Search Results: 'Seli'

CREG explosion-proof EPBM ready for Sicily
10 April, 2024
An explosion-proof EPBM for Lot 4A of the Palermo-Catania railway has passed its Factory Acceptance Test.

SELI Overseas SpA
21 July, 2023
SELI Overseas is a highly specialized contractor in underground works and mechanized tunnel excavation with TBMs for the construction of subways, railways, sewer aqueducts and hydroelectric plants. Experience, productivity, sustainability and innovation are the key for SELI Overseas success in awarding and executing TBM projects worldwide.

Webuild/Ghella win €1.32bn Sicilian rail contract
07 June, 2023
Webuild, and its consortium partner Ghella, has won a €1.32bn (US$1.41bn) contract to work on another section of Sicily’s new high-capacity railway between Palermo and Catania.

Trento Tunnel contract awarded
10 February, 2023
A consortium of Webuild, Ghella and Collini has won the design and construction contract for a rail bypass project in Trento, Italy.

Shields at the ready
23 January, 2023
With multiple TBM tunnelling projects constantly in preparation or underway globally, T&T briefly spotlights a few from the last couple of years

Keeping hold of the natural balance
24 June, 2022
Careful groundwater management was vital to build Copenhagen’s metro and, elsewhere, dewatering is taking on more tunnelling challenges. Report by Patrick Reynolds

An improving technology
22 April, 2022
Once described as a ‘black art’, soil conditioning is today a proven engineering technique. But the question remains, says Alessandro Boscaro of Mapei, of how to attain good technical performance while achieving acceptable environmental sustainability?

A long line of success
14 April, 2022
Dean Brox of Dean Brox Consulting reviews the benefits and successes associated with precast concrete tunnel linings when used for hydropower tunnels

The third way
16 December, 2020
Genoa has a magnificent sea port but desperately poor communications inland. A third route is being developed under the mountains that surround the city. Julian Champkin reports

Webuild makes twin breakthrough on Italian high-speed line
25 September, 2020
Webuild Group is celebrating two breakthroughs on the 53km-long Terzo Valico del Giovi high-speed rail line between Milan and the port of Genoa in northern Italy. The double breakthroughs mean that nearly half of the 36km underground section has been completed.

Queen of Denmark opens the Cityringen metro line
03 October, 2019
Denmark - The 15.5km-long Copenhagen City Circle Line (M3) was inaugurated at the end of September.

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

Enrique Fernández González
16 August, 2019
Alejandro Sanz of gGravity Engineering remembers Enrique Fernández González (1960-2019)

Suffolk County TBM unveiled
13 August, 2019
New York – Suffolk County celebrated the TBM for its outfall replacement project on August 7.

Algiers Metro TBM factory acceptance
17 January, 2019
Algeria – A CREG TBM has undergone factory acceptance ahead of delivery to the Algiers Metro Extension project. The 10.5m-diameter EPBM will bore a the 9.5km from El Harrach Station to Houari Boumediene International Airport. The contractor is Seli Overseas.

Metropolitana Di Napoli
21 September, 2018
Paola De Pascali talked to Giuseppe Molisso, Ansaldo’s project director, about challenges met during construction of Naples Metro Line 6, situated in a dense historical and artistic environment

Tunnelling in the jungle
22 January, 2018
Snakes and hard sandstone were among the challenges facing Seli Overseas on a new 11.5km low pressure headrace tunnel for a hydroelectric project in Laos

Bergen Point tunnel contract moves forward
18 January, 2018
US – Suffolk County Department of Public Works (SCDPW) in New York awarded the Bergen Point WWTP outfall replacement contract to low bid contractor OHL/Posillico/SELI Overseas in January.

Why hold back those tiers
12 October, 2017
Martin Knights looks at the process of cooperation and innovation, and calls for a more collegial approach

Balancing the old with the new
21 August, 2017
Creating Thessaloniki’s first ever metro system means striking a balance between preserving historic artefacts and delivering a state of the art public transport system