Transportation

Sydney Metro City & Southwest

Metro-scale station caverns and twin running tunnels on Australia’s largest urban rail programme.

Deep cavern station boxes, cross passages and running tunnels designed for Sydney Metro.

Working in sandstone with variable cover, the team designed primary support that balanced excavation sequence, ground movement and construction programme. Our engineers provided on-site construction phase engineering, instrumentation design and interpretation, and specialist shaft and excavation support design.

Scope of work

  • Tunnels & Underground Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Construction Management
Sydney Metro City & Southwest — Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney Metro City & Southwest, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Hoffman Tunnels provided tunnel and underground design, engineering and construction-phase support.

Project facts

Caverns
4 station boxes
Tunnels
Twin running
Client
Transport for NSW
Completion
2019
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