Emerging Tech
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Liebherr R 930 Tunnel crawler excavator launched on the world market
Liebherr has announced the R 930 Tunnel crawler: an excavator specially designed for underground construction sites. The Liebherr tunnel excavator…
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Finalists named for the 9th Edition of ITA Tunnelling Awards
The International and Underground Space Association (ITA) has announced the finalists for its 9th Edition of the ITA Tunnelling Awards.…
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Carbon footprint reduction in transit tunnels
Cement and steel account for an estimated 80 percent of CO2 emissions on tunneling projects. Credit: Shutterstock.
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Henry Russell joins HNTB as director, tunnel resilience and rehabilitation
HNTB announced that Henry Russell, PE, PG, has joined its national tunnel practice as director, tunnel resilience and rehabilitation. In…
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Strata partners with binni
Strata has announced a new global partnership agreement with tunneling software developer Binni. Under the terms of this partnership, Strata…
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Environmentally friendly soil conditioning for EPB TBMs — The state of environmental considerations around the world
Environmental considerations are widely present in the modern world, and there is a global push in most industries for sustainability…
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Material-handling innovations and challenges
By William Gleason, Editor When a major tunneling project commences in an urban area there is often a great deal…
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Wireless optical displacement sensor for convergence and divergence monitoring
FIG. 1 Scenarios of convergence (Erlandsson, 2020). The automation of monitoring in general appears undeniably tempting right up to the…
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Tunnel boring machine completes majority of main Brenner tunnel
A significant part of the first main tunnel of the Brenner Base Pass tunnel was completed with the breakthrough of…
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TUM Boring team wins Not-a-Boring competition for second time
Germany-based tunnel innovation firm TUM Boring, formed by the Technical University of Munich won The Boring Company’s Not-a-Boring-Competition for the…
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