🇦🇺 🌠 South side updates from the North East Link! The Spark North East Link Tunnels D&C team is achieving major progress in the south, with works on the SEM tunnel, waterproofing, tunnel base installation and arch lining all well under way. The green gantry crane has now been reassembled in Manningham. Previously used to lower the #TBM into the launch box at #Watsonia, it will soon play a crucial role again, this time helping to retrieve the TBM once tunnelling wraps up next year. Watch its i

🇦🇺 🚧 North East Link: Then & Now! 2025 was a landmark year for the Spark North East Link D & C Tunnels team, with milestone after milestone achieved on Melbourne’s North East Link. Key project highlights include: ✅ TBM breakthrough at Lower Plenty Road box ✅ SEM breakthrough in the south ✅ Completion of cross‑passage excavation ✅ Delivery of the largest continuous concrete pour ✅ Installation of the Silk Street pedestrian bridge ✅ TBMs passing the halfway point An outstanding effort from our

🇦🇺 North East Link TBM assembly nears completion! Exciting progress has been made on the construction site in #Melbourne where the first of the team’s two colossal tunnel boring machines (TBMs) is almost fully assembled. These 4000-tonne giants will start digging the 6.5km road tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen in the coming months. The project will enable a more sustainable future by taking 15,000 trucks off local roads every day and reducing travel times by up to 35 minutes for commuters. Onc

The $26bn North East Link road project is causing a section of the Yarra River to gurgle “like a spa bath”, with environmental advocates fearing project officials have been too quick to dismiss the fizz as harmless. | Herald Sun

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