13.08.2020 (648 Clicks)
Cimic's UGL secures Maintenance Contracts in the Mining Sector
UGL, a Cimic Group company, has secured several construction and maintenance contracts in the mining sector with a combined value of more than $200 million.
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13.08.2020 (674 Clicks)
Martin Place Metro Station in Sydney Update
Major excavation is nearing completion at Martin Place in Sydney to deliver the new underground metro station and the integrated station development above it.
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13.08.2020 (689 Clicks)
Resources Sector has Plan to dig Queensland out of Covid-19 Unemployment Hole
A Queensland resources industry plan for the Covid-19 recovery will assist keeping Queenslanders in work and get more back into employment, with confirmation today the State’s jobless rate was now the nation’s highest at 8.8%.
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11.08.2020 (682 Clicks)
Fugro’s ROV Survey and Monitoring Services help install World’s longest Subsea Interconnector
Fugro has completed a contract for Nexans to provide remotely operated vehicle (ROV) survey and monitoring support services to lay the North Sea Link cable through a mountain and along a lakebed in Norway. National Grid NSN Link Ltd and Statnett SF are building an electricity interconnector between Kvilldal in Norway and Blyth in the UK which, on completion, will be the longest subsea interconnector in the world. Fugro’s innovative survey and monitoring solutions supported the installation of two cables through the mountain between Hylsfjorden and Lake Suldalsvatnet, and along the lakebed at a depth of 210 m.
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06.08.2020 (727 Clicks)
Metso Outotec to supply primary Crushing Stations for a Mining Company in Russia
Metso Outotec will deliver two primary crushing stations for a mine located in the Russian Far East. The EUR 23 million order, which has been booked in former Metso Minerals’ Q2 2020 orders received, will be delivered by Metso Outotec Corporation (formed when Metso Corporation and Outotec Oyj completed the combination of Metso’s Minerals business and Outotec on June 30, 2020). The commissioning of the equipment is expected to take place in 2023.
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05.08.2020 (717 Clicks)
RWE to strengthen its European Renewables Business with Acquisition of 2.7 GW Project Pipeline
RWE wants to acquire the European onshore wind and solar development platform from Nordex SE with a total pipeline of 2.7 Gigawatt (GW) in France, Spain, Sweden and Poland. The developer has a strong focus in France, with an overall pipeline of 1.9 GW in various project phases. 15% of the whole pipeline is close to final investment decisions (FID) or in advanced development stages; 230 megawatt have secured Contracts for Difference (CfDs) or similar feed-in tariffs. The purchase price will be around €400 million.
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04.08.2020 (821 Clicks)
Road Construction: Free Software for the Design of Base Course Thicknesses using Geogrids
Geosynthetics manufacturer Naue offers an update of its free software SecuCalc. The programme provides a simple online calculation of base course thicknesses on a PC or mobile devices after one-time registration without additional software installation.
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04.08.2020 (727 Clicks)
First piece of Work undertaken on Network Rail Design Services Framework
Mott MacDonald is undertaking its first piece of work for the new Network Rail Design Services Framework. The project is supporting the development of a new system to support degraded mode working on the railway during signalling system failures. The DMWS project is part of Network Rail’s Research & Development Portfolio – it’s £245M investment programme over CP6 to drive improvements to the safety, performance and efficiency of Britain’s railway infrastructure.
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04.08.2020 (643 Clicks)
Webuild and Fincantieri deliver the Keys to Genoa’s new Bridge
Fifteen months after construction began on Genoa’s new bridge, Webuild and Fincantieri deliver the keys to the completed structure to Marco Bucci, the city’s mayor and the project’s extraordinary commissioner. Work on the fixtures on the top part of the bridge is complete, the static load test certification has been issued, and the final inspection ahead of the opening of the bridge to traffic has been conducted. With the signing of the final documents to formalise the transfer of the bridge from the commissioner to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and, subsequently, the concession operator that will take charge of the bridge and open it.
Webuild and Fincantieri have handed over all the technical and quality documentation that covers a year of construction for the 1,067 m of the bridge with its 18 piers up to 45 m high that support the deck, its 19 spans and 67,000 m³ of reinforced concrete. A demanding project that took 420 days, from the laying of the first pier to the delivery of the bridge. It involved more than 10,100 hours of work, meaning every day since the start save for Christmas and a few days of bad weather. It was a job performed 24 hours a day, seven days a week that involved more than 1,000 people representing 40 trades. They worked non-stop in parallel at 20 workstations on site, even during the Covid-19 pandemic, making it a flagship project for the country. Everyone who took part in their endeavour has their name engraved on a plaque, which was unveiled in the presence of Genoa Archbishop Mons. Tasca on July 27 when the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia performed. It will be placed on one of the piers.
“This bridge is the dream of a lifetime,” said Webuild Chief Executive Pietro Salini. “We were able to do something beautiful. And we did it with heart – whatever profit that we might earn from this project will go to charity.”
“We put a lot of skill and passion into this project, just like the notes of the music that sounded throughout the valley for our tradesmen during the concert of July 27,” continued Salini. “We worked day and night with a sense of civic duty. We were proud to collaborate with 330 small companies from all over Italy, every one of them representing the excellence of our ‘Made in Italy’. It was an example of team spirit, the same that inspires our Progetto Italia: practicality, extraordinary competence and passion. Today we deliver the keys to the bridge that belongs to all Italians. We show the world that we are able to create public works that are innovative and safe, because the lives of those who work and use bridges, roads, trains and metros every day remain an absolute priority. We unfurl this flag of commitment and success to recover so many lost years and opportunities, working to help the country take a new turn so that we can leave an inheritance to the next generation.”
The final days of work – which did not stop even during the concert performed by the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia directed by Maestro Antonio Pappano on July 27 – have seen the laying of the final layer of asphalt four centimetres thick, the installation of the horizontal and vertical signage and the setting up of the robotic system that will inspect the structure and allow for any preventive maintenance. On the ground, secondary work will continue and not impact the use of the Saint George Bridge, which will be inaugurated in the presence of President Sergio Mattarella and President Giuseppe Conte on August 3.
Source: Webuild
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04.08.2020 (664 Clicks)
Webuild celebrates TBM Breakthrough on Metro Line L14-GC04 for Grand Paris Express in France
Webuild and its local partner celebrated the breakthrough of their tunnel-boring machine (TBM) near the end of its underground journey of 4.05 km to help extend Line 14 South in southern Paris for Europe’s most ambitious sustainable mobility project: the Grand Paris Express.
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11.07.2023
GeoResources Journal 2-2023
Special Topic: Focus on raw material security and supply chain
GeoResources Journal 2-2023 is dedicated to the main topic areas of mining, tunnelling, geotechnics and energy, as well as the special topic: Focus on raw material security and supply chain....
11.07.2023
Focus on Raw Materials Security and Supply Chains - now is the Time for Creativity, Courage and Energy
Technical expertise and creative ideas have now become essential for raw materials security and efficient supply chains. So read on and be inspired.
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11.07.2023
Sustainable Sediment Management in Reservoirs
Dams and reservoirs are suffering from increasing siltation as a result of sediment deposition. This poses a threat to drinking water supplies, flood defences and flora and fauna in the downstream reaches and also compromises hydroelectric power generation systems. An efficient and sustainable sediment management regime is therefore urgently needed....
17.09.2023 - 21.09.2023
12ICG - 12th International Conference on Geosynthetics
21.09.2023 - 27.09.2023
XIV IAEG Congress 2023 - Chengdu, China
24.09.2023 - 26.09.2023
TAC 2023 Conference
26.09.2023 - 28.09.2023
POWTECH 2023

