ITA Tunnelling Awards 2019 acontece em novembro. Confira os finalistas

O ITA Tunnelling Awards 2019 está se aproximando. Em sua 5ª edição, o evento que reúne a comunidade tuneleira e premia projetos e profissionais do setor está marcado para os dias 18 a 20 de novembro e terá a cidade de Miami (EUA) como sede. A Conferência e a premiação ocorrerão no dia 18 de novembro.

Durante a Conferência, os 32 finalistas, de 15 países do mundo, apresentarão os seus projetos e iniciativas, com as características e inovações que os levaram até a final. Essa apresentação será integrada à 8ª Annual Cutting Edge Conference, que ocorre entre os dias 18 e 20 de novembro, e é uma oportunidade de compartilhar e debater as principais e mais recentes técnicas utilizadas na indústria de túneis.

Conheça os finalistas:

“MAJOR PROJECT OF THE YEAR” (OVER 500 M€)

·         The EPC TBM Follo Line Project  (Norway)

·         The Seoul Metropolitan High-Speed Railway(Suseo~Pyeongtaek) Construction Project(Yulhyeon Tunnel)  (South Korea)

·         Tuen-Mun – Chek Lap Kok Link – Northern Connection Subsea Tunnel Section     Hong Kong, (China)

·         Wuhan Sanyang Road Yangtze River Tunnel Project (China)

“PROJECT OF THE YEAR” (BETWEEN 50 AND 500 M€)

·         Construction of two parallel tunnels for the Mexico City – Toluca suburban railway (Mexico)

·         New Badaling Tunnel and Great Wall Station of Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway (China)

·         Regional Connector Transit Project (USA)

·         SCL Immersed tube tunnels (Hong Kong, China)

·         The New Ulriken Tunnel (Norway)

·         Victory Boogie Woogietunnel (Netherlands)

“PROJECT OF THE YEAR INCL. RENOVATION” (UP TO 50 M€)

·         Finsbury Park Station Step Free Access (United Kingdom)

·         Modernization of the Vladivostok tunnel of the Far Eastern Railway (Russian Federation)

·         Outram Park Linkway Tunnel (Thomson Line) (Singapore)

“TECHNICAL PROJECT INNOVATION OF THE YEAR”

·         Innovation and Application of New Single-hole Double-line Quasi-rectangular Shield Tunnel Technology System (China)

·         Intersecting and Overlapping (Twisted) Tunnel Group Construction Technology for Tianjin Metro Lines 5 and 6 Lot 1 (China)

·         Rapid Construction Technology for Large Cross-section Extremely Gassy Tunnel (China)

·         Toulouse Line A underground stations extension (France)

“TECHNICAL PRODUCT/EQUIPMENT INNOVATION OF THE YEAR”

·         ARCHITA, an innovative multi-dimensional mobile mapping system (Italy)

·         Autonomous TBM (Malaysia)

·         AXON   (Australia)

·         Tunnel Inspection 4.0 – Smart Tunnel Maintenance using Artificial Intelligence (Switzerland)

“INNOVATIVE UNDERGROUND SPACE CONCEPT OF THE YEAR”

·         Building Large Prefabricated Urban Underground Space with Small TBMs for Subsection Undercutting (China)

·         SNWA Low Lake Level Pumping Station – Underground (USA)

·         Underground Green Farming (Switzerland)

“SAFETY INITIATIVE OF THE YEAR”

·         Air Quality Working Group: An industry-first collaboration on silica dust control  (Australia)

·         An Automatic Geological Forward-prospecting Technique Safeguarding TBM Tunneling (China)

·         ROBOTIZATION OF THE AUTOMATIC TUBULAR STEEL ARCH INSTALLATION: A KEY FACTOR FOR SAFETY  (Italy)

“YOUNG TUNNELLER OF THE YEAR”

·         Amanda Kerr (USA)

·         Diwakar (Singapore)

·         Elliot James Fern (Switzerland)

·         Sun Feng (China)

·         Yutaka Okuda (Japan)

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