RAPID EXCAVATION and TUNNELING CONFERENCE

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1 RAPID EXCAVATION and TUNNELING CONFERENCE 2013 PROCEEDINGS EDITED BY MICHAEL A. DiPONIO AND CHRIS DIXON Published by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.

2 CONTENTS Preface ix Executive Committee xi Session Chairs xii International Committee xiii Part 1: Caverns and Large Spans Design and Construction of 86th St. Station Rock Caverns in New York 2 Design and Construction of a Massive Tunnel Junction for Hong Kong's Express Rail Link Project 11 New York City Second Avenue Subway: MTA's 72nd Street Station and Tunnels Project Construction of a Large Span Station Cavern, Running Tunnels, Cross-Over and Turn-Out Caverns, Shafts and Entrances 22 Designer/Construction Manager/Contractor Perspective of Design and Construction of the New 72nd Street Station of the Second Avenue Subway 46 Precast Concrete Design Challenges in the Underground LIRR Grand Central Terminal Main Station Cavern of the East Side Access Project 57 Part 2: Contracting Practices Delivering Value and Risk Management Through a Competitive Alliance Procurement Process 82 Developing the Midtown Tunnel PPP Project 93 GBR To Use or Not to Use? 102 Subsurface Public-Private Partnership Projects: Brave New World of Risk Allocation 110 Part 3: Design and Planning A Review of Portal Design Concepts for Mountain Tunnels 118 Impact Assessments on Unbolted Wedgeblock Segmental Linings from Over-Tunneling 142 North Strathfield Rail Underpass Shallow Cover Driven Tunnel 150 Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel: Improving System Reliability 159 Tunnel Design for the Waterview Connection Project 171 Critical Assessment of RMR-Based Tunnel Design Practices: A Practical Engineer's Approach 180 Part 4: Difficult Ground Construction of the Santa Ana River Interceptor (SARI) Relocation: Microtunneling Through Abrasive Soil with Hard Cobbles and Boulders 200 Design-Build Tunneling Project in Urban Setting with Fast-track Engineering and Ground Modifications 215 iii

3 iv Microtunneling in Gravel, Cobbles, and Boulders 226 Highly Successful Ground Support for High Cover: A Case Study of the West Qinling Rail Tunnels 240 Large-Diameter Shaft Construction Through Difficult Ground in Columbus, Ohio 250 Use of a Digger Shield to Successfully Complete Tunnel After Ground Conditions Proved Too Adverse for a TBM 264 Part 5: Future Projects Frequent Flooding Relief in Sight Charleston's Stormwater Tunnel to "Drain" the Rain 276 DC Clean Rivers Project Northeast Boundary Tunnel and Northeast Boundary Branch Tunnel Project Overviews 284 Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County Clearwater Program Effluent Outfall Tunnel 291 Update on the "Pipeline/Tunnel Option" for the Delta Habitat Conservation and Conveyance Program 300 Part 6: Geotechnical Considerations Initial Ground Support for Tunneling in Central Texas, from Designer's and Owner's Perspectives 314 Lessons Learned from 130 Years of Tunneling in Seattle's Complex Soils 328 Recommendations on How Geotechnical Baseline Reports Can Be Prepared for Rock Tunnel Projects 343 Small Footprint, Big Challenges Design and Construction of the Allen Park Sanitary District 1 Storage Tunnel 358 Part 7: Geotechnical Instrumentation Settlement Control Case-History Based Settlement Trough Characteristics for Pressurized TBM Tunneling in Glacial Soils 374 Comparison of Predicted Versus Observed Structural Displacements of Existing Structures at the Port of Miami 382 Geotechnical Instrumentation Monitoring System for Shallow Freeway Tunnel Crossings with EPBMs 392 Instrumentation Approach for the Alaskan Way Bored Tunnel 404 Summary and Lessons Learned from New York City Tunneling Instrumentation 414 Part 8: Ground Stabilization Ground Investigation Challenges at the Port of Miami Tunnel Project, Miami, Florida 428 Ground Freezing for the East Side Access Northern Boulevard Crossing Balancing Settlement and Heave Control 439 Compensation Grouting at Florence HSR Tunnel 449 Does the End Justify the Means The Cost of Grouting and the Benefit to Owners 460 Supporting Measures for Urban Tunneling 465 Innovation in Annular Grouting at the Euclid Creek Tunnel, Cleveland, Ohio 477

4 v Part 9: Grouting Water Control Probing and Grouting Predictions for Rock Tunnels 490 Mined Rock Tunnel Through Dam Abutment at Warm Springs Dam, Sonoma County, CA 502 Chemical Grouting for Water Control at Four Points Shaft 513 Groundwater Inflow Characterization for a Tunnel Constructed Adjacent to an Existing Concrete-Lined Pressure Tunnel 525 State-of-the-Art Drilling and Grouting to Control Groundwater for a Shaft in Dolomite 538 Part 10: Hard Rock Tunneling Design of South Hartford Conveyance and Storage Tunnel 546 Construction Challenges for a City of Austin Deep Interceptor Sewer Tunnel 557 TARP Mainstream Tunnel System Connection to McCook Reservoir Goes Into High Gear 565 WSSC Bi-County Water Tunnel: An Urban Tunnel Success Story 574 Waneta Expansion Project Penstock Tunnels 587 Part 11: Major Projects Large-Diameter Deep Shafts for the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector Project, Indianapolis, Indiana 598 Construction Progress on the DC Clean Rivers Project 606 Factors of Scale Planning, Design, and TBM Considerations for Large-Diameter Bored Tunnels 614 Planning and Development of the Waterview Connection Tunnel 625 Experience Gained at New Subway Line U5, Berlin 637 Part 12: New and Innovative Technologies I Tunneling in Belgium 646 Monitored Disk Cutters MOBYDIC Inclined Tunnelling for Pump Storage Power Plant with a TBM 668 Design and Construction of a Jacked Box Culvert in Quincy, Massachusetts 675 Jacked Box Tunnel Under a Railway Embankment 686 Part 13: New and Innovative Technologies II Accurate Soft Ground TBM Docking Surveying, TBM Abandonment, and Deformation 698 Approach for a Cost-Effective Ventilation During Construction of a High-Speed Railway Tunnel 708 King County Uses New Shaft Technology on the Ballard Siphon Project 719 Multi-Mode TBMs State of the Art and Recent Developments 728 Part 14: New Plant and Equipment Applications Rapid Drill-and-Blast Tunnelling, through the Application of Systems Engineering Methods 740

