These compilation videos are a really cool way to look back at what the B1M has already covered. It would be cool to compliment these with some kind of update on where these projects are now, especially ones that were supposed to hit milestones in the past year.
Agreed, hearing about these really has me interested in how they're doing. The boat tunnel in Norway really has me interested in how it's going, seeing as it was supposed to start in 2020
Tunnels that are under massive bodies of water have always blown my mind! You'd just think that no matter what you do, water would always eventually seep into it.. especially when you think of how the sediment is at the bottom of vast water ways. It's beyond impressive
It feels like I'm finally living in the future when using the Elizabeth Line in London. It's absolutely astonishing. To say it's 'just' a tunnel absolutely misses the point - it's an amazing piece of architecture and engineering. And because I can take it from Sheffield it saves me time, money and the dread of transport connections.
Thank You, B1M, for this late Holiday gift! Best video I've seen in weeks! And yes this also makes me want to visit the Faroe Islands so I guess it was successful for all!
I like this channel a lot, such cool projects. It was a little odd in the story about Chicago when Lake Michigan was mentioned they showed Big Red lighthouse. It's a very cool lighthouse, and it is on Lake Michigan, but it's in Holland, Michigan, about 150 miles away from Chicago.
Good that some of the money from Denmark funds nice tunnels in the Faroe Islands. Although some seem rather extravagant considering the number of people they serve.
Tunnel system on the Faroe Islands? Population 50,000. Well, well, that's amazing, considering in Dublin, with 2M people we can't get 1 Metre of an urban metro tunnel done which has been talked about since 1905? Hmmmmm?!
Great vid👍 In the last one for the Austrian tunnel - the person said the best thing about working on it was everyday there is a new problem to solve!! Would you not want a dig that has no problems 🤣 Cheers
You missed the long, big tunnels that build in South America. In Colombia they build the largest tunnel that cross three lines of mountains, the Andes. Join the central part of the country with the coast. There are other huge construction projects in that country. Check it out.
TBM's have slowly evolved to what they are today. In the late 1800's they already had machines for digging tunnels, but they were of course not as sophisticated as they have evolved to be today. Quote: """ 1965 saw a major step forward in TBM technology with the invention of the Bentonite tunnelling concept. This allowed soil to be carried away from the tunnel face by pumping in bentonite (a clay mineral) to create slurry - a liquid form of earth. """
Somewhere floating around the net, I'd seen it years back. Is a picture of Joseph Stalin with crew/associates sitting in front of a round end tunnel with circular side walls the looks remarkably like our modern boring machine tunnels. I think it might have been the Moscow Subway Tunnels.
How 'bout a discussion of a Bering Strait tunnel? Can you imagine the future economic and climate benefit of a freight and high-speed rail tunnel system. We should be thinking out 100 years.
You should look at tunnels currently being built in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of TEN-T Vc coridor, one currently being built is 4 km long, and biggest one that will be built starting next year is Prenj with length of 10 km.
I teally want to see a video on how they keep track of where they're going underground so they can end up a the right spot. It's too deep for GPS signals to penetrate and inertial navigation isn't accurate enough, so how do they navigate?
All tunnels have been built centuries ago and are basically being renovated and cleaned of debris from the various resets. I think your question was somewhat answered around the 30min point, tho questionable.
You know what would make the most sense for the UK subway line. A complete overhaul and install the supertrain system across every town & city. Time would be saved across the board. It would greatly improve transportation and would make them state of the art. Poor management and a complete lack of direction has lead to the widest incompetence
This video, though I enjoyed it from beginning to end, raises a question about this channel which bothers me. I'm writing this on 1 January 2024. The video, I thought ... was a NEW video posted here on this channel a few days ago in late December 2023. Yet in it we clearly hear Fred referring to 2022 as the future. And when projects are in reality taking place, or not taking place, being initiated & completed, is obviously an important dimension of public civil engineering. But now I have no idea when these videos are made, nor whether things have actually occurred - or even exist.
Have you ever considered looking in the Hsuehshan/Snow Mountain Tunnel in Taiwan? It's only 12.9km long with a max 500m deep shaft, but goes through some pretty tough geography that destroyed two of the three TBMs that were deployed. As a Taiwanese I keep hearing heroic stories from our own media channels about amazing and world-class it was to build that tunnel, when the Swiss, French, Japanese, and Americans all came to survey but gave up. However, I can't find much info in the world media about it other than that one Discovery channel documentary which just echoes the same story told within Taiwan. If it was indeed a world-shocking project as is claimed, I would have expected more coverage. Would you know anything about it?
