UID:
edocfu_9959657411002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
ISBN:
1-135-80949-6
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0-429-20425-6
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1-135-80950-X
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1-280-40513-9
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9786610405138
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0-203-47766-9
Uniform Title:
ENGnetBASE.
Content:
Tunnelling has become a fragmented process, excessively influenced by lawyers'notions of confrontational contractual bases. This prevents the pooling of skills, essential to the achievement of the promoters' objectives. Tunnelling: Management by Design seeks the reversal of this trend. After a brief historical treatment of selected developments, the concept of design is defined in detail and related to systems and to risk, the central features of this book. A final chapter discusses the failure in 1994 of railway tunnels at Heathrow Airport which well illustrates the expens
Note:
"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002"--Title-page verso.
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Preface -- Notation -- Introduction -- Background to modern tunnelling -- Design: the ubiquitous element -- Planning -- Studies and investigations -- Design of the tunnel project -- Design of construction -- Management -- Hazards, disputes and their resolution --Coda: the Heathrow Tunnel collapse -- References -- Author index -- Subject index
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Also available in print form.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-419-23200-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203477663
