{"id":2119,"date":"2020-09-30T23:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2020-09-30T23:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T23:28:53","slug":"milestone-for-mumbais-water-tunnel-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=2119","title":{"rendered":"Milestone for Mumbai\u2019s Water Tunnel Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patel Engineering Limited (the tunneling contractor) awaits the 3.2m diameter Terratec Open TBM&#8217;s arrival to Maharashtra&#8217;s construction site after the machine completed FAT with success.<br \/>\nThe proposed TBM features a modular design that can be deployed and revived after finishing tunneling either through the shaft or disassembly underground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nCutter head installed on the Tunnel Boring Machines features 18 heavy-duty back-loading disc cutters. The VFD controlled electric motors enabling the cutter head to rotate at over 10rpm with optimum torque.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe machine will be launched two times 5,350m to excavate a 2.5m diameter corridor, stretching from Amar Mahal (Hedgewar Udyan) to Trombay Low-Level Reservoir toward Trombay High-Level Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAdditionally, in order to avoid any challenges during tunnel boring, the TBM is provided with a ground supporting equipment, a fixed probe drilling unit, two rock bolting drills, and a steel arches erector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMumbai&#8217;s Water Tunnel Project is among numerous measures driven by MCGM toward more favorable wastewater management, especially with the population growth resulting in a decreased demand for sustainable wastewater overflows methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nTerratec continues to dominate the Indian market after multiple metro project achievements in Delhi, Lucknow, Ahmadabad, Mumbai, and Pune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patel Engineering Limited (the tunneling contractor) awaits the 3.2m diameter Terratec Open TBM&#8217;s arrival to Maharashtra&#8217;s construction site after the machine completed FAT with success. The proposed TBM features a modular design that can be deployed and revived after finishing tunneling either through the shaft or disassembly underground. Cutter head installed on the Tunnel Boring Machines features 18 heavy-duty back-loading disc cutters. The VFD controlled electric motors enabling the cutter head to rotate at over 10rpm with optimum torque. The machine will be launched two times 5,350m to excavate a 2.5m diameter corridor, stretching from Amar Mahal (Hedgewar Udyan) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[91,103,84,58],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-fat","tag-mumbai-water-tunnel-project","tag-tbm","tag-terratec","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}