Dear group members, Thank you for your postings to our group in 2019. I am hoping that you will keep doing so also in the new year. I have a request You may have noticed. When the Tunnelcontact site had introduced posting on the wall, the...

  Whenever I have time, I try to check French language publications also from non-France or non-Quebec sources. China's People's Daily is one of them.  Last night, I hit this news about the Scientific achievements of China in...

  Some great news to share from TunnelContact.com! TunnelContact has become the Media Partner for the World Tunnel Congress 2020 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! As you all know, WTC2020 is undoubtedly the most prestigious annual tunneling...

Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions (BMUS) specializes in steel fibers with brand names like Dramix®, Duomix® and Synmix®. It was a 50-50% share they set up 5 years ago. Now Belgium company buys all 50% of Italians, therefore it is...

  Colombian Institute for Subterranean Infrastructure Technologies and Techniques (ICTIS) recognizes the pipe lying machine by Zilante brothers as the 'first tunneling machine produced in Colombia'. But machine is more than only...

German local press reports that Mühlhäuser Obermann GmbH has found an investor. Bauer Maschinen GmbH from Immenstadt in the Allgäu region takes over Obermann. Bauer Maschinen GmbH is subsidiary of Bauer Group based in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0O1PTMBO0c A ''funeral' ceremony has been held by a group of people at the Piazza Madonna di Loreto, closeby from the Altare della Patria. Precisely at the point where the Venice metro station C was...

  I stumbled on a list of the largest 200 construction companies globally. It is published by KHL ICON magazine. It gives a list of top 200 construction contractors by business volume. There is also a country list.  You can access...

  A super large China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co Ltd (CREG) tunnel boring machine (TBM) 15.03 meters in diameter began an underwater tunneling project in Shantou city, in South China's Guangdong province. Machine will bore...

  One year before the thirteenth InnoTrans is due to open its doors on 22 Sept 2020, the floor space in every subject area is booked up. One reason for this consistently high demand is the changes currently taking place in the mobility...

  In the training room, Liu Guiping, the company's safety coordinator, undergoes safety training and experiences a simulated safety incident using virtual reality technology. Photo: Xu Keyue/GT The 17-meter jumbo has telescopic...

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel pays a visit to Herrenknecht factory in Schwanau, talks with the workers and Mr Martin Herrenknecht. The visit comes during challenging times for Herrenknecht with strong competition from...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUXEUkAElAg Indian official Rugved Thakur, had said according to the construction company it was a “routine happening” while construction activity is taking place. This is the terrifying moment a...

  Guys & Gals, I am in New York for a job interview. Meanwhich found this appropriately named microbrewery in Queens. Come here if you can. They have good kickass freshly brewed beer. My favorite is Berliner Weiss (I know, only the...

Hi, I came across this when I was reading another article. I think it is pretty sexy how they plan to build this tunnel. I hope you will enjoy watching it as much as I did! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f25IzsqA6I

The Robbins company has uploaded on Flickr some great photos of rock tunneling. Beautiful. It shows tunnels bored by Robbins TBM. But unfortunately they have disabled downloading. So I can not upload them here at tunnelcontact.com You must see...

  Last week, the China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC) started drilling the last tunnel as part of a project to build a 4.6-km section of the Moscow metro "Large Circle Line." The project, initiated in 2017,...

China become Tunnel boring machine superpower. The 18 manufacturers of TBMs have a combined annual output of about 1,000 units, said Song Zhenhua, of the China Construction Machinery Association (CCMA). TBMs are getting larger as tunnels become...

  http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2019-09/29/content_75257537.htm

  For the last decade, China has been expanding its influence by building tunnels and other infrastructure in many underdeveloped countries. China loans lots of money to these countries and then uses this debt as a tool to influence the...