Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference 2015 Proceedings

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by  Mark C. Johnson, Shemek Oginski

RAPID EXCAVATION and
TUNNELING CONFERENCE
2015 PROCEEDINGS
EDITED BY MARK C. JOHNSON AND SHEMEK OGINSKI
RAPID EXCAVATION and
TUNNELING CONFERENCE
2015 PROCEEDINGS
EDITED BY MARK C. JOHNSON AND SHEMEK OGINSKI
PUBLISHED BY THE
SOCIETY FOR MINING, METALLURGY & EXPLORATION
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CONTENTS
Preface .................................................................................................................................xi
Executive Committee ........................................................................................................xiii
Session Chairs ..................................................................................................................xiv
International Committee ....................................................................................................xv
Part 1: Caverns and Large Spans
Holmestrand Underground Railway Station from Vision to Reality ■
Stine Ilebrekke Undrum, Geir Anders Kildemo ......................................................................2
New York City Grand Central Subway Station Planned Modifications and
Improvements ■ A. Grigoryan, T. Jablonski, D. Haase ......................................................18
Second Avenue Subway Project: Design and Construction of Large Cavern Final
Linings and Penetrations at 86th Street Station ■ Michael Voorwinde,
Eci Garavito-Bruhn, Liam Dalton, Richard Giffen ................................................................29
Roof Displacements in Pump Station Cavern in the Chagrin Shale ■ Barry Doyle,
Mohammad Djavid, Mohammad Moridzadeh, Doug Gabriel ..............................................40
St. Louis’ Sewer Tunnel Vision ■ Patricia Pride, Mike Robison, Jon Bergenthal,
Wojciech Klecan ..................................................................................................................53
Part 2: Contracting Practices
I-70 Twin Tunnels Widening Using Drill and Blast Under CM/GC Contract ■
Koichi Shimomura, Matthew Fowler, Mike Keleman, Conrad Fischer,
Matthew Hogan, Sangmin Kim ............................................................................................64
Support of Excavation for Roosevelt Station: Successful Partnering Overcomes
Challenging Construction Change ■ Indra Banerjee, Hani Habib, Elizabeth Lenker,
Ed Shorey, Brad Cowles......................................................................................................83
Seattle Light Rail Tunnels Quality Control and Assurance: Stakeholder Collaboration
Delivers Successful Project ■ Indra Banerjee, Kevin Sapp, Jim Salley,
Mohammad Saleem ............................................................................................................91
Integrated Design Process for First Street Tunnel ■ Stephen Young,
David Smith, William Levy, Stephen Njoloma .....................................................................99
Partnering Through Risk Management: Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Risk
Management Approach ■ James Grayson, Jim Nickerson, Erika Moonin ........................112
Construction—You Need Risk-Based Cost Estimating ■ John J. Reilly,
Philip Sander, A. Moergeli ..................................................................................................117
Part 3: Design and Planning I
Critical Connections: Planning and Preparation Needed for the Eastside Access
Project’s Westbound Bypass Jacked Shield Tunnel ■ Frank Perrone, Eric Prantil,
Alfred J. Klag Jr. ...............................................................................................................130
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South Hartford CSO Tunnel and Pump Station ■ Verya Nasri, William Bent,
William Hogan ...................................................................................................................140
High Speed Two (HS2)—General Overview of Project with Focus on
Tunnelling Challenges ■ Colin Rawlings, John Carroll, Mark Leggett,
Ben Harland, Ian Gee, Virginia Portal Cabezuelo, Hyuk-il Jung .......................................152
Evolution of Large-Diameter TBM Road Tunnel Design ■ Harry Asche,
Gerry Bertakis, Ed Taylor ..................................................................................................180
Project Configuration and Design Challenges for the City of Ottawa Combined
Sewage Storage Tunnel Project ■ Anil Dean, Steven Fradkin, Camilo Quintero,
Randy Dempsey, Adrien Comeau, Don Del Nero .............................................................194
Modelling of Ground Deformation Control Induced by Slurry Shield Tunnelling ■
Zili Li, Jacob Grasmick, Mike Mooney ...............................................................................203
