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Home > CRL’s second Tunnel breakthrough at Karanga a Hape Station

CRL’s second Tunnel breakthrough at Karanga a Hape Station

Tris Thomas

Written by Tris Thomas on 15/07/2022 in News

Tagged: Auckland City Rail Link,Herrenknecht,Karanga a Hape Station

Auckland’s $4.4bn City Rail Link has achieved another significant project milestone with the 7.15m diameter Herrenknecht TBM, Dame Whina Cooper, breaking through at Karanga a Hape Station today as it bores the final second tunnel toward Te Wai Horotiu (Aotea) in midtown.

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The breakthrough represents good progress on construction of the 3.45km twin-tunnel underground rail link up to 42m below the Auckland city centre, by Link Alliance, a JV of Vinci Construction Grands Projets S.A.S., Downer NZ Ltd, Soletanche Bachy International NZ Limited, WSP Opus (NZ) Limited, AECOM New Zealand Limited and Tonkin + Taylor Limited.

The TBM’s journey to Karanga a Hape from Maungawhau (Mt Eden) took three months and demonstrated the project’s continued advancement.

“Boring of the second tunnel only began at Maungawhau Station (Mt Eden) on 26 April and Dame Whina Cooper is slightly ahead of schedule by arriving at Karanga a Hape Station today,” says chief executive Dr Sean Sweeney. “Given everything that’s happened over the last two years, it’s particularly pleasing to see us meet our objectives on this section of the project.”

The completion date for the CRL project is currently set for late 2024. Over the past two years, the impacts of the pandemic have been substantial and are still impacting all construction projects. CRL is currently calculating the cost and time impacts and will share these as soon as possible.

To reach the breakthrough point at Karanga a Hape Station, Dame Whina Cooper travelled 900m, placed 526 segment rings and removed 74,000 tonnes of spoil.

Over the next two weeks, the tunnel-boring team will push the machine forward through the 230m Karanga a Hape Station (Karangahape) tunnel cavern to the Beresford Square site. Hundreds of workers have worked around the clock at Karanga a Hape Station since November 2019 to prepare for the breakthrough and to build what will be Aotearoa New Zealand’s deepest train station.

Once at Beresford Square, the TBM will undergo maintenance, including replacing the teeth of the cutterhead, before embarking on the next part of its journey travelling beneath Pitt and Vincent Streets through to Te Wai Horotiu Station (Aotea). Its breakthrough into the midtown station is expected this Spring.

Video footage of the event can be foundhere:https://wetransfer.com/downloads/1c50c12d7e2ba18e3520b0dc1563fd7120220715024301/c77bf8fcf72b878f2bf5af96cd61dc1a20220715024301/c80677

 

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