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Skanska JV wins £100m National Grid tunnelling project header logo
The construction index   24 May 2016   UK   River Humber  
The Humber estuary
<p>National Grid gas handed a &pound;100m tunnelling contract to a joint venture of Swedish, Austrian and Dutch companies.</p> <p>The Humber tunnel project will be built by a JV of Sweden&rsquo;s Skanska, Austrian building contractor PORR and Dutch pipeline ...
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World Tunnel Congress 2016
WTC 2016   21 April 2016   USA   San Francisco  
<p>The fastest way to grow your business with the leading conference in Tunneling.<br>Attend WTC April 22-28, 2016 | San Francisco, CA<br>WTC is the #1 Conference supporting Tunneling<br>Attended by more than 2,500 tunneling professionals,<br>ITA-AITES WTC ...
2015 - Tunnelling Works over the world
ITA - AITES   08 January 2016   World   World  
<p>This video presents the major tunnelling works in progress in 2015 as well as some future projects..</p>
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VINCI officially inaugurates the Hallandsås tunnels, Sweden’s most challenging railway project
VINCI   09 December 2015   Sweden   Hallandsas Tunnels  
INCI officially inaugurates the Hallandsås tunnels, Sweden’s most challenging railway project
<p>- VINCI Construction Grands Projets and its Swedish partner Skanska succeeded in building the tunnels through the &ldquo;impenetrable mountain&rdquo; <br />- Sweden&rsquo;s longest railway tunnels were built using VINCI Construction Grands Projets&rsquo; ...
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Funding pledged for Stonehenge tunnel
Architects' Journal   14 October 2015   UK   Stonehenge  
Stonehenge tunnel / AJ
<p>A tunnel under Stonehenge has been included in a &pound;2billion programme of work to improve roads in the South-west of England.</p> <p>The 2.9 km tunnel under the World Heritage Site is one of the core projects unveiled by Highways England yesterday as ...
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Crossrail: Inside Europe's most ambitious engineering project
CNN   13 October 2015   UK   London  
Crossrail CNN
<p>London (CNN)Set to open in 2018, the Crossrail expansion of London's rail network is the largest civil engineering project in Europe.</p> <p>Once complete, 56 kilometers of new tunnels, stations and interchanges will connect the outer suburbs to the city ...
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Alice almost finished digging Waterview tunnel
3news   09 October 2015   New Zealand   Auckland  
Alice almost finished digging Waterview tunnel
<p>The machine digging a massive tunnel at Auckland's Waterview Connection is within days of completing its two-year mission.<br />For the team driving the boring machine known as Alice, it'll be a bittersweet moment when she breaks through.<br />Grant Maclean ...
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Safety rooms protect workers inside giant tunnel boring machine
Stuff.co.nz   30 September 2015  
Safety rooms_Alice giant tunnel boring machine
<p><br />Safety rooms_Alice giant tunnel boring machine<br />Deep within Auckland's giant tunnel boring machine lie two chambers set up to save workers' lives.<br />The machine, known as Alice, is central to the country's largest infrastructure project &ndash; ...
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Switzerland has completed construction on the world's longest tunnel
Business Insider   25 August 2015   Switzerland   Swiss Alps  
Switzerland has completed construction on the world's longest tunnel Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
<p>The Swiss Alps are an unforgiving landscape of rugged, rocky peaks and lush, green valleys. Connecting communities that would be otherwise isolated by the vast mountain range &mdash; including cultural and economic hubs like Zurich, Milan, and Turin &mdash; ...
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Crossrail project: 26 miles of London tunnelling work completed
BBC NEWS   04 June 2015   UK   London  
Construction began at Canary Wharf in May 2009 with tunnelling work starting in 2012
<p>Tunnelling work in London has been completed in the &pound;14.8bn Crossrail scheme.<br />Eight boring machines have been cutting their way through earth to create 26 miles (42km) of tunnels.<br />Services, which are due to start in 2018, will run as far ...
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