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CONTENTS
Regulars
FRONT COVER
1 Comment
3-8 Global news
9 Events
33 Innovation
Features
11-15 Spain
21-23 Sandvik
16-17 Sweden
25-27 Scaling
18-19 India
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Diameter: 8,890mm
Driving power: 2,400kW
Tunnel lengths:
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Geology: limestone
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Switzerland
Italy
Pav. 30 Stand A 25
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NEWS
Italy
India
Colle Urania
tunnel begins
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NEWS
US
Austria
IN BRIEF
Doing
the
Jacobs acquisition
Tunnel engineer Jacob
devils
work
Associates recently
acquired
construction
selected assets andhas
staffbegun
of of
ageotechnical
US$272million,
twin-bore,
and rail
tunnel
1.3km
tunnel
through&the
specialist
Milbor-Pita
Ass
mountain at Devils Slide,
California.
When complete, it will
provide an alternative route to
the notorious, winding stretch
of highway that hugs the
mountainside above Californias
Pacific coast, which has seen
landslides, rockslides and
countless closures since its
1937 opening.
Piercing through San Pedro
mountain, the Devils Slide
Tunnel will link Montara and
Pacifica, as well as other coastal
communities stretching along
San Mateo county. When
complete, it will be Californias
longest highway tunnel and
provide a safer, more permanent
route for drivers.
Each bore will have a single
traffic lane, a cycle lane,
emergency walkways and jet-fan
ventilation.
Although preliminary work
on the project began in 2005,
official digging only began on
September 17 when 145 people
attended a ceremony at the
south portal.
Each tube will be 9.15m
wide and 6.70m high. NATM
will be the method of
excavation, with Terex diggers
and earth-moving equipment
slowly progressing up the 2%
gradient.
It is anticipated that a
selection of granite, sandstone,
shale and clay will be
encountered along the tunnel
alignment.
Two ATM 120t roadheaders,
manufactured by Sandvik
Groups Austrian subsidiary,
Voest Alpine, will carry out
much of the work. Contractor
Kiewit Pacific will use two of the
ATM 105 roadheaders, one for
each tube. Where necessary,
explosives will be used to
displace hard rock.
Austrias second-largest
construction company, Alpine, has
been awarded the $123million
contract to build the second
Pfnder Tunnel tube in Austria
by Asfinag.
As the lowest bidder, Alpine
says it won the contract due to its
competence in tunnel construction and optimum cost structure.
Alpines bid team, which
included Beton- und Monierbau,
pitched against four other bidders.
The Pfnder contract is notable
in that, for the first time, bidders
were able to choose between
TBM-boring or drill-and-blast to
construct the western tube of the
6.5km-long motorway tunnel.
Alpine opted for TBM.
Construction is due to begin in
October and is scheduled for
US
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India
Germany
HCC awarded
irrigation work
Hindustan Construction
Company (HCC) has won the
US$180million irrigation-tunnel
work on the Pula Subbaiah Veligonda Project in Andhra Pradesh,
India. HCC is lead partner (60%
share) in a JV with Coastal Projects
Pvt. The award was made by the
Irrigation and CAD Department of
the Andhra Pradesh government.
Envisaged in the contract are the
investigation, design, execution and
construction of an 18.8km, 9.2m
(i.d.) tunnel that will form part of the
water-conveyance system, linking
the Srisailam Reservoir to GunturKurnool road to join the Feeder
canal. It is envisaged the project
will take five years.
HCC is currently building the
US$120million, 11km-long
Banihal rail tunnel in Kashmir.
Tunnel Construction is a
platform that has been designed to
foster business contacts between
exhibitors and visitors engaged in
tunnelling. It will be supplemented
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Nov 5-7: International Congress Tunnels, Drivers of Change (AETOS) Madrid, Spain. Details: Tel: +91 531 06 00. Fax: +91 531 05 41.
E-mail: aetos07madrid@presencia-inter.com
Nov 27-29: STUVA-TAGUNG07 Connections by Tunnel Cologne, Germany. International conference on developments in underground construction.
Organised by the German Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities (STUVA). E-mail: t.wagener@stuva.de. Website: www.stuva.de
Nov 27-29: INTERtunnel 2007 Pavilion 8 at Expocentr, Moscow. Technology and services for the construction and operation of tunnels and underground
spaces in Russia. Details: Ulika Tosner, Mack Brooks Exhibitions. Tel: +44 (0) 1727 814 400. Fax: +44 (0) 1727 814 401. E-mail: ulikatosner@mackbrooks.co.uk
Mar 11-15: CONEXPO-CONAGG 2008 Las Vegas, US. North Americas largest major construction event with major international participation. Details: Show
Management: Tel: +1 414-298-4144. E-mail: exhibits@conexpoconagg.com
Mar 12-14: ISTSS 2008 International Symposium on Catastrophic Tunnel Fires 3rd International Symposium on Tunnel Safety and Security, Stockholm, Sweden
Details: Margaret Simonson. Tel: +46 10 516 52 19. Website: www.sp.se/en/units/re/news/istss2008/sidor/default.aspx
May 4-7: 13th Australian Tunnelling Conference, Melbourne. Organiser: Australian Tunnelling Society. Tel: (03) 9662 3166. Email: dedwards@ausimm.com.au
Website: www.atstunnellingconference2008.com
May 5-9: Samoter 2008 Verona, Italy. Details: Verona Fiere, Viale dellavoro 8, 37135 Verona, Italy. Tel: +39 045 8298111. Fax: +39 0458298288. Website: www.samoter.it
May 20-22: Intertunnel 2008 8th International Tunnelling Exhibition Turin, Italy. Details: intertunnel@mackbrooks.com Website: www.intertunnel.com
Jun 7-11: North American Tunnelling (NAT) Conference San Francisco, US. Advances in tunnel engineering. Website: www.smenet.org/meetings/nat/2008/callForPapers.cfm
Jun 23-25: 2nd Brazilian Congress of Tunnels and Underground Structures, Sao Paulo. Tel: +55 11 3871 3626. E-mail: 2cbt@acquacon.com.br
Sept 17-18: IUT 2008 5th International Underground and Tunnel Fair. Website: www.iut.ch
Sept 22-24: MINExpo International 2008 Las Vegas, US. Worlds largest exhibition of mining and associated equipment. Details: Tel: +1 630 434 7779.
