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| INTERTUNNEL 2011 Moscow |
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Moscow’s showcase for tunnelling technology
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| Big, Bigger, Biggest! SCHEUERLE builds the largest side girder deck in the world for road transport |
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| Aker Wirth to deliver tunnel drilling machine for hydroelectric power plant in Switzerland |
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11 February 2010 - Aker Wirth has been commissioned to construct and deliver a gripper tunnel boring machine (TBM) by “ARGE Zugangsstollen Limmern". The order has a total value of over 20 MEUR.
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| Aker Wirth awarded as top employer |
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28 January 2010 - Aker Wirth is one the best small to medium sized enterprise (SME) employers in Germany. In comparison to the numerous companies competing for the title, “Top Job” was convinced by the exceptionally good personnel management at the Erkelenz enterprise. Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Clement, the former German Minister for Economy and mentor of the project, presented the Bohr (“Drill”) to Aker Wirth with the prestigious Top-Job seal of approval at a ceremony in the Landschaftspark in Duisburg, Germany.
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| New EuroCombi BR from SCHEUERLE |
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SCHEUERLE is presenting a world first at the BAUMA 2010 in Munich with the InterCombi PB. The New SCHEUERLE InterCombi PB is equipped with shiftable drive axles and is powered by an equally shiftable PowerPack Unit (PPU). Thus, the development from the resourceful SCHEUERLE engineers replaces an additional tractor or banking machine on hilly transport routes. The InterCombi PB can also be operated as a self-propelled unit or coupled with other InterCombi platform trailers.
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| Pittsburgh North Shore Connector Project: Tunnel Boring Machine in Action |
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PITTSBURGH It’s one of the most controversial and expensive construction projects in our region’s history.
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| Bering Strait Crossing discussed |
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110 km - World`s longest Tunnel
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| 150 million euros building costs |
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The construction of the second Pfänder tunnel tube has been announced by the ASFINAG. The detailed tender documents are not published yet, though.
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| VINCI wins contract to build two tunnels in the United States |
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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
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| On 30 June 2006 Brenner Pass official launch was celebrated |
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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
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| Austria: European Pipeline Center opens the gates in Veit/Glan |
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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.
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| CargoCap is gathering way / RWE makes hall available / RUB engineers are building proving ground |
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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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| New milling cutters for tunnelling |
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This year, a total of four new machines, the quick-snap-retaining ring for the fixing of round picks as well as a rotation module in three installation sizes for excavator of 15 - 50 t use weight will extend the product range of Erkan.
Source:
http://www.sbm-verlag.de/
bau Magazin, issue 05/06
downloads/Erkat.pdf
Read more......
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| Switzerland: Tunnel construction in Thun will be postponed |
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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.
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| Seattle USA: Seattle Sound Transit Beacon Hill tunnel works running real well |
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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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| Germany / Elmshorn: "Trude" tunnels successfully to "Königstreet" |
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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.
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| Control technology and system service from Germany provided for a successful curved drive |
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"Perfect performance" stated Mike Harker, director of the New Zealand mining company HARKER UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTIONS. "For the first time, a microtunnelling project in New Zealand has been planned as a curved drive and middle of April driven into the target."
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| Cooperation of RUSTUNNEL and TUNNELTRADE |
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The Internet portal www.rustunnel.ru and tunneltrade.com will cooperate in future to take optimal advantage of common synergies.
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| Herrenknecht is tackling the biggest, the toughest, and the longest tunnels in the world |
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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.
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| New glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) reinforcing bar Schöck ComBAR |
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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.
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| Local sewerage of Dresden favours pipe jacking with concrete pipes |
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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.
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| Pipeline Technology, 24.-28. April 2006 in Hannover |
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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.
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| Nodig Book Shop trades Nodig related books via the Internet |
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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.
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| REVIEW: January 2006, The 3rd International Exhibition UNDERGROUND CITY was held in Moscow |
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The 3rd INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION "UNDERGROUND CITY 2006" was held from 25th – 27th of January 2006, at "Gostiny Dvor" Exhibition Center , Moscow
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| Tunnel China 2006, 9-11 November 2006 in Shanghai |
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Tunnel China is the leading trade show in Asia-Pacific focused on equipments, products and services applied in underground engineering and bridge construction.
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| GEO: Tunnelling, a 57 kilometre journey through rock |
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After its completion in 2015, the St. Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland will be the longest tunnel in the world. This crazy project poses a challenge to the art of engineering
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| Ten meters a day through the ground of Cologne |
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Two eight and a half meter big red cutting wheels start to rotate slowly. Two steel worms of 1,000 tons weight and almost 76 m length are lying behind them.
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| New sewer tunnel for Portland |
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The seaport Portland in the US state Oregon adorns itself with the sobriquet "City of roses". But during the past years, fumes with the smell of waste water have occasionally been lying above Portland, particularly after heavy rain falls. Now, new sewer tunnels shall solve that problem.
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| Herrenknecht received STUVA award 2005 in Leipzig |
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"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.
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| Herren-tunnel in Lübeck put into operation |
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With the opening of the Herren-tunnel in August 2005, miles long traffic jams between Lübeck city center and the Baltic Sea harbour Travemünde are a thing of the past.
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| Break-through technology in tunnelling construction / innovation award 2005 |
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On the occasion of the IUT in Sargans, Switzerland, the WIRTH company received the innovation award for their break-through technology in tunnelling construction.
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| Tunneltrade / nodig-bau: a powerful partnership in the internet |
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The special internet portals nodig-bau.de and tunneltrade.com resolved upon a cooperation in partnership.
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Company links
MOLL-prd Siphon Intakes design and planning. Invisible steps to visible success. The right partner to design your specialized projects www.moll-prd.com
POINTING AHEAD - SURVEY Rolf Altmeyer Tunnelling Survey Services. Experienced in TBM guidance and installation of TBM guidance systems... more...
W. Durstmüller GmbH Your leading specialist for tunnelling equipment, compressed air mining- and drill hammers, ICS Concrete chainsaws www.dula.at
NAUE Sealing GmbH Waterproofing for Tunnels. Geosynthetics are commonly used for drainage, sealing as well as protection. www.naue.com
"Korea Moulds" Segments We supply formworks for tunnelling segments in all sizes. www.kmceng.com
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