Look, when we give such infrastructure projects to Chinese companies, don't thin...ills. But also their building material factories. But also their construction machinery companies.
Giving such pro...
In this country, we have The Robbins Company which has virtually invented the TBM tunneling. I don't know why we have to import TBM from Germany and Japan for our projects? What was the last time Germans and Japanese imported a Robbins?
You might also try getting some research grants from UK government, Or from European Union. A colleague of mine from Germany applied and got partial funding from a European research fund. It requires you to find partners in other countries and academia though.
Hi Lutz. You are confusing CityRailLink with the CentralInterceptor project. The former is 12 meter transport tunnel whereas the latter is a 5.45m waste water tunnel.
In any case, knowing your preferences, you will be glad to hear that it is 2-0 for Herrenknecht.
More opposition to Stonehenge tunnel...
https://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/18181487.stonehenge-alliance-calls-a303-tunnel-scrapped-open-letter-government/
Looking back the Cologne tunnel sinking, can you blame the Bundestag administrators?...een damaged by the construction of the underground tunnel.
https://www.tagesspiegel....einigung-im-streit-zwischen-bahn-und-bundestag-s21-tunnel-ru...
Donnie the Tunnel Boring Machine, behind some people.
https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/
#Coxwell
Newspapers say train cars split into 2 before they pass through Marmaray tunnel in İstanbul. Marmaray is an immersed tunnel. They did not want whole train cause weight risk.