On September 29, 2017, in Moscow, in the pit of the metro station under construction “Okskaya street” in the period from 15 to 17 hours Moscow time, technological measures were taken to lower the previously assembled rotor of the Herrenknecht-10690 tunneling shield for tunneling on the section “Okskaya street” — “Nizhegorodskaya street” of the Kozhukhovskaya line of the Moscow metro.
The diameter of the TBM rotor is almost 11 meters.
Installation of TBM is performed on the site of the open method of work in the starting pit.