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2012-02-01.Pdf CONTENTSCONTENTS February 2012 On the Cover Two Become One CH2M HILL, Halcrow combine forces. By Jim Rush Features Advanced Assessment 20 New technology can help reduce risk of damage to structures. By Thomas A. Winant 16 Threading the Eye 22 Jay Dee/Coluccio JV completes Brightwater contract. By Jack Burke Miami-Dade Government Cut 26 Pipeline Replacement Microtunneling, HDD used to replace shallow utility mainlines. By Robin Dill, Ken Watson and Eduardo A. Vega Technical Paper 30 Ventilating Partially Submerged Subway Stations By Rob States, Dan McKinney and Bruce Dandie The Big Bore 32 USA Latest to Use Large-diameter TBM for Highway Project 22 By Jim Rush Columns Editor’s Message.................................... 4 TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine (ISSN 1553-2917) is published six times per year. Copyright 2011, Benjamin Media Inc., P.O. Box 190, Peninsula, OH 44264. USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted by any Departments means without written permission from the publisher. One year subscription rates: complimentary in the United States and Canada, and $69 in other foreign countries. Single copy rate: $10. Subscriptions and classified advertising should be addressed Business Briefs ....................................... 6 to the Peninsula office. POSTMASTER: send Changes of Address to TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine, P.O. Box 190, Peninsula OH 44264 USA. Global News ....................................... 13 Canadian Subscriptions: Canada Post Agreement Number 7178957. Send change UCA of SME Newsletter ............................ 14 address information and blocks of undeliverable copies to Canada Express; 7686 Kimble Street, Units 21 & 22, Mississauga, ON L5S 1E9 Canada Upcoming Projects ................................ 34 Calendar........................................... 41 Ad Index ........................................... 41 Products . 42 February 2012 TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine 3 EDITOREDITOR’S MESSAGE’S MESSAGE Bernard P . Krzys Publisher Moles Mark Milestone Robert D . Krzys The Moles, an association of individuals involved in the heavy Associate Publisher construction industry, particularly on the East Coast, marks its James W . Rush 75th anniversary in 2012. The group kicked off the year in grand Editor fashion with the annual Awards Dinner, held Jan. 25 at the New York Hilton. Sharon M . Bueno • Andrew Farr Each year The Moles present one award each to a Member and Keith Gribbins • Brad Kramer a Non-Member. This year the awards were bestowed on Richard Pam Kleineke • Kelly Pickerel Wagman, Chairman and CEO of G.A. & F.C. Wagman Inc. (Non- Contributing Staff Editors Member Award), and Thomas Iovino, CEO of The Judlau Companies (Member Award). W .M . Conley Andrew Cuomo, current governor of New York and son of former governor Creative Director Mario Cuomo, served as the keynote speaker. Cuomo spoke of the importance of Sarah E . Hayes • Chris Slogar construction in general, and infrastructure construction in particular, as a critical Elizabeth C . Stull component in a health economy. Specifically, Cuomo called for increased use of public- Graphic Designers private partnerships and design-build delivery as means to spur construction projects. Kelly Dadich In addition to awards and Director of Marketing member functions, The Moles has a Ryan Sneltzer scholarship fund that assists students Regional Sales Manager with grants through 17 participating Tim Richards colleges and universities. The group Regional Sales Representative is providing $175,000 in scholarship grants in the current academic year Alexis R . White to help cultivate the next generation Audience Development Manager of engineers and builders. Mark Gorman Andrew Cuomo speaks at The Moles Awards Dinner . Web & Interactive Manager Beavers Awards While mentioning The Moles, it is worthwhile to mention their West Coast kin, The Beavers. That group held its Editorial Council annual awards dinner in Los Angeles on Jan. 13 with J. Doug Pruitt, Sundt Chairman William W . Edgerton Gary Brierley, P .E . Jacobs Associates Construction (Management Award), Brierley Associates, San Francisco James M. Marquardt, J. F. Shea Co. Inc. Award winners (from left) Marquardt, Pruitt, Denver Joe Gildner (Supervision Award), William W. Edgerton, Baker and Edgerton . Randy Essex, P .E . Sound Transit Jacobs Associates (Engineering Award) and Sam E. Baker Jr., Oles Morrison Rinker & Seattle Hatch Mott MacDonald Baker LLP (Service and Supply Award) receiving honors. The Beavers marked their Rockville, Md . Boro Lukajic Consulting Engineer 50th anniversary in 2005. Roberto Gonzalez Mississauga, Ont . Izquierdo Moldequipo Internacional Paul Roy Tepotzotlan, Mexico AECOM USA No-Dig Show New