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<br /> <br /> TUNNELLING JOURNAL FEBRUARY/MARCH 2020<br /> February/March 2020<br /> The International Journal for the Tunnelling Industry<br /> www.tunnellingjournal.com<br /> Page Page<br /> 18<br /> Autonomous<br /> TBMs<br /> TJ investigates the<br /> inception, design,<br /> construction and<br /> use of the world’s<br /> first Autonomous<br /> TBM.<br /> 24<br /> From overload<br /> to insight<br /> TJ takes a peak into<br /> the world of AI<br /> Page<br /> Tunnel<br /> waterproofing<br /> TJ explores some of<br /> the new and future<br /> innovations in this<br /> specialised field.<br /> 36<br /> Small<br /> Diameter<br /> Tunnelling<br /> The next big<br /> trend in renewable<br /> energy.<br /> Tunnelling Journal 1<br /> METRO LOS ANGELES, USA<br /> CREATING<br /> VIBRANT ARTERIES<br /> UNDERGROUND<br /> 120 million passengers are travelling through the City of<br <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 1" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=1"> </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 2" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=2"> TUNNELLING JOURNAL FEBRUARY/MARCH 2020 February/</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 3" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=3"> METRO LOS ANGELES, USA CREATING VIBRANT ARTERIE</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 4" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=4"> Contents Editor’s comment – page 5 News from the </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 5" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=5"> ALWAYS ADVANCING www.terratec.co PUNE METRO H</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 6" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=6"> EDITOR’S COMMENT HS2 – the right message… Ther</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 7" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=7"> BREAKING INDUSTRY NEWS Mining Equipment Acquir</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 8" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=8"> BREAKING INDUSTRY NEWS Lone Star Funds Acquires</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 9" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=9"> BREAKING INDUSTRY NEWS CREG EPBM Launched In C</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 10" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=10"> Tunnelling Journal 9</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 11" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=11"> From Overload to Insight Artificial intelligence o</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 12" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=12"> Speedier survey reviews boost productivity by 60 </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 13" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=13"> Reinforcing Progress The world relies on tunn</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 14" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=14"> FROM OVERLOAD TO INSIGHT Feast of data to feed </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 15" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=15"> Comparing old photos could revolutionise tunnel m</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 16" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=16"> INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY UNCOMPROMISED ACCURACY SA</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 17" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=17"> Predicting shear zones increases production and s</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 18" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=18"> Patterns lead the way to more efficient grouting </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 19" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=19"> In Pursuit of the Autonomous TBM Justin Chin Jing</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 20" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=20"> controls parameters such as thrust force, cutterh</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 21" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=21"> Figure 2: A-TBM Visualisation screen ope</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 22" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=22"> IN PURSUIT OF THE AUTONOMOUS TBM contact force</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 23" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=23"> Figure 9: Tunnelling Centralised Command and Cont</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 24" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=24"> MAPEI HAS GOT YOU COVERED • SIMPLER QUALITY CONTR</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 25" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=25"> Unpacking new developments in tunnel waterproofing</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 26" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=26"> UNPACKING NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TUNNEL WATERPROOFIN</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 27" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=27"> TUNNEL SEGMENT GASKETS YOUR TUNNEL SEALING P</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 28" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=28"> UNPACKING NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TUNNEL WATERPROOFIN</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 29" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=29"> Tunnels are built with a long service life,</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 30" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=30"> UNPACKING NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TUNNEL WATERPROOFIN</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 31" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=31"> Corruption taxes and the cost of major undergroun</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 32" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=32"> wild beasts – unable to join in the wickedness of</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 33" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=33"> Table 1: Example of international projec</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 34" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=34"> CORRUPTION TAXES AND THE COST OF MAJOR UNDERG</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 35" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=35"> Chart 4: Variation in Bribery across </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 36" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=36"> billion electric commuter line from southern Mala</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 37" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=37"> Mini Hydro Small Diameter Tunnelling is the n</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 38" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=38"> the tunnel. Mechanised tunnelling also disturbs t</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 39" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=39"> Contractor Hardanger Maskin AS (Tore </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 40" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=40"> R B A E T L I E N C G Model 450</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 41" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=41"> PRODUCT NEWS Debut for London’s first ever pile us</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 42" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=42"> PRODUCT NEWS PRODUCT NEWS Ingenious invests in </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 43" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=43"> Contact us Tris Thomas Editorial Director Tel: + </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 44" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=44"> THE ROBBINS COMPANY DEFY EXPECTATIONS </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 45" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=45"> </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 46" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=46"> February/March 2020 www.tunnelingjourna</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 47" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=47"> SAVE the DATE JUNE 7 -10, 2020 NASHVILLE, TN </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 48" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=48"> Comment Getting on with it… It looks like the Hu</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 49" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=49"> NORTH AMERICAN NEWS WSDOT awarded $57.2M damages</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 50" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=50"> NORTH AMERICAN NEWS Feds clear Gateway bridge fu</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 51" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=51"> THE INSIDER Bob Goodfellow, PE, PEng, President, </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 52" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=52"> Tunnel  Trenchless  Geotechnical  Geostructura</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 53" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=53"> All systems go for the Second Narrows Crossing W</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 54" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=54"> understood the significance of earthquakes in the</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 55" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=55"> Delivering complex tunneling projects worldwide </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 56" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=56"> ALL SYSTEMS GO FOR THE SECOND NARROWS CROSSING </a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 57" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=57"> Divers had to install the L ba</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 58" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=58"> WE WORK WELL UNDER PRESSURE At ASI, we’re comm</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 59" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=59"> A New Layer Whether in North America or worldwide</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 60" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=60"> A NEW LAYER SUPERCON work packages: The SUPERC</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 61" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=61"> Lining the Future Future developments in SCL rang</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 62" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=62"> A MATTER OF SEPARATION A Matter of Separation Th</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 63" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=63"> they went up to 20 feet,” Sorteberg said. “It sho</a> <a title="TJ Feb/Mar 2020 page 64" href="https://secure.viewer.zmags.com/publication/7b43a3a9?page=64"> British Tunnelling Society Conference and Exhibit</a>