The Scottish Executive Development Department requested the design and manufacture of a bespoke ArchLok system to extend an existing culvert in Dundee. The project required a value engineering solution comprised of 20 ArchLok segments with cast footings on keyways and a cast crown beam and grout keyway to hold in place. Following completion of the […]
Sector: Tunnel Segments
Shay Murtagh Precast work with Herrenknecht Formwork Technology GmbH to create a complete integrated solutions package of mould system for Tunnel Segments.
Corrib Gas Tunnel Project – Video
Each and every project we complete at Shay Murtagh Precast brings us satisfaction and drives us to improve, create and build our team for the next challenge. One of these challenges was Shell – Corrib Gas Tunnel project. The tunnel was one of the largest contracts completed in Ireland over the last number of years […]
Breakthrough at C310 Thames Tunnel Crossrail
On the 8th of May the last deliveries of tunnel segments left the Shay Murtagh Precast factory for the CROSSRAIL C310 site in London. This concluded just over 3,400 loads delivered to the site over a 2 year period. C310 – is contracted to HOCHTIEF Murphy Joint Venture (HMJV), and in September 2012 HMJV awarded […]
New Tunnel Segments Development on C310 Thames Tunnel
Widely and regularly reported is the size and scale of the Crossrail Project but somewhat less known is the adoption of new technology in the project in an effort to improve infrastructure maintenance and development in the future. As C310 Hochtief/Murphy Thames Tunnel (Plumstead to Woolwich) is the single tunnel drive for Crossrail under the […]
Update – 13,600 Tunnel Segments for C310 Thames Tunnel
Shay Murtagh Precast’s project for Hochtief Murphy on the Crossrail C310 Thames Tunnel has been moving swiftly and another significant milestone was celebrated. Sophia – the first of two Tunnel Boring Machines – made its first breakthrough at the Woolwich Box Station on 15th May.
Precast Concrete Tunnel Segments for C310 Thames Tunnel
Joint Venture partners HOCHTIEF Solutions AG and J Murphy & Sons Limited (HMJV) have been appointed by state owned Crossrail to undertake the prestigious €220 million C310 Thames Tunnel Project. This project will see the construction of two tunnel’s with a total length of around 5.5 kilometers in southeast London. Part of which runs under […]