Double Shield Machine flies through Himalayan Hard Rock

Rema Tip Top draws a positive conclusion | Strong interest among visitors in trade fair and in-house exhibition | Megatrend digitalisation | “Industrial Solutions“ along the entire value chain

Andrew Wyllie visited a polyhalite mine as part of his tour of the region. ICE President Andrew Wyllie has described the Sirius Minerals polyhalite mine as a “fantastic example of UK engineering at its best”.

Cimic Group companies, Pacific Partnerships, CPB Contractors, and UGL, as part of the Pulse consortium, have been selected by the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority (CRRDA) as the preferred proponent to deliver the Tunnel, Stations and Development (TSD) Public Private Partnership package of Brisbane’s Cross River Rail Project.

• Group revenue registers marked increase to EUR 70.8 million
• Operating profit (EBIT) of EUR 5.3 million at upper end of forecast range
• Corporate strategy successfully continued, not least through RDH acquisition
• Positive FY 2019 outlook in light of increased investment in underground mining

The construction of Norway's longest railway tunnel marked a breakthrough for the use of tunnel boring machines in hard rock tunnelling. In Scandinavia long rail tunnels have hitherto been drilled and blasted rather than bored. In the Follo Line Project, the tunnel boring machines made a convincing case for themselves all the way through the extremely hard Norwegian rock. Four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) by Herrenknecht worked simultaneously to excavate the main part of two 20-kilometer railway tunnels between Oslo and Ski. On February 26, 2019, the final double breakthrough of the Double Shield TBMs "Anna" and "Magda" successfully completed the challenging mission and drew a spectacular close.

Powerful TBM proves itself in both soft ground and hard rock

• Thyssenkrupp’s technology will help to access one of the world’s largest copper deposits containing roughly 7.5 million tons of copper – enough to equip 90 million electric vehicles
• Gearless conveyor offers improved reliability and efficiency compared to conventional systems

Hampton Roads Connector Partners include Flatiron Construction, Dragados USA, and Vinci Construction

New construction of a road between Sumstad and Hongsand | Tunnels as avalanche protection measures will ensure increased safety | Order volume of around NOK 230 million (around CHF 25 million)

Epiroc, a leading productivity partner for the mining and infrastructure industries, has acquired the assets of Noland Drilling Equipment, a U.S. distributor of water well drilling equipment and related parts, services and consumables.

Skanska Norway have signed a contract with the Norwegian Public Road Authority (NPRA) to build Fv. 659 Nordøyvegen in Møre and Romsdal county, Norway. The contract is worth about NOK 3 billion, about SEK 3.2 billion, which will be included in the Nordic order bookings for the fourth quarter 2018.

The Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein announced today that the plan approval of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In accordance with German regulations, Femern A/S now has 14 days to review the approval before it is signed. During this process, only minor editorial changes may be made.
"I am delighted and proud that we have today reached this crucial milestone. This is the result of several years of cooperation between the parties involved in Denmark and Germany. The approval means that agreement has now been reached between the German authorities and Femern A/S on how to construct the tunnel", says Claus Dynesen, Project Director at Femern A/S.

• Contract section VE 10: “Oberirdisch West”, for the aboveground works between Munich-Laim station and Donnersbergerbrücke
• Contract section VE 30: “Hauptbahnhof München”, for works around the main railway station including tunnel to Marienhof
• Total contract value: nearly € 887 million
• Contracts awarded to bidding consortium of Wayss & Freytag (30 %), Züblin (30 %), Max Bögl (30 %) and Bauer Spezialtiefbau (10 %)

Lane, a U.S. subsidiary of the Salini Impregilo Group, has won two contracts in the road and water sectors in North Carolina and Tennessee for a combined worth of $400 million, further consolidating its leadership in the country.

HS2 has successfully completed the demolition of the former carriage sheds at Euston station, revealing for the first time, the site of the approach tunnels for the new high speed rail link’s London terminal.

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Cimic Group company, CPB Contractors, as part of the Rail Infrastructure Alliance (RIA), has been awarded a $1 billion package of works by the Victorian Government in support of the $11 billion Metro Tunnel Project.

After ten years at the top of BAUER Maschinen GmbH, Dieter Stetter will soon hand over the leadership in younger hands. The current Chairman of the Management Board, who has been working for Bauer since the early 1980s, has been instrumental in the sales of Bauer machinery in Asia. On December 1st, his successor will be Dr. Ruediger Kaub, who is to become a member of the board of directors of BAUER Maschinen GmbH as of October 1st. The 55-year-old mining engineer has many years of international experience in product management, sales and management.

In late July the moment has come: tunnel boring machine "SUSE" (Ø 10,820 mm) has completely excavated the western tube of the Filder Tunnel. Now, in a specially built cavern, the approximately 120 meter long Multi-mode TBM from Herrenknecht is disassembled into individual parts and turned around underground. From the fall of 2018 it is due to commence excavation work in the remaining 3.4 kilometer section of the eastern tube.