Tag: Tideway

The acoustic shroud is coming downThe 17.5 metre-high shed was built to contain noise and dust pollution at Tideway’s Greenwich pumping station site to enable tunnelling to carry on 24 hours a day. Insulated acoustic panelling meant that work on a 4.5km connection tunnel linking...

Andy Mitchell... because he's worth itDespite seeing his base salary cut last year, from £489,000 down to £468,000, Tideway chief executive Andy Mitchell earned substantial bonuses in recognition of progress on the £4.5bn tunnelling project, whihc is now nearing completion. In addition to his base...

Inside the shaft at Acton storm tanks [image from Thames Tideway]The latest half-yearly report from Bazalgette Holdings Limited, the company set up to deliver the Thames Tideway Tunnel for Thames Water, gives broadly positive account of progress. As of 30th September 2022, the project remains...

SmartFormwork was used in the construciton of the Thames Tideway tunnelThe technology has been used in London, in the construction of the Thames Tideway super sewer. Ferrovial says that the formwork system, called SmartFormwork, has built-in pressure gauges and thermometers to help optimise concreting speed...

Click on image to see full columnThe columns, designed as an artistic response to an function engineering requirement, will eventually occupy nine sites at which Tideway is creating new public spaces along the riverbank in the capital.    The form of the five-metre-high sculpture is inspired...

Breaking throughTBM Annie broke into the shaft at Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site on Tuesday 5th April. This milestone now means that the only tunnelling work remaining on the £4.2bn Thames Tideway project is the final section of TBM Selina’s drive toward Abbey Mills Pumping Station....