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Chao discusses emerging transportation technologies council at SXSW
At South by Southwest (SXSW) in March 2019, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao noted that the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology Council would meet for the first time that week to discuss several topics with industry innovators, including tunneling, hyper loops, and self-driving cars, the Statesman reports. “We basically have a 20th century organizational […]
March 20, 2019
Construction Equipment
Brokk demo robots with TEI rock drills designed to replace handheld tools in tight spaces
Brokk & TEI Rock Drills designed the TE160 drill for use with Brokk 110 and Brokk 170 robots to help streamline processes that typically require handheld tools.
January 1, 2019
Construction Equipment
Kinshofer launches W-S Series drum cutter line through Atlas acquisition
With this acquisition, Kinshofer launches W-S Series drum cutter line with 7 different models each for various uses and strengths.
May 31, 2018
Construction Equipment
Epiroc SB 302, SB 402 breakers now come in tunnel models
The new tunneling attachments fit excavators of 4.5 to 13 tons and standard underground scalers. More information here on Equipment World.
May 28, 2018
Construction Equipment
Epiroc integrates dust suppression into new SB hydraulic breakers
In an effort to help the construction industry meet OSHA’s silica-dust reduction regulations, Epiroc has added a dust suppression system to its new line of hydraulic breaker attachments. Epiroc, a subsidiary of Atlas Copco that is being spun off into its own company, has added an internal water port as standard on the SB Series […]
March 20, 2018
Dealers
Brokk adds Taylor as training specialist for machine operation, maintenance
Richard Taylor has joined Brokk as its training and applications specialist. His duties include teaching operational and maintenance techniques to the sales team and customers. That entails conducting onsite training, organizing demonstrations and troubleshooting machines, in addition to performing application audits in customers’ and prospects’ facilities. Taylor came to Brokk after serving as the division […]
February 8, 2018
Roadbuilding
Bertha back to drilling after suspension is “conditionally lifted”
Bertha hasn’t been blessed with the best of luck in Seattle, but the world’s largest tunnel boring machine is back to drilling again for now. The Seattle Tunnel Partners announced that the Washington State Department of Transportation has decided to conditionally lift the suspension for cause that Gov. Jay Inslee enacted in January following the formation of a sink […]
February 26, 2016
Roadbuilding
Washington governor halts Bertha tunneling after sinkhole forms
Bertha didn’t get back to work for long. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has put the brakes on the massive tunnel boring machine once again after a sinkhole formed. According to King 5, Inslee announced on Thursday that the machine boring the tunnel for the new State Route 99 in Seattle had to be halted over safety […]
January 18, 2016
Roadbuilding
Bertha breaks through repair wall and begins tunneling soil once more
It’s taken two years in repairs and delays, but Bertha has broken through her concrete repair pit. The Washington State Department of Transportation said in a press release last week that the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine had broken through the pit and mined 73 feet in a little more than three weeks. The Seattle Tunnel Partners were […]
January 13, 2016
Roadbuilding
Did Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel really require Big Bertha? Indeco argues breakers are the answer
Tunnel boring machines such as Big Bertha, the 7,000-ton machine sidelined after a massive fail under the streets of Seattle, shouldn’t always be considered the most efficient option for creating big dig projects, says a new publication produced by Italian hammer manufacturer Indeco and released at the Intermat construction equipment trade show this week. […]
April 23, 2015
Roadbuilding
PHOTOS: Big Bertha’s 2,000-ton front end lifted to the surface. How the world’s largest tunneler was raised
[imagebrowser id=225] After a year of slumber and almost a month after chewing her way into a 12-story repair pit, Big Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel-boring machine, is finally under repair in Seattle. Crews worked for the better part of March to disassemble the machine’s front end before lifting the machine’s cutterhead and body shield panels—a […]
April 1, 2015
Roadbuilding
PHOTOS: Fixing Bertha: How workers dug a 12-story pit to raise world’s largest tunnel boring machine from the dead
No. 8 Story in 2015 « No. 9 No. 7 »  [imagebrowser id=194] The Big Bertha saga recently received a major update: crews with lead contractor Seattle Tunnel Partners have finished digging the 120-foot pit that will be used to access the world’s largest tunnel boring machine for necessary repairs. Now that the pit […]
February 11, 2015
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