LNS is expecting the tunnelling to be complete in summer of 2016, and the newly renovated power station to go online in spring of 2017. They are confident in their choice of a TBM: “We think that more project owners will consider the use of a TBM as interesting after seeing that we’...
Thus, the optimization of the excavation method may have a significant impact on the value of these projects. Nevertheless, in many countries the development of the tunnelling technique has been left far behind when compared to the developments in other areas of the mining process.Oyvind Engelstad...
The construction of Norway’s Stad ship tunnel has been put out to tender with its announcement as a design-build contract on Doffin, the Norwegian database for public procurement notices –the Norwegian database for public procurement notices. The Stad ship tunnel, at 1.7km long (2.2km includ...
In: Proceedings of the western Australian conference on mining geomechanics, pp 8–10 Hassanpour J, Rostami J, Khamehchiyan M, Bruland A, Tavakoli HR (2009) TBM performance analysis in pyroclastic rocks: a case history of Karaj water conveyance tunnel. Rock Mech Rock Eng 43:427–445 ...
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Using the tunnel boring machine (TBM) in tunneling projects contributes significantly to increased efficiency and reducing the time of project implementati
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Line project between Oslo and Ski in Norway. The two TBMs of the four that the Acciona-Ghella Joint Venture (AGJV) has used on this project, reached the town of Ski on Tuesday 26 February, completing the TBM drilling work. The other two TBMs completed their work in September last year...
building more than 50km of new Metro railway tunnels that will connect Parramatta and the Sydney CBD by way of the Western Sydney Metro. These will be the longest railway tunnels ever built in Australia, in what is expected to be the biggest tunnelling contract awarded in Australian history. ...
IAEG Commission No. 1—Engineering Geological Maps—is developing a guide to hazard maps. Scientists from 17 countries have participated. This pa