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World’s largest TBM launches in China
The world’s largest-diameter earth pressure balance, double-shield convertible tunnel boring machine (TBM), independently developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry…
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Huge Robbins slurry TBM breaks through in Hiroshima
A hard rock heavyweight crossed the finish line this spring with the successful breakthrough of a Robbins 13.67 m (44.8…
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Premiere episode of Tunneling Today With UCA now available
Beginning this week, all will have the opportunity to listen to interviews with leaders in the tunneling and underground construction…
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DC Water’s Potomac River Tunnel Project to begin controlled underground blasting
As part of the excavation work for DC Water’s Potomac River Tunnel Project, weekly controlled underground blasting operations at the…
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Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel team achieves major milestone with TBM breakthrough
The tunnel boring machine (TBM) on the Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel achieved its breakthrough…
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Workforce and future of the tunneling and underground construction industry were hot topics at NAT
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TBM breaks through at London’s Silvertown Tunnel
To counter chronic congestion in the Blackwall Tunnel, which dates back to Victorian times, London is building the Silvertown Tunnel…
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Silverton Tunnel bores completed
Tunnel boring for London’s Silvertown Tunnel has been completed, with the tunnel boring machine (TBM) breaking through on the north…
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First underwater breakthrough completed for London Power Tunnels
A 140-tonne Herrenknecht TBM (tunnel boring machine) working on National Grid’s London Power Tunnels (LPT) has completed its drive in…
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TBM finished boring Northeast Boundary Tunnel
DC Water’s Clean Rivers Project passed another milestone with the breakthrough on the Northeast Boundary Tunnel by the Herrenknecht tunnel…
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