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Island). Pre-design is ongoing. This will presumably follow with an environmental Iceland impact assessment and tender design in 2021. Possible start of tunnel excavation Name: Icelandic Tunnelling Society is assumed in 2022. There are some underground Type of Structure: Independent Society of corporate hydroelectric projects planned but and ordinary members, founded 1974 construction is not foreseen in the near Number of Members: 55 members, 17 corporate members. future (next two years).

ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES DURING of the Westfjords by 26km. Excavation STATISTICS 2019 AND TO DATE started in August 2017 and the opening 1. Length or volume excavated - Three board meetings and an annual is planned for September 2020. % mechanized/% conventional meeting with invited speakers. In during 2019 addition, one lecture with invited FUTURE TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES Approximately 1.2km, drill &blast speaker. Fjardarheidi road tunnel, a 13,5km long, 60m2, road tunnel in east Iceland. This 2. List of tunnels completed: CURRENT TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES road tunnel will replace a mountain Dyrafjordur road tunnel, 5.6km The Dyrafjordur tunnel, a 5.6km long, road between Seydisfjord village at the 50m2, road tunnel in the Westfjords in fjord side to a larger inland community north west Icelandwhich lies between Egilsstadir. The present mountain EDUCATION ON TUNNELLING two fjords, Arnarfjörður and Dýrafjörður, road peaks over 600m a.s.l. and can IN THE COUNTRY and will, when opened for traffic, be dangerous to pass for several days No special education on tunnelling replace a difficult mountain road that in winter due to icy road and sudden except for a traditional education in is closed several days over winter due snowstorms. The tunnel will not only engineering and geological courses to heavy snow accumulation. It will ease travel for locals but also for (University of Iceland and University of shorten the travel distance along the several tourists coming to Iceland by Reykjavik). main road linking the north and south ferry from Europe (Denmark and Faroe

in Kordestan Province. The total length of the tunnel is 10.8km and is being constructed with an EPBM. n The Sabzkouh water tunnel is being 3 Name: Iranian Tunnelling Association (IRTA) constructed to transfer 75Mm of water to Choghakour dam. The total Type of Structure: non-profit, open association length of the tunnel is 10.7km and is Number of Members: 800 (non-student) members, being constructed with an DS TBM. 519 student members, 190 corporate members. n Gelass water tunnel is being . constructed to transfer 650Mm3 of water from Gelass River to Urmiah ASSOCIATION ACTIVITIES DURING using two DS-TBMs. This tunnel will Lake. The total length of the tunnel is 2019 AND TO DATE transfer 700Mm3 water from Safa dam 35.7km and is being constructed with n Publishing Quarterly “Tunnel” to the city of Kerman. an DS TBM. Magazine n Azad Water tunnel transfers water n Dez water tunnel transfers 24m3/ n Publishing bi-annual “Tunnelling and from Azad dam to Ghorveh-Dehgolan sec from Dez Dam to Khouzestan Underground Space Engineering” Journal together with Shahrood Technical University n Holding a total of 6 technical seminars n Holding the 13th Iranian Tunnelling Conference (ITC 2019) on 19-20 November 2019 entitled “New Horizons in Tunnelling” n Holding 4 workshops as a side program to ITC 2019

CURRENT TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES Water transfer tunnels n The Kerman water tunnel with a total The portal of Konjancham tunnel Section KT2 length of 38km is under construction

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25.7km (all constructed with DS TBM) Sar-e Pol-e Zahab tunnel (T4) n Sirvan River Water Transfer Tunnels T2 with a length of 2.8km and T3 with a length of 1.5km constructed with conventional methods n Sar-e Pol-e Zahab tunnel (T4) with a length of 4.3km constructed with an EPBM. n Konjancham tunnel constructed with DS TBM was completed in the following sections: Section KT1 with a length of 4.9km and constructed with conventional method was completed in June 2019 Section KT2 with a length of 12km was constructed by a DS TBM and completed in March 2019 Compaction grouting in Sirvan River Water Transfer Tunnels T2 n Bazi-Deraz Tunnel (T5) with a length of 8.5km was constructed with an EPBM and completed in January 2019

Road tunnels n First sector of Tehran-Shomal Freeway completed. This sector has a total length of 32km and consists of 40 tunnels (total length of 32km in two directions and also includes the longest service tunnel of the freeway namely Taloun tunnel with a length of 4900m)

FUTURE TUNNELLING ACTIVITIES The following tunnel projects are province. The length of the tunnel is n line 2 with a total length planned (long term): 9.1km and being constructed using a of 22.4km and 20 stations (being n Completing and expanding road and DS TBM. constructed by TBMs) 1500m were railway networks n Chamshir water tunnel transfers water constructed in 2019 n Completion and development of from Chamishir dam to Liravy plain for n Mashhad metro line 3 with a total various metro lines in numerous cities agricultural purposes. The 7.1km long length of 28.5km and 24 stations (eg. Tehran, Tabriz, Karaj, Isfahan, tunnel is being constructed using a (being constructed by TBMs) – 3400m Mashhad) hardrock TBM. were constructed in 2019 n Completion of water transfer tunnels n Lar water tunnel in north of Tehran is n Shiraz Line 2 (double tube) with a total being constructed in two sections to length of 26.2km (2*13.1km) – 4120m EDUCATION ON TUNNELLING transfer 260m3 of leaking water from were constructed in 2019 IN THE COUNTRY Lar dam to Tehran’s water treatment n Isfahan Line 2 with a total length plant No. 5 and Latian dam. The first of 24.7km is under construction – Tunnelling as a specialized field of section is 20.3km long and the second 4250m were constructed in 2019 Study is being held at Postgraduate 7.5km. level (Master’s Degree) in the following COMPLETED PROJECTS Universities: Sewage tunnel Road tunnels 1) Amirkabir University of Technology; n Tehran’s western Sewage tunnel n The Shoushtari tunnel is an 8km 2) Shahrood University of Technology; with a length of 10.8km is being long tunnel forming part of the 3) Tarbiat Modares University; constructed using and EPBM to Shoushtari highway in Tehran which 4) Urmia University of Technology. 3 transfer 17.22m /sec of water to the is currently under construction using Tunnelling is also taught at Bachelor water treatment plant in south of conventional methods. level in form of study modules in Tehran. Mining and Civil Engineering fields in Water tunnels numerous universities. Other related n Metro tunnels The construction of Zagros tunnel courses in Geotechnical Engineering Construction of various metro lines in the following sections has been (Soil mechanics, rock mechanics, in different cities in Iran is continuing. completed in March 2019: Engineering Geology), Construction These include: Section T1-1A with a length of 13.7km; Management etc. are also offered in n Extension of line 6 Section T1-1B with a length of 8.8km; various universities. –1840m were constructed in 2019 and section T1-2 with a length of

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