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ITA MEMBER NATION ACTIVITY REPORTS 2019 ITA MEMBER NATION MEMBER NATION ITA September 2020 ACTIVITY REPORTS 2019 ITA Member Nation Activity Reports 2019 1 20-08-18_011_ID20081_eAz_Brenner_ITA Activity Report_210x297_RZgp ITA MEMBER NATION ACTIVITY REPORTS 2019 BRENNER BASE TUNNEL, AUSTRIA – ITALY PUSHING LIMITS WITH VIGOROUS ENGINEERING The new brenner base tunnel represents a next level of trail blazing hard-rock-tunnelling. With a total length of 64 km and maximum overburdenHERRENKNECHT of 1,300 meters this high-impact project AD sets new records. Six project specific engineered Herrenknecht hard-rock-machines are involved in the hardest mission worldwide. Empowering our customers to push the limits. herrenknecht.com/bbt/ Contractors: 1 x Gripper TBM: Consortium H33 Tulfes-Pfons 3 x Double Shield TBM: Consortium Mules 2-3 2 x Single Shield TBM: Consortium H51 Pfons-Brenner 2 20-08-18_011_ID20081_eAz_Brenner_ITA Activity Report_210x297_RZgp.indd 1 18.08.20 10:34 ITA MEMBER NATION ACTIVITY REPORTS 2019 Contents Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan ITA President ITA President’s message for the ITA ITA MEMBER NATION Member Nations Activity Report 2019 Activity Reports 2019 ITA is the leading international organization for 4 Albania tunnelling and underground space. This position is dependent not only on the intensive worldwide 5 Argentina activities of the ITA itself, but also of its Member 6 Australia Nations with their leading positions in their respective countries. Over the past year, this has 9 Belarus been further consolidated via stronger communication and closer cooperation 10 Brazil between the ITA and its Member Nations, and also among the Member Nations 13 Bulgaria themselves. Issuing this print version of the yearly ITA Member Nations Activity report is one 13 Canada of the most effective ways to promote better communications within the ITA HERRENKNECHT AD 16 Chile family. By reading this report, you get the chance to better understand our Member 16 China Nations, the tunnelling projects completed, under construction or in planning in their respective countries, as well as the activities and events held or currently being 18 Colombia organized. I firmly believe that it will facilitate the furthering of cooperation among 19 Costa Rica the Member Nations and subsequently promote a better use of tunnelling and underground space, which is the mission of ITA. 20 Czech Republic I would like to thank all of the Member Nations, the ITA secretariat and Tunnelling 20 Finland Journal for making it possible! 25 France 26 Germany 28 Greece Olivier Vion 30 Hungary ITA Executive Director 31 Iceland For the 4th year, ITA in cooperation with 31 Iran Tunnelling Journal is happy to present to all of 33 Italy you the reports of its Member Nations. This year, 36 Japan despite all the inconvenience due to COVID-19, 38 Member Nations sent us their report. This 37 Kenya magazine is the opportunity for everyone to better 38 Korea (South) know what is happening in ITA Member Nations, as well to know more what are the main tunnelling 40 Malaysia works and projects. As there won’t be any physical WTC, the magazine will be sent 42 Mexico by post to all those who receive generally Tunnelling Journals and ITA Member 44 Netherlands Nations and all ITA members and affiliate will get an electronic version which will also be available on ITA website. 46 New Zealand 47 Norway 48 Poland The publishers, authors and printers cannot 50 Russia accept liability for errors or omissions. All rights reserved. No part of this publication 51 Singapore may be reproduced in any form without 52 Spain prior permission of the copyright holder and the publisher, application for which 55 Sweden Your Contacts should be made to the publisher. TGS Tris Thomas Media Ltd. 57 Switzerland Email: [email protected] TGS Media Ltd 60 Thailand Gary Tween The Old Library, Dudley Road, Email: [email protected] 61 Turkey Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1LE, UK 63 United Kingdom Daniel Lee-Billinghurst Email:[email protected] Tel: + 44 (0) 1892 522 585 65 United States 3 ITA MEMBER NATION ACTIVITY REPORTS 2019 road at its own expenses and maintain it for 8 years after works completion. The project Albania is scheduled to finish by March 2021. Construction of 10.7km of tunnel on Name: ALB Tunnelling the Moglica HPP for Client, Statkraft, Type of Structure: non profit, open association which was completed in October 2019, Number of Members: 12 members for the year 2019. by the Turkish Contractor, Limak group. Construction activities started in 2015. Moglicë HPP is planned to utilize a head ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES DURING The project is financed by the Islamic of 300m between 650 - 350m asl. The 2019 AND TO DATE Development Bank and Government of approx. 