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The sewer project in York Region, Toronto, Canada is now two-thirds complete while the agreement for the Karahnjukar Hydropower Project in Iceland has been signed by the Icelandic government Ladsvirkjun (The National Power Company of Iceland) and Alcoa. Construction of New York's Water Tunnel system is progressing by the New york City Department of Environmental Protection and meanwhile the highspeed tunnel, part of Bahn 2000 between Zurich and Bern, the Onzberg tunnel complex is being constructed.

The US$530M Cross City Tunnel is one of the most complex and challenging infrastructure projects undertaken in Sydney; Australia, with underground railway lines, building basements and services to be negotiated. [...]

A third Baregg tunnel is being proposed to be built to ease congestion in two motor ways between Bern and Basel. The tunnel was constructed by a joint venture of Pitsch, Ghelma, Baresel and Hinteregger and handover is scheduled by the end of 2002.

In an effort to achieve the critical mass necessary to take on Swedish giants Skanska and NCC, leading Danish construction companies Hojgaard & Schultz and Monberg & Thorsen have decided [...]

The City of London cable tunnels project is part of the process to reinforce and upgrade electricity supplies within and around the City of London. Three central London substations have [...]

The American Underground Construction Association has moved to 3001 Hennepin Avenue South, Suite D202, Minneapolis MN 55408, USA, where the telephone number is +1 612 825 8933, fax 8944. The [...]

The Jordanian government has decided to award the contract to run its main freight railway line for the next 20 years to an American consortium of Raytheon and Wisconsin Central. [...]

Modernisation of Buenos Aires metro Line 1 under the World Bank financed Buenos Aires Urban Transport Project is to be supervised by Switzerland's Electrowatt Engineering working with two local companies. [...]

Belgian Railways has published a restricted tendering notice for the construction of the 5.94 km double-track Soumagne tunnel on the Brussels-Cologne high-speed railway close to the German border. The tunnel [...]

Recent invitations to tender include: construction of 2 x 2.965 km tubes of the Gousselierberg road tunnel in Luxembourg; construction of a 3 km-long, 7 m-diameter metro in Monza, Italy; [...]

BAA has denied reports that it is to axe up to 165 jobs at Eurotunnel's Dover terminal. A spokeswoman claimed employees' previous contracts with Irish airport authority Aer Rianta were [...]

COLOMBIA -- The Government of Antioquia in Colombia awarded the contract for the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the Toyo tunnel in the Uraba Port to a consortium led [...]

USA -- The City of Akron began work on the Ohio Canal Interceptor Tunnel (OCIT)--the largest component of the city's court-ordered Long Term Control Plan--with a groundbreaking ceremony on 6 [...]

GERMANY -- The TBM mining the U5 extension in Berlin has reached its destination. The 6.67m Herrenknecht Mixshield TBM was launched from the Max Engels Forum in June 2013 and [...]

Four contracts worth over USD 200M have been awarded by the Departement d'Ouvrage of the French State Railways for tunnels on the TGV route from Lyons to Marseilles. The 2.4km [...]

The process of construction of the longest railway tunnel in India began with the award of tender to a joint venture of Geoconsult of Austria and RITES Ltd. of India for the detail design and construction supervision works. The 11km Pir Panjal tunnel, comprising an access tunnel, north and south portals, will connect Qazigund and Banihal in the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir. The design and construction of the tunnel cross-section with rounded sidewalls for a single rail line with a motorable road follows the principles of the new austrian tunneling method (NATM).

The existing highway between the major manufacturing centre of Torino in northwest Italy and Savona on the country's Mediterranean coast is being dualled to cope with the increased traffic bound [...]

Five groups consisting of leading Israeli and international firms were selected for the final stage of a tender to construct a highway tunnel and toll road near Haifa. Thirteen groups, [...]

Traylor/Shea JV is currently driving a 3.8-mite (6.1 km) long sewer tunnel in Sacramento using a Robbins EPBM and installing a concrete segmental lining embedded with PVC to minimise corrosion [...]

Bid opening for the 5.5 mile (8.8kin) x 24ft (7.3m) i.d. South Cobb wastewater conveyance tunnel for the Cobb County Water System is scheduled for 8 November 2007. Designed by [...]

Major refurbishment and upgrading of National Grid's 3.7km Severn-Wye cable tunnel--one of the major electricity connections into South Wales--has recently been completed by Amco Donelon. The 1970s built 3m diameter [...]

With just four weeks available to construct a 22m long, arched ventilation cavern on the Fluelen by-pass Tunnel in Switzerland, the TUF contractor consortium called in the help of Formwork [...]

