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ITA Tunnelling Awards: Celebrating the best of the best

It’s the 10th Anniversary of the ITA Tunnelling Awards this year and we are celebrating a record number of more than 100 Award entries across seven categories and from a record of more than 19 countries of the world.

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Winners of the 9th ITA Tunnelling Awards

Since 2015, the international competition seeks and rewards remarkable achievements in the tunnelling and underground industry. Organized by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, the event both showcases the most ambitious underground projects all over the world as well as latest innovations, techniques, and methods in tunnelling. The 9th edition of the
ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards took place in Mumbai, India in conjunction with the Tunnelling Asia 2023 conference of TAI, the Tunnelling Association of India.

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ITA underground construction awards and the outstanding winners for 2022 are...

Selecting a Winner from such high calibre Finalists was no enviable task for the Judges. The Finalists in each of the eight categories of the ITA Brunel Awards series for 2022 represent the achievements and level of expertise in the underground construction industry of more than 11 countries of the world and across multiple and varied disciplines.
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Toulouse. Un célèbre inventeur Britannique à l'honneur dans le métro

Mercredi 15 décembre, une oeuvre en bronze a été installée dans la station de métro Jean Jaurès sur une des passerelles de la ligne A. Ce bas-relief, réalisé par le sculpteur Sébastien Langloÿs, est le trophée remis lors du prix " ITA Tunnelling Awards", un concours international, organisé par l'Association Internationale des Tunnels et de l'Espace Souterrain (AITES), qui récompense les plus grands projets qui émergent à travers le monde, les technologies les plus innovantes ou encore l'utilisation la plus originale des espaces souterrains.
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China Railway : CREC Wins Two ITA Tunneling and Underground Space Awards

In recent days, the Conference and Exhibition of the 7th International Tunneling and Underground Space Association (ITA) Tunneling Awards 2021 was held virtually, selecting seven winners among the 24 competing projects and individuals. The Large-diameter shield tunnel engineering project in karst strata of sea area in the Barracuda Bay, a full-line control project of Dalian Metro Line 5, won the award of Project of the Year. The project was invested by the China Railway Group Limited (CREC), designed by China Railway Northern Investment Group and constructed by the First Engineering Bureau of CREC.
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CREG’s Slurry TBM Contributes to Award Winning Dalian Metro Line 5 Project

On Dec. 2, the 7th (2021) ITA Tunnelling Awards revealed that the project of Dalian Metro Line 5 (Large-diameter Shield Tunnel Engineering Project in Karst Strata of Sea Area) constructed by a slurry TBM named “Haihong” manufactured by CREG (China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co. Ltd.) won the ITA Tunnelling Awards 2021 in the category of “Project of the Year.” This is another world-class innovation project participated by CREG after the project “The Mechanized Method with Large Section Horseshoe Shape EPB TBM First Applied in Loess Mountain Tunnel” won the ITA Tunnelling Awards 2018 in the category of “Technical Project Innovation of the Year.”
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