Current Engineering projects and news

A project’s success hinges on control of cost and the provision of the correct technical expertise with the correct attitudes and experience. Currently Eurotime Solutions are assisting on the following projects:

Thames Tideway

Together the Lee and Thames Tunnels will be one of the most ambitious, challenging engineering feats ever undertaken in modern-day London. They will have a combined capacity of 1.6 million cubic metres. The deepest tunnels ever constructed in the capital (up to 75m beneath ground level), the diameter of both the tunnels will be wider than three London buses placed side by side.

• The Thames Tunnel, stretching some 32km (20 miles) under the river through the heart of London from the west of the city over to Beckton in the east, will intercept the sewage from the 34 most polluting “Combined Sewer Overflows” (CSOs), built into the existing system, before it enters the river. Construction is due to commence in 2012 and is expected to take approximately eight years to complete.
  
  
• The Lee Tunnel stretching seven kilometres (four miles) from across east London from Stratford to Beckton will stop sewage discharges to the River Lee from a CSO at Abbey Mills. This tunnel will capture over half of the total volume of sewer discharges that currently make their way into the Thames. Construction is expected to be complete by 2014.

London Underground - Cooling the tunnel

In an attempt to crack the solution to cooling London's underground network, which comprises 268 stations and approximately 400km of track, the Tunnel Cooling programme was launched. It hopes to mark the transition of a cooler London underground network from an 'if' into a 'when'. Over the last few years the programme's team has been conducting extensive research into the exact conditions of each underground line and developing possible solutions to combat rising temperatures.

By 2010, the expectation will be to deliver the first air-conditioned carriages to the London Underground's subsurface lines, namely the Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City and District lines.