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ISBN 978-0-87335-343-4 Ebook 978-0-87335-344-1 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011. CONTENTS Preface xi Executive Committee xiii Session Chairs xiv International Committee xv Part 1: Contracting Practices and Costs Contracting for the SR 99 Bored Tunnel, Seattle, Washington ■ Brian Nielsen, Patrick McCormick, Eldon Abbott, Chris Bambridge .............................................................2 East Side Access Manhattan: A Study in Cooperation ■ William F. Daly, Brian Hamilton, Victor Shey, Sotirios Vardakos ...................................................................14 Design-Build Estimating from the Bottom Up ■ Paul W. Dutton, John M. Stolz, James J. Brady, Carlton M. Ray ..........................................................................................44 Planning for Tunnel Rehabilitation, An Owner’s Perspective ■ David M. Jurich, Joseph N. McDivitt, Dwight Mudry ......................................................................................51 Emerging Methodologies to Improve Cost and Schedule Estimates Using Risk-Based Evaluation—The Success of CEVP® ■ John Reilly, Dwight Sangrey, Mark Gabel, William Prill, Samih Shilbayah .............................................................................................59 Part 2: Design and Planning Preliminary Design for the North Bank Hydro Project, South Island, New Zealand ■ Harry Asche, Tom Ireland, Colin Newton, Charlie Watts .....................................................74 Design, Construction, and Operation of Unlined Pressure Tunnels: Suggestions for Good Industry Practice ■ Dean Brox .................................................................................87 Technical Approach on Bid Preparation to Succeed on the Alaskan Way Project ■ Enrique Fernández, Juan Luis Magro, Alejandro Sanz ...................................................102 Design of Tunnel Cross-Passages ■ Colin Lawrence, Jonathan Taylor ...........................119 Technical Challenges of High-Speed Rail Tunnels in Germany ■ Christian Wawrzyniak ........................................................................................................137 Design and Construction of the South Cobb Tunnel ■ Mike Robison, David Rendini, Ted DePooter, Judy B. Jones ............................................................................................146 Part 3: Difficult Ground Small Tunnel, Big Solution—The Pearl River CSO Storage and Conveyance Tunnel Project: Teamwork, Challenges, and Lessons Learned ■ Gui DeReamer, Philip Kassouf, Brad Talley, Dan Dobbels .........................................................................160 Tunneling in the Andes in Chile by Drill-and-Blast and TBM ■ Rick Fletcher, Matthew Forwood, Doug Hattersley, Renzo Valentino, Fabio Paulon ...............................172 iii © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011. iv RETC 2011 PROCEEDINGS Supporting One Subway to Make Room for Another ■ David Mariani, Orlando Espinoza ...............................................................................................................189 Ground Challenges for the Thames Tunnel ■ Tim Newman, Neill Hadlow.......................204 TBM Tunnelling in Squeezing Ground—Basic Considerations and Decision Aids ■ Marco Ramoni, Georgios Anagnostou ...............................................................................219 Summary of the First TBM Drive at the Hallandsas Project ■ Robert Sturk, François Dudouit, Oskar Aurell, Stig Eriksson .............................................234 Part 4: Drill and Blast Blasting the Sykesville Formation in the National Capital Area ■ Richard Conolly, Douglas Brinkman ..............................................................................................................254 Blitz Blasting Under New York City’s Busiest Bus Terminal ■ Robert W. Fonkalsrud, John Kiernan, Ihab Shafei ..................................................................................................265 High-Performance Tunnelling in Sweden—The Railway Tunnel Under Troeingeberg ■ Norbert Fuegenschuh ..............................................................................286 Don’t Blast So Close to Me—Handling the Impacts of Blasting on Grand Central Terminal for the MTACC’s East Side Access Project ■ A.J. Thompson, Doug Anderson ...................................................................................................................299 Drill-and-Blast Excavation of the 34th Street Station Cavern and the Derivation of a Site-Specific Ground Transmission Constant, No. 7 Line Extension, New York City ■ Peter J.N. Ayres, Nikolas K. Sokol .........................................................307 