Inside the 'beast' tunnelling under Sydney Harbour: 'Every millimetre counts'

'Every millimetre counts': Inside the beast tunnelling under Sydney Harbour

Inside the 'beast' tunnelling under Sydney Harbour: 'Every millimetre counts'

A 137-metre-long tunnel boring machine named Barangaroo is carving a road tunnel beneath Sydney's inner west and harbour, with a crew of 20 working in cramped, noisy, submarine-like conditions. Pilot Andrew Jones keeps the machine on course within five millimetres, installing concrete rings to line the tunnel as it goes.

Every millimetre counts.
  1. brudgers

    https://archive.ph/yDoLc

  2. butvacuum

    I'd never thought about it till a knee jerk scoffing at the title:

    But do they need the TBM to be milimeter accurate the whole way- or do they just need mm accurate surveying and very high accuracy when merging the tunnels?

    It might seem inane- but they're two VERY different things.

  3. cube00

    Interesting to a see a Windows 7 machine in the picture captioned "Andrew Jones in the boring machine’s control room."

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