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1 WORLD TUNNELLING 2009 SPIS TREŚCI Iss. 15 REGULARS 3 Global news 6 Project: Korea South Korea's first-ever Immersed tube tunnel is full of Innovation 10 Technical: drill and blast Karl-Heinz Wennmohs and Gunnar Nord outline the latest developments 12 Comment: Martin Knights, ITA 14 Technical: incident logging Guy Lance and )ohn Anderson's database of "significant" tunnel incidents 17 Project: US Jack Burke reports on the Harbor Siphons scheme to cut sewer overflows Project: UK Darren Watson of Sykes Pumps on the challenges of the Tyne tunnel project 20 Project: Sweden Kent Bostrom examines the dewatering of Sweden's Adalsbanan rail project 21 WT Industry Leaders' Round Table

2 Iss. 16 REGULARS 3 Global news 7 Technology: Drilling fluids A few concepts and some recent developments in the arena of drilling fluids 9 Interview: Leaders Patrik Nolaker, president of Atlas Copco's underground rock-excavation division, talks to George Demetri in the first of WT's 'Leaders' interviews 10 Technology: Conveyors Carly Lovejoy considers the latest product offerings. Companies include: Continental, Robbins, H+E Logistik GmbH, ContiTech 12 Project: Spain Rodney Craig visited the Madrid metro to ascertain progress on Line Show preview France's Intermat to buck recession woes. Intermat is one of the world's three-biggest tradeshows dedicated to equipment, machinery and techniques for the construction and building materials industries. It will be held on April at the Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre in Paris, France

3 3 Global news Iss Technology: TBMs Robbins trio seek to relieve Mexico City's wastewater problem 13 Leaders: Marek Grocholewski 14 Technology: TBMs Dr Martin Herrenknecht and Dr Karln Bappler look at designs for soft ground 16 Technical: tunnel security Dr George Munfakh reviews ways to mitigate the impact of potential threats 18 Project: US Sections 1 and 2 will complete the ambitious Upper Northwest Interceptor 20 Project: Hong Kong Billions of dollars worth of contracts are up for grabs on the island's rail system 25 Project: India Extreme conditions In the NW mountains challenge the Chutak hydro project 27 Project: Norway Shani Wallis reports on a record-breaking drill and blast performance 30 What's new

4 2 Global news 23 What s new Iss Leaders: Pekka Nieminen With ten years' tunnelling experience, mining engineer Pekka Nieminen has headed Sandvik's tunnel division in Finland since Technology: drill and blast Juha Kukkonen, applications engineer at Sandvik Mining and Construction, outlines the impact of new drill plan design software on the excavation cycle 14 Project: Middle East Roger Makhlouf and Karl Gunnar Holter outline the rehabilitation of two concrete-lined road tunnels in Lebanon using a robot-sprayed membrane 19 Technology: tunnel slurries Ian Morrison takes a critical view on the use of bentonite as a TBM slurry Project: Slovakia Skanska BS is using drill and blast to excavate a 4.2km access tunnel for the development of a talc mine in Slovakia, and completion is imminent 22 Project: Channel Tunnel Carly Lovejoy reviews the damage and repair work following last year's fire

5 3 Global news Iss Leaders: Professor Arnold Dix The technical/legal expert advisor and world authority on managing tunnel risk 12 Project: Czech Republic The Dobrovského tunnels will link Brno to the world while minimising congestion 16 Project: US A unique tunnel rehab in California, combining a railway and pedestrian pathway 18 Project: US Jack Burke reports on the Arrowhead East and West tunnels in California 20 Technology: shotcrete and support Tony Rock of Mott MacDonald checks the progress of the Hindhead A3 project 24 Technology: ventilation The challenges of smoke-control design in long road tunnels at high altitude 30 Technology: slurry separation Ben Clark of Derrick Equipment Co looks at the design of separation plants 32 Project: Russia Sochi paves the way to the 2014 Winter Olympics with a spate of tunnels 34 Preview: RETC in Las Vegas

6 2 Global news Iss Leaders: Martin Knight The ITA president talks about his achievements during 37 years of tunnelling 14 Project: Germany Lawrence Williams looks at how drill-and-blast is progressing on the Bibra tunnel 18 RETC: review George Demetri checked out the RETC at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, on June Labour market: update Barrie Willis, a tunnel engineer for over 40 years, looks at staffing in the industry 20 Project: Switzerland S Maurhofer of Amberg Engineering describes the excavation of Uetilberg 23 Safety: new approaches Martin Vogel of Suva proposes improvements to health and safety on tunnel projects 27 Technology: segments Steve Skelhorn and Laura McNally's technical paper on segmental lining systems

7 3 Global news Iss Interview: leaders Mining engineer Lok Home of IBM-maker The Robbins Company in the spotlight 17 Project: US Jack Burke found a thrilling story worth telling at the South Cobb Tunnel Project 18 Full speed below Alastair Sim reports on the cut and cover sections of Singapore's Downtown Line 21 Technology: drill and blast Stig Eriksson describes the innovative mucking system used on a Swiss project 24 Technology: rail-based equipment Carly Lovejoy looks at the use of rail mounts for transporting loads during works

8 2 Global news Iss Australasia: Sydney/Melbourne A report on water and sewer projects and John Holland Tunnelling's latest IBM 14 Leaders: Dr George Munfakh The senior vice president at Parsons Brinckerhoff on his career and the industry 16 Technology: drilling fluids Baroid's Tom Tibor on how to ensure drilling fluids work efficiently 18 Technology: rock bolts Atlas Copco's Roofex is a flexible and yielding rock bolt for high-stress conditions 22 Project: Papua New Guinea Building a dewatering tunnel at one of the world's largest copper mines 23 Technology: covert tunnels How smarter, targeted surveillance will help find smugglers' tunnels 24 Course: Colorado School of Mines A comprehensive three-day tunnelling course in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains 26 Project: Tyne Tunnel, UK An immersed-tube and cut-and-cover tunnel is being built in northeast England 29 Alpine: equipment Rotary drum cutters are gaining in popularity

9 2 Global news Iss Leaders: Hans Greve The executive vice-president of mining & construction at IBM-maker Aker Wirth 12 Nordic: Helsinki link The preparatory design work for the an immersed-tube tunnel 14 Nordic: focus Scandinavia is one of the world's busiest tunnelling regions 16 Technology: Shotcrete The latest spray-applied waterproof membrane projects 20 Fire: polypropylene fibres Dr Ken Smith and Trevor W Atkinson on explosive spalling mechanisms 22 Fire protection: Bjørvika Tunnel An interesting fire-protective layer is being used on Norway's Bjervika tunnel 25 Project: India The progress of NATM tunnelling works to Delhi Airport 29 Technology: what's new The latest products and innovations from the mailbag

10 2 Global news Iss Leaders: Glenn Boyce San Francisco-based Dr Glenn Boyce, senior associate at Jacobs Associates, is one of few engineers to specialise in tunnelling and trenchlesss 12 Drill & blast: Sharjah, UAE The Halcrow-designed Shis-Diftah road tunnel, currently on site in Sharjah and being drilled and blasted through the UAE's highest mountain range, faces an array of challenges 16 Focus: North America Jack Burke looks at a sewage tunnel project in Kentucky, US, designed to improve local water quality and increase storage capacity 20 IBM: Iran Hamed Moammeri (Amberg, Iran) and Reza Ghaffarzadeh (Ranah Saz Alvand Engineering) outline recently completed projects Oprac. BPK

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