Description

These conference proceedings address the wide range of geotechnical issues associated with urban development.

Part one of the book is devoted to the use of tunnelling to provide infrastructure in areas where intense development has taken place at ground surface or where physical conditions would otherwise hinder further development.

Part two examines other geotechnical factors associated with a rapidly developing urban environment and highlights the extent of the geotechnical - and related- hazards that must be overcome for development to be successful.

Contents

Part 1 : tunnelling

• Some geotechnical aspects of design of the Initial System Project in Bangkok
• The relationship between teh ground movement around a closed face shield and the backfill grouting material/construction method used
• Water inflows in bored tunnels driven in Hong Kong: prediction, construction issues and control measures
• Hazard assessments for the Athens Metro, Greece
• Lai King Rock Tunnel Complex: design and construction
• Some geotechnical difficulties in mixed ground tunnelling in urban areas
• Geotechnical aspects of pipe-jacked tunnelling
• Preliminary design for high speed tunnelling on the Northside Storage Tunnel Project
• The response of London Clay to full-face TBM tunnelling at West Ham, London
• Microtunnelling investigation and design in highly complex utility corridors
• Shortcrete applications and minimising the risk of damaging alkali-aggregate reaction in reaction in rock support for a subsea, geothermally active environment - Hvalfjordur Tunnel, Iceland
• Quality management system application to geotechnics and sprayed concrete tunnelling in urban areas
• Construction of adits and shafts at Quarry Bay Station

Part 2: Geotechnics

• Site investigation for rock slope excavation and stabilisation adjacent to a major highway in Hong Kong
• Investigation and analysis of potentially kaolin-rich slopes in Hong Kong
• Slopeworks experience in th Fanling/Sheung Shui area of Hong Kong
• Po Lam Road Platform: a major design and build site formation in Hong Kong
• The use of retaining structures as natural terrain hazard mitigation measures
• Some important engineering geological and hydrogeological factors influencing slope stability in Hong Kong and Hawaii
• Base stability analysis for excavation in anisotropic clay using slip surface method
• Anchored diaphragm wall for sewage pump station in Izmir
• Prediction and verification of tower foundation performancer on a fractured and sheared volcanic rock mass for Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong
• Application of magnetic susceptibility testing to offshore sediments in South East Kowloon development feasibility study
• Stress-stain-strength characteristics of soft Hong Kong marine deposits improved using cement
• Constructing roads over soft soils: Tungku Link Road, Brunei geohazards in the Chongqing District of China
• Natural slope hazard and risk assessment framework