Thrust Boring Equipments for your Construction Needs
As a form of tunnelling operated globally, thrust boring is a very effective modern method of excavating underground tunnels and installing pipes for the delivery of services such as water, sewage, telecommunications and electric cables. Thrust boring is an automated system using digitally controlled cutting heads to tunnel through difficult underground conditions mitigating any danger to the environment or life on the surface above. It is cutting edge tunnelling technology that enables piped pathways to be bored directionally underground avoiding existing services infrastructure.
As a self-contained operation, while the thrust boring takes place, excavated soil and rock is removed simultaneously through a spoil pipe retrieval system that removes the waste to the surface for disposal. It is an environmentally friendly operation from any point of view and is a very effective underground tunnelling technology in busy cities where the installation of such services using traditional methods of open trench excavation could interrupt normal activity on the surface. The inconvenience of such an engineering operation is reduced to the construction of a launch and reception shaft which significantly decreases disruption to traffic and pedestrian activity on the surface.
Thrust boring contracts can vary greatly in size ranging from extensive urban projects to small domestic ones. Whatever the location, whatever the size, whatever the cost of the thrust boring project the underpinning principle remains the same and that is the installation of underground pipes that do not impinge upon existing buildings above, the environment or life on the surface. This system of boring can be very effective even within private residences where installing pipes using traditional methods of open trench installation would be nigh impossible.
For example if we need to run pipes under a conservatory, either replacement or new, thrust boring is the pipe installation technique to use as it can be done unobtrusively without affecting the building or foundations. The only visible signs of a thrust boring operation are the thrust pit and the reception pit, which in the case of a domestic contract would be minimal in terms of disruption to family traffic and family life in general. Thrust boring is famous for its degree of accuracy and its flexibility means that it can circumvent any obstacles in the way such as tree roots. With the electronic directional sensor in the head of the boring tool this pipe laying technique is guaranteed to appear exactly were intended in the reception shaft. This degree of accuracy makes it a most popular form of drilling and pipe installation and with the additional advantage of unobtrusiveness and environmental safeguards it has become a widely used pipe laying system. We can imagine how this has revolutionised the whole pipe laying industry and means huge savings to clients who commission it.
The economy of scale of course is a prime consideration for any client seeking services of this kind. The larger projects such as city sewer pipe replacement schemes can see greater savings through using this method rather than traditional ones. The savings are not only financial in terms of least traffic and pedestrian disruption but also in reducing costs through minimising impact on the environment. The extra costs normally incurred to redirect traffic and pedestrians and to keep the surface work area clean become savings. The negative psychological effect of traditional trenching on everyone is avoided and the unobtrusiveness of thrust boring means that life can continue unchanged on the surface while below surface tunnelling and pipe laying proceed unnoticed by the public.
Terra Solutions is a leading trenchless civil engineering contractor specilaising in Thrust Boring, Microtunnelling and Directional drilling.
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