The TBM Hades has set a new world tunnel-excavating record for EPB TBMs at the Metro Line 9 site in El Prat del Llobregat, having dug 70.5 metres of tunnel and laid 47 1.5-metre-long concrete rings in a single day.

The record was set on 15 October last, yet another achievement in the string of records set previously by Hades and the TBM Guster in the course of this job.

This section of Barcelona Metro Line 9 was awarded to a joint venture featuring FCC Construcción by the regional government of Catalonia through Ifercat, a government-owned firm, which granted a 30-year public works concession covering the construction, maintenance and operation of sundry items of infrastructure in section I.