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Life safety applied in full face excavation
Published in Daniele Peila, Giulia Viggiani, Tarcisio Celestino, Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art, 2020
P. Lunardi, G. Cassani, M. Gatti, A. Bellocchio, C.L. Zenti
Every step of the underground excavation should be planned with safety in mind. The normal surface safety concerns are also appropriate and often amplified for underground construction including: workers must be safeguarded from falling from the work platforms used in the mining process, from being struck by the moving equipment and from electrocution amongst many hazards. However there are also many additional hazards that workers must be protected from and guarded against.
Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health
Published in Charles D. Reese, James V. Edison, Annotated Dictionary of Construction Safety and Health, 2018
Charles D. Reese, James V. Edison
The construction of underground tunnels, shafts, chambers, and passageways, as well as cut-and-cover excavations which are both physically connected to ongoing underground construction operations, and covered in such a manner as to create conditions characteristic of underground construction, are all viewed as underground construction.
Systems approaches to the use of underground space in urban environments
Published in Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, 2022
Other topics centred primarily on infrastructure, e.g., Construction practices: Evaluating the impact of construction and rehabilitation practices on infrastructure system performance and minimising the environmental impacts associated with underground construction;Life cycle assessment: Developing and evaluating methods that include explicit valuation of underground space resources, models for materials and system durability, and support underground/surface trade-offs;Interdependencies and risk: Examination of system interdependencies, network analyses, and the implications for risk;Resilience to extreme events: Advancing safety, robustness, and redundancy; using underground space to improve community resilience; developing strategies to “grow back stronger” after disruptive events;Adaptable management: Developing approaches to ensure functional adaptability for unknown future needs;Whole-of-life assessments: Incorporating durability, maintenance, reliable ground support and waterproofing in decision-making; andAdvanced modelling techniques, establishment of appropriate metrics, and responding to changing demands due to climate change.