Part 4: Design and Planning II
Continuing a Legacy of Large-Diameter Hard Rock Tunneling in Chicago—
The Des Plaines Inflow Tunnel ■ Cary Hirner, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Carmen Scalise,
Faruk Oksuz, Brian Gettinger, Brian Glynn .......................................................................214
Elements of the Istanbul Strait Highway Tunnel ■ Gordon Clark,
Raymond Castelli, Donald Richards, Tolga Toğan, Başar Arıoğlu, Öncü Gönenç ............223
Design and Construction Considerations for the Blacklick Creek Sanitary
Interceptor Sewer Project in Franklin County, Ohio ■ Irwan Halim,
Nicholas Domenick, Michael Nuhfer, Jamie Goldsberry ...................................................239
Deep Tunnel Pump Station—Design/Construction ■ Michael Miller, John Morgan .........253
Decision Process and Criteria for Selection of a Preferred Tunnelling Method ■
Brian Fulcher, Lok Home, Eric Hudson-Smith ...................................................................261
Part 5: Design-Build Projects
Urban Challenges of the Downtown Los Angeles Regional Connector
Tunnel Project ■ W.H. Hansmire, G. Roy, M.F. Smithson ................................................288
Concrete Operations at the 86th Street Station for the 2nd Avenue
Subway Line ■ Charles Schoch, Scott Hoffman, Anil Parikh ...........................................298
PPP Mode for Procurement of Lines 2 and 4 of Lima Metro ■ Andrea Lavagno,
Nicola Ruga, Christy García Godos Naveda .....................................................................308
Unique Characteristics of the Design and Construction of the Second Midtown
Tunnel in Hampton Roads, Virginia ■ S.C. Quinn, I.J. Chaney, D.S. Francis ..................321
Practical Aspects of Final Design Development Using Design-Build
Procurement ■ Geoffrey Hughes, Mark Kroncke, Moussa Wone ....................................330
The Planning and Procurement Process of the Northeast Boundary Tunnel
(NEBT) Project: DC Water–District of Columbia ■ Moussa Wone, William Levy,
Christopher Allen, Carlton M. Ray .....................................................................................338
Part 6: Difficult Ground
Challenges and Methods Utilized to Excavate Rock for an Escalator Incline Through a
Luxury High-Rise Building in Manhattan ■ Adam Smith, Anisa Dhimarko,
James Collins ....................................................................................................................352
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Combined Solution Karlsruhe, Heavy/Light Rail Tunnel and Light Rail Boulevard,
Germany Inner-City Tunnel Advance at Little Overburden in Difficult Geology ■
Helmut Göhringer, Marko Schimmelpfennig, Frank Nenninger .........................................365
Case History of Canopy Tubes Used in Metro Expansions in Santiago, Chile, and
Vienna, Austria ■ Timothy Avery, Daniel Porubsky, Carlos Leigh, Henry Martinez ..........381
Tunnels, Tiebacks, and Piles: A Design Case History of Dealing with Obstructions ■
James Parkes, Harald Cordes, John Wisniewski ..............................................................389
Abu Hamour Tunnel Project in Doha, Qatar ■ Mohammad Reza Jafari,
Francois Bernardeau, Jacek B. Stypulkowski, Amel A.F.M. Siyam ...................................401
Part 7: Future Projects
Albany Park Stormwater Diversion Tunnel Connecting Chicago River and
North Shore Channel ■ M. Djavid, Vasile Jurca, N. Djavid, M. Moridzadeh ....................414
Bypass Tunnel: Bad Rock, High Water Pressures, and a Challenging
Connection ■ Edward (Ted) Dowey, Z. Bade Sozer, Paolo M. Brion ...............................428
Evolution of a Mega Project: Update on the Bay Delta Tunnels Project ■
John Bednarski, Jay Arabshahi, Howard Lum, Sergio Valles, Gordon Enas ....................439
Digging to the Beach: The Final Design of the JWPCP Effluent Outfall Tunnel
Project ■ David Haug, David Yankovich, Jon Kaneshiro, Steve Dubnewych ..................450
Maryland Transit Authority Red Line (MTA RL) Project—Major Light Rail
Expansion in Baltimore, Maryland ■ Samer Sadek, Dwight Chewning ...........................462
“BART to San Jose” Phase II—Silicon Valley Santa Clara Extension (SVSX) ■
Michael J. Lehnen, Krishna Davey ....................................................................................470
Part 8: Geotechnical Considerations I
Contractor’s Approach for WTP4 S-101 Intake, Tunnels, and Shafts Construction ■
Satoshi Akai, Shusaku Mino, Teiji Kobayashi, Darrell Liebno ...........................................484
Controlling Ground Movement on the SR 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement
Tunnel ■ Edward J. Cording, Jack T. Nakagawa, Cody Z. Painter,
Justin J. McCain, Jorge Vazquez, Anthony F. Stirbys .......................................................493
