseini of London Bridge Associates reports on the recent BTS talk – ‘Three Great Challenges: Experience from TBM Tunnelling in Difficult Ground’ – given in January by Robbins president Lok Home

AI and Machine Learning
30 April, 2021
Best use of artificial intelligence in tunnels will need data strategies plus experienced oversight, writes Patrick Reynolds

RETC RAISES THE CONFERENCE BANNER
30 April, 2021
Following the interruption to the tunnel conference scene caused by the pandemic, the RETC Conference is back and – Covid allowing – looks set to take place in Las Vegas on 13-16 June 2021

Robbins reborn
30 April, 2021
After a brief period involving Chinese part-ownership, veteran TBM pioneer Lok Home has bought back his company to set the revived Robbins on a new course of growth. Julian Champkin spoke to him

Robbins hybrid TBM launched on Pearl River project
01 April, 2021
A 9.16m-diameter Robbins Crossover TBM – the largest such machine in China – has begun boring Lot PZH-1 of the 2.5km (1.6mi) Pazhou Line of the Pearl River Delta Intercity Railway Project in Guangzhou.

It’s business as usual for Robbins
09 February, 2021
Having only recently been formed by industry veteran Lok Home, Global TBM has now purchased all the assets of former TBM-maker The Robbins Company.

Next BTS Lecture not to be missed
19 January, 2021
Lok Home, president of US-based TBM maker The Robbins Company will give the next British Tunnelling Society (BTS) lecture to take place online (via YouTube) on 21 January 2021 at 18.00 (UK time).