On the 26^th  May 2019 the 11-km dual two-lane carriageway Heung Yuen Wai Highway opened to public. The highway includes the 4.8km Lung Shan Tunnel, 0.7km Cheung Shan Tunnel,  4.5km of viaducts and 4 interchanges,. The Highway provides direct access between the Fanling Highway and Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point (under construction), reducing the travel time from Fanling Highway to the Ping Che area and Heung Yuen Wai, Ta Kwu Ling from 15 and 24 minutes, to 4 and 8 minutes only.

Lung Shan Tunnel is the longest land-based road tunnel in Hong Kong, connecting the Fanling Highway Interchange and the Sha Tau Kok Road Interchange.

The construction of Lung Shan Tunnel, 3 ventilation buildings and an administration building started in 2013. During the construction journey, the Dragages project team worked with many different new in-house innovations, which included:

·         the deployment of the largest dual-mode Earth Pressure Balanced Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) in Hong Kong;

·         the first-ever 180-degree TBM U-turn operation;

·         MOBYDIC (TBM disc cutter monitoring system);

·         TELEMACH (automated TBM disc cutter replacement);

·          ROBY 850 (semi-automatic drilling robot).

Click here for a video on the Heung Yuen Wai Highway, here for the Lung Shan Tunnel video. For further information please visit the  tunnelbuilder archive,  https://www.hywh.hk/en/home/ and  http://dragageshk.com.

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