A SCHOOLGIRL from Glasgow has won a competition to name a state-of-the-art tunnel-boring machine.
It comes after Nieve O'Hara, a primary seven pupil from Our Lady of the Rosary Primary in Cardonald, scooped the top prize for naming the machine as part of Scottish Water's multi-million-pound Glasgow Resilience Project.
The pupil won with the name"Cruella de Drill", and after winning also got to visit the project site to see the machine in person. The hi-tech machine is set to install a 252-metre stretch of trunk main 20 metres beneath the White Cart Water and Paisley Canal railway line in the Nethercraigs area of the city.Communication manager for the firm, Paul Milligan said:"It has been fantastic working with Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School."A big congratulations to Nieve who chose a fantastic winning name for our Tunnel Boring Machine.
"Also, a big thanks to their wonderful head teacher and teachers for allowing us to show them this innovative piece of engineering right on their doorstep." Concrete pipes that are 1500mm in diameter will be pipe-jacked into position at the rear of the TBM and a 900mm ductile iron water main will be installed inside.Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention.
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