Tunnel de Marseille - concrete pumping marathon 7/28/1999

Tunnel de Marseille - concrete pumping marathon

At 17.10 on Wednesday 28th July, 1999 Delta Pompage of Chambery, France claimed the world long distance concrete pumping record when it delivered 230 cu m over a distance of 2,719.65 m at the Puits Carriere site on the TGV Mediterranee using a Schwing model BP 8000 HDRE 18 2 x 160 kW pump. Pipe used was 125 mm with 8 mm wall and at full distance there was 25-30 cu m of concrete in circuit. The shaft into the tunnel was 200 m-deep. During a two-year period, over 190,000 cu m of concrete was pumped into the Marseille tunnel for the joint venture of Fougerolle-Ballot, Campenon Bernard, Razel and Pico. The record came about as a result of close collaboration between Delta Pompage, Lafarge and Schwing-Stetter. Project manager for the contracting consortium was Guy Cueille. Visit Schwing.de for more details.