Germany
North Rhine - Westphalia - de/106
Roads
10.03.2010 |
Prior information notice of start of award procedures on 27.05.2010 for general safety upgrade and restoration of six road tunnels to RABT 2006 standard, value EUR26.5 million, commencing winter 2010 with Herkulestrasse, value EUR7.54 million. For further information contact Stadt Koeln, tel +49 221221-23647, fax –28715, e-mail zentrales-vergabeamt@stadt-koeln.de. For details of all tunnels involved in this project visit tunnelbuilder archive de/106. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=062973-2010. 10/10...
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Austria
Brenner - at/16
High Speed Railway
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Italy
Brenner - it/103
High Speed Railway
10.03.2010 |
Vicenzetto Srl of Villa Estense have secured the EUR587,987 contract for test drilling and boring work in Brenner Base tunnel. Contact Johann Hager at BBT SE in Innsbruck, tel +43 5124030, fax +43 5124030-110, e-mail ava@bbt-se.com. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=062301-2010 and www.vicenzetto.it. ..
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Switzerland
Ceneri - ch/14
High Speed Railway
10.03.2010 |
The CPV consortium, formed by CSC SA (Lugano) and Pizzarotti SA (Bellinzona), signed the EUR43 million contract for the construction of Lot 854 at Vezia, the main lot of Ceneri Base Tunnel, including the south portal, 200 m of cut-and-cover tunnel, as well as drilling, blasting and lining both tunnels along a length of 300 m. Works at Vezia will continue until 2016. Commercial operation of the Ceneri Base Tunnel with scheduled train services is planned to start at the end of 2019. Of the total of 40.19 km of the Ceneri Base Tunnel, at the end of February 2010, 7,673 m, or 19.1%, had been ..
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Austria
Linz - at/36
Tramway
10.03.2010 |
Imtech Austria Anlagentechnik GmbH of Linz have secured the contract for supply, installation and commissioning of ventilation equipment for the tunnel section of the Harter Plateau tramway line. For more, contact Ing. Harald Grogger at Managementservice Linz GmbH in Linz, tel +43 7323400-7982, fax -157982, e-mail h.grogger @ linzag.at. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=059736-2010. 10/10...
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Italy
National - it/158
Railways |
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA is inviting companies to prequalify for civil engineering work on railway tunnels in Italy. Further information and documents from Iacomino Raffaele at Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato in Milan, tel +39 02637 148-19, fax –20, e-mail dns-qs@rfi.it to whom requests to participate should be sent. Visit
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Pakistan
Karakorum - pk/22
Railway |
Pre-feasibility study being undertaken by ILF Consulting Engineers for construction of single track railway line along the Karakorum highway between the end of the existing railway network in the south at Havelian and the border between Pakistan and China near the famous Khunjrab Pass in the north.
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China
Hong Kong - cn/82
West Island Line |
Prequalification underway by MTR for tender reference no 703 for West Island Line SHW to SYP tunnels value EUR30 million with a view to selective invitations to tender being issued in 4Q/2008 for contract award in 3Q/2009. Expressions of interest to Malcolm O’Neill, tel 3921 3383, e-mail moneill@mtr.com.hk Visit www.mtr.com.hk/eng/tenders/new_projects.html 45/08.
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Safety
Tunnelling safety announcements published by tunnelbuilder are purely advisory, and readers should seek corroboration for themselves, particularly with respect to contract submission deadlines, which frequently change without notice. The following reports are for the current year, and comprise a mix of headline news composed from our own research and inputs submitted by third parties. We take no responsibility whatever for the accuracy or completeness of these reports. Submissions, revisions and enquiries should be addressed to olaia@tunnelbuilder.com. There is no charge for this service. Scroll to the bottom of this page for the archives.
