Tunnel Boring Machine
The ambitious Phase 1 of the Namma Metro mass rapid transit system in Majestic, which is the intersection of the east-west and north-south routes, has hit a roadblock in terms of work and its completion could be deferred to 2016. In terms of completion, the metro is 65 per cent done, with the base slab [...] Continue Reading »
German bank, KFW, keen to finance up to Rs 4,500 crore for Phase-2. Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL), the agency implementing the metro rail project in Bangalore, is likely to miss yet another deadline for the completion of first phase of the project. The 42.3-km stretch of Phase-1 will now be completed only by [...] Continue Reading »
More than seven months after the lowering of a tunnel-boring machine (TBM) into the INA shaft in October last year, the tunnelling work – using TBM – on the INA-South Extension Metro stretch has finally been completed by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC). Going by the information shared by the DMRC officials, a tunnelling [...] Continue Reading »
The Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at Shalimar Bagh recently completed a tunnel under the operational Ring Road on the Majlis Park to Shiv Vihar metro corridor. The tunnel at Shalimar Bagh was constructed by DMRC engineers without any problem to the traffic running on the ring road above. The TBM completed the task of a [...] Continue Reading »
Chennai- The Chennai metro rail project has completed its first tunnel (1.3 km) between two stations- Washermenpet and Mannadi. The tunneling work between this stretch was initiated on October 1, 2012 and got completed in five and a half months. As per the plan initiated by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRC), the phase I of [...] Continue Reading »
