{"id":19711,"date":"2025-10-14T06:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19711"},"modified":"2025-10-14T06:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:28:15","slug":"brenner-base-tunnel-mechanised-excavation-completed-lot-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=19711","title":{"rendered":"Brenner Base Tunnel &#8211; Mechanised excavation completed Lot 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the digging process on the Brenner Base Tunnel\u2019s eastern main tube has been completed, currently seven of the project\u2019s nine TBMs have completed their drives for the Italian-Austrian railway tunnels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to finishing the drive and marking the completion of mechanised excavation for H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons construction lot, TBM Lilia broke through in the municipality of Navis on 6 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TBM Lilia with 160m length has bored 8.1km through rock and encountered several fault zones, from her launch in May 2023 in the Ahrental Valley, whereas she arrived in the area of \u200b\u200bthe existing IRIS auxiliary access route to the adjacent contract section H53 Pfons-Brenner. Lilia\u2019s twin TBM, Ida, arrived at the same location in the west main tunnel tube at the end of August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now excavation of the east and west tunnels on the H53 Pfons-Brenner section of the railway towards Innsbruck is respectively\u00a0 up to TBMs Wilma and Olga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the digging process on the Brenner Base Tunnel\u2019s eastern main tube has been completed, currently seven of the project\u2019s nine TBMs have completed their drives for the Italian-Austrian railway tunnels. In order to finishing the drive and marking the completion of mechanised excavation for H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons construction lot, TBM Lilia broke through in the municipality of Navis on 6 October. TBM Lilia with 160m length has bored 8.1km through rock and encountered several fault zones, from her launch in May 2023 in the Ahrental Valley, whereas she arrived in the area of \u200b\u200bthe existing IRIS auxiliary access route [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4001],"tags":[373,374,5182,3003,47],"class_list":["post-19711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contract-projects","tag-austria","tag-brenner-base-tunnel","tag-lot-41","tag-tbm-lilia","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711","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=19711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19713,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19711\/revisions\/19713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}