York Dr . Levent Ozdemir, P .E . Ted Budd The No-Dig Show, held each year by the North American Society for Trenchless Colorado School of Mines Kenny Construction Golden, Colo . Technology (NASTT), is being held at the Opryland Hotel March 11-15 in Nashville. I have Wheeling, Ill . been attending this events since 2001 through our association with Trenchless Technology, George Yoggy David Caiden GCS LLC Arup a sister publication to TBM. (That 2001 event, coincidently, was also held at the Opryland.) Allentown, Pa . New York, N .Y . Through the years I have started to see more tunneling professionals attend the event. A lot of the conference deals with pipe rehabilitation techniques, such as cured- in-place pipe, for small diameter water and sewer lines. There are tracks and technical presentations, however, dedicated to new installation techniques that include large-diameter directional drilling and microtunneling. If your company is involved in or considering smaller diameter work, you may want to check the agenda at: www.nodigshow.com. Editorial & Advertising Offices: MEMBER 1770 Main St ., P .O . Box 190 Peninsula, OH 44264 USA Regards, Ph: 330.467.7588 • Fax: 330.468.2289 Web site: http://www.tunnelingonline.com e-mail: [email protected] Reprint Information: Wright’s Media Ph: 877.652.5295 • Fax: 916.983.6762 Jim Rush 4 TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine February 2012 Business Briefs Chicago Reaches Settlement to Reduce Sewage Overflows The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the State of Illinois on Dec. 14 announced a Clean Water Act (CWA) settlement with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) to resolve claims that untreated sewer discharges were released into Chicago area waterways during flood and wet weather events. The settlement will safeguard water quality and protect people’s health by capturing stormwater and wastewater from the combined sewer system, which services the city of Chicago and 51 communities. “This consent decree requires MWRD to invest in green roofs, rain gardens and other green infrastructure to prevent basement flooding in the neighborhoods that are most severely impacted by More than $3 billion has already been spent on deep tunnels and other sewer improvements as part sewer overflows,” said EPA of the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) in and around Chicago . Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman. “The enforceable schedule established by this States is one of EPA’s National Enforcement Initiatives for consent decree will also ensure completion of the deep 2011 to 2013. The initiative focuses on reducing discharges tunnel and reservoir system to control untreated sewage from sewer overflows by obtaining cities’ commitments to releases into Chicago area rivers and Lake Michigan.” implement timely, affordable solutions to these problems, Under the settlement, the Metropolitan Water including the increased use of green infrastructure and Reclamation District (MWRD) will work to complete a other innovative approaches. tunnel and reservoir plan to increase its capacity to handle MWRD owns 36 CSO outfalls located on Chicago area wet weather events and address combined sewer overflow river ways. The 51 satellite communities own 334 CSO discharges. The project will be completed in a series of outfalls also located on Chicago area river ways. stages in 2015, 2017 and 2029. The settlement also requires MWRD will complete implementation of CSO remedial MWRD to control trash and debris in overflows using measures to eliminate a substantial percentage of CSOs by skimmer boats to remove debris from the water so it can be Dec. 31, 2029, that, upon completion, are estimated at as collected and properly managed, making waterways cleaner cost of more than $3 billion. These measures include: and healthier. MWRD is also required to implement a green An enforceable schedule for completion of CSO remedial infrastructure program that will reduce stormwater runoff measures known as the “tunnel and reservoir plan” or in areas serviced by MWRD by distributing rain barrels TARP. This plan includes the construction of 109 miles and developing projects to build green roofs, rain gardens of tunnels that have a storage capacity of approximately or use pervious paving materials in urban neighborhoods. 2.3 billion gallons, and the completion of three reservoirs. MWRD has also agreed to pay a civil penalty of $675,000. The tunnel and reservoirs will have a combined capacity of Raw sewage contains pathogens that threaten public approximately 17 billion gallons of sewage and flood water. health, leading to beach closures and public advisories Work on TARP began nearly 40 years ago but have been against fishing and swimming. This problem particularly delayed by funding
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