Construction Challenges of the Central Subway’s TBM Launch Shaft
and Station’s Headwalls ■ Mikael Calando, Boris Caro Vargas ......................................509
Evaluation of Slurry TBM Design Support Pressures Using East Side Access
Queens Bored Tunnels Data ■ Jacob Grasmick, Mike Mooney, Brock Rysdahl,
Eric Prantil, Andrew Thompson .........................................................................................521
Key Features Influencing the Design, the Performance, and the Cost-Efficiency of an
Instrumentation and Monitoring Program ■ Loic Galisson, Zeyrek Birsen .......................531
Part 9: Geotechnical Considerations II
Tunneling Under the Norris Cut Channel ■ Eugene Mirsky .............................................540
Calculation of Volume Loss Using Machine Data from Two Slurry TBMs During the
Excavation of the Queens Bored Tunnels ■ Brock Rysdahl, Mike Mooney,
Jacob Grasmick .................................................................................................................554
Central Subway Tunnel Construction Instrumentation: Lessons Learned, San
Francisco, California ■ Kenneth A. Johnson, Michael V. Wolski, Ryan O. McCarter .......564
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Old vs. New: Comparing the Construction of the Existing and New Irvington
Tunnels ■ Adam M. Wirthlin, Rebecca Fusee, David Tsztoo, Theodore Feldsher ..........583
Characterizing and Baselining Faults for Tunneling ■ Steven W. Hunt,
Eugene Smith, Erika Moonin .............................................................................................600
Part 10: Ground Support and Final Lining
Top-Down Construction for Tunnel Portal Walls in Karstic Limestone ■
Charles A. Stone, Eric C. Wang ........................................................................................618
A One-Pass Synthetic Fibre-Reinforced Shotcrete Tunnel Lining for a Very
Shallow Cover Tunnel, North Strathfield Rail Underpass ■ Ted Nye ...............................628
McCook MTS Bifurcating Steel Liner Backfill Concrete ■ Josh Morton ...........................638
Some Concepts for Segmental Linings in Squeezing Rock ■ Florence Mezger,
Marco Ramoni, Georgios Anagnostou ..............................................................................646
Bonded Strip Termination Using Plastic Waterproofing Sheet Membranes
on Segmental Tunnel Linings as an Effective and Economic Alternative
to Clamping Constructions ■ Stefan Lemke, Hendrik Schaelicke, Thomas Gerstewitz ...659
Part 11: Grouting and Ground Modification
Compensation Grouting for the East Side Access Northern Boulevard Crossing ■
Paul Schmall, Adam Curry, Frank Perrone, Jeffrey Rice ...................................................674
Ground Freezing for Tunnel Cross Passages: First Application in North America ■
David M. Mueller, Joseph A. Sopko, Roger B. Storry, Robert Chamberland .....................682
TYSSE Tunneling Test Section and Excavation Beneath Schulich Building ■
Gary J.E. Kramer, Hossein Bidhendi, Edward Cording, Dave Walters,
Edward Poon .....................................................................................................................690
Pre-Excavation Grouting for the OARS Relief Sewer, Phase 2 Shafts and Adits,
Columbus, Ohio ■ Lucian P. Spiteri, Alan Zeni, Michael Nuhfer, Raisa L. Pesina ...........707
Jet Grout Ground Improvement for Tunnel Launch and Retrieval Locations on Sound
Transit’s Northgate Link Extension Project ■ Colin Lavassar, Justin Reeves,
Adam Gerondale, Mike Blanding, Brad Cowles, Jim Salley .............................................718
Performance Analysis of Fly Ash in Two-Component Grouts ■ Phillip Antunes ...............727
Part 12: Hard Rock Tunneling
TBM Mining for the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector Project in Indianapolis,
Indiana ■ Michael Stolkin, Eric Haacke, Mark Guay ........................................................736
Design of the Headrace Tunnel Segmental Lining for the Kishanganga Hydroelectric
Project ■ Leonardo Ariza, Marika Mullerova, Mike Palmer, Nicholas Swannell,
Antonio de Biase ...............................................................................................................744
Blue Lake Hydroelectric Expansion Project—Tunnel Excavations ■
Kellan Osborne, Ben Roberds, Travis Schulze .................................................................755
Drill-and-Blast Excavation in Congested, High-Visibility Area ■ Caroline M. Purcell .......764
Black River Tunnel Phase 1: A Case Study in Construction of an Underground
Combined Sanitary Storage Tunnel in Ohio Shale ■ J. Edberg, J. Brown,
S. Pearson, M. Hedrick, G. Rehak ....................................................................................770
Planning, Design, and Construction Considerations for a Drill-and-Blast Utility Tunnel
Underneath the Montreal Neurologic Institute with Highly Sensitive Equipment at
