Tunnelling on London’s Thames Tideway super sewer has ended today (29 April).
To mark the event, London-based musician and composer Rob Lewis will perform live 70m underground.
His performance will combine multi-instrumental music with the sounds of the sewer construction.
Three tunnelling teams
The Thames Tideway tunnel is 25km long. Work on the project, which aims to tackle sewage pollution in the tidal river Thames, started in 2015.
Three tunnelling teams worked using six tunnel boring machines over six years on the £4.2bn project. A joint venture between BAM Nuttall, Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty is building the west section of the sewer. Ferrovial and Laing O’Rourke are building the central section, and Costain, Vinci and Bachy Soletanche are working on the eastern section. Amey is responsible for process control, communication equipment and software for operations.
Together, they are working on 24 sites across London.
Construction is due for completion in 2025.
Underground performance
Sir Neville Simms, chair of Tideway said: “Completion of tunnelling for London’s new super sewer is testament to the hard work and contributions of thousands of people and organisations, over many years – and it brings us closer to the ultimate goal of a cleaner River Thames. This performance celebrates a significant milestone in our efforts to create a more sustainable London for our growing population and we are pleased to commemorate the end of tunnelling in such a unique way.”
The performance will take place at Tideway’s Chambers Wharf site and can be viewed at Tideway’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/tidewaylondon
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This is a brilliant and much needed project. The team and all the lessons learnt now need to be progressively transferred to the very rural areas so the the massive number of sewage releases into our rivers and beaches are dealt with. Where in Cornwall, Devon and South Wales are well documented.