Robbins Crossover TBMs are the adaptable solution to the world’s most challenging tunnel projects. This video explains how Robbins Crossover XREs, a hybrid of Hard Rock and EPB TBMs, work and why they are the solution for mixed ground tunnels...
It is a Robbins Double Shield with a diameter of 5,06 meters.
It is reported that it bored 12,2 km in 18 months `8 months ahead of schedule' and with a progress of '1.000 m per month' (this is what Robbins says).
Tunnelling for Australia’s biggest public transport project is about 50 per cent complete after another mega boring machine broke through into the new Crows Nest Station site.
Only four weeks after Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Wendy arrived, TBM...
Welcome to the surface! E-BERK's TBM with E-BERK Cutting Tools breaks out to the daylight after a 4716m long, 4,98m diameter tunnelling.
DSİ Pamukluk Dam water conveyance project. Mersin, in the Mediterrenean cost of Türkiye.
I think a good deal of the tunnel under the English channel has been dug with TBMs. But these last points were dug manually and there you go! Two sides meet each other under the sea!