Part 5: Environment, Health, and Safety Increasing Safety and Efficiency with Newly Designed Conveyor Belting for Tunneling Applications ■ Tommy Bess, Jason Schneider ................................................320 Effectively Implementing Construction Safety on a Complex Mega Program ■ Todd B. Bjornsen, Stephen E. Nash, Carolyn Jones ..........................................................329 Design of Waller Beach Outlet Facility for Waller Creek Stormwater Project, Austin, Texas, USA ■ Dorian French, Nieves Alfaro .........................................................338 Ground-Borne Vibration Measurements of Drill-and-Blast Excavation, Sheet Pile Installation, and TBM Excavation in Sandstone and Shale Mélange ■ Sarah Holtz Wilson, Timothy Brown, Victor Romero ..........................................................349 Delta Habitat Conservation and Conveyance Program: “The Pipeline/Tunnel Option” ■ Rich Sanchez, Teresa Engstrom, Mike Cherry, Carlos Jaramillo, Galen Samuelson Klein ................................................................................................................357 Reinforcement of the Drainage System of the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Zone (ZMVM) ■ Rafael Carmona ..............................................................................................368 Part 6: Future Projects Risk Issues Associated with New Outfall Tunnel Under Great South Bay in Suffolk County, New York ■ Michael Gilbert, Michael Schultz, Ben Wright, Keith Kelly ...374 Selection of Tunnel Alignment and Construction for the Sheppard East LRT Project in Toronto ■ Irwan Halim, Heather Ivory ...............................................................388 Indianapolis Deep Rock Conveyance and Storage Tunnel ■ Verya Nasri, John Morgan ......................................................................................................................402 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. 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CONTENTS v Crenshaw/LAX Transit Corridor: Expanding Transit in Los Angeles ■ Derek Penrice, Lee Abramson, David Young, Robert Ball ................................................414 Design of Underground Elements for the Raw Water Intake Facilities, City of Austin Water Treatment Plant No. 4 ■ Gregg Sherry, Shelby Eckols, William Stauber ..............432 Part 7: Geotechnical Considerations Cobbles Along the Platte ■ Kent Pease, Russell Berends ..............................................442 Geotechnical Evaluation for the Avenue 45 and Arroyo Drive Relief Sewer ■ Fred Burnett, Patrick Schmidt, Eric Noreen, King So ........................................................453 Geotechnical Baseline for the SR 99 Bored Design-Build Alaskan Way Tunnel, Seattle, Washington ■ Elizabeth Scheibe, Red Robinson, Gordon Clark, Jim Struthers, Stuart Warren .............................................................................................472 21st Century Approach to Geologic Field Reconnaissance for Geotechnical or Tunnel Projects ■ Rory P.A. Ball, Jon Isaacson, Trenton Cohen .....................................485 Geological Uncertainty, GBRs, and Contractual Requirements for Non-Baselined Uncertainties ■ Steven W. Hunt, Don Del Nero ...............................................................498 Part 8: Ground Support and Final Lining Ground Support for the South Cobb Tunnel Pump Station Shaft, Cobb County, Georgia ■ Wayne Warburton, Andrew Bursey, Adam Bedell, Tao Jiang .........................516 New Developments in Ground Support Technology for Open-Type Tunnel Boring Machines ■ Steve Chorley .......................................................................530 Concurrent Tunnel Operations: Devils Slide Tunnel Project, Pacifica, California— More Than Excavation ■ Dawn Dobson, Mark Petermann..............................................544 Underground Concrete in New York City—No 7 Line Cavern Concrete ■ Scott Hoffman, Jim Rosteck ..............................................................................................562 Developments in Segmental Lining Design ■ Tom Ireland, Harry Asche ........................577 Gravity Sewer Tunnel Liner Corrosion Protection ■ Jon Y. Kaneshiro, David R. Yankovich, Kenneth Kuhr ...................................................................................589 Part 9: Grouting and Ground Modification Modified Contact Grouting—A New Approach to Grouting Tunnels ■ Adam L. Bedell, Bradley Crenshaw, Jack Raymer, Mike Robison ....................................614 Ground Freezing for Manhattan Tunnel TBM Establishes Technology Breakthrough ■ Joseph A. Sopko, Michelle L. Blattner, Michele R. Norman ...................620 