Tideway, the company building London’s new super sewer Thames Tideway, has released its latest annual report, confirming the capital cost of the project remains £4.5bn, as reported in April.
Tideway confirmed the figure in its financial results for the year ending March 2023, detailing a year in which almost all underground…
Tunnelling may be completed on London’s super sewer but there is still much work to be done to bring Tideway into operation.
Tunnel boring machine (TBM) launches and breakthroughs usually grab the headlines when it comes to delivery of new tunnel projects. But completion of the main drives is usually followed…
The first shaft on the eastern section of London’s new super sewer - the Thames Tideway Tunnel - has been capped off marking a milestone for the £4.5bn project.
Tideway announced the completion of the concrete cover slab at King Edward Memorial Park (Kemp) foreshore site yesterday by its joint venture…
Tideway has updated its cost estimate for the Thames Tideway Tunnel to £4.5bn, taking into account the remaining work programme and the impacts of inflation.
The super sewer project was initially costed at £3.52bn in 2014, but that figure has steadily crept up over the course of its construction. The latest…
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Topcon automated monitoring systems provide peace of mind on projects where the risk of movement is a safety consideration.
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Tideway spent £10M developing an innovation to speed up the lining of tunnels, but it will never be used on construction of the super sewer.
Tideway chief technical officer Roger Bailey revealed that efforts to create a precast secondary lining machine were ultimately not delivered in time to be used on…
Giant bronze ventilation columns have been installed for the first time on the central section of the Tideway super sewer project.
The 5m-high columns at Victoria Embankment will serve as an exhaust system, removing air displaced by flows into the super sewer. This air will be filtered through air treatment chambers.…
Safety guidance and training for tunnellers can boost efficiency and reduce costs.
It has been a busy time for tunnelling projects. Tunnelling work on London’s 25km Tideway super sewer officially finished in April. The two tunnelling boring machines (TBMs) working on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) tunnels under the Chilterns completed the…
The £4.2bn Thames Tideway Tunnel project has reached another milestone as half of the super sewer’s secondary lining has been completed.
It comes a month on from the completion of all tunnelling on Tideway – a 25km system of passages to transport London’s waste, reducing overflows and the amount of untreated…
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