{"id":18048,"date":"2023-02-05T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robbinstbm.com\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2023-07-11T21:59:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T04:59:28","slug":"notice-of-retraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robbinstbm.com\/es\/notice-of-retraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Retraction and Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

To all Visitors of our Site:\u00a0 I declare that our website contained information that was inaccurate, and in retrospect, was offensive and disrespectful to our longtime Customer and highly qualified construction Client, Obayashi Corporation of Japan, along with their Joint Venture (JV) Partners, Taisei Corporation and Kosei Corporation.\u00a0 The referenced Project Site name is Hiroshima Expressway 5 Shield Tunnel Project and the Robbins Technical Article titled https:\/\/www.robbinstbm.com\/grout-or-not\/<\/a>, which states as if the JV selected the wrong type of TBM for the Hiroshima Project.<\/p>\n

We retract the statements made in our article such as, \u201cContractors who are used to tunneling in soft ground may not realize that when using a Slurry TBM in rock, inspections must be frequent due to increased cutter consumption.\u00a0 We have seen this borne out on recent projects such as the Hiroshima Expressway Line 5 in Japan<\/em>\u201d because these statements were not based on facts and were incorrect. This statement reads as if the contractor did not review other optional TBM types, when in fact, the JV did indeed study all TBM types and methods to excavate this Express Tunnel.<\/p>\n

There were additional incorrect statements made in the Article as follows:<\/p>\n