Know about the technique that led to the fulfillment of India's first underwater Metro tunnel in Kolkata

January 2018

Here's the buzz: Afcons Infrastructure has achieved a landmark by successfully boring 2.9-km twin tunnels below river Hooghly in the East West Metro ...

Tags: Afcons Infrastructure, West Metro Project, TBM, KMRCL, Virender Kaul

Infrastructure development set for a boost as the government looks to build a New India by 2022

December 2017

Roads: Plans to construct 83,677 km of roads, highways, greenfield expressways and bridges at Rs.7 lakh crore....

Tags: Roads, Metro-rail, Ports, Railways, Renewable energy, Airports, Affordable housing, Yogesh Kumar Jain, PNC Infratech, Arun Karambelkar, HCC, TBM, Sunil Srivastava, Ashok Mehta, Metcon India Realty

Infrastructure development set for a boost as the government looks to build a New India by 2022

December 2017

Plans to construct 83,677 km of roads, highways, greenfield expressways and bridges at Rs.7 lakh crore....

Tags: Roads, Highways, Greenfield, AAI, Yogesh Kumar Jain, PNC Infratech, Metro-rail, Arun Karambelkar, TBM, Sunil Srivastava, Balaji Railroad Systems, EPC contracts, Metcon India Realty & Infrastructure, Construction equipment, Ports

Tunnelling work for Mumbai Metro 3 begins

November 2017

The boring of the first-ever tunnel in Mumbai for the underground metro project has begun at the Naya Nagar site in Mahim. Naya Nagar is one of the s...

Tags: TBM, Mumbai Metro 3, Construction, Underground metro

Light at the end of the tunnel?

October 2017

The Bullet Train dream is beginning to take shape. Japan is funding the project with a soft loan over 50 years with a 15-year moratorium. But even be...

Tags: Bullet Train dream, TBM, Tunnelling equipment, Compactor manufacturers, NHAI projects, Construction, Mining machinery, Equipment Hydraulics

Robbins Slurry TBM ramps up for Mumbai Metro Line 3

September 2017

The first of two Slurry TBMs, a rebuilt 6.65 m (21.8 ft) diameter machine, passed its factory acceptance on September 4, 2017 in Singapore. The machi...

Tags: Slurry TBMs, Diameter machine, DV Raju, Tamay Sayin, DSJV, Mumbai Metro, MMRC, Robbins India, XRE machines

TERRATEC supplies new TBMs to Mumbai Metro

September 2017

The Australian Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) manufacturer, TERRATEC, celebrated the delivery of the first two of a number of new TBMs destined for the ...

Tags: Terratec, TBMs, Mumbai Metro, Tunnel boring

Chenani Nashri slated to be India's first tunnel with a world-class integrated tunnel control system

September 2017

Safety has been the paramount consideration for India's longest tunnel. Now at 9 km - reducing the journey by 31 km - the recently completed Chenani-...

Tags: Safety, Chenani-Nashri Tunnel, Kashmir Valley, SC Mittal, IL&FS Transportation Networks, NATM, TBM, Earthmoving equipment, SCADA, ITCS software platform, SOS box, PA system, FM systems, Lighting, Ventilation systems