McGill University Campus ■ Jean Habimana, Gary J.E. Kramer, Gordon Revey ............784
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Part 13: Major Projects
The $1.4B Waterview Connection Motorway Tunnels—Outcomes and Progress
from a Client’s Perspective ■ Peter Spies, Sumi Eratne, Tom Ireland .............................798
Blue Plains Tunnel Case History ■ Brett R. Zernich, Michael R. Jatczak,
Jason C. DiIuli, Nick R. Tabor, Joshua S. Jonasen ...........................................................810
Extreme Excavation in Fractured Rock and Squeezing Ground at Turkey’s
Kargı Hydroelectric Project: A Comparison of TBM and Drill-and-Blast
Methods ■ Jim Clark ........................................................................................................842
Delivery of Crossrail Western Tunnels ■ Andy Alder, Dan Callaghan ..............................851
Auckland City Rail Link—The First 100 Years ■ Bill Newns, Steve Hawkins,
Tom Ireland ........................................................................................................................868
Part 14: New and Innovative Technologies
Synthetic Fiber Reinforcement for the Cast in Place Final Tunnel Liner at the
Euclid Creek Tunnel Project ■ Jarrett E. Carlson, Donald C. Wotring,
Robert J. Auber, Michael G. Vitale ....................................................................................882
A Controversial Discussion Regarding the Use of Spray-Applied Waterproofing
for Tunnel Applications ■ Stefan Lemke, Pamela S. Moran .............................................890
Web-Based Process Controlling of Shield Tunnelling ■ U. Maidl, J. Stascheit ................901
Design of High Head Temporary Concrete Tunnel Plug ■ Jasbir Singh,
Mantu Baishya, Benjamin Kenny, Travis Boatwright .........................................................909
Challenges in Tunneling with a Hard Rock Slurry TBM in Columbus, Ohio ■
Bob Rautenberg, Kenji Yamauchi, Paul Smith, Greg Fedner, Michael Hall ......................922
Part 15: Pressurized Face TBM Case Histories I
Lake Mead Intake No. 3—TBM Tunneling at High Pressures ■ Jim Nickerson,
Roberto Bono, Claudio Cimiotti, Erika Moonin ..................................................................936
London Power Tunnels—3-m TBM Tunnel Drive (Evelyn) ■ Lennart Stenman,
Angus Mackenzie, David Green ........................................................................................947
TBM Cuttinghead Interventions at Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown Tunnel
Construction (ECLC1-15) ■ Jumpei Yamashita, Osamu Nishikokura,
Malcolm Sheehan, Christopher Stewart ............................................................................962
Preparation for Tunneling, Northgate N125 Project in Seattle, Washington ■
Glen Frank, Brian Hagan, Tyler Sandell, Ehsan Alavi Gharahbagh, Desiree Willis,
Michael A. DiPonio, Brad Cowles ......................................................................................971
Central Subway Tunnels: Success Under San Francisco ■ Mun Wei Leong,
Sarah Holtz Wilson, Alessandro Tricamo, Matthew Fowler ...............................................986
Rescue and Refurbishment of a TBM Inundated with Flood Waters at the
New York City Harbor Siphon Project ■ Roger Cope, Desiree Willis .............................1002
Part 16: Risk Management
Risk Management in Capital Improvement Projects—The DC Clean Rivers Project
Approach ■ Moussa Wone, Carlton M. Ray, David Corkum, George Teetes,
Stephen Lisse ..................................................................................................................1010
Seattle Fire Department’s Approach to Tunnel Rescue ■ Frank Brennan .....................1022
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Emergency and Rescue: A New Safety Concept for the Construction of
“La Maddalena” Exploratory Adit—High Capacity Rail Line Between Turin (Italy)
and Lyon (France) ■ Achille Sorlini, Piergiuseppe Gilli ..................................................1040
Controlling Risks in Alternate Delivery Methods of Tunnels and
Underground Projects ■ David J. Hatem, Nasri Munfah ................................................1045
Risk and Contingency Management on Toronto’s Rapid Transit
Implementation Program ■ Brian Hamilton, Cian Murphy, Iqbal Hassan .......................1054
Part 17: SEM/NATM
Mined Tunnels to Solve Urban Problems Ottawa’s Choice ■ Enrique Fernández,
Humberto Ferrer ..............................................................................................................1064
Shallow Cover Tunnel Below “Pop’s Fig,” a World’s First, Soft-Ground Tunnel Driven
Above the Largest Highway Caverns to Date in the Southern Hemisphere Mined
Caverns ■ Hannes Lagger, Taner Aydogmus, Marty Scrogings, Thomas Marcher .......1082
SEM Tunnelling in Toronto—Construction ■ R.C. Divito, G.J.E. Kramer,
E. Fernández Iglesias, E. Poon .......................................................................................1095
East Link—Final Design of the Downtown Bellevue Tunnel ■ Mike Wongkaew,
Derek Penrice, Joel Theodore, Brian Patton ....................................................................1116
Crossrail Western Tunnels Technical Aspects ■ Andy Kendall .......................................1130
Ground Freezing Support for SEM Tunnel Excavation in the Kansas City West
Bottoms ■ Greg Sanders, Mike Gilbert, Suzie Carpenter, Bon Marie Gardner ...............1143
Part 18: Shafts
Construction of the NYCDEP Bypass Tunnel Shafts ■ E. Jordan, L. Stepakoff,
G. Schmidt, V. Sambrato ..................................................................................................1152
Complex Solutions for Simple Problems—A Case Study on High Head
Underwater Base Slab Pours ■ Jason C. Diiulio, Darren L. von Platen,
Michael R. Sweet .............................................................................................................1175
Anacostia River Tunnel Project: Engineering During CSO 019 Shafts and
Connector Tunnel Construction ■ Pooyan Asadollahi, Shimi Tzobery, Philip Colton,
Jonathan Taylor ................................................................................................................1196
The First 8-Meter Diameter Raise Drilled Shaft in North America ■ Richard Sidwell,
Tim Averette, Frank Stevens, Alwyn Protheroe ...............................................................1210
Euclid Creek Tunnel Secant Pile Shaft ■ Donald C. Wotring, Ryan Sullivan,
Josh Suffel, Nicolas Willig ...............................................................................................1213
Part 19: TBM Technology
Super Diameters—Design Aspects for Very Large TBMs ■ Werner Burger ..................1222
Managing Data Collection for Large Tunneling Projects, a Complicated Task ■
Ehsan Alavi Gharahbagh, Brian Hagan, Vinit Sethi, Frank Stahl, Christof Wendt,
Glen Frank, Michael A. DiPonio, John T. DiPonio ...........................................................1232
Certainty and Reliability in Mechanized Tunnelling ■ Karin Bäppler,
Michael Strässer ..............................................................................................................1245
Measuring the Compressibility and Shear Strength of Conditioned Sand
Under Pressure ■ Lisa Mori, Yuanli Wu, Minsu Cha, Mike Mooney ..............................1253
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Earth Pressure Balance Machine Cutterhead Torque Modeling: Learning from
Machine Data ■ Robert Godinez, Hongjie Yu, Mike Mooney,
Ehsan Alavi Gharahbagh, Glen Frank .............................................................................1261
Performance Prediction Assessments of a Hard Rock TBM Used in Mining
Development ■ F.J. Macias, L.N.R. Eide, P.D. Jakobsen, C. Jacobs, A. Bruland ..........1272
Part 20: Trenchless Tunneling and Rehabilitation
The New and Old Bebenroth Tunnel Project in Germany—Tunnelling as
Part of The Deutsche Bahn Tunnel Infrastructure Safety Upgrade Program ■
Martin Fischer, Johannes Jaeger ....................................................................................1290
Surface Deformation Control Based on High-Speed Laser Scanning Systems ■
P. Matter, O. Schneider....................................................................................................1302
Pipe Jacking Big Time! ■ Klaus Rieker ..........................................................................1310
Tunneling for the Paradise Whitney Interceptor, Project 669, Las Vegas,
Nevada ■ Rebecca Brock, Robin Dornfest, Greg Gould ...............................................1320
Dugway West Interceptor Relief Sewer Microtunneling CSO Project
in Cleveland, Ohio ■ Doug Lopata, David Mast, Steven Benton, Bob Budzilek,
Rob Dill ............................................................................................................................1326
Part 21: Tunnel Safety and Other Challenges for the Industry
Tunnel Rescue in America—A Realistic View ■ Neil T. Lipski .......................................1338
Cleaning Risky Behavior from the Workplace ■ Steve Stier ..........................................1342
Tale of Two Cities—Subaqueous Tunneling in London and New York City 1879 to
1910 ■ Vincent Tirolo Jr. ................................................................................................1351
Engaging Future Generations for the Benefit of the Underground Industry ■
Shawna Von Stockhausen, Phaidra Campbell ................................................................1360
Index ...............................................................................................................................1373
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