5 vi Lyon-Turin High Speed Railway Link Italian Part Base Tunnel Mixed Shield TBM Proposal 755 Long-Distance, Inter-Boro Muck Conveyance Challenges 765 Innovative Approach to Muck Disposal and Ventilation During Drill-and-Blast Operations in a Densely Populated Urban Environment 773 Recent Belt Conveyor Applications in the United States 786 Suspended Platform Heading Systems for Safe, High-Performance Tunneling 795 Part 15: Precast Tunnel Linings Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete An Innovative Material for Tunnel Segments 810 Design, Construction, and Procurement Considerations for Tunneling Segments of MTA Baltimore Red Line 820 Designing at the Limit: Brisbane Airport Link Segmental Lining 834 Liner Segment Design of the Largest TBM Tunnel in the World Alaskan Way Tunnel in Seattle 844 Opening Supports to Segmental Linings A Novel Shotcrete Support Solution 856 Segmental Lining Design for Large-Diameter Road Tunnels 866 Part 16: Pressure Face TBM Case Histories I Challenges of EPBM Excavations in Prague 880 The New Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel in Germany's Picturesque Mosel Valley: Dual-Mode TBM Tunnelling Under the City of Cochem 895 Trends in the Performance of Metro-Sized EPB TBMs: A Study of Worldwide EPB Advance Rates 905 Unprecedented EPB Excavation in Pressurized Mixed Ground Conditions: Study of Performance at the Emisor Oriente Wastewater Tunnel 914 TBM Conveyor Belt Scales: The University Link Project Experience 923 Part 17: Pressure Face TBM Case Histories II Slurry TBM Tunneling on the East Side CSO Tunnel Project, Portland, Oregon 936 Construction of the University Link Light Rail Tunnel U230 in Seattle, WA 953 EPB Tunnelling at High Pressures: Customization of Tunnelling Systems for Port Mann Tunnel 967 University Link Light Rail TBM Tunnel UWS to CHS Contract U220: Case History 987 East Side Access Queens Bored Tunnels Case Study 1014 Part 18: Pressure Face TBM Technology The Current Status of Laws and Regulations Regarding Hyperbarics 1044 Experimental Study of Impact of Soil Conditioning on Soil Abrasion and Cutter Wear of EPB TBMs 1052 Keeping the Chamber Full: Managing the "Air Bubble" in EPB Tunneling 1065 Untangling the Mystery of Soil Conditioning in EPB Tunneling 1074 East Side Access Queens Bored Tunnels Engineering Challenges 1086

6 vii Part 19: Risk Management Drilling and Blasting Open Cuts in the Upper East of Manhattan Part of the 86th Street Station for the 2nd Avenue Subway Line 1120 Predicting and Controlling Excavation Vibrations in Urban Areas Using the Drilling-and-Blasting Method 1129 Tunnel Myths: A Review of Current Practices 1136 Practical Method for Predicting Diaphragm Wall Shaft Construction-Induced Settlement Case History The Blue Plains Tunnel Project 1149 Part 20: SEM/NATM Lessons Learned from NATM Design and Construction of the Caldecott Fourth Bore 1164 Load Sharing in Two-Pass Lining Systems for NATM Tunnels 1178 Mastering Karst Features at the Baumleite NATM Tunnel Project in Thuringia, Germany 1192 Sequential Excavation Under Northern Boulevard and Two Subway Structures 1203 Part 21: Shafts Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Tunnel Intake Structure and Tremie Concrete Placement 1214 Tight Tolerances: Installation of Five 60-lnchOiameter, 358-ft Deep Well Pump Casings 1226 Shaft Construction Methods 1235 Blue Plains Tunnel: Design and Construction of Large-Diameter Diaphragm Wall Shafts 1258 Challenges of Large-Diameter Blind Drilling and Lining in Fractured Ground 1273 Part 22: Tunnel Finishing and Liner Installation Construction of the Concrete Slab Track at the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland 1284 Customized Concrete Form Design for South Cobb Tunnel Project 1291 Freeform Concrete 1300 Massive Annular Grout and Long-Distance Pumping at the Seymour-Capilano Project 1306 Brightwater Conveyance System, Central Contract: Overcoming the Challenges of Installing Pipe and Final Linings in Long Bore Tunnels 1318 Index 1327

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Executive Committee. p. 35. p. 72. p. 96. p. 151 Preface Executive Committee Session Chairs International Committee Conventional and Rock Tunneling High Speed Excavation by Drill & Blast with Mechanized Mucking System-Mitholz Railway p. 2 Tunnels, Switzerland