INDIA: The first class of 10 engineers from Delhi Metro Rail Corp was due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur last month as part of a tunnelling training programme to support construction of Phase 3 of the Delhi metro network.
Jointly operated by engineering groups MMC and Gamuda, the Kuala Lumpur academy opened in December 2011 and has hosted around 500 tunnelling engineers to date.
According to DMRC, the centre is one of few locations in the world able to fully simulate the underground conditions for tunnel boring.
DMRC expects to have up to 35 TBMs in use on the Phase 3 work to excavate 53 km of bored tunnel.
