After Rithwik Projects Pvt Ltd did not meet the progress criteria of tunnel project (they finished only 25% of the work in all that time), Indian government cancelled their contract. Now government opens a new tender.
Bids accepted until 9...
Himalayan Times news says Japanese company Hazama Ando Corporation beats 5 Chínese companies to to construct the 2.69-kilometre-long Nagdhunga-Naubise Katmandu tunnel. 6 Companies bidded for the project.
Japan International Cooperation...
The shortlists for Metro Vancouver’s Broadway Subway project and the Pattullo Bridge Replacement project are both now missing a prominent name.
The British Columbia government had advanced each infrastructure job to the request...
The pipeline stretches all the way from Alberta, to Washington (USA), crossing over British Columbia. It has tunnels at several places and the report emphasizes that geologists remain concerned of the potential for active fault lines at the...
Hi, Would lt be a good idea to maintain a database of tunnel construction projects? By database, I mean a `Page` with the name, a short description of the project, who are the contractors etc. What do you think? Regards,
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This is an important step of the Lyon-Turin shipyard and it is celebrated: Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Secretary of State for Transport, in office since September 3, is expected to witness the drilling of...
As a part of the Australia’s biggest public transport project, NSW Government awards the Oxford Properties, CPB Contractors and Grocon consortium to build the new Sydney Metro City and Southwest’s Pitt Street Station.
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New İstanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu inagurate the start of boring. İmamoğlu named the Tunnel Boring Machine after Ms Gülseren Yurttaş. She died in a work accident in a previous tunnel project of Melen Çayı in 2007.
Tunnel is 4...
The DARS (Slovenian Road Company) management has today made a decision on which of the five bidders will negotiate the procurement process for the construction of the second tube of the Karavanke tunnel, the company was told. Decisions that may be...
JINAN, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- China on Friday started the shield excavation of its first tunnel across the Yellow River, according to the China Railway Construction Corporation Limited (CRCC).
Located in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong...
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Work has begun at Hinkley Point C this week to install 38,000 concrete segments required to support the three underground marine tunnels at up to 33 metres below the seabed of the Bristol Channel. These...
"One of the main functions of the TBM is to resist underground water pressure while it passes through aquifers. TBM "Chundee" may have had malfunctioned and allowed water to seep in, triggering the catastrophe that has...
Three consortiums have been shortlisted by the provincial government to participate in the request for proposals bidding process: Acciona-Ghella Joint Venture (Acciona Infrastructure, Ghella Canada), IBI Groupo, DIALOG), Broadway Connect...
Vereniging Alternatief Goederenspoor (VAG) literaly 'Association for Alternative Freight Track', a lobbying group, proposes a tunnel between the cities of Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Antwerp (Belgium).
According to the Dutch publication...
A probe has been initiated into the East-West tunnelling disaster
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/british-expert-begins-probe-into-bowbazar-subsidence-disaster/articleshow/71175454.cms
A probe has been initiated into the...
The 33.5 km-long underground Metro 3 route stretches from the super-rich Cuffe Parade area to the business hub of SEEPZ at Andheri. En route, it also provides connectivity between the densely populated residential and commercial areas of the city...
Over 500 residents were evacuated from Kolkata’s Bowbazar as the underground Metro tunneling hit an aquifer causing severe damage to century-old buildings rendering them...
UK PM Boris Johnson recently proposed a "link" between Britain and Northern Ireland. Most talk about a bridge and some about a tunnel. Either way, it is a project with a lot of challenges.
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