167m high dam is an asphalt- Several activities, including lectures and Albania. The Contractor is JV Combined core rock-filled structure and will be one presentations at engineering events. Group Contracting – Alb Building. The the highest of its kind in the world. The Engineer is Sajdi (Jordan Supervision reservoir is planned to have a storage CURRENT TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES Company). capacity of approx. 400Mm³. The reservoir Construction of two NATM Tunnels on is planned to have a surface area of approx. the Qukes-Qafe Plloce road as part of Construction of five NATM bi- 7.2km². The Moglicë HPP will receive its Tirana-Korca highway. directional Tunnels on the Arbri road, water through the 10.7km long tunnel The tunnels have a length of 1000m and with the longest at 3.2km. from the Moglicë reservoir and will use two are bi-directional. The value of the works Contractor is Gjoka Konstruksion (Albanian Francis turbine units. The planned installed is €22M for the primary and final lining, Contractor). The Supervision works are capacity is 184MW with an average with E&M works at €3M. The primary and carried out by GR Albania. The total cost generation of 450GWh/year. final lining was completed in September of the road is estimated €460M. The 2019 and the E&M works are yet to start. concessionary firm agreed to build the FUTURE TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES For 2020 the below projects are scheduled to start: n The Milot-Balldren Tunnel: 1km n The Llogara Tunnel: 5km n The Kardhiq–Delvine Tunnel: 1km STATISTICS 1. Length or volume excavated • 30% mechanized/70 % conventional during 2019 2. Amount (USD or EUR) of tunnelling/underground space facilities awarded in 2019 • US$80M 3. List of tunnels completed: • Moglica HPP Tunnels finished in 2019 4. List of tunnels under construction • Qukes-Qafe Plloce (E&M works) Construction of two NATM Tunnels on the Qukes-Qafe Plloce • Arbri Road Tunnels road as part of Tirana-Korca highway Construction of five NATM bi-directional Tunnels on the Arbri road Construction of 10.7km of tunnel on the Moglica 4 ITA MEMBER NATION ACTIVITY REPORTS 2019 plants, tendered for construction by the water company AYSA in 2 contracts. Argentina The first, awarded in September 2017, comprises an initial 14km long section of the 3.9m i.d. main and the pumping Name: Asociación Argentina de Túneles y Espacios Subterráneos (AATES) station Nº1. The second part is still to Type of Structure: non profit, open association be awarded, but was tendered. Two Number of Members: 57 affiliate members, 7 corporate members Terratec EPBMs were purchased for the first contract, with excavation planned to begin in early 2020. Meanwhile the ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES DURING 2019 of a main sewer located parallel to launching shaft is under construction and AND TO DATE the Riachuelo River, on its left margin, is pretty well advanced. Each machine is In September, a 3 day Tunnelling Congress composed of 2 sections: a 9.4km long scheduled to excavate half of the total was held under the title “Technological upper section with a 3.2m i.d. excavated length, some 7km each. The first contract innovation in Design, Construction by EPBM, and a lower section of 5.1k,m is scheduled to be completed in April and Operation of Tunnels”, with the with a 4.5m i.d, excavated using a slurry 2022. participation of the ITACET Foundation, machine. The project features a treatment developing a training session called plant and an Emissary of 12km with 4.3m 2 road tunnels on the National Highway “Tunnelling 4.0 : New technologies and i.d. to be excavated into the La Plata River 75 – Province of La Rioja automation”. with an EPBM. Three contracts were The project will bypass a road section An online webinar was developed for awarded in 2015 (sewers, plant, emissary), aligned next to a creek, that features the Argentine Construction Chamber, which presently are all in construction. beautiful gardens and weekend houses, dealing with “Safety Criteria and Design At the end of 2018 the construction of via the construction of 2 bidirectional of Railway Stations” and a second for the the treatment plant was stopped, due road tunnels of 560m and 890m in Public Companies of the City of Buenos to the withdrawal of the contractor JV. length. The construction method is Aires, where Design and Construction This work was restarted at the end of conventional tunnelling with a shotcrete Aspects of Mechanised Tunnelling and the 2019, after the appointment of a new primary lining and a prefabricated inner Pipe Jacking method were addressed contractor. Also, at the end of 2019 lining. The excavation of the top heading the excavation of the emissary tunnel of the shorter tunnel was completed CURRENT TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES was concluded successfully. The EPBM at the end of 2019, with the bench and Extension of the Metro Buenos Aires - used on the upper sewer section bored invert excavation still in progress. The Line H 6,660m from a total of 9,400m, whereas start of excavation of the second (longer) After opening the North section in 2018 to the slurry machine advanced approx.