TBM delivered to London cable site

1 August 2012


The 56t TBM, 'Bernice', has been delivered to Brentfield Park in North West London and lowered into the Wilesden reception shaft, it was announced late last week.

The J. Murphy & Sons Limited team received delivery of its Caterpillar TBM that will be used to bore a 1.3km long 2.59m i.d. cable tunnel for client, UK Power Netoworks.

Murphy is delivering a GBP 10M (USD 15.6M) contract from Brentfield Park to Taylor¹s Lane in Willesden which also includes the construction of two vertical 28m deep, 7.5m i.d. shafts at each end.

Secant piling was used for one of the shafts and a 143m of shallow tunnel for junction and reception chambers has also been constructed.