Final breakthrough in Milan
1 August 2013The TBM S-388 boring Binary Lot 2 of Line 5 of the Milan metro has completed its drive, Seli announced this month. With last Friday¹s breakthrough, the company concludes excavation for the Milan metro project.
Digging began in November 2012 at the Monumentale station for a length of 1930m, before completing the tunnel at Pozzo Orafi, having crossed 3 intermediate stations (Cenisio-Gerusalemme and Domodossola).
In March 2013 Tunnels reported that TBM S-238 was at 756.38m, 34 per cent of the tunnel.
TBM S-388 finished excavation at the Pozzo Orafi station on 15 June 2013.
