CONSTRUCTION MONITORING OF SOFT GROUND TUNNELS: A RATIONAL HANDBOOK OF PRACTICES FOR RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM PLANNERS AND MANAGERS

This report aims to fit the objectives of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) Tunneling Program - to lower subway construction costs and to reduce construction hazards and damage to the environment. This report generated from an UMTA sponsored study that disclosed the art of instrumentation and monitoring as being advanced but not as potentially sufficient on tunneling projects. One of the main reasons for this stemmed from a lack of general procedures and guidelines, as well as, a lack of expertise among decision-makers regarding tunnel monitoring. UMTA commissioned this Handbook to remove such difficulties. The principal purpose of this Handbook is to encourage and improve the use of monitoring for urban mass transit tunnels, and other deep excavations. This Handbook documents the findings of a recent UMTA construction monitoring instrumentation research project. The Handbook is directed to systems planners and managers and points out how to incorporate a successful monitoring program(s) into their systems that help to control and reduce costs.

• Corporate Authors:

  Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade and Douglas, Incorporated

  One Penn Plaza
  New York, NY  United States  10119

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • SCHMIDT, B
• Publication Date: 1977-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 70 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Construction; Construction management; Construction projects; Cost effectiveness; Costs; Design; Environmental impacts; Excavation; Geological surveying; Handbooks; Instrumentation; Monitoring; Public transit; Rapid transit; Soft soils; Soils; Specifications; Subways; Tunneling; Tunneling machines; Urban transportation; Vehicular tunnels
• Uncontrolled Terms: Construction costs; Design criteria; Monitors
• Old TRIS Terms: Excavation technology; Rapid transit railways; Subway construction; Tunnel excavation
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Environment; Finance; Geotechnology; Highways; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00151779
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-MA-06-0025-77-1Handbook, DOT-TSC-661
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-661
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 27 1981 12:00AM