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SMART Tunnel Boring Machine TUAH Breaks Through at North Junction Box
TUAH, SMART's first tunnel boring machine, having completed the first phase of tunneling, has achieved an important milestone.
| Tuah broke through at the North Junction
Box in Jalan Cochrane on 11 December 04
marking the end of the first 734m drive.
The event is often viewed as a memorable
occasion by those in the tunneling industry
as it marks the successful journey of the
machine.
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The North Junction Box is a term which refers
to the point where the stormwater tunnel and
the motorway converge/ diverge.
The machine will commence the journey through
the second drive one month from now with a distance
of 4.493KM to be covered.
The overall construction progress for SMART
(as of 30 November 2004) is 37%.
The project's unique feature lies in its design
which incorporates a stormwater channel and
a motorway passage into a single tunnel with
an external diameter of 13.2m.
SMART is a government project being jointly
supervised by the Department of Irrigation and
Drainage Malaysia and the Malaysian Highway
Authority.
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