North American Tunneling 2004

Levent Ozdemir, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA.

• Foreword Session 1 – Differing site conditions as applied to design/build contracts Track 1 – Project management Track 2 – Security of critical infrastructure and key national assets: use of underground space Track 3 – Mechanized tunnelling Track 4 – Specialized urban construction Design and construction of an LRT tunnel in San Jose, CA Session 2 – Subsurface investigations and geotechnical report preparation for design/build projects Track 1 – Risk allocation Track 2 – Owners opinion forum Track 3 – Non-mechanized construction Track 4 – Ground modification for underground construction Session 3 – Design/build contracting practices Track 1 – Predicting and controlling cost and schedule Track 2 – Show me the money Track 3 – Investigation, inspection and rehabilitation Track 4 – Machine mining – soft ground to hard rock to everything in between Session 4 – Design/build risk Track 1 – SEM/NATM practices/prescriptive specifications Engineers, contractors, and soft-ground tunneling equipment Track 2 – Transit oriented development – making the case for going underground Track 3 – Analysis and design Track 4 – Conventional underground construction Author Index.