Having bored through nearly 5 mi. of bedrock over three years and successfully bored through, MamaJo, the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) manufactured by Herrenknecht is now being...
The US Senate recently passed the historic $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act which still needs to be approved by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President...
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces up to $1.66 Billion TIFIA Loan to Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission for the New Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel Project
Thursday, September 23, 2021
WASHINGTON – The U.S....
Sound Transit will receive up to $3.84 billion in TIFIA loans to finance the Downtown Redmond Link Extension and others.
Dept of Transportation press release:
U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Its Largest Package of Loans Ever, Up to...
A new Washington Metro study released on September 9 and titled 'Blue/Orange/Silver Capacity & Reliability Study' for extending the rail service recommends extending the Blue Line to National Harbor with a new station in...
Robbins is back with innovation!
The rectangular TBM has dimensions of 5 m x 4.5 m and the tunnel it excavates is immediately available for use by the rubber tired vehicles.
At Fresnillo, a silver mine in Mexico, Robbins and the mine operator...
The Maryland Department of Transportation's (MDOT) 'Consolidated Transportation Program' draft report released on Wednesday gives the financial details and the construction status of the infrastructure projects for the 6-year...
A good compilation of projects from TBM.
Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project
California High-Speed Rail
Delta Conveyance
and more....
https://tunnelingonline.com/upcoming-projects-august-2021/
An ambiguous website operator about the tunnel under Washington, DC told the FBI about a huge surge in traffic from militia sites and apparently Trump supporters in the days before the January 6 parliamentary...
SVCW recently began a full replacement and rehabilitation program known as the Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade (RESCU).
https://tunnelingonline.com/silicon-valley-clean-water-turns-to-pdb-contracting-for-rescu-tunnel/#
The Washington Court of Appeals revived a lawsuit that seeks more than $85 million in damages to Big Bertha.
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/west/2021/08/05/305224.htm
Rail-transit projects across the U.S. take longer to build and cost nearly 50% more on average than in Europe and Canada, says a new study of 180 megaprojects, including some hits and misses by Sound...
Robbins crossover TBM rocks in Turkey.
A Robbins 13.77 m (45.18 ft) diameter Crossover XRE TBM launched recently in spring 2021 in Eşme, Turkey. The large machine is boring the 3.05 km (1.90 mi) Eşme-Salihli Railway Tunnel through mixed...
If the tunnel was causing trouble, wouldn’t fixing it now make more sense than waiting a decade?
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-amtrak-gateway-northeast-corridor-20210718-barfv4lvbnd2ld736tx7xpuu64-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NwdqjkBDk
More tunneling for Project Connect.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/project-connect-designs-detail-lady-bird-lake-underground-tunnels-scrapping-bridge-plans/