| Update on Australia and New Zealand |
23.01.2009 |
Amongst major projects completed by end-2008 in Australia are the Gold Coast desalination plant with 2 x 3.4 m x 1.5 km outfalls bored by 2 off Herrenknecht TBMs by John Holland/Veolia some 40 m below the seabed, visit www.johnholland.com.au, and the 1.9 km Sydney Haymarket to City North cable tunnel completed by Thiess, visit www.thiess.com.au. |
| Recession lessons (8) |
23.01.2009 |
“Despondency and constant negativism, attitudes which unfortunately abound today, are not recipes which are of much use to us in the future. Providing young and ambitious junior staff with the opportunities for a successful future is the best prerequisite for achieving prosperity within society.” Dr Martin Herrenknecht, Schwanau, 16.01.2009. Dr Herrenknecht is the first acting founder of Herrenknecht AG and was recently inducted into the newly-established Handelsblatt Hall of Fame. |
| Shenzhen metro line 3 progress |
23.01.2009 |
A trio of NFM Technologies 6.28 m-diameter EPBs has begun excavation of metro line 3 tunnels in Shenzhen, China. The first machine got underway on 14.10.2008 driving the 2,535 m of twin-tube tunnel between Hong Ling and Lao Jie stations. The second machine began a month later, driving 2,400 m between Cui Zhu and Tian Bei stations, while the third machine is boring 1,085 m between Tian Bei and Shui Bei. The Shenzhen Municipal Government is expanding its underground system over the next couple of years, with new lines 2, 3 and 5, and extensions of lines 1 and 4. |
| Marioff milestones |
20.01.2009 |
From its base in Vantaa, Finland Marioff produces its innovative HI-FOG water mist fire protection systems for use in every corner of the Earth. Each system is tailored to the specific requirement and designed, manufactured and installed by highly-trained Marioff people. |
| Company Focus - Risknowlogy providing tunnel safety audits for Dutch government |
16.01.2009 |
Risknowlogy®, a leading provider of risk, reliability, safety and certification solutions, announced that they are going to perform, functional safety audits on the tunnel technical installations of newly build tunnels in The Netherlands for the Dutch Government (Rijkswaterstaat). |
| Second breakthrough for Clem Jones Tunnel, Brisbane, Australia |
16.01.2009 |
 Brisbane's second tunnel boring machine working on the Clem Jones Tunnel has broken through on target at kangaroo point. This tunnel started at Bowne hills more than a year ago and has bored through 2.8km so far. |
| Progress on for Metro Shenzhen – Line 3 |
16.01.2009 |
Three TBM EPB of NFM Technologies (6.28 m diameter begun excavation to build line 3 of the Shenzhen Underground system in China. The first TBM, started work on 14 November 2008, will carry out the 2,535 m of twin-tube tunnel between Hong Ling and Lao Jie stations; the second machine began service on 19 November 2008 and will dig out 2,400 m between Cui Zhu and Tian Bei stations; the third machine, started in December 2008, will bore 1,085 m between Tian Bei and Shui Bei. |
| Monthly Focus - Smartstud road marker guidance. |
9.01.2009 |
Each month tunnelintelligence will focus on a health and safety product that is used within tunnel systems. This month the focus is on SmartStud® a product produced by a New Zealand based company.
SmartStud® is a road marker guidance system that is highly visible whatever the weather or road conditions. Each SmartStud® consists of ten or twenty high-intensity LEDs. As such, in the sun, dark, fog or rain, they are visible from up to 500 metres away.
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| Tunnel project wins safety award |
9.01.2009 |
Transurban has won a prestigious national safety award for enhancements to its CityLink tunnels in Melbourne. The US$7.8 million CityLink Tunnel Safety Project, completed in 2008, has won the Australian Safer Communities Award, which is sponsored by Emergency Management Australia, a division of the Federal Government. |
| STEC launches its own large-diameter slurry shield |
9.01.2009 |
Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company (STEC) has announced the launch on 26.12.2008 of its in-house designed and built 11.22 m-diameter slurry shield. The machine is being employed on excavation of the duplicate 3 km-long DaPu road tunnel across the Yangtse river from the Pudong side to provide access for the World Expo 2010 site. It is equipped with synchronized grouting system, segment erector, slurry system, and electro-mechanical control. More from http://english.stec.net/english. 03/09. |
| Recession lessons (6) |
9.01.2009 |
“We need to remake the banking system to better reflect the needs of business. They cannot simply go back to a reliance on mortgage lending.”
Edmund Phelps, Columbia University, NY, 08.01.2009.
Professor Phelps was awarded the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy.
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| Ganzstein closes Semmering gap |
5.01.2009 |
Completion of the second 2.1 km-long tube at Ganzstein on the S6 Semmering Expressway will provide the final link on the motorway route between Lower Austria and Styria. A joint venture of Porr, Ostu-Stettin, Strabag and Hinteregger constructed the parallel tube from both ends, using excavators in the east section and drill/blast in the west section to remove 175,000 cu m of rock. |
| Halfway to Pinglu |
5.01.2009 |
Alpine Bau, a subsidiary of Spanish construction giant FCC, has reported that its Robbins hard rock double shield TBM excavating a EUR47 million section of the north main line of the Yellow River diversion project has reached the Daliang chamber, some 13 km through the 25 km alignment. The tunnel has an internal diameter of 4.8 m and is lined with orthogonal segments manufactured at site, where some 55,000 of the required 83,450 have already been produced. |
| California high speed rail programme management |
29.12.2008 |
The proposed USD40 billion (US$1 = EUR0.72), 1,290 km-long California high speed rail system will serve San Franciso, Los Angeles and San Diego, with branches to Sacramento in the north and Irvine in the south. Dependent upon chosen alignment, the route includes between 21 km and 37 km of tunnels of maximum lengths between 5.5 km and 8 km. |
| Recession lessons (5) |
29.12.2008 |
“Just because we have a US$15 billion (US$1 = EUR0.72) budget deficit does not mean we should not have a high speed rail system. California should show leadership, and show the rest of the country how to do it!” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commonwealth Club, 26.09.2008. 52/08. |
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