The 19th of January 2023, is the determined date for commencing the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) 2023 evening lectures with a presentation on HS2. Presenting some updates on two tunneling projects across HS2 Area North – the Long Itchington Wood Tunnel and the Bromford Tunnel will be up to Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) sublot project […]
The Khlong Prem Prachakorn Drainage Tunnel Project will host two new TERRATEC TBMs for the Department of Drainage and Sewage Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) in Thailand. Following its successful Factory Acceptance Test in November 2022, the new TERRATEC Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (EPBM) with 6.49m diameter was destined for the Khlong Prem Prachakorn […]
The first of the two TBMs for the H41 “Sill Gorge-Pfons” construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) has formally passed its acceptance test at Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau, Germany. The single-shield tunnel boring machine which has a drilling head diameter of 10.37 meters, a length of about 160 meters and a weight of […]
Recording a monthly rate of over than 1000 meters for the construction of the San Gawang Hydropower Project in Peru, CRCHI exported the first hard rock TBM to South America on December 6. As a part of the project for the Belt and Road Initiative in South America, the San Gawang Hydropower Station in Peru […]
Line 17 Completing digging process of the 1.2 km tunnel, which has been commenced in April 2022, the TBM Dorine with 120 m length and over 1,000 t weight brokethrough at Line 17’s Rolland manufact in Le Bourget at a depth of 26 m on 14th November 2022. The main purpose of TBM Dorine in […]
In order to advance the digging process of the 1.6km (one mile) high-speed railway on the HS2 project, Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) has launched Dorothy TBM for the second time. Excavation of the second tunnel beneath Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, will be up to this TBM which is 125m long, whereas its initial startup […]