How automated is tunnelling now? And are we tunnelling faster than ever? It seems to be extremely expensive in Australia but is the solution we need in 3 main cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Interesting they are using old fashioned drill-and-blast rather than TBMs. You normally only do that for heavily faulted geology - perhaps it is to do with the islands being volcanic.
A TBM will only bore a round hole of limited diameter. When it comes to building a wider tunnel to carry a dual carriageway road or to construct underground station platform concourses excavation methods are used. If the excavations are in rock explosives are used for blasting out the rock. If other soils are present excavations takes place in short lengths and liquid concrete called guide is sprayed on the excavation face to maintain stability. If the excavation is in gravel liquid concrete is injected into the ground from surface level to turn the gravel into concrete.
Chicago is only 200 miles from me but I never go there. Didn't know anything about the waterways, and that sewer & reservoir system is so cool. I really should make a trip down there someday to look around, get mugged stabbed and shot a few times and come home. ;)
Just so good.... Showcasing the power of construction... B1M 👏
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These compilation videos are a really cool way to look back at what the B1M has already covered. It would be cool to compliment these with some kind of update on where these projects are now, especially ones that were supposed to hit milestones in the past year.
Follow ups would be great, I like to see how projects either do or don't pay off.
Agreed, hearing about these really has me interested in how they're doing. The boat tunnel in Norway really has me interested in how it's going, seeing as it was supposed to start in 2020
This was literally what I came to type
The B1M is a premier class channel! Every video, 10/10!!
It's a compilation video of previous videos.
@@TheRocco96 yes, all the tunnelling videos!!
For a construction channel you do say “climate change” an awful lot…
@@adarretbecause climate change affects everything and that includes construction
@@darthmaul216 keep rationalizing… 🙂
38:40 Three emergency stations 20 Km apart really puts into perspective how insane this project is. Wonderful video
Loving these compilation videos - perfect to put on tv while dealing with other holiday activities!
Tunnels that are under massive bodies of water have always blown my mind! You'd just think that no matter what you do, water would always eventually seep into it.. especially when you think of how the sediment is at the bottom of vast water ways. It's beyond impressive
Good topic 4 a video
Water does seep in, it's just pumped out faster than it seeps in.
I'm always looking forward to some BM1 videos! Keep up the amazing work!
Personally I prefer the B1M videos😉
@@DomingoDeSantaClaramaybe they are one of those that watch all videos on the toilet.
I love the 1MB!
It feels like I'm finally living in the future when using the Elizabeth Line in London. It's absolutely astonishing. To say it's 'just' a tunnel absolutely misses the point - it's an amazing piece of architecture and engineering. And because I can take it from Sheffield it saves me time, money and the dread of transport connections.
Hm. What do you do about the peopleyness, though? I mean 95% of the dread is the people, let's be honest.
Such great content!! Looking for to 2024, hopefully more Chicago vids too! ;). Happy New Year!
Heck yes!!!! Love The B1M!!
Thank You, B1M, for this late Holiday gift! Best video I've seen in weeks! And yes this also makes me want to visit the Faroe Islands so I guess it was successful for all!
Another Superb Video,Happy New Year Fred 👍😉💪
I do enjoy your channel and the high quality information you provide in it. It is one of my favorite entertaining and educational channels on UA-cam.
sir change your profile picture.
Should have covered the Himalayan tunnels as well they might not be picturesque as european counterpart but the engineering is incredible
I nearly did myself a mischief when I saw it was a B1M tunnel special. Sterling work!
My friend... You Say from Austria to Malta .
Increíble pero cierto !.
I like .
T.y.
We have one massive underseatunnel left to do in the Faroe Islands and it will be about 23 kilometers long
Man oh man, Fred, this all is amazing. I am going to watch this again!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
🎉🎉🎉
The B1m is the best channel to describe big projects
We already have a undersea roundabout in Norway
Thank you and have a Happy New Year.
13:22 no idea how you game up with that but I love it!
Your work is truly exemplary,keep it up!
💯👏 Thank you! Look forward to 2024 videos. Keep up the great work!
This is “boring” 😀
Haha, love it 😂
I see what you did there
Ba dum tsss 🥁
Ayyyyyy 👉🏼😎👉🏼
You're digging deep with this joke!
Brilliant . . I could see the light at the . . 😁🤣
Look forward to watching more updates. . Merci 👍
¡Gracias! 🇦🇷
These videos are always super sleek and insightful, love 'em! Although I was surprised that the Fehmarn Belt tunnel didn't make the cut.
