CREG TBM - Factory Acceptance

The first of 2 slurry TBMs manufactured by CREG for the Thomson Line has just passed its Factory Acceptance test last Thursday. The machine, with the serial 209A, will be used to tunnel the 1.3km section between Lentor and Mayflower stations beneath Ang Mo Kio Avenue 4 under Contract T209. Its sister machine 209B is scheduled to pass the factory acceptance next month.

Factory Acceptance of 209A CREG Slurry TBM (Photo cr: CREG)

DCM Collapse at Marina South

One of the Deep Soil Mixing rigs collapsed at the Marina South station site earlier this evening. Works at the T227 site have been temporarily halted while the accident investigation is underway. No fatalities have been reported.

Photo Cr: Andy

Photo Cr: Andy

Herrenknecht TBM - Factory Acceptance

The third Herrenknecht Mix-shield tunnel boring machine for the Thomson Line, which had been ordered by Sinohydro under the T217 project, have just successfully passed its factory acceptance test at the assembly factory in China. The TBM is expected to arrive in Singapore by the third quarter of this year.

The machine will execute 2 drives for the completion of the twin bored tunnels between Napier and Orchard Boulevard stations, with the lower Woodlands Bound tunnel to be driven first. Upon docking at OBV, the TBM will be dismantled within the tunnel and relaunched at Napier within a new shield for the excavation of the Changi Bound tunnel.

Factory Acceptance for the T217 Herrenknecht Mixshield