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  Labourers working on #Melbourne’s West Gate #Tunnel are earning up to $200,000 a year, the Master Builders Association of Victoria has claimed. According to the industry group, young, “entry-level” tradies working on the project are raking in $110,000 per year — in exchange for a 36-hour week. ...

  Tags: Melbourne, Tunnel, Australia

  1643 days ago

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  #Victoria's construction industry receives half a million to help #women enter the industry. #Melbourne #MetroTunnelProject #Tunnels https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-22/victoria-working-to-get-more-women-into-construction/11623824

  Tags: Victoria, women, Melbourne, MetroTunnelProject, Tunnels

  1639 days ago

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  No pocket change: #Melbourne's Metro Tunnel project is feared to cost $300m over budget. The rail project is planned to be finished in 2025, with the new North Melbourne, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac stations to take three busy train lines out of the congested City Loop. https:/...

  Tags: Melbourne, projectManagement, BadProjectManagement

  1612 days ago

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  #MetroTunnel amps up work. #Melbourne Metro Tunnel’s second tunnel boring machine (TBM) Meg has progressed 50 meters while the project’s first TBM, Joan, already travelled more than 250 meters. Both TBMs to reach Kensington – the western entrance to the Metro Tunnel – in early 2020. https://www...

  Tags: MetroTunnel, Melbourne, Victoria, MelbourneTunnel

  1606 days ago

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  Melbourne's West Gate Workers are Victim of Others' Greed and Incompetence https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/10915/melbournes-west-gate-workers-are-victim-of-others-greed-and-incompetence #WestGate #JohnHolland #CPBcontractors #Melbourne #Australia

  Tags: WestGate, JohnHolland, CPBcontractors, Melbourne, Australia

  1542 days ago

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  TBM ‘Joan’ breaking through to the western tunnel entrance at South Kensington. https://www.metrotrains.com.au/a-breakthrough-moment-for-tunnel-boring-machine-joan/ #Melbourne

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  1508 days ago

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  Melbourne's Metro Tunnel to face coronavirus delays and cost rises independent advisers say

  The Andrews government's flagship rail project $11 billion Metro Tunnel has already blown out by up to $3 billion. But independent cost advisers have warned its financial backers the project could face many millions of dollars in extra costs and months of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

  Tags: Melbourne, MetroTunnel

  1467 days ago