Northumbrian Water has used innovative underground tunnelling to allow a new water pipe to be laid without digging a trench in order to to protect an historic railway heritage site.
An innovative tunnel is being drilled beneath the River Blackwater and Langford Cut in Essex to enable a new £20 million water pipeline to be constructed while protecting the watercourses and the wildlife that relies upon them.
A state-of-the-art tunnel boring machine has completed the installation of a key part of a new trunk water main in Glasgow, beneath a motorway and railway, as part of a multi-million pound Scottish Water project which will benefit almost one million customers.
Severn Trent is progressing a £25 million project to upgrade the sewer network in Stroud – the latest phase will see the ‘Marvellous Mining Molly’ tunnelling machine being used to install concrete pipes that will form part of a new sewer network.
Wessex Water is nearing completion of a new 6.5km underground pipeline to connect Bristol’s existing trunk sewer in Lawrence Weston to the Frome Valley relief sewer near Cribbs Causeway.
The use of the river for transport at Chambers Wharf, Tideway’s main drive site on the east section of London’s new super sewer, has avoided around 40,000 lorry journeys since tunnelling began.
The 1000th ring has been installed on the Greenwich Connection Tunnel – part of the new super sewer for London - by Tideway’s Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) Annie.
Work by Tideway to connect the existing sewers into the new super sewer has reached a key milestone at Albert Embankment foreshore, following the breakthrough of a 30 metre tunnel under Vauxhall Bridge.
NI Water has taken delivery of a major tunnelling machine for use on a £7 million flood alleviation project which is well underway in the Ravenhill area of South Belfast.
Highways England has gone out to tender with a contract for Delivery Assurance Partner for the construction work on the A303 Stonehenge Amesbury and Berwick new dual carriageway and tunnel worth an estimated £60 million.