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.
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?!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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?
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. ;)
@@gregtoth you can just encourage them by paying them the money wasted on tunnels and by providing tax benefits to employers to hire more people that moved from other towns.
Imagine taking a journey through some of the most breathtaking natural vistas in the atlantic, and then describing that privilege to others as _I have to_ take a ferry.
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.
Imagine if human beings could spend less on war and more projects like this? One can only dream. Unfortunately it only takes a few bad wealthy apples to spoil the whole bunch and keep us from the world of Star Trek.
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.
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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
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.
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.
Loving these compilation videos - perfect to put on tv while dealing with other holiday activities!
Should have covered the Himalayan tunnels as well they might not be picturesque as european counterpart but the engineering is incredible
Such great content!! Looking for to 2024, hopefully more Chicago vids too! ;). Happy New Year!
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!
Heck yes!!!! Love The B1M!!
We have one massive underseatunnel left to do in the Faroe Islands and it will be about 23 kilometers long
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 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.
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.
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The B1m is the best channel to describe big projects
Man oh man, Fred, this all is amazing. I am going to watch this again!
Happy New Year to you and yours!
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We already have a undersea roundabout in Norway
💯👏 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!
I just thought i would dig in to this
Nice 👌
Finally, a video title that accurately describes it's content, if I wasn't already subscribed these stories would have convinced me, well done.
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.
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?!
Thank you and have a Happy New Year.
These videos are always super sleek and insightful, love 'em! Although I was surprised that the Fehmarn Belt tunnel didn't make the cut.
Your work is truly exemplary,keep it up!
Humanity is getting so good at stuff like this that it looks easy and boring. Insane.
Brilliant . . I could see the light at the . . 😁🤣
Look forward to watching more updates. . Merci 👍
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.
¡Gracias! 🇦🇷
I wish I could see every one.! Fascinating. Brilliant, engineering.
Mate loveing the holiday week 50 min vids. Good work fella.
13:22 no idea how you game up with that but I love it!
The Potomac Interceptor sanitary sewer system here in the Washington, DC area was an impressive tunneling project.
WOW!... This channel now has over 3 Million 'subs' ... I remember when it had 200K
The sister channel 'Tomorrow's Build' is good too.
Well done!
What a lot of planning! This is a very instructive video. I always wondered how those tunnels are made.
I am very much looking forward to the train to Malta.
NOT BORING AT ALL!!!😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤
Absolutely drilled it with this one😊
Like those kind of videos, it will just be nice to know how one of those finished
Love The B1M ❤❤❤
Sick video @The B1M! Properly enjoyed it, prob bcoz I can listen to Fred talking all day long 🤣👍😎
With these awesome engineering projects, I definitely see light at the end of the tunnels... 😆
Yep, Italy is doing well :O
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.
Amazing how so many of these are in Europe!
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
Nice video !
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.
Really nice video! Would be great to get a little shot about the suspension bridge in Linz of the last video!
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.
45:02 “When we say ‘you,’ we don’t mean ‘𝙮𝙤𝙪.’” 😆
I was expecting him to say "Don't try this at home."
More videos like this!
i love your content!
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.
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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.
Really good content 👌
Woohoo! Y'all are big enough to have a clip show!
Love the Grey Rasputin
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.
It be also great vision to, see more tunnels from scotland to norway .or even ireland etc ,well done .👍
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.
My doggo dug a hole after watching this video. I hope he can finish his tunnel megaproject soon 🙏
“…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. 👍
TBMs are so cool!
All four seasons in a single day? Psh, come to Texas my friend.
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 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
Life is just a tunnel through space and time.
What do they do in the Faroes where 50K ppl can earn so much money?
when will we be able to buy those B1M safety vests?
very interesting.
That was a lot of Tunnels for today 😂
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?
That Tom Cruise comparison came out of nowhere.
Oooh ... Cruise Ship
I've always wondered, what's "B1M" stand for?
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. ;)
Has there been an issue with concrete not meeting specifications, either delaying the build or removing bad concrete?
You should have covered India's atal tunnel , building a tunnel at that range is very tough
Wouldn't it be cheaper and significantly more environmentally friendly to move all people in Faeroe Islands to a single city only?
Forceably moving people out of their homes is generally frowned upon.
@@gregtoth you can just encourage them by paying them the money wasted on tunnels and by providing tax benefits to employers to hire more people that moved from other towns.
@@bill9540that’s not what communism means bud
“These massive rocks 😏”
For such a small population. how do the economics for these projects actually make sense?
No mention of fehmern, which is a record tunnel.
Minute 15:40
Chicago started a mega project in the 70s to solve a problem INVENTED in the 90s.
Gimme a break.
Excellent entertainment to have breakfast 🍳 with which I am.
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
Have you looked at the new tunnelling motorway there building in Stockholm ??
Imagine taking a journey through some of the most breathtaking natural vistas in the atlantic, and then describing that privilege to others as _I have to_ take a ferry.
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.
Imagine if human beings could spend less on war and more projects like this? One can only dream. Unfortunately it only takes a few bad wealthy apples to spoil the whole bunch and keep us from the world of Star Trek.
106 million Tom Cruises was unexpected 🤣🤣🤣
Looking at the faroohe island investment , all these tunnel only make sense if there is some important military reason.
That tunneling cost is very economic compared to other tunneling projects…
How can they afford this?
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.
Good looking British man indeed.
Surprised the Stad ship tunnel was picked over the Rogfast project. Rogfast is under construction, the ship tunnel is not.