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, […]
According to the Articles of Association between French and Italy, the government have nominated the members of Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin -TELT Board of Directors. The President of TELT, Mr. Hubert du MESNIL and the Director General, Mr. Mario VIRANO were both reappointed for France and Italy. On the 24 February, indicated Board of Directors […]
As Epiroc and Orica claim, they have co-developed the world’s first semi-automated, wireless explosives delivery system for using in blast operations and hard rock drill. The technology intends to guarantee that the right explosives are safely delivered into the right holes within the right timeframe for improved efficiency and safety. ‘Avatel’ enables charge crews to […]
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) bored an 8.4 m diameter * 12.5 km length Water Conversion Tunnel, dubbed as the world’s longest water transmission project, through the Sarwat Mountains. SWCC deployed a 160m long TBM to travel the distance from Jabal Al-Kar to the Ring Road in Taif to ensure sufficient water supply […]
Terratec has announced that the 4.66m diameter EPBM ‘Eva’ has passed its site acceptance test and is currently being driven on the 13.5km long Ro Subterráneo a Lomas tunnel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Italian tunnel contractor CMC di Ravenna. The tunnel that will transport drinking water from the newly expanded General Belgrano Water Treatment […]
Taiwan, Taipei-I lan expressway, Hsuehshan Tunnel, in length of 12.9 Km, the full face TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) with an 11.74m boring diameter will be applied for tunnel excavation for both the East Bound and West Bound main tunnels. Since, it is the first time contract specification called for the largest diameter of Telescope / […]