With a diameter of 15.03 meters, a super-sized Chinese-made tunnel boring machine begins excavating a tunnel through the Yangtze, China's longest river.
www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/26/c_138659471.htm
#tunnel #technology #China
San Francisco will spend $150 million to save a giant Lake Merced Tunnelsewer pipe.
Will it be enough?
https://sf.curbed.com/2020/1/3/21048142/lake-merced-tunnel-ocean-beach-plan-san-francisco
£400M London Power Tunnels Project is awarded to consortium lead by German company Hochtief - Hochtief J. Murphy & Sons JV
https://tunnelingonline.com/hochtief-jv-awarded-london-power-tunnels/
#England
SK E&C is to be selected as a preferred negotiator for Silvertown Tunne...was ordered by Transport for London (TfL) in June. SK E&C has...uct two one-way two-lane road tunnels with a total length of 1.4km...ertown and Greenwich areas of London, England. Is about 1 billion...
Transport for London (#TfL) is hindering a legal challenge to the Silvertown tunnel, according to campaigners.
Stop the Silvertown Tunnel is seeking to fight the const...to design, build, operate and maintain the tunnel.
https://www.newsshopper.co...
CREG's super compact Tunnel Boring Machine successfully bored the first 270m of tunnel on the drainage gallery structures of the Wendeng pumped s...ter compact TBM ‘Wendeng’ is only 37 meters long.
https://tunnellingjournal.com/creg-compact-t...
Transport for London (TfL) confirms that the #Riverlinx consortium is...appointed to design, build, finance and maintain the #Silvertown Tunnel (1.4km long, $1.4bn, 12.3m diameter twin-bore road tunnels).
https://tunnellingjournal...
Ferrovial to Win London’s Silvertown Tunnel Contract
https://tunnelingonline.com/ferrovial-to-win-londons-silvertown-tunnel-contract/
map shows tunnel boring machines under the Thames
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/11/20/new-map-shows-tunnel-boring-machines-under-the-thames/
#TBM #London