#Chinese e-commerce giant #JD.com robots will deliver packages in underground #tunnel network
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/19/polite-robots-and-underground-tunnels-jds-vision-for-smart-cities.html
#China #technology #research
#Herrenknecht’s Direct Pipe method – which combines the advantages of microtunnelling and HDD technology – was used to install a 1,409 m pipeline beneath the Danube River in Serbia.
https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/03/direct-pipe-for-successful-breakthrough/
#GermanTBMs #Tunnelling
#Victoria’s largest public transport project – the Metro Tunnel – continues to move forward, with the second tunnel boring machine (TBM) Meg having started its journey.
https://infrastructuremagazine.com.au/2019/11/12/operations-begin-on-metro-tunnels-second-tbm/
#australia #metroTunnel
2019 ITA Lifetime Achievement Award winner, former ITA president Dr. Harvey Parker passed away.
https://tunnellingjournal.com/industry-mourns-dr-harvey-w-parker-ita-president-2004-2007/
With a diameter of 15.03 meters, a super-sized Chinese-made tunnel boring machine begins excavating a tunnel through the Yangtze, China's longest river.
www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/26/c_138659471.htm
#tunnel #technology #China
I think this article demonstrates the split between de industry and the academia.
At l...g at the University of Mississippi) is candid about it.
https://msbusiness.com/2019/12/um-engineering-professor-l...
National Grid awards a six-year £400m contract to Hochtief-Murphy Joint Venture (HMJV) to deliver the tunnelling and shaft work of the second phase of its London Power...
The second underground tunnel for #Leipzig did not play the central role at the SPD city convention,
https://www.l-iz.de/wirtschaft/mobilitaet/2019/12/Der-zweite-City-Tunnel-spielte-beim-SPD-Stadtparteitag-gar-nicht-die-zentrale-Rolle-307700?sfw=pass1575844808
#Germany #sbahn #tunnel
Michigan - Enbridge moving forward with rock and soil sampling, which is part of the $40 million investment in pre-construction work on the Line 5 tunnel.
https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/11/3-states-file-briefs-backing-michigan-ags-lawsuit-to-shut-down-enbridges-line-5.html
An impeccable list of upcoming tunnelling projects in the USA, by Tunnel Business Magazine.
https://tunnelingonline.com/upcoming-projects-december-2019/
#tunnel #construction #projects