State of the industry

The industry has experienced a shifting emphasis on certain project types in recent years. Firstly it was road tunnels, then tunnels for desalination plants. Now the emphasis seems to be on underground metros. Whatever the emphasis, the increasing needs of our population - particularly in urban environments - has meant that the Australasian tunnelling industry has kept busy through the recession and is set to surge ahead in the years to come.
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CMS shaft construction

The trenchless industry is technologically advanced and consistently innovative. Cutter soil mixing technology is one such example that has been developed to construct shafts for microtunnelling projects. Norman Joyal told delegates at Trenchless Australasia 2009 about one of the first projects in the United States using this technology to build microtunnelling shafts.
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Navigating the Northern Sewerage Project

The Northern Sewerage Project will increase the capacity of the sewerage system for Melbourne's northern suburbs. The NSP Project Director Rob Muley spoke to Trenchless Australasia, providing a project update and status report on the three tunnel boring machines - Gemma, Victoria and Julia - named by a local primary school.
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Tunnelling around the world

China

In a country of 1.6 billion people, The People's Republic of China is experiencing an unprecedented amount of economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation. In order to ensure quality of life, it is necessary for infrastructure to continue to develop at the same pace as the population and development of China's megacities. As such, the extension and modernisation of traffic tunnels and efficient supply and disposal systems are a top priority in the People's Republic of China.
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