Inventing a Tunnel Boring Machine that reduces tunnel’s construction process in both financial and time aspects, is a challenge that has been launched by Multi-billionaire Elon Musk. While a team of students from Warwick University, supporting by Bechtel, are flying the flag for engineering in the UK after making the final of the global competition, […]
The connection tunnel between Wandsworth and the main super sewer in West London with 1.1km length, has finished its secondary lining phase and this is a landmark moment for the Tideway project. The Frogmore Connection Tunnel (FCT) crosses from the northern angle of King George’s Park, through Tideway’s site at Dormay Street, under the Thames […]
In order to provide the growing demand for drinking water in the region, the Annacis Water Supply Tunnel beneath the Fraser River, between the City of New Westminster and the City of Surrey, is projecting to be constructed by Metro Vancouver. The tunnel is going to be one of five new water supply tunnel crossings […]
In accordance with Herrenknecht announcement, the ‘Mary’ TBM, which is going to dig the HRBT twin tunnels in Virginia, US, has passed its factory acceptance tests with success at the firm’s Schwanau facility in southwest Germany. The purpose of implementing the Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), which represent the final stage of manufacturing, are confirmation of […]
MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation), marked its 38th breakthrough at CSMT (Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus) Metro Station. Surya-1, the Robbins made TBM finished its final upline drive of 557meters from Hutatma Chowk to CSMT Metro Station in less than 5 months (149 days) by using 405 concrete rings. With this 5.8-km long tunnel from Cuffe […]
With a tunnel boring machine (TBM) manufactured by US-based manufacturer Robbins, contractor Kolin Construction has started tunnel boring for the Eşme-Salihli railway line in Turkey. The Crossover XRE type TBM, with a diameter of roughly 14 meters, will bore the 3.5-kilometer Eşme-Salihli railway tunnel for Turkish State Railways as part of the Ankara-Izmir high-speed train […]
