Suburban Rail Loop East, Lot “Tunnels North”

Design and construction of the Lot “Tunnels North” of Suburban Rail Loop East, was awarded to Webuild, leading a joint-venture. 

The contract entails the excavation of two parallel tunnels for nearly 10 kilometres each, between the future stations of Box Hill and Glen Waverley, the creation of 39 cross passages between them, two station boxes, two tunnel access shafts, and one intervention and ventilation shaft. The tunnels will be excavated using tunnel-boring machines (TBMs).

Suburban Rail Loop Project, of which the East section is a part, will transform public transport and will improve travel efficiency for more than 80% of Melbournians and take more than 600,000 cars off the roads every day.