Design of Compensation Grouting for Twin Tunnels and a Station in Toronto ■ Jeb Pittsinger, Jon Davies, Gary Kramer, Edward Poon ...................................................632 Recent Advances in Computerized Large-Diameter Jet Grouting Technology in the Santa Clara Valley Basin Formation San Francisco Bay Area—BART Warm Springs Extension ■ Kelly A. McGonagle, Robin S. Cheng, Romano J. Micciche, Jeffrey P. Geraci, Shawn A. Benedict ................................................................................644 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011. vi RETC 2011 PROCEEDINGS Part 10: Hard Rock TBMs TBM Drive in Hard Rock Under High Overburden at the Gotthard Base Tunnel In Switzerland ■ Yves Boissonnas .......................................................................654 Hard Rock Extreme Conditions in the First 10 km of TBM-Driven Brenner Exploratory Tunnel ■ Remo Grandori, Z.T. Bieniawski, Dario Vizzino, Luca Lizzadro, Paolo Romualdi, Aristodemo Busillo .........................................................667 Extending New York City’s No. 7 Line Subway ■ Patrick Howell, Adam Hingorany, Shawn L. Kildare ...............................................................................................................686 Wienerwald Tunnel—A Challenging Infrastructure Project with Two 11-km-Long TBM Drives ■ Hans Köhler ..............................................................................................699 Construction of the Second Bore of the Pfaender Tunnel ■ Michael Hoellrigl, Christoph Wanker, Juergen Steinhauser, Christian Neumann ..........................................708 Tunnel of Moutier, Switzerland—Change from a TBM to the German Excavation Method ■ Olivier Balmer, Frédéric Chavan ......................................................................723 Part 11: Large Span Tunnels and Caverns Ramifications of Anticipated Geotechnical Conditions on the SR-710 Tunnel ■ Steve Dubnewych, Steve Klein, Yoga Chandran ..............................................................738 Settlement Considerations for Designing the Alaskan Way Tunnel ■ William H. Hansmire, David L. Sowers, Susan L. Everett, Donald J. Phelps ....................751 Roadheader Excavations in Hard Rock—A Case History from Midtown Manhattan ■ Eric W. Jordan, Thomas Holben, Jinseop Kim, Uwe Restner, Gregory Hallett ..................................................................................................................765 Challenges in Construction of Urban Road Tunnels, The Case History of Tohid Expressway Tunnels in Central Tehran ■ Jamal Rostami, Mohsen Kashi .............796 Large-Diameter TBM Technology ■ Martin Herrenknecht, Karin Bäppler ........................812 Part 12: Microtunneling and Trenchless Tunneling Case History of the York Energy Center Intake/Blowdown ■ Eric Eisold, Sean McIntee ....................................................................................................................824 Design of the Seaholm Wastewater Redevelopment Project Phase 2 ■ Russell Jernigan, Thomas C. Arndt ...................................................................................831 Ø1.8m Double Shield TBM for Mixed Ground Sewer Tunnels in Cincinnati ■ Steve Lamb, Steve Abernathy ...........................................................................................838 Size Matters—Challenges and Triumphs of a Large-Diameter Microtunnel Relief Interceptor Sewer in Indianapolis, Indiana ■ Jeremy Morris, Todd Brown, James McKelvey, Sandra Shafer ......................................................................................845 Geotechnical Investigations for Tunneling Using Horizontal Directional Drilling ■ Manley Osbak ...................................................................................................................861 First Planned, Curved Microtunnel in the United States ■ Alexander Seilert ..................871 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011. CONTENTS vii Part 13: New and Innovative Technologies A Compact Design for Shaft-Tunnel Junction Adopted for Greater Cairo Metro Line 3: Design Aspects and Use of Advanced Numerical Methods ■ Sylvie Giuliani-Leonardi .....................................................................................................880 Transporting a TBM Through a Large City on the East Side CSO Tunnel Project in Portland, Oregon ■ Niels Kofoed, Terry M. Emmert, Christof Metzger, Mark S. Voss, Gary Irwin ...................................................................................................892 Explosive Operations for Constructing a Tunnel-Based PCB Collection System ■ Stephen K. Mergentime, M.V. Mergentime, Patrick McAlinden, Jason Diiulio ..................905 Innovative Approach for Oil Production Based on Subsea Tunnels and Caverns ■ Kjell Are Vassmyr, Bjørn Nilsen, Eivind Grøv, Amund Bruland ..........................................915 Continuous Horizontal and Vertical Conveyors for Tunnelling Applications ■ Dirk Huesmann, Gregor Enneking, Marco Sonnenschein .................................................930 URUP (Ultra Rapid Underpass)—TBM Excavation in Soft Ground from the Surface Elevation (Zero Overburden) Without Shaft and/or Large Scaled Open Cut Pit ■ Kenji Yamauchi, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Taro Nonaka .............................................946 Part 14: Presssure Face TBM Case Histories Melbourne Main Sewer Replacement Project—Construction phase: Soft Ground Tunneling in the Yarra Delta ■ Malcolm Dixon .................................................................964 Urban EPB Tunneling in Difficult Geology Below Downtown Mexico City ■ Jesse Heineman ................................................................................................................978 EPB Emergency Bypass in Toronto, Canada ■ Steve Skelhorn, Brian Buchanan ..........992 Construction of the UNWI 1&2 Tunnel—Sacramento, California ■ Adam Hargreaves, Todd Chandler, Pavel Kazi, Ian Ward-McNally, Anil Dean ..............................................1003 Túnel Emisor Oriente in Mexico, the World’s Most Challenging EPB Shield Tunnelling Project ■ Adrián Lombardo, Marc Comulada, Ulrich Maidl ..........................1020 Part 15: Presssure Face TBM Technology Interventions and Chamber Access in Pressurized Face TBMs ■ Werner Burger ........1036 New Contract for the Completion of the Brightwater BT-3 Tunnel ■ Judy Cochran, Gregory M. Hauser ..........................................................................................................1048 Discrete Element Method to Predict Soft Ground Cutterhead Performance ■ Glenn Mongillo, Mustafa Alsaleh .....................................................................................1058 Cutterhead Maintenance for EPB Tunnel Boring Machines ■ Mina M. Shinouda, Ulf G. Gwildis, Peter Wang, William Hodder ...................................................................1068 Prediction of EPB Shield Performance in Soils ■ Ulrich Maidl, Marc Comulada ...........1083 High-Pressure EPB Tunneling Under Sensitive Buildings ■ Maurizio Monina, Remo Grandori, Aristodemo Busillo, Andrea Sciotti, Roberto Ginanneschi ....................1092 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011. viii RETC 2011 PROCEEDINGS Part 16: Risk Management Reducing Risk by Incorporating Lessons Learned into the Planning of the Outfall Tie-ins on the East Side CSO Tunnel Project in Portland, Oregon ■ Matthew L. Bartlett, Karla M. Brawner, Tony O’Donnell, Roy F. Cook, Gary Irwin ...........1108 Learning from the Past—A Proactive Approach to the Design of a New Sewer Tunnel And Deep Pump Station in Charleston, South Carolina ■ Jason T. Swartz, Stephen A. O’Connell, Donald E. Benjamin Jr. ................................................................1124 Hong Kong Express Rail Link Contract 821: Mined Tunnel Portal Design Through Mixed Face Conditions ■ Seth Pollak, Hans Sundstrom ................................................1137 Risk Management and Relationships Successfully Overcome Challenges ■ Michael G. Vitale, Ben D. DiFiore, Lawrence M. Lenahan ...............................................1150 Dispute Boards—Successes and Failures ■ Jim Brady .................................................1165 Part 17: San Francisco Bay Area Projects Variable Ground Conditions, Design Issues, and Construction Challenges on the New Crystal Springs Bypass Tunnel ■ Tom Berry, Sarah Holtz Wilson ..........................1178 Sunnydale CSO Tunnel—Dealing with Urban Infrastructure ■ Renée L. Fippin, R.J. Caulfield, Manfred M. Wong, Wallis Lee .......................................1192 A Cut-and-Cover Tunnel Through Lake Elizabeth BART Warm Springs Extension Project in Fremont, California ■ Thomas S. Lee, Mitchell L. Fong, Marty Oatman ..................................................................................................................1206 Shaft Design and Construction Considerations for the Bay Tunnel Project ■ Johanna Wong, Robert Mues, LuAnn McVicker .............................................................1218 Close-Proximity Tunnel Crossing of Active Rail Tunnels for the Central Subway Project ■ Sean Cavanaugh, Matthew Fowler, Celal Kirandag, Pepe Vallenas ..............1233 Geotechnical Conditions and Design Considerations for Central Subway Project in Downtown San Francisco ■ Hong Yang, Kenneth A. Johnson ..................................1252 Part 18: