Tunnel Boring Machines

Voting now open to name Toronto’s Ontario Line TBMs

Voting is now open to name the Ontario Line tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Last month, Metrolinx invited the community to submit potential names for the...

Metrolinx launches contest to name Ontario Line TBMs

Metrolinx is inviting the public to make their mark on transit history in Toronto.  Metrolinx has launched a naming contest for the tunnel boring machines...

Herrenknecht tunnel system wins bauma Innovation award for Mechanical Engineering

Numerous railway tunnels from the 19th and early 20th centuries need to have their tunnel cross-section adapted to current clearance profiles. The Tunnel Enlargement System...

Constructing The Crosstown

Deep foundations drills keep tunnel boring machines crawling By Brian M. Fraley To say that Deep Foundations Contractors (deep) was drilling in a confined space within...

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