Finally, a video title that accurately describes it's content, if I wasn't already subscribed these stories would have convinced me, well done.
Grazie, Thank you for the documentary and to all of you the best of success in "poching the hole from A to B". Happy New Year.
I wish I could see every one.! Fascinating. Brilliant, engineering.
I like this channel a lot, such cool projects. It was a little odd in the story about Chicago when Lake Michigan was mentioned they showed Big Red lighthouse. It's a very cool lighthouse, and it is on Lake Michigan, but it's in Holland, Michigan, about 150 miles away from Chicago.
Love The B1M ❤❤❤
Really nice video! Would be great to get a little shot about the suspension bridge in Linz of the last video!
Well done!
Sick video @The B1M! Properly enjoyed it, prob bcoz I can listen to Fred talking all day long 🤣👍😎
Absolutely drilled it with this one😊
I just thought i would dig in to this
Nice 👌
Mate loveing the holiday week 50 min vids. Good work fella.
What a lot of planning! This is a very instructive video. I always wondered how those tunnels are made.
The Potomac Interceptor sanitary sewer system here in the Washington, DC area was an impressive tunneling project.
Like those kind of videos, it will just be nice to know how one of those finished
45:02 “When we say ‘you,’ we don’t mean ‘𝙮𝙤𝙪.’” 😆
I was expecting him to say "Don't try this at home."
I am very much looking forward to the train to Malta.
i love your content!
Amazing how so many of these are in Europe!
NOT BORING AT ALL!!!😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤
Humanity is getting so good at stuff like this that it looks easy and boring. Insane.
More videos like this!
WOW!... This channel now has over 3 Million 'subs' ... I remember when it had 200K
The sister channel 'Tomorrow's Build' is good too.
Really good content 👌
Nice video !
Has there been an issue with concrete not meeting specifications, either delaying the build or removing bad concrete?
Good that some of the money from Denmark funds nice tunnels in the Faroe Islands. Although some seem rather extravagant considering the number of people they serve.
Tunnel system on the Faroe Islands? Population 50,000. Well, well, that's amazing, considering in Dublin, with 2M people we can't get 1 Metre of an urban metro tunnel done which has been talked about since 1905? Hmmmmm?!
With these awesome engineering projects, I definitely see light at the end of the tunnels... 😆
Great vid👍
In the last one for the Austrian tunnel - the person said the best thing about working on it was everyday there is a new problem to solve!! Would you not want a dig that has no problems 🤣
Cheers
Engineers like challenges, otherwise it would be boring!
@@progfix and tax payers hate engineers having too many challenges $$$🤣
Cheers
It be also great vision to, see more tunnels from scotland to norway .or even ireland etc ,well done .👍
You missed the long, big tunnels that build in South America. In Colombia they build the largest tunnel that cross three lines of mountains, the Andes. Join the central part of the country with the coast. There are other huge construction projects in that country. Check it out.
Yep, Italy is doing well :O
I remember thinking the tunnel boring machine in Total recall was insanely cool 33 years ago. Do you know when they first were used?
TBM's have slowly evolved to what they are today. In the late 1800's they already had machines for digging tunnels, but they were of course not as sophisticated as they have evolved to be today.
Quote:
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1965 saw a major step forward in TBM technology with the invention of the Bentonite tunnelling concept. This allowed soil to be carried away from the tunnel face by pumping in bentonite (a clay mineral) to create slurry - a liquid form of earth.
"""
Somewhere floating around the net, I'd seen it years back. Is a picture of Joseph Stalin with crew/associates sitting in front of a round end tunnel with circular side walls the looks remarkably like our modern boring machine tunnels. I think it might have been the Moscow Subway Tunnels.
TBMs are so cool!
Have you looked at the new tunnelling motorway there building in Stockholm ??
“…or 106,000,000 Tom Cruises”. 😂 My mind was starting to wander, that got me laughing and sucked me V right back in to the video. 👍
Love the Grey Rasputin
Woohoo! Y'all are big enough to have a clip show!
when will we be able to buy those B1M safety vests?
How 'bout a discussion of a Bering Strait tunnel? Can you imagine the future economic and climate benefit of a freight and high-speed rail tunnel system. We should be thinking out 100 years.
You should look at tunnels currently being built in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of TEN-T Vc coridor, one currently being built is 4 km long, and biggest one that will be built starting next year is Prenj with length of 10 km.
These big projects always attract a lot of criticism, but then it's in use for 10 years and the industry will wonder how they managed without it.
