LOVAT has a high degree of experience designing and manufacturing for some of the various means of pipe-jacking a tunnel. LOVAT produces a full range of Pipe-Jacking Equiment including: * Manned Tunnel Boring Machines-Earth Pressure Ballanced * Manned Tunnel Boring Machines-Rock * Manned Tunnel Boring Machines- Slurry * Manned Jacking Stations * Intermediate Jacking Stations Each Pipe-Jacking TBM is custom-designed to suit the soil/ground conditions of the project. Integrated controls, allow operation by a single operator for the TBM, IGS & MJS. While Self-Propelled TBMs reduce overall jacking forces on the pipe-string.