This week a giant tunnel has been dug under the final bridge in London before completion of the 25km super sewer for the capital.

A giant piece of London’s new super sewer has been floated into place by a specialist team working on the Tideway Tunnel at Blackfriars Bridge.

Covid19 restrictions have added a further £233 million to previous cost estimates for the Thames Tideway supersewer project, putting the overall cost of the project at £4.133 billion, while completion has been delayed by 9 months.

Tideway has installed the first shutter which will be used to cast the secondary lining of the new super sewer for London - the shutter has now been lowered to the bottom of the shaft at Tideway’s Kirtling Street site.

A giant stainless-steel vortex system has been lowered into the shaft at Hammersmith Pumping Station as part of the supersewer for London which is currently under construction.

The 25km Thames Tideway Tunnel super sewer has moved one step closer to cleaning up the River Thames as tunnelling machine Charlotte completed its journey to Fulham last week, finishing a vital connection tunnel beneath the river.

Tunnelling on the the Thames super sewer for London has reached the halfway construction point.

Ofwat has launched a new consultation on proposals which would see Thames Water customers bear only 80% of any potential losses from the sale of Thames Tideway Tunnel project land, rather than bearing the losses in full.

Bazalgette Tunnel Ltd’s £75 million fixed-rate senior secured green notes issuance to design, build, commission and maintain the Thames Tideway Tunnel in London has received the highest score on the S&P Global Ratings Green Evaluation scale.

Re-engineered spoils from the Thames Tideway Tunnel project are being used as part of the largest habitat creation project ever constructed inside the M25 and London’s biggest wildlife haven.