NCC Begins Bangalore Metro Airport Line’s Test Piling Work

NCC Ltd. over the past fortnight has started test piling activity across all…

02 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 21 Comments
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Patel’s Terratec TBM T83 in Mumbai Tunnels 653m in January

Remember Soma’s TBM T87 working in Mumbai that bored 526m in December…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other, Tunnels ⋅ 6 Comments
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5 Bidders for Delhi Metro Phase 4’s 288 Coach Contract

5 train manufacturers have submitted bids to supply 288 coaches (48 trains)…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 34 Comments
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7 Bidders for Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package CG-2

7 construction firms have submitted bids to construct 56.7 km package CG2 of…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 3 Comments
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Terratec Completes Surat Metro TBM S94’s Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufacturer Terratec in January completed factory…

01 Feb 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 9 Comments
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Noida – Jewar Airport Metro’s Geotechnical Work Underway

Cengrs Geotechnica Pvt Ltd. has completed more than half of geotechnical investigation…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro, Noida & Greater Noida Metro ⋅ 4 Comments
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Altinok Sole Bidder for Dehradun – Tehri Tunnel’s DPR

March 3, 2022 Update: Tender has been cancelled January 31 Original Post: Turkey’s…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Tunnels ⋅ 7 Comments
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KSM Wins Indore Metro Gandhi Nagar Depot’s Work

KSM Bashir Mohammad and Sons today emerged as the lowest bidder for the construction…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Indore Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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L&T’s Pakal Dul Project TBM Passes Factory Tests

Herrenknecht AG this month completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) on Larsen & Toubro’s first tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the 1000 MW Pakal…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Other ⋅ 2 Comments
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Max Infra Wins Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package OD-8

Max Infra (India) Ltd. on Saturday emerged as the lowest bidder to construct package OD8 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor (NH-130CD…

31 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 17 Comments
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DBL Casts Bhopal Metro Package 1’s Final Segment

Dilip Buildcon Ltd. today cast the final of 1851 precast segments for the viaduct of Bhopal Metro Phase 1 project’s 6.225 km Package-01 (Subhash Nagar…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bhopal Metro ⋅ 7 Comments
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DRA Wins Raipur – Vizag Expressway’s Package OD-7

Dineshchandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt. Ltd today emerged as the lowest bidder to construct package OD7 of the 464 km Raipur – Visakhapatnam Economic…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 8 Comments
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Patel Casts Surat Metro Phase 1’s First Segment

Engineers from Patel Infrastructure on Thursday began pouring concrete to cast segments for Surat Metro Phase 1 project’s 11.6 km Kadarsha Ni Nal…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Surat Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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SNC Casts Bangalore Metro ORR Line Package 2’s 1st Pier

Shankaranarayana Constructions (SNC) this week cast their first pier in Doddanekundi to construct Bangalore Metro’s 56 km Blue Line on the Outer Ring…

29 Jan 2022 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 16 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.7 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 351.2 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 75.2 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 59.2 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 58.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 8.7 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km

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