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Extreme Immersion Design
04 December, 2013
The Second Coen Tunnel must survive severe loadings during the usage phase: 16m of water in the middle of the North Sea Canal and 8m of soil at the banks. The determining design scenarios were the sea transport of two days and possible impact by a sunken ship. This article goes into the general immersed tube principle and the construction and transport phases. The usage phase will be covered in the next article, to be published in an upcoming issue of Tunnels
Qatari coup
23 August, 2013
Qatar is preparing to set new records in tunnelling with 26 tBms simultaneously boring 59km of twin bore tunnels creating the first phase of the vital doha metro. technical journalist Bernadette Ballantyne reports
Harding Prize 2013
19 July, 2013
This year’s BTS Harding Prize was awarded to David Clayton of Morgan Sindall for his paper on the TBM crossing at the Lee Tunnel conection shaft. This is part one of his paper.