Fax: +1 630 4341216. E-mail: minexpo@heiexpo.com. Website: www.minexpo.com
Sept 22-27: World Tunnel Congress and 34th ITA General Assembly New Delhi, India. Tel: +91-11-2615984/26116567. E-mail: sunil@cbip.org. Website: www.cbip.org
Sept 23-28: InnoTrans 2008 International Trade Fair for Transport Technology Berlin, Includes International Tunnel Forum organised by ITA and STUVA.
Tel: +49 (0)30 3038-2036. Fax: +49 (0)30 3038-2190. Website: www.innotrans-berlin.ru/english. E-Mail: innotrans@messe-berlin.de
Oct 22-24: Underground Infrastructure of Urban Areas 2008 Organised by Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. Details: andrzej.kolonko@pwr.wroc.pl
May 23-28: World Tunnel Congress and 35th ITA General Assembly Budapest, Hungary. Preliminary advice only. Website: www.ITA-Aites.org
Jun 14-17: Rapid Excavation and Tunnelling Conference RETC 2009 Las Vegas, Nevada, US. Details: Tel: +1 303 973 9550; Fax: +1 303 973 3845.
E-mail: davis@smenet.org Website: www.smenet.org available to visitors.
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NEWS
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PROJECT: Spain
GUADARRAMA
Spains topography, with internal and coastal
rock masses in the north, northeast and south,
has necessitated the construction of numerous
base tunnels to speed up journey times between
the interior and coastal regions. The Guadarrama
Tunnel is on Spains Madrid-north and northwest high-speed line, about 70 km north of
Madrid and near Segovia. CC supplied two
conveyors of 13.4 km and 15 km long.
Begun in 2003, the 28.4 km-long tunnel
comprises twin 8.5 m diameter tubes, about
30 m apart, each having a section of 52 m2.
Split into north and south sections of roughly
BARCELONA METRO
Phase 1 of the UTE Line 9 contract, awarded in
January 2002 and now complete, comprised a
10.9 m internal diameter, single-tube, 8.4 kmlong, TBM-excavated tunnel. On a contract
worth around US$2.8 million for CC, the rm
supplied an 8.39 km-long conveyor, designed to
negotiate curves as tight as 280 m in radius.
As the tunnel was completed in two phases,
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PROJECT: Spain
Structural Analysis
Met. RockSch.
Ing. RockFabric.
Proyections
Boreholes
Fault traces
Geological Mapping
(1/2000 and1/5000)
Continious
ERT
Boreholes Fault zones
La Umbria
Geophysical Methods
ERT between boreholes
Seismic Tomography
Others
Geophysical Logging
In Situ Testinge
Detailed Geological
Tunnel Profile
Further geophysical
prospection
Estimated Geological
Tunnel Profile
Geological Supervision
of the tunnel face
Definitive Geological
Tunnel Profile
Geological profile
of the tunnels
204
surface-to-borehole or borehole-to-borehole.
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PROJECT: Spain
a Tunnels
THE PREDIcTION OF
GROUND CONDITIONS
AHEAD of TBM FACE
Structural analysis
Met. rock ]sch
Ing. rock ]fabric
Backfill systems
Packer
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PROJECT: Spain
of the geophysical and in-situ tests were
Electrical resistivity
tomography (ERT)
Resistivity is calculated
Electrical
sensitivity
tomography
for the
detection of
faults has
been used
before
An iterative inversion
3D interpretation of ERT
In the La Umbra fault, 4,600m of ERT profiles
from surfaces were undertaken, as well as
five electrical-tomography borehole-borehole
and six ERT borehole-surface profiles. This
Geophysical logging
used in boreholes
Equipment Log
Schlumberger HALS-PEX-Laterolog-Plataform
Express Logs
HNGS Espectometra Gamma
Nuclear
FMI-Fullbore Fm. Microimager
DSI-Dipolo Shear Imager
GR-Gamma Ray
Mount Sopris Caliper
Acoustic Televiewer
Full wave sonic
Temperature
Gamma Ray
Conductivity
Resistivity
SP
allowed the creation of a complex, 3D
interpretation of the fault.
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