Microtunnelling is becoming increasingly popular for placing pipelines and service routes, but as the scale of work increases so does the complexity and the risk The Middle East is probably the most ...

The Am Bruckhaufen housing estate in Vienna, located on a 6m high embankment beside the River Danube, was not previously connected to the public sewer system. The contract to remedy the situation ...

Thiruvananthapuram: A team of officials from the Rail India Technical and Economic Service (RITES) has begun a study to analyze the feasibility of laying pipelines using ‘microtunnelling’ technology ...

UK tunnelling subcontractor Joseph Gallagher has launched an Iseki microtunnelling boring machine on Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Co’s (ADSSC) project in the UAE capital. According to technical details ...

Until 2010, GRP pipes had been applied in French microtunnelling projects up to diameters of DN 1600. However, a rainwater collector and storage project to limit the amount of overflow caused by heavy ...

Microtunnelling will continue to be a technique that allows the UAE’s urban landscape to evolve in a cost-effective and non-evasive manner, Eng. Essa Al Maidoor, president of the UAE Society of ...

From Canada to Qatar to Singapore, Noel Kerr has been travelling – not to see the world, but rather to see what is underneath it. One of the founders and the executive chairman of tunnelling ...

Bengaluru's BWSSB employed microtunnelling for the first time to expand its pipeline network, especially in challenging terrains. The technique, involving smaller tunnel boring machines than those ...

Contractors are gaining valuable experience from the region s early tunnelling schemes, and are realising that understanding local conditions is key to successful delivery From drilling and blasting ...

Microtunnelling as part of a $90m upgrade to north west Sydney has started with Sydney Water set to provide tens of thousands of new homes with water by next year. The northwest Sydney growth area is ...