Tag Archive: The Robbins Company

Over 25 Years of Robbins SBUs Robbins Small Boring Units (SBUs) first came on the scene in 1996 when they were used to s...

Underground construction industry veteran Lok Home recently established the Global TBM Co., and on Feb. 8, announced the...

As infrastructure spending on water tunnels and hydro projects increases, so too will use of mechanized boring technolog...

As one of Canada’s oldest cities, Montreal is looking to get an underground upgrade. In 2018 alone, the City of Mo...

In scenic Bloomington, Indiana, contractor Midwest Mole put its 36-in. Robbins Small Boring Unit (SBU) to work. The mach...

In the 1990s, microtunneling was in its infancy in Canada and the projects had mixed results, leading owners and enginee...

The West Trunk sewer twinning project consists of approximately 9.34 km of ∅3.023 m rock tunnel located up to 52 m...

  Much has been written about Small Boring Units — rock cutting attachments that work with auger boring machi...

  Case Boring Corp. Uses Remotely Controlled Rock Boring Machine with Pinpoint Precision In the suburbs of Buffalo,...

Maryland-based contractor Bradshaw Construction Corp. had a complex recipe on its hands: a series of four tunnels u...

This article is a Q&A based on an interview with Tom Fuerst, Utility Tunneling Manager for The Robbins Company, base...