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Freighter Fairpartner carrying the disassembled tunnel boring machine into the Port of Seattle in April 2013. Bertha was designed and manufactured by Hitachi Zosen Sakai Works of Osaka, Japan, and was the world's largest earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine, [14] at a cutterhead diameter of 57.5 feet (17.5 m) across.
The current plan emerged in 2009 when government officials agreed to a deep-bore tunnel. Construction began in July 2013 using "Bertha", at the time the world's largest-diameter tunnel boring machine. After several delays, tunnel boring was completed in April 2017, and the tunnel opened to traffic on February 4, 2019.
A tunnel boring machine used to excavate the Gotthard Base Tunnel, Switzerland, the world's longest rail tunnel An earth pressure balance TBM known as Bertha with a bore diameter of 17.45 meters (57.3 ft) was produced by Hitachi Zosen Corporation in 2013. [ 40 ]
Bertha (tunnel boring machine) M. Martina (tunnel boring machine) T. Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok TBM This page was last edited on 19 December 2019, at 02:34 (UTC). Text ...
The backside of Bertha the tunnel boring machine and the unfinished interior of the SR 99 tunnel, seen in January 2017. After the demolition of the viaduct's southernmost stretch and its lanes were realigned onto an adjacent bypass in 2012, crews began excavation of a 420-foot-long (130 m) launch pit to house the tunnel boring machine. [195]
This is a list of the world's largest machines, both static and movable in history. ... Big Bertha: Tunnel boring machine: 99 m (324 ft 10 in) [8] 17.5 m (57 ft 5 in) ...
During the construction of the State Route 99 tunnel, the Bertha tunnel boring machine became stuck in rocks near Ballast Island, triggering significant archaeological interest in the former island, alongside concerns that the tunnel boring may have inadvertently disturbed the remains of the site.
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