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…
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Tideway | 4.5km Greenwich connection tunnel completed
The Thames Tideway Tunnel has hit another milestone with the completion of the 4.5km Greenwich connection tunnel between Greenwich and Bermondsey.
This section of tunnel stretches from Greenwich Pumping Station to Chambers Wharf, where it connects with the main super sewer. It will tackle sewage overflow into the Deptford Creek and…
Tideway the subject of Brunel Museum’s tunnelling exhibition for school summer holidays
The Brunel Museum has opened its Tunnelling Today exhibition for the school summer holidays, which focuses on Thames Tideway.
It’s a family-friendly exhibition at the museum in Rotherhithe, on the Thames, where visitors of all ages can learn about London’s history and the its once infamous “Great Stink” caused by an…
Future of Tunnelling | Complex Tideway sewer connection makes progress at Blackfriars
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…
Tideway East contractors celebrate first shaft capping completion
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 | Aerial photos show scale of above-ground work on super sewer
New aerial images from Tideway show the scale and progress of work above ground on London’s super sewer.
Main tunnelling works on the 25km system completed in April 2022 and the secondary lining is now complete in the west and underway in the east. However, there are still 20 active sites…
Tideway | Cost of London’s super sewer hits £4.5bn
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…
Watch: Lessons learned from Crossrail and Tideway
This video is from NCE's Tunnelling Festival 2022. Crossrail former chief engineer Chris Dulake and Tideway chief technical officer Roger Bailey reflect on how the contracts for each project were planned to be managed at procurement stage and what the reality was of putting that into action. They also…
More projects should be culled in early stages if costs and timelines are inaccurate, says IPA boss
More projects should be cancelled in their early stages if it is not possible to accurately determine timelines and costs, according to Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) chief executive Nick Smallwood.
Providing evidence at a House of Lords Built Environment Committee meeting Smallwood, who is also head of the government's Project…
Tideway spent £10M on tunnel lining innovation that it will never use
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…