Commencing its journey in December 2020 from the Flandres shaft in Bonneuil-en-France, the first epic of the Florence tunnel boring machine ends at the Rolland work at Le Bourget by completing its 3.4 km tunnel excavation. It took more than a year and a half for the Florence tunnel boring machine to see the light […]
According to the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) announcement, the planned inauguration of the Semmering Base Tunnel deferred to 2030 due to complex geology. Considering that the work on the railway tunnel with 27.3km length has been delayed by several months because of a geological fault zone in the Grasberg area, the estimated total cost of […]
In order to excavate a 300m long drainage tunnel near the north portal of the High Speed 2 (HS2) Chiltern tunnel in Buckinghamshire, two mini tunnel boring machine (TBM) is considered and this is the first one. With 8.9m length and 19t weight, this machine has been named Lizzie after the Queen and will be […]
In order to use in a new underground gold mine currently under construction, Epiroc, which is a leading productivity and sustainability partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has won a large order for equipment, containing battery-electric machines and automation solutions, from the Canadian Malartic Partnership. As one of Canada’s largest gold mines, the Odyssey […]
The digging process of the deepest open excavation shaft on Watercare Central Interceptor, New Zealand’s largest wastewater project, has been completed by of Ghella Abergeldie Joint Venture. Cooperating its contractor Ghella Abergeldie Joint Venture (GAJV), the Central Interceptor team has made advancement on the $1.2bn (£630M) wastewater tunnel scheme in central Auckland. While the excavation […]
In order to help with tunnel design for Singapore’s Cross Island Line, Japanese construction firm Nishimatsu Construction has signed an agreement with consulting group Cowi. Excavation process of 2.9km tunnel and 300m long cut and cover tunnels on phase one of the Cross Island Line underground mass transit system, as well as a two-story facilities […]