Underground construction work commenced for Delhi-Meerut RRTS project

Anushka Khare Posted on: 2021-06-13 14:05:00 Viewer: 4,741 Comments: 0 Country: India City: New Delhi

Underground construction work commenced for Delhi-Meerut RRTS project

New Delhi, India (Urban Transport News): The construction of the launching shaft commenced today in Anand Vihar, Delhi for Tunnelling work. The first Diaphragm Wall (D-Wall) panel reinforcement cage of the size of about 20 m deep (equal to the height of a 10-storey building) and 5 m wide was lowered and concreted. With this milestone, the construction of the underground section for RRTS has entered the next stage.

D-wall acts as a shield or frame to balance the earth pressure, thereby reducing the possibility of soil collapse and also prevents water seepage during excavation.

This Launching Shaft is 20 m long and 16 m wide, located at the Southside of Anand Vihar underground RRTS station. Two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will be lowered in this shaft to bore RRTS twin tunnels from Anand Vihar towards Sarai Kale Khan.

The total drive of these two TBM machines will be around 3 Kms. It will be the longest tunnel section between any two stations amongst the available Metro Systems in the country. An air ventilation shaft will be constructed in between this large section connecting both sides of tunnels, for ensuring the safety of passengers during any emergency. An emergency evacuation facility for passengers is also being constructed to facilitate the safe exit of passengers from tunnels, in a rare eventuality requiring evacuation.

Parallelly, construction of the north tunnel launching shaft will start soon to bore twin-tunnels of more than 2 km length from Anand Vihar towards Meerut.

These tunnels will be of higher diameter as compared to that of Metro systems in the country due to larger rolling stock and a higher design speed of 180 Kmph in the case of RRTS. The internal clear diameter of these tunnels is 6.5 m to reduce the air pressure and discomfort to passengers, due to the generation of shock waves in tunnels because of the higher speed of these trains.

NCRTC team is making best efforts to recover the time lost due to the impact of the second wave of COVID-19 restrictions on the construction activities and supply chains.. The construction activities are being carried out while following COVID appropriate behaviour at sites, with due safety protocols in compliance to COVID SOPs.





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