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The Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD), located in the lower mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, constructed a new water supply main in a tunnel under the Fraser River, just downstream of the PortMann Bridge.

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RepairUndergroundLiverpool Central Tunnel High-Level Neck Repairs

Andy Dunlop and David Thomas

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Liverpool?s High-Level Neck tunnel (HLN) cannot lay claim to being the city?s most famous cavern, but it can justifiably be labeled as being one of the most unusual and challenging tunnels on the entire UK rail network.

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Jim Stathis is a thinker and doer in everything he touches. Stathis started working with his hands at a very young age as a craftsman, which enabled him to develop his eye for creativity and make his ideas reality.

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Lake Country is a municipality located in the Central Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Canada, which is approximately 250 miles (400 km) northeast of Vancouver.

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The Suhurlui Irrigation Pipeline is located in the southeast of Romania, Galati county, in the vast planes formed by the Danube river, 50 miles (80 km) upstream of the river?s discharging point into the DanubeDelta and 90 miles (150 km) from the Black Sea.

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RepairUndergroundInternationalMexico City Deep Sewer Rehabilitation with Shotcrete

Raúl Armando Bracamontes Jiménez

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Mexico City?s deep drainage system is a complex underground network composed of a series of tunnels designed to convey sewage and storm water to discharge and treatment facilities.

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UndergroundGeneralA Brief History of Shotcrete in the Underground Industry

Dudley R. (Rusty) Morgan and E. Stefan Bernard

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It is now generally recognized that Carl Ethan Akeley (1864-1926) was the inventor of shotcrete (Teichert 2002).

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Corrosion of embedded steel reinforcement is a threat to all types of reinforced concrete, leading to cracking, spalling, and a shortened service life of thestructure.

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In 2011, realizing a need to identify a unifying program dedicated to underground construction and tunneling education across campus, Colorado School of Mines established the Center for Underground Construction andTunneling,