Tunneling towards success – Boreas Holding launched a new business division dedicated to providing solutions to the tunneling industry. Boreas Tunneling, operating as a division under Dutch-entity Boreas Holding, specializes in providing staff and project management for tunnel projects around the world. Boreas Tunneling, launched in August 2018, is a full-service staffing agency dedicated to […]
Among four TBMs, which are used for excavating Melbourne Metro Tunnel, two of them have reached their final destination in Melbourne’s CBD. The commencing location of TBM Millie was Anzac Station and it traveled beneath the Yarra River to reach the CBD. The Millie TBM, which was the first TBM of this project, has completed […]
The future Oullins Centre station on the metro Line B extension in Saint-Genis-Laval in Lyon, is where the TBM Coline drives currently. While there is only 400 m to its ultimate destination (Orsel pit), this TBM, that has been launched in November 2019, has driven 1,955 m and installed 1,104 rings. In the meantime, structural […]
The JV (Joint Venture) Sam (India) Builtwell Pvt. Ltd from Delhi and Gulermak Agir Sanayi Insaat ve Taahhut AS from Ankara secured the INR10.42 bn (EUR116.01 million) contract for the construction and design of a tunnel, containing four underground metro stations Bada Chauraha, Chunniganj, Nayagan, and Naveen Market and ramp for the Line 1 of […]
The first mega tunnel boring machine (TBM) has been provided in a critical milestone for the Snowy 2.0 project. The milestone was celebrated with the official naming by Snowy Hydro Ltd: The ‘Lady Eileen Hudson’ TBM. The Lady Eileen Hudson TBM, which owes its name from the wife of inaugural Scheme Commissioner Sir William Hudson […]
The main purpose of TBM Alice is to move beneath St. Kilda Road and the Yarra River, to link the Metro Tunnel’s new Anzac and Town Hall stations in Melbourne, Australia. This project will be started in December by relaunching the TBM Millie, which is excavating a parallel 1.8 km tunnel along the same route, […]