India - Fresh tenders invited for Veligonda tunnel-2 works in Andhra Pradesh
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 December and on 11 October they will be publicized...Tags: India tunnels, india tunnel construction, india Rithwik Projects Pvt Ltd
India: Underground tunnel work for Pune metro to start in November
The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (Maha-Metro), will begin digging tunnels, for the Range Hill to Swargate metro corridor which has a 5km underground stretch, in November. According to Maha-Metro officials, a successful trial of the tunnel-boring machines has already been conducte...Tags: India tunnels
India awards Rs 2,379 cr Z-Morh Tunnel project in Jammu Kashmir to APCO Amarnathji Tunnelway
India's National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) awarded the Jammu and Kashmir's Z-Morh Tunnel project to APCO Amarnathji Tunnelway. The Z-Morh Tunnel along with the Zojila tunnel are designed to provide all-weather road connectivity to Jammu and ...Tags: India tunnels, india infrastructure, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir
Planned Vizhinjam line to be 2nd longest rail tunnel in India
Draft plan proposes a rail link between Vizhinjam International Seaport on Kerala's southern coast. The length of rail link is 10,7 kilometers and most of it is a tunnel: 9,02 kilometer long tunnel. The drat plan has been proposed to the Southern Railway Authorities in Chennai by...Tags: India tunnels
Breakthrough for TBM Tansa 1 at Mumbai Metro Line-3 at Worli
After boring 2072 meters and laying 1381 rings, the Ø6.65m refurbished Robbins NFM slurry tunnel boring machine 1238 ("Tansa 1") operated by Doğuş-Soma JV made a breakthrough at the southern-end of Worli Station of Mumbai Metro Line 2. It is the first TBM break...Tags: India tunnelling, India tunnels, Mumbai metro line 3, Mumbai metro line 3 Doğuş-Soma JV
Again cracks in Bowbazar houses as soon as Kolkata East-West metro excavation restarted
As soon as East-West metro excavation restarted with a new tunnel boring machine, new cracks in houses also appeared. They are defined as "hairline cracks" but nevertheless they are cracks. The excavation under Bowbazar had restarted in the past few days with a new tunnel b...Tags: India tunnels, India tunnelling, Bowbazar disaster
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Kolkata: A city’s dream takes shape 33 metres below the Hooghly river
Always negative news, Bowbazar or not, come out about Kolkata's East-West tunnel. Never the news about achievements of Afcons in the difficult geology and environment. I think everyone should read this https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/a-citys-dream-takes-shape-...Tags: KMRC, Afcons, Afcons construction, India tunnels
Turbhe-Kharghar tunnel project proposal is progressing
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) said to have approved Kharghar-Turbhe connectivity project with 3.5km elevated road and 2.5 km tunnel. Now proposal goes into approval on ministerial level and subsequently to the tender phase. https://www.freepressjournal.in/mum...Tags: India tunnels, Maharashtra
India Tunnel Paper: Expert system to select tunnel boring machine (TBM)
Indian scholars Brij Nandan Tripathi, Anil Kumar Agrawal, Dipankar Ray and Somnath Chattopadhyaya from Indian Institute of Technology publish a paper You can download paper freely. You don't pay money. It is Open Access Creative Commons license. Expert system to select tunnel bori...Tags: India tunnel technology, india tunnelling, india tunnels
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