After years of debate, work on a $400 million “T” extension to the North Shore is now underway and for the first time, Port Authority is allowing cameras down below for an up close look at the progress.
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VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader of a consortium with two American companies – Parsons RCI Inc., a subsidiary of Parsons Corp. (20%), and Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Inc. (20%) – has signed a contract with King County in Washington state for the construction of two tunnels. Built within the framework of an overall wastewater treatment system, the tunnels will carry wastewater to the new treatment plant at Brightwater in King County, north of Seattle, before discharging treated wastewater into the sea.
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On 30 June 2006, the last day of the Austrian presidency in the EU Council, leading politicians and public figures from north and south of the border came together at the Brenner Pass to celebrate the official launch and once again formulated a clear commitment to Europe’s biggest infrastructure project.
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On the occasion of the opening of the EPC (European Pipeline Center) in Veit/Glan, Austria, an open house will take place on Thursday, 6th and Friday 7th, 2006. The EPC understands itself as pipeline center for research, development and training for water supply and sewage disposal.
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CargoCap, the underground transport system for goods, is gathering way. For a period of 5 years, RWE Power AG makes parts of the disused machine house of the Bochum cogeneration plant gratuitously available to the chair of machine elements and conveyor technique.
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This year, the product range of Erkan will be extended by a total of four new machines.
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Yesterday, the canton Bern published a surprising about-turn in the project "High water release tunnel" in Thun: One month before the planned ground-breaking ceremony (on June, 2nd), the Civil Engineering Office disclosed that the start of construction will be postponed by half a year. Reason: The offers submitted by the four builing syndicates are exceeding the cost estimate significantly.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006, An average day for Pat Gould is pushing his giant machine two to three inches each minute, through tons of underground clay, mud and rocks on the way through a big hill where Sound Transit's light rail trains are expected to run someday.
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The traders in the city of Elmshorn and their customers are sorely afflicted: for months, they had to suffer obstructions by construction works in the "Königstraße"; now the digging in the pedestrian zone starts anew. But this time, the adverse effects shall be restricted; according to the motto "the best is simply going underground", tunnelling works around the "Nikolai"-church are carried out to a large extend subterraneously.
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First of all, the route of the 267 m long "Motion Storwater Drainage" in the city of Auckland was optimized (radius 400 m) by engineers of the tunnel construction company Beton- und Monierbau GmbH and defined in a navigation equipment of the type SAS22. The system components - based on a gyro´compass MK20 and electronic hose levelling instrument - could be installed without any problems in the full cut heading machine with an outer diameter of 2.26 .
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The Internet portals RUSTUNNEL.RU and TUNNELTRADE.COM will cooperate in future to take optimal advantage of the arising synergies. Particularly the East-European market has developped up-and-coming in recent years so that an exchange of information between Western and Eastern Europe comes more and more in the focus.
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Herrenknecht is tackling the biggest, the toughest, and the longest tunnels in the world. The casual visitor to the city of Schwanau, in Germany, wouldn’t suspect that this town of half-timbered houses is home to a world-leading producer of the full range of mechanical tunnelling machines. But those who get off the nearby Autobahn to stay at the Schwanau Hotel can’t miss the hulking pair of white-painted portal cranes looming over the adjacent industrial complex.
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As a manufacturer of innovative construction products for the static-construction sector, Schöck has built an enviable reputation, mainly through its core competencies in the noise insulation and thermal insulation fields. In the last few years however, reinforcement technology has become another mainstay of this specialist construction industry supplier from Baden-Baden in southern Germany.
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"Till December of this year, the local sewerage of Dresden is constructing a new intercepting sewer for 15 million Euros in parallel to the old one on a distance of 3250 m along the Elbe river on the "Johannstädter" side." That was stated by construction supervisor Heiko Nytsch. The existing, more than 80 years old sewer is in part porous, holely and rinsed.
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Pipeline Technology 2006, International Trade Fair for Pipeline Technology and Network Management. Pipeline technology – with all its different applications – is an international growth sector. For example, engineering and construction in this segment of industry accounts for a worldwide annual market volume of approx. 64 billion
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The Book Shop  is focussing on  civil engineering companies,  network operators,  private or public utility, cable installation contractors, planning or engineering offices or guild or association who are looking for up-todate literature.

The 3rd INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION "UNDERGROUND CITY 2006" was held from 25th – 27th of January 2006, at "Gostiny Dvor" Exhibition Center , Moscow
Organized by: "Global Expo" Exhibition Company and Russian Tunneling Association, "Machinostroenie" Exhibition Center . Tunneltrade has been there and reports as follows: "The atmosphere of the exhibition was very comfortable and especially the nice architecture of the exibition center was impressing. A strong impression of a forward looking market was everywhere around.

Tunnel China is the leading trade show in Asia-Pacific focused on equipments, products and services applied in underground engineering and bridge construction. Exhibitors at Tunnel China benefit from a unique opportunity to grow their business by presenting new products, technologies and services to buyers and specifiers from China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.  

The station does not have a name, but somebody has sprayed a number on the concrete wall: 9703. This is the distance in metres from this very place back into daylight, to the southern tunnel entrance in the municipality of Bodio. It takes the narrow gauge railway as long as half an hour to transport both workers and material inside the mountain. During their journey, the men have been dozing a bit. Now, they start walking, plodding their last few metres into the belly of a machine by crossing iron footpaths and climbing stairs up and down. They enter a steel monster, a stone-flinging giant: the TBM, short for ‘tunnel boring machine’ that was christened “Heidi” by the workers.  

"The success story of Herrenknecht is unparalleled" , explained STUVA president Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ziegler in his honorific speech about the STUVA prize awarded to Dr. Martin Herrenknecht. Within 30 years, Dr. Martin Herrenknecht had established from a one-man operation to a leader in the world market for tunnelling technology with 1,700 employees.

On the occasion of the IUT in Sargans, Switzerland, the WIRTH company received the innovation award for their break-through technology in tunnelling construction. Every three years, the experimental tunnel Hagerbach, researching, testing and developing on behalf of underground mining, affords a special ambience to professional visitors and exhibitors.