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B-SMILE opts for slurry TBMs over hard rock TBMs for Twin Tunnel Road project in Bengaluru due to mixed terrain.
The state of Tennessee will lease underground property to Elon Musk’s Boring Company over roughly 50 years for construction ...
Elon Musk's The Boring Company plans to partner with Tennessee on a high-speed tunnel from Downtown Nashville to the ...
Construction on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project hit key milestones as tunneling progresses and traffic ...
What is a Tunnel Boring Machine? A Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) is a large, specialized machine used for the excavation of tunnels through various types of soil and rock. These ...
Gov. Bill Lee proposed giving Elon Musk’s The Boring Company a rent-free lease on a state-owned parking lot — about the size of a football field at 637 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. — to kickstart the project.
China has completed the production of its largest tunnel-boring machine (TBM), measuring 16.64 meters (54.5 feet) in diameter. The machine is named Jianghai, which means “river and ocean” in ...
SEATTLE — The world’s largest tunnel-boring machine broke through a concrete wall beneath Seattle on Tuesday to reach the end of its long, troubled journey, a milestone in a multibillion-doll… ...
On Friday night, Boring Company CEO Elon Musk tweeted images of his tunnel-boring machine appearing to emerge from the dirt into a cavernous hole, with bystanders at the hole's edge watching the ...
Now, The Boring Co. machine will dig – cheese grater-style – a 500-foot-long, horizontal pedestrian tunnel that is 20-by-150 feet and 13.5 feet in diameter, according to interim Hawthorne City ...
A welder prepares for the tunnel-boring machine “Angeli” to break through a wall of dirt at the 2nd Place/Hope Street Station in downtown Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...
To understand how a tunnel-boring machine works, think of an earthworm. The worm eats. It pushes forward. It expels. This is Bertha in a nutshell. As her 886-ton cutterhead revolves at about one ...