Las Vegas wants more tunnels from Elon Musk. Two hotel casinos, Wynn and the Encore, submit land use applications for construction of tunnels from the casinos to the Las Vegas Convention...
Dear friends,
We have this jazz group among ourselves with my tunneling friends. Our group 'Breakthrough' will be giving a small concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 24th. We play mainly free jazz.
I would love to meet some fellow...
India's Central Institute of Mining & Fuel Research (CIMFR) scientists conduct tests simulating Tunnel Boring Machine vibrations. They do this to measure and limit the damage TBM operation may cause on Mudflat and migratory bird sanctuaries...
You know WTC2020 has been rescheduled to Sept 11-17. Do you think that it should be rescheduled to 2021 instead? I mean WTC2021 in Kuala Lumpur and WTC2022 in Copenhagen and WTC2023 in Cancun?
Today is June 9th. We have 3 more months to...
Hello everybody,
For a project, they need to design segments. Is there a software package for that? What do you recommend?
Thank you in advance for your fast response
Regards
Civil Engineer Tor Jørgensen proposes a new tunnel at Tistedalsbakken to remove the bottleneck for freight trains. Tistedalsbakken is south of Halden which in turn is to south east of Oslo. Jørgensen foresees that the current situation...
The president of the Galati County Council, Costel Fotea, thinks the tunnel under the Danube remains a good idea and that's about it for now.
In my thinking it is politician way of saying in Romania 'forget about...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYozgKClg9A
The Shantou Su'Ai undersea tunnel is being built to connect the northern and southern parts of the city of Shantou in China. These are two tunnels (or you can say two tubes) -which go under the...
Brenner Base Tunnel ('Galleria di base del Brennero' in Italian) goes under the Alps between Italy and Austria. Once completed, with a length of 55 kilometers, Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) will be the longest railway tunnel in the World.
BBT...
The 11.26 meter in diameter and with 76 disc cutters, Federica was brought from France and started boring at Saint-Martin-La-Porte over 3 years ago. It feels like yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEY3GMVChQ
After boring 9 kilometers...
The 20 mile long “super-tunnel,” to be bored through the granite of the Wasatch Mountains by TBMs from Draper to Park City would make the 6.5 million tons of ore accessible. I would facilitate the mining og silver valued at...
Residents using Rennfast tunnels complain over the frequent closures of the tunnels. Stavanger Aftenblad writes that the tunnels were closed 86 times last year. This causes great inconvenience for the residents nearby as they cannot rely...
Chicago has an extensive network of sewage and rainwater tunnels whose construction started in 1970s. Reportedly the deep tunnel system of sewers cost the taxpayers around $3 billion.
Yet, whenever there is a heavy rain, Chicago's...
British Columbia Court of Appeal overturns the 2018 decision of the BC Supreme Court telling Translink to compensate business owners for the disruption caused by the cut and cover tunnelling...
China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd CREG produced largest China TBM for Hard Rock.
Yunling diameter 9.83 meters. It will put into use water tunnel project in Yunnan Province, China.
English...
In Delhi all construction is allowed with one condition. You can not bring labour from other places. Labour must be available on-site. Everybody knows most workers went to their villages after coronovirus crisis. This is true for all...
Kevin Browning, the managing director of Global Tunnelling Experts (GTE) calls the UK government to exempt the Hinkley Point C tunnelling workers from the compulsory quarantine.
UK government, as a part of their plan to gradually ease the...