The invention belongs to the technical field of highway
tunnel construction, and particularly provides a highway tunnel vertical shaft
pilot well expanding excavation construction method which comprises the following steps that a
directional drilling machine drills a guide hole from top to bottom; a
reamer bit is installed below the guide hole, and reaming is conducted from bottom to top; vertical shaft opening locking construction is conducted; carrying out tunneling and supporting construction on a shaft body; during construction, disintegrating
slag falls into a connecting air duct of a main tunnel through the guide hole and is conveyed out through
slag discharging equipment; a lifting suspension
system, a
signal, illumination, a wind and water pipeline and a waterproof and drainage pipeline are installed in the vertical shaft; excavating and supporting the whole section of the vertical shaft to the shaft bottom; assembling a slip form at the bottom of the vertical shaft, and constructing the slip form to a designed elevation; and dismantling the slip form
machine, cleaning the site, and completing acceptance. The problems of high construction difficulty, high cost, low construction efficiency, poor safety and the like of deslagging, ventilation and drainage of the traditional normal well excavation method are solved; the
slag discharging speed is high, ventilation can be achieved, temporary drainage facilities are omitted, the cost is reduced, and the construction efficiency is improved.