SYNOPSIS

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. LTA in Singapore have taken the bold step of introducing large cross section box-jacking for pedestrian underpasses on the Thomson Line. Following the successful completion of a CREG project in Zhengzhou, China, which involved jacking four (4) tunnels with two rectangular EPB Box-jacking machines CREG will be supplying a Box-Jacking EPB TBM for use on the Thomson Line, Singapore. This presentation will show a case study of the Zhengzhou Project as well as the planned works for the Box-jacking section on the Thomson Line, Singapore.  


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Don has had more than 30 years of experience in Underground and Tunnelling Projects worldwide including, SMART Tunnel, Malaysia, Lesotho 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 Don established a joint venture company with China Railway Engineering & Equipment Group (CREG) to promote and sell their TBMs on the International market. CREG now have sales in Singapore, India, and Lebanon and are active in Turkey and the Middle East. He then pursued a degree in BSc (Hons) and ACSM which is a mining qualification.