{"id":92063,"date":"2018-06-08T08:51:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T06:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.ferrovial.com\/?post_type=local_new&#038;p=90750"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:22:31","slug":"successful-lowering-of-tideway-centrals-first-tunnel-boring-machine-at-kirtling-street","status":"publish","type":"local_new","link":"https:\/\/newsroom.ferrovial.com\/en\/local-news\/successful-lowering-of-tideway-centrals-first-tunnel-boring-machine-at-kirtling-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful lowering of Tideway Central\u2019s first tunnel boring machine at Kirtling Street"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section class=\"wysiwyg text-editor \" id=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container container--narrow container--p-10\">\n            <p>The Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O&#8217;Rourke joint venture, delivering the central section of London&#8217;s new super sewer, has successfully lowered its first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) at its Kirtling Street site near Battersea Power Station in London.<\/p>\n<p>Ursula, named after a British cryobiologist who discovered the use of glycerol to protect human red blood cells during freezing, will tunnel 7.6km from Kirtling St. to Chambers Wharf in Bermondsey. Millicent, named after Dame Millicent Fawcett, an English suffragist, is currently being prepared for lowering and will tunnel 5km from Kirtling St. to Carnwath Road in Fulham. The process of lowering the TBMs, which weigh in at over 800tn each, is being meticulously conducted, with each machine taking around 12 hours to reach the bottom of an almost 60m deep shaft. Once lowered, they will be placed into launch\u00a0adits, which are 37m long \u2018starter tunnels&#8217; where they begin their journeys east and west beneath the Thames.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-XS wp-image-90751\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ferrovial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/11\/successful-lowering-of-tideway-centrals-first-tunnel-boring-machine-at-kirtling-street-2-264x184.jpg\" alt=\"Image of tunnel machine\" width=\"264\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Thames Tideway Tunnel is the largest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the UK water industry. It is essential to tackling overflows from London&#8217;s Victorian sewers into the Thames, for at least the next 100 years. The programme will create over 4,000 sustainable jobs and another 5,000 indirectly. 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