A TBM in Montluçon

28 January 2011 - New contracts - France

On 25 November, in Montluçon (central France), CSM Bessac, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), installed the tunnel boring machine due to drive a main drain linking various networks associated with the town’s storm water basin. The drain, 2.20 m in diameter, will enable water from the Cher to be channelled into the main storage basin (capacity: 12,000 cu. metres). This basin, and the 15 m-deep shafts for lowering and raising the TBM, were supplied by SNEC and Dumez Lagorsse (subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France). Completion of the works is scheduled for October 2011.
Contract value: €10.3m.