In Chinese city of Nanning, a contractor drills down with a drill of 9 centimeters in diameter. And the drill penetrates through the subway tunnel. And then a train comes along, hitting the drill...
Is it funny or...
Negotiators from the Reform Party and the Center Party continue with meeting on various policy positions.
If they agree to form a cooperation, they intend to accelerate the Rail Baltic process and move forward with the Tallinn-Helsinki...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWA0aHPUEtc
Prolongacíon tunnel in Mérida has been flooded with water every year. The 300 meters long underpass in Yucatán capital city has now structural damage because of water damage....
Irish government will set up a tunnel training facility at the O’Brien Institute in Marino/Dublin.
Ireland's Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, has yesterday (29 December 2020) announced a new...
China's economy stable acceleration in high-quality development.
On October 15, "Qiyue" tunnel boring machine (TBM) in Machinery Manufacturing Branch of Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd...
Good article which summarize when to go for a tunnel or a bridge. It is a short article. Although it give good summary.
https://www.constructionweekonline.com/business/269561-column-keeping-on-the-right-track-for-rail-infrastructure
"Auckland auxiliary Bishop Michael Gielen has blessed a second statue of St Barbara at the City Rail Link project in Auckland"
I am so ashamed that the management of the City Rail Link facilitates this unsafe and discriminatory act. It...
Queensbury Tunnel Society plans to build a memorial to 10 people who died while building the Queensbury Tunnel. The construction of the 1.4 mile long Victorian tunnel started in 1874 and 600 people worked on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x4igzBxwLM
China company CREG deliver giant TBM for Georgia. Diameter 15.08 meters. Length 182 meter. Weight 3,900 tonnes.
CREG TBM is for expressway tunnel construction in Georgia.
The Windsor-Detroit Tunnel Corporation tried to charge for replying to a Freedom of Information request for documents addressing delays on the ceiling repair project that it either didn’t have or never intended to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlrZ3G0tAzY
Herrenknecht has always found it important support the local economies that it has operated in. It meant also insourcing local suppliers as well as creating local jobs. This is a very big contrast to...
Seoul City Infrastructure Headquarters ordered report 'Plan to secure economic feasibility for revitalizing shield TBM'. Korean Tunneling and Underground Space Association (KTA) prepared report. Aim is to revitalize TBM...
Hi there,
I have been away for several weeks, a month or so due to COVID-19 illness. I have been lucky enough to recover from this illness.
All I can tell you is, it has been a very unpleasant period of time full of pain and...
China’s Northern Heavy Industries (NHI), part of Fangda Group and based in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, says it is creating a new era for the development of coal mining equipment in China with the use of tunnel boring machines...
Following Chinese aggression in the form of propaganda over India's tunnels being easy military targets, Indian army took action. Army started deploying tunnel defences in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMaxpF6oxTQ
The famous video of Dutch Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) building a tunnel under a highway in just one weekend.
The tunnel is only 70 meters long but it...