Thursday 24th March 2016
6:30pm at the British Club, Soi 18, Silom Road, Bangkok
“Box Jacking in Urban Areas”
By
Don Hall – MD CREG Asia & Africa
In today’s environment of increasing traffic congestion in cities clients are looking to reduce the impact on the surface during construction works for underpasses for traffic and MRT stations. ZURPB (Zhengzhou Urban and Rural Planning Bureau) decided to construct 3 quadruple tunnels to underpass the main North-South arterial highway. According to the plan, each completed quadruple-tunnel consist of twin 8 x 4.5 metres tunnels for vehicles and twin 6 x 2.8 metres for non-motorized vehicle.
Work scope of Lot 1 which includes Hongzhuang Road tunnel consists of 105 metres bored tunnel section as well as a 545 metres cut and cover section. The over burden is 8 metres with the tunnel excavation dimensions of 10.1 metres wide and 7.45 metres high. Lot 2 includes Weisi Road tunnel and Shenzhuangbeilu – Shangding Road tunnel. Weisi Road tunnel consists of 100 metres bored tunnel section and 150 metres cut and cover section. Shenzhuangbeilu – Shangding Raod tunnel consists of 190 metres bored tunnel section and 605 metres cut and cover section. CREG have manufactured the world largest EPB Box jacking machine to complete this Project.
LTA in Singapore have taken the bold step of introducing large cross section box-jacking for pedestrian underpasses on the Thomson Line. CREG will be supplying a Box-Jacking EPB TBM for use in Singapore. This presentation will show case a study of the Zhengzhou Project as well as the planned works for the Box-jacking section on the Thomson Line, Singapore.
Don Hall is Managing Director of CREG Hong Kong Limited graduated from Camborne School of Mines, he initially started on diamond mining in Guinea followed by gold mining in Sudan before starting on TBM contracts. Don has more than 30 years of experience in Underground and Tunnelling Projects worldwide including, SMART Tunnel Malaysia, Lesotho Highlands Water Transfer Tunnel, Athens Metro, Channel Tunnel Project, Cairo Wastewater Scheme, and most recently Line 1 of the Klang Valley MRT, Malaysia. Three years ago, he established a joint venture company with China Railway Engineering & Equipment Group (CREG) to promote and sell their TMBs on the International market. CREG now have sales in Malaysia, Singapore, India, Lebanon, Israel, Vietnam and are also active in Turkey and the Middle East. With the acquisition of WIRTH Technology in 2012, CREG can now offer TBMs across the full spectrum including Slurry, EPB, Hard Rock and Pipe-Jacking.
Entry fee is Baht 200 for Members of SPET and Baht 400 for all others
Approximately 49 members and guests attended a short overview presentation entitled “On Track at Purple Line” on 18th February 2016 given by Ken Harman.
Upcoming Event
The next SPET event is scheduled on 19th May 2016 and will be sponsored by Andritz who are the M&E Hydro Sub-Contractor at Xayaburi Dam in Laos PDR.
The Committee is always seeking new topics for the Monthly SPET Meetings to ensure a continuous schedule of talks for our Members and guests. If any member can suggest possible technical, professional engineering or other topics that might be of interest please contact Mr. Chris Moore on 081-824-1648.
Please enquire at the reception desk, or email chris AT lasanne.com.
