{"id":19454,"date":"2025-08-18T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19454"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:52:54","slug":"michigan-rfi-for-drainage-tunnel-power-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19454","title":{"rendered":"Michigan RFI for drainage tunnel power needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As part of the I-94 freeway modernisation from Burns Avenue to Barrett Avenue, the I-94 Modernisation Segment 3 Package 1 Drainage Tunnel is due to provide a resilient drainage solution. With an estimated 15-24m overburden, the 1.75km-long soft ground drainage tunnel is going to have a 4.4m inner diameter. The design-build project also includes a launch shaft, retrieval shaft, two offline drop shafts, junction chamber, pump station, adit connections, and other associated work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Considering the subsurface conditions it is anticipated that a pressurised face TBM will be used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The local utility provider, DTE Energy, supplies three-phase 480V, 4.8kV, and 13.2kV services to customers in the Metro Detroit Area. MDOT wants to determine the power required for a three-phase 13.2kV primary service to provide sufficient electrical capacity to support surface works and TBM operations at the tunnel launch\/mining site and proposed onsite step-down transformer capacities and configurations, including typical redundancy and protection schemes used for TBM power distribution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to helping support tunnel operations and to confirm and\/or refine the utility co-ordination approach for the project, the MDOT wants to gather information to help it understand the power needs from industry, through the RFI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deadline for responses is August 29, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the I-94 freeway modernisation from Burns Avenue to Barrett Avenue, the I-94 Modernisation Segment 3 Package 1 Drainage Tunnel is due to provide a resilient drainage solution. With an estimated 15-24m overburden, the 1.75km-long soft ground drainage tunnel is going to have a 4.4m inner diameter. The design-build project also includes a launch shaft, retrieval shaft, two offline drop shafts, junction chamber, pump station, adit connections, and other associated work. Considering the subsurface conditions it is anticipated that a pressurised face TBM will be used. The local utility provider, DTE Energy, supplies three-phase 480V, 4.8kV, and 13.2kV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5060,5059,84,47,229],"class_list":["post-19454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-drainage-tunnel","tag-i-94-modernisation-segment-3-package-1","tag-tbm","tag-tunneling","tag-us","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19456,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions\/19456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}