First shaft for the Lee Tunnel

30 April 2011 - New contracts - United Kingdom

On 10 February, 4 months after the start of the works, the MVB consortium, composed of Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), completed the last panel of diaphragm wall of the first of the Lee Tunnel project’s 4 shafts. 90 metres deep and approximately 20 metres in diameter, this shaft will serve as the point of departure for the TBM (diameter: 8.88 m) which, starting early in 2012, will drive the 7 km-long tunnel that will collect the rainwater and wastewater of East London.
Total value of the project: €476m.