I teally want to see a video on how they keep track of where they're going underground so they can end up a the right spot. It's too deep for GPS signals to penetrate and inertial navigation isn't accurate enough, so how do they navigate?
All tunnels have been built centuries ago and are basically being renovated and cleaned of debris from the various resets.
I think your question was somewhat answered around the 30min point, tho questionable.
Was your reply meant for me? I don't see anything around the 30:00 mark that answers my question
Yea. The guy talked about how they have to "dig before they dig", by drilling holes along the path of the tunnel
Correction he mentioned "exploratory tunnels"
The TBM's are operated by computer control a dcguided by a laser.
My doggo dug a hole after watching this video. I hope he can finish his tunnel megaproject soon 🙏
With such a small pop., who has been footing the bill for the tunnels in the Faroe Islands?
You know what would make the most sense for the UK subway line. A complete overhaul and install the supertrain system across every town & city. Time would be saved across the board. It would greatly improve transportation and would make them state of the art. Poor management and a complete lack of direction has lead to the widest incompetence
This video, though I enjoyed it from beginning to end, raises a question about this channel which bothers me. I'm writing this on 1 January 2024. The video, I thought ... was a NEW video posted here on this channel a few days ago in late December 2023. Yet in it we clearly hear Fred referring to 2022 as the future. And when projects are in reality taking place, or not taking place, being initiated & completed, is obviously an important dimension of public civil engineering. But now I have no idea when these videos are made, nor whether things have actually occurred - or even exist.
very interesting.
I have tried to find the meaning of “the B1M,” to no avail. Can someone please tell me?
Life is just a tunnel through space and time.
Have you ever considered looking in the Hsuehshan/Snow Mountain Tunnel in Taiwan? It's only 12.9km long with a max 500m deep shaft, but goes through some pretty tough geography that destroyed two of the three TBMs that were deployed. As a Taiwanese I keep hearing heroic stories from our own media channels about amazing and world-class it was to build that tunnel, when the Swiss, French, Japanese, and Americans all came to survey but gave up. However, I can't find much info in the world media about it other than that one Discovery channel documentary which just echoes the same story told within Taiwan. If it was indeed a world-shocking project as is claimed, I would have expected more coverage. Would you know anything about it?
What's efficient or sustainable about building tunnels for a handful of people to commute from their dream, remote locations to work in the capital?
How can they afford this?
No mention of fehmern, which is a record tunnel.
Excellent entertainment to have breakfast 🍳 with which I am.
Very interesting video should look at the Swedish capital Stockholm Western by pass of the E4 it is taking a very very very long time...
All four seasons in a single day? Psh, come to Texas my friend.
I've always wondered, what's "B1M" stand for?
I wonder average cost of tunneling under the mountain, no water nearby what so ever. Thanks
Where is the Philippines here? I am referring to the Metro Manila Subway Project!
How automated is tunnelling now? And are we tunnelling faster than ever? It seems to be extremely expensive in Australia but is the solution we need in 3 main cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
What does b1m stand for?
The UK needs an escooter tunnel network linking Manchester to Liverpool through Wigan Pier and connecting to Southport.
Lmao, Had to re-read the escooter bit haha
@@milton1969able
Rion escooters can go at 80mph for 30mins and then be folded into a taxi
Looking at the faroohe island investment , all these tunnel only make sense if there is some important military reason.
That was a lot of Tunnels for today 😂
Interesting they are using old fashioned drill-and-blast rather than TBMs. You normally only do that for heavily faulted geology - perhaps it is to do with the islands being volcanic.
A TBM will only bore a round hole of limited diameter. When it comes to building a wider tunnel to carry a dual carriageway road or to construct underground station platform concourses excavation methods are used. If the excavations are in rock explosives are used for blasting out the rock. If other soils are present excavations takes place in short lengths and liquid concrete called guide is sprayed on the excavation face to maintain stability. If the excavation is in gravel liquid concrete is injected into the ground from surface level to turn the gravel into concrete.
What about the smart tunnel in Malaysia?
“These massive rocks 😏”
Chicago is only 200 miles from me but I never go there. Didn't know anything about the waterways, and that sewer & reservoir system is so cool. I really should make a trip down there someday to look around, get mugged stabbed and shot a few times and come home. ;)
For such a small population. how do the economics for these projects actually make sense?
Minute 15:40
Chicago started a mega project in the 70s to solve a problem INVENTED in the 90s.
Gimme a break.
106 million Tom Cruises was unexpected 🤣🤣🤣