World’s longest Railway Tunnel Project – supported by innovative Conveyor Digitalisation and reliable Engineering
17. October 2022 (1647 Clicks)
The consortium BTC Brennero Tunnel Construction and the Hosch Group jointly delivered on a world-class tunnelling project by combining excellent engineering with the innovative remote monitoring system Hoschiris Discover.


RAG-Technikchronik - Buch 6: Management- und Bildungssysteme für technische Prozesse
02. April 2019 (10052 Clicks)
Das Buch 6 der Reihe „Dokumentation der technischen Entwicklung bei der RAG“ stellt die Entwicklung der Management- und Bildungssysteme für technische Prozesse, also z.B. zur Effizienzsteigerung, zum Arbeits-, Gesundheits- und Umweltschutz sowie zur Ausbildung und beruflichen Fortbildung, bei der RAG dar.


31.08.2023 (141 Clicks)
Australia: 400 mine jobs in limbo due to Queensland Government decision on QCoal’s Glenden
The State Government’s decision to pass legislation forcing mining comp...


23.08.2023 (124 Clicks)
Nordic Mining ASA: MoU for coop with Saferock AS on utilization of tailings from Engebø Rutile and Garnet
Nordic Mining ASA announce that the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidi...


28.08.2023 (121 Clicks)
Expro acqires offshore services provider PRT Offshore
Expro (NYSE: XPRO), a leading provider of energy services, today announced it...


30.08.2023 (115 Clicks)
Elebbre uses latest auction tech to remarket mine and construction equipment in Chile
Global engineering, procurement and construction giant Bechtel chooses Latin ...
