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San Francisco Tunnels — Past, Present and Future 14 Take a Tour of the Busy Underground of NAT 2008’S Host City Reader Service Number 1 CONTENTS June CONTENTS2008 Cover Story San Francisco Tunnels — Past, Present and Future 14 Take a tour of the busy underground of NAT 2008’s host city... By Victor S. Romero Napa Valley Wine Caves 18 ...and cap off your stay with a visit to the wine country with a look at wine cave construction. By Jan Van Greunen Features On the Waterfront 20 Beach sewer tunnel emergency repair and rehabilitation project 20 requires boat access to the work site. By Albert Ruiz, David Jurich and Joseph McDivitt 3-D Scanning in Tunneling 25 Fast, accurate measurement is a difficult aspect in tunnel construc- tion, maintenance and redevelopment. By John Stenmark Contractor Claims Against the Owner’s Designer 30 Can a contractor sue an engineer or other design professional directly for misrepresentations in the plans and specifications? By Peter Kutil and Karl Silverberg North American Tunnel Project Update 34 By Jack Burke 25 Columns Editor’s Message . 4 Departments Business Briefs . 6 Global . 12 TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine (ISSN 1553-2917) is published six times per year. Copyright 2008, Benjamin Media Inc., P.O. Box 190, Peninsula, OH 44264. USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or trans- Calendar. 40 mitted by any means without written permission from the publisher. One year subscription rates: complimentary in the United States and Canada, and $69 in Products . 41 other foreign countries. Single copy rate: $10. Subscriptions and classified adver- tising should be addressed to the Peninsula office. Postmaster return form 1579 to TBM: Tunnel Business Magazine, P.O. Box 190, Peninsula, OH 44264.USA June 2008 Tunnel Business Magazine 3 EDITOREDITOR’S MESSAGE’S MESSAGE Bernard P. Krzys Bay Area Tunneling Publisher In the past, Tunnel Business Magazine has profi led Robert D. Krzys tunnel projects and programs in the host city of NAT Associate Publisher and RETC. Cities like Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago and James W. Rush Toronto have offered a wealth of material and a mix of Editor transportation, sewer and water tunnels. This year is Greg Thompson no different as we profi le the San Francisco Bay area. Assistant Editor Many thanks to Victor Romero of San Francisco-based Sharon M. Bueno Jacobs Associates for writing the article. Keith Gribbins • Brad Kramer As you will see in the article beginning on page 14, Jason Morgan • Pam Stask Contributing Staff Editors the Bay Area is home to challenging geology, which in- cludes the notorious San Andreas Fault. Tunnel work W.M. Conley Creative Director in the Bay Area dates back to the mid- to late-1800s, including a boom fol- lowing the 1906 earthquake that nearly destroyed the city. Edward A. Haney In the 1960s and ’70s, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system ushered Senior Graphic Designer in a new era of urban transit systems. To complete the system, a series of Sarah E. Hayes • Chris Slogar challenging tunnel jobs were built using a variety of methods. In the 1980s Elizabeth C. Stull Graphic Designers and ’90s, a series of tunnels were built for the San Francisco Clean Water Program. Kelly Dadich Today, the Bay Area is the midst of another era of tunnel construction. The Marketing Manager Devil’s Slide tunnel is currently under construction, while four major proj- Ryan Sneltzer ects for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission are in the works. Of Regional Sales Manager particular note is the Bay Tunnel, which will be the fi rst bored tunnel under Alexis R. Tarbet San Francisco Bay. Circulation Manager Another facet of the underground construction area that has found a niche Mark Gorman in Northern California is the construction of wine caves. The renowned Napa Web & Interactive Manager Valley, a short drive north from San Francisco, is one of the world’s largest wine producing areas, and wine cave building has become a boutique indus- Editorial Council try. In this issue, we profi le the construction of a 60,000-sq ft wine cave that Chairman Joe Gildner includes a 50-ft high dome. Be sure to check out this article contributed by Gary Brierley, P.E. Sound Transit Brierley Associates, Seattle Jan Van Greunen. Denver Boro Lukajic Randy Essex, P.E. Consulting Engineer Colorado School of Mines Tunnel Short Course Hatch Mott MacDonald Mississauga, Ont. Rockville, Md. Dru Desai The Colorado Schools of Mines is recognized internationally as a leading au- DMJM+HARRIS thority on underground construction, both civil and mining. This year, the school Roberto Gonzalez Baltimore Izquierdo is hosting a short course titled “Breakthroughs in Tunneling.” This three-day Moldequipo Internacional Ted Budd course, hosted in conjunction with Microtunneling Inc. and Tunnel Business Tepotzotlan, Mexico Kenny Construction Wheeling, Ill. Dr. Levent Ozdemir, P.E. Magazine, is the only course like it in the world, and covers all facets of conven- Colorado School of Mines David Caiden tional and mechanized tunneling. It is being held Sept. 10-12 at the School of Arup Golden, Colo. New York, N.Y. Mines campus in Golden, Colo. George Yoggy Rick Switalski, P.E. Course instructors are Levent Ozdemir, Professor of Mining and Director of GCS LLC NEORSD Allentown, Pa. Cleveland, Ohio the Tunneling and Earth Mechanics Institute, and Timothy Coss, President of William H. Edgerton Microtunneling Inc. The two are also course directors for the successful Micro- Jacobs Associates San Francisco tunneling Short Course, which is recognized as the leading educational venue for microtunneling in the world. For more information or to register, visit www. tunneling.com. Regards, Editorial & Advertising Offices: MEMBER 1770 Main St., P.O. Box 190 Peninsula, OH 44264 USA Ph: 330.467.7588 • Fax: 330.468.2289 Jim Rush Web site: http://www.tunnelingonline.com e-mail: [email protected] Editor Reprint Information: Wright’s Reprints Ph: 877.652.5295 • Fax: 916.983.6762 4 Tunnel Business Magazine June 2008 Reader Service Number 2 Business Briefs American Concrete Institute Announces New Offi cers for 2008 The American Concrete Institute introduced its new presi- Elected as a new member of ACI’s Board of Direction is dent, vice president, and four Board members during the ACI Claude Bédard, vice president and general manager of the Spring 2008 Convention in Los Angeles, Calif., recently. North American Admixtures Division of The New ACI President Luis E. García, from Bogotá, Colombia, Euclid Chemical Co. in St. Hubert, Quebec, offi cially assumed his one-year term, becoