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<br /> north american<br /> Tunneling<br /> April/May 2011<br /> www.tunnellingjournal.com j o u r n a l<br /> SAN FRANCISCO<br /> NATM SPECIAL<br /> DEFINING DETAIL AT DEVIL'S SLIDE<br /> SEE PAGE 16 SEE PAGE 20 DETAILS ON PAGES 26-34<br /> FULL BORE AT<br /> CALDECOTT<br /> NATM EXCAVATION<br /> OF THE 4TH BORE IS<br /> NOW WELL UNDER<br /> WAY IN OAKLAND<br /> SEATTLE'S<br /> GREAT LEGACY<br /> NATJ TAKES A LOOK<br /> BACK AT THE CITY'S<br /> HISTORY OF LARGE<br /> DIAMETER TUNNELS<br /> RETC 2011<br /> PREVIEW<br /> SAN FRANCISCO`S<br /> CONFERENCE<br /> RUNDOWN AND<br /> EXHIBIT PREVIEW<br /> Tunnelling<br /> www.tunnellingjournal.com April/May 2011<br /> The international journal for the tunnelling industry <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=1"> north american Tunneling </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=2"> Tunnelling www.tunnelling</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=3"> herrenknecht AG | utility tunnellinG | trAffi</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=4"> Above: Lee Tunnel underway (p8) Below: Si</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=5"> “Sandvik’s unrivaled intelligence in tunneling gi</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=6"> editorScomment One year down IT ONLY FEELS like</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=7"> NEWS FROM THE WEB Crossrail awards last tunnel</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=8"> www.tunnellingjournal.com - breaking industry new</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=9"> NEWS FROM THE WEB www.tunnellingjournal.com - bre</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=10"> :+(1 3(5)250$1&( (5)250$1&( 0$77(56 $77(56 :K\GR</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=11"> WEST DRAINAGE </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=12"> portal the crews hit the Sandy Bay Fault, an extr</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=13"> 12 TUNNELLING JOURNAL WEST DRAINAGE do with per</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=14"> </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=15"> WEST DRAINAGE chambers, giving the workers a safe</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=16"> NFM TECHNOLOGIES. TUNNEL BORING MACHINE MANUFACTU</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=17"> MTR INTERVIEW A new role in Hong With a massive e</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=18"> MTR INTERVIEW Kong mass transit of mega-projects </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=19"> MTR PROJECTS The projects The MTR's two most adva</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=20"> MTR PROJECTS The world's leading macro </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=21"> SINGAPORE 29 TBMS for Downtown Line 3 SINGAP</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=22"> SINGAPORE Singapore's LTA is moving up a</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=23"> SINGAPORE “Most of the excavations for t</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=24"> Commitment. MAPEI Underground </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=25"> VMT's 3-D laser tracker system is used to check s</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=26"> PRECAST LININGS A quality control check to en</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=27"> N U T R O G N I R E F A N G D www.co</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=28"> PRECAST LININGS C50/60 concrete, with gran</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=29"> TECHNICAL WEBINAR SERIES from 28th April, 2011</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=30"> TOPICS PLANNED FOR 2011 DISCS, </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=31"> PRECAST LININGS tracker checked by the manu</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=32"> The power of innovative tunneling Inn</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=33"> BRIGHTON DOWN IN East Sussex's chalk beds, two 4</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=34"> BRIGHTON Above: Holly</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=35"> BRIGHTON Tunnelling was the easy part While </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=36"> BRIGHTON Left: Wear due to flint encounters Fa</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=37"> PIC 2: Secondary wear on the back of a scraper P</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=38"> CUTTERWEAR EXCAVATION TOOLS ARE a critical part </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=39"> CUTTERWEAR </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=40"> JOB OPPORTUNITY Sales Agent Brazil The Robbins </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=41"> Underground spaces in the service of a</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=42"> CUTTERWEAR Figure 2: Definition of tool gap Too</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=43"> CUTTERWEAR Figure 3: Welde</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=44"> interpretation. Cutterhead torque increases with </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=45"> JOB DONE...?! Paul Cullinan of Nexus Contract Ser</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=46"> PROJECT DELIVERY I HAVE HEARD it said that anyon</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=47"> PROJECT DELIVERY more elaborate procedures for</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=48"> BRIDGES and TUNNELS 28th - 29th June 2011 </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=49"> Today's soft ground EPBM tunnels are often in urb</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=50"> SETTLEMENT While ground conditions are the b</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=51"> June 19-22, 2011 </a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=52"> The crew stands on the platform of a Robbins EPBM</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=53"> SETTLEMENT excavating the 7.7km long Me</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=54"> Conference and Exhibiti</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=55"> PRODUCT NEWS Becker Mining Systems enters tunne</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=56"> TUNNELLING JOURNAL 55 PRODUCT NEWS BASF improves</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=57"> PRODUCT NEWS tackling fires, and res</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=58"> PRODUCT NEWS must be obligatory in cabs, in</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=59"> contact US Gary Tween Managing Director Tel: + 4</a> <a title="TJ April/May 2011 page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/52f2a8ec?page=60"> GUANGZHOU | SACRAMENTO | DElHi SWiFT EPB. 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