SEM/NATM Design and Build 6.46 km of Metro in the Centre of Delhi—A Technical and Cultural Challenge ■ Andreas Bichl ...............................................................................1270 Considerations for Very Shallow Conventional (SEM) Tunneling in Urban Settings ■ Vojtech Gall, John Rudolf, Timothy O’Brien .................................................1281 Kralovopolsky Tunnel in Brno, Czech Republic ■ Jan Rozek, Vlastimil Horak ..............1297 Construction of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project NATM Tunnels at Tysons Corner, Virginia: A Case History ■ Frank Jenkins, Dominic Cerulli, Stephen Barna ................................................................................................................1312 Bosruck Tunnel, Austria—4th Tube: NATM Tunnelling in Swelling Rock Conditions ■ Thomas Marcher, Thomas Neumayr, Franz Lenz ....................................1324 Single-Shell Synthetic Fiber Shotcrete Lining for SLAC Tunnels ■ Wern-Ping Nick Chen, Frederick (Rick) Vincent ..............................................................1336 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011. CONTENTS ix Part 19: Shafts and Mining Shaft Construction for the East Side Access Project ■ Troy Calkins, Geoffrey Fairclough, Michael E. Pujdak, Syuin-Chet Tee ...............................................1358 DS Compact TBM Dealing with Complex and Unexpected Geology in Los Bronces Exploratory Tunnel ■ Alberto Barioffi, Enrique Fernandez, Gianluca Ciocca, Remo Grandori ....................................................................................1370 Construction of Three Large-Diameter Shafts for the South Cobb Tunnel Project ■ Stuart Lipofsky, John Forero...........................................................................1383 San Esteban II Hydroelectric Power Plant ■ Eduardo Lostalé Alonso, Augusto Rebollo Patmore ...............................................................................................1397 Lake Mead Underwater Intake Structure and Tunnel Connection—Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Tunnel Project ■ James A. McDonald, Giovanni Pireddu, Jim Nickerson, William (BG) Kunz ..................................................................................1409 South River Slipforming—An Alternative Approach to Shaft Lining ■ Stephen Liu, Eric Peterson ...................................................................................................................1426 Part 20: Tunnel Rehabilitation Burlington Tunnel Emergency Repairs: A Case History ■ Kenneth A. Pidgeon, Marco Boscardin, William S. Riehl III ..............................................................................1438 Gorge 2nd Tunnel—A Renewable Opportunity ■ Gregg W. Davidson, Mark D. Havekost, David J. Rowan .................................................................................1447 39th Street Conduit Rehabilitation Phase 1 Bypass Tunnel, SSA ■ Christian Heinz, Brett Beranek ........................................................................................1464 Retrofitting vs. Compensation Grouting: An Alternative Method for Controlling Settlement During Reconstruction of the “Alter Mainzer Tunnel” in Germany ■ Helmut Göhringer, Johannes Jäger .................................................................................1474 Cal Park Tunnel Rehabilitation Project ■ David R. Crouthamel, Ryan O. McCarter, Mike W. Cox, David M. Bernardi .....................................................................................1489 Part 21: Water and Gas Control Construction Grouting of the Baumgartner Tunnel ■ Tom Abkemeier, Chris Groves ....1500 The Copenhagen Metro Circle Line—Tunnelling and Station Construction Challenges in Urban Conditions ■ Søren Degn Eskesen, David Whittles, Jørgen Krogh, Jens Hieronymus Gravgaard ....................................................................1511 Challenges and Success of the Cutter Soil Mixing Method for Tunneling Shafts ■ Mark Havekost, Renée L. Fippin, Scott Thibert ...............................................................1527 Rock Fracture Simulation for Groundwater Prediction in Rock Tunnels ■ Ran Chen, Fulvio Tonon ....................................................................................................................1544 Controlling High Hydrostatic Water Inflows at Lake Mead Connector Tunnel— Development, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned ■ Shimi Tzobery, Michael Cash, Jerry Ostberg, Zachary Hills, Erika Moonin .....................................................................1556 Index 1573 © 2011 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011.
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