1st Edition
North American Tunneling 2004 Proceedings of the North American Tunneling Conference 2004, 17-22 April 2004, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Edited By Levent Ozdemir
Copyright 2004
628 Pages
by
CRC Press
This publication includes papers from the North American Tunneling 2004 conference, sponsored by the American Underground Construction Association. The theme of the conference is "Underground Construction - the Sensible Solution to Urban Problems" to reflect the increasing importance of locating urban facilities in the United States underground for enhanced security, to build critical... Read more
Foreword Session 1 – Differing site conditions as applied to design/build contracts Track 1 – Project management Track 2 – Security of critical infrastructure and key national assets: use of underground space Track 3 – Mechanized tunnelling Track 4 – Specialized urban construction Design and construction of an LRT tunnel in San Jose, CA Session 2 – Subsurface investigations and geotechnical report preparation for design/build projects Track 1 – Risk allocation Track 2 – Owners opinion forum Track 3 – Non-mechanized construction Track 4 – Ground modification for underground construction Session 3 – Design/build contracting practices Track 1 – Predicting and controlling cost and schedule Track 2 – Show me the money Track 3 – Investigation, inspection and rehabilitation Track 4 – Machine mining – soft ground to hard rock to everything in between Session 4 – Design/build risk Track 1 – SEM/NATM practices/prescriptive specifications Engineers, contractors, and soft-ground tunneling equipment Track 2 – Transit oriented development – making the case for going underground Track 3 – Analysis and design Track 4 – Conventional underground construction Author Index.
Biography
Levent Ozdemir, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA.