Brisbane City Council is inviting international tunnelling contractors to register to bid by April 29 for a 35 year concession to finance, design, build, operate, maintain and repair the US$771M, [...]

On 3 February it was announced that China's southernmost province of Hainan is planning a feasibility report for a 31 km long tunnel or bridge across the Qiongzhou Straits to [...]

NCC Construction Sweden has signed an agreement with Sweden's National Road Administration worth US$100M for a section of the Norrortsleden Highway in northern Greater Stockholm. Work on the 7km section, [...]

The Taiwan government has said it hopes to import 200 foreign workers to help speed up construction on the 12.9km long Shueishan Tunnel (T&TI, April 2004, p11), part of the [...]

Contractors had until 4 April to apply for prequalification for the 6.5km long South End Sewage Rock Tunnel in Sudbury, Ontario with final tender submissions due just two weeks later [...]

Good news for the Brits this month! A 35km-long, 7.2m 7.2m i.d. tunnel has been chosen as the preferred solution to the River Thames' pollution woes by the Thames Tideway [...]

Under a VECP (value engineering cost proposal) wet-mix shotcrete as well as cast concrete against a PVC waterproof drainage membrane provides the final linings for the Weehawken tunnel and underground [...]

Prequalifications are underway for a 320m long rock tunnel in northern Sweden as part of the Bothnia Line project. Also included is an option for construction of a 600m lung [...]

A design, build, finance and operate notice, which requires response by 7 May, has gone out for a second 1.52km tunnel under the River Tyne in Newcastle, UK. The project [...]

On 8 March construction started on the 2.1km Tornskog tunnel to the north of Stockholm, in Sweden, as part of the 16km Norrortsleden road scheme. Client, the Swedish National Road [...]

Construction of a 17km tunnel link between Newfoundland and Labrador moved a step closer to fruition following the announcement of an imminent pre-feasibility study. The Canadian federal government, together with [...]

Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is soon to construct a US$3.9bn urban light rail network that includes 18km of tunnels. A consortium of French consultant Systra and engineering companies [...]

After 18 months of tunnelling beneath the UK's capital, all six of the London Tunnels have been completed on Section 2 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The 8.15m o.d. [...]

IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects Ltd in joint venture with UAN Raju has won the US$34M contract to construct seven tunnels for the Katra-Laole section of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail link project [...]

The UK's Docklands Light Railway (DLR) last month carried out geophysical investigation to confirm the feasibility of constructing its US$265M extension to Woolwich, that includes boring twin-tunnels under the Thames. [...]

A 1.2km long twin-bore tunnel under Edinburgh's airport runway and the River Almond has been announced as part of the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link (EARL). The scheme has been described [...]

Australia's Leighton Contractors, in joint venture with Kumagai Gumi of Japan, has signed a A$324.5M (US$243M) contract with the Western Australia government to build 1.3km of tunnel for Perth's MetroRail [...]

Calls are imminent for an international finance, design and build tender for 53.24km of 3.7m diameter water diversion tunnels in central Iran. The client, the Rafsanjan Development Organisation (RDO) needs [...]

A joint venture between the Japanese firms Taisei Corp and Kumagai Gumi, with Turkish contractors Gama Endustri and Nurol Insaat has been awarded the $832M contract to construct the Bosphorous [...]

Vetrotech Saint-Gobain, a leading manufacturer of fire resisting glass, has completed a glass road tunnel in Munich--said to be the first of its kind world-wide to use a point-fixing spider [...]

Norwegian contractor, Viedekke, has just started construction on a 32[m.sup.2], 400m long access tunnel, which will join the middle of the 10.5km long Lieras rail tunnel--the most heavily trafficked tunnel [...]

A refurbished 3m diameter Lovat EPB TBM was launched last month on a 3.3km long sewer tunnel in High Wycombe, UK. It marks a return to major tunnelling for UK-based [...]

Song Da Construction Corporation, part of Vietnam's construction ministry, started work in early May on the construction of a US$9.8M 500m long tunnel through Ngang Pass in central Ha Tinh [...]

Ukrainian authorities are planning to construct a US$1bn read tunnel under the Kerch Strait that will connect the Crimea peninsula with Russia's Krasnodar region in 2006. A special development company [...]

Impregilo, in JV with Greek contractor Aktor, was recently awarded a contract to build an 11km long motorway extension in central Greece, including the construction of 6.4km of tunnels through [...]

A Robbins TBM is breaking records as quickly as it breaking rock on the $168.7M Little Calumet Leg tunnel in south suburban Chicago (T&TNA, May 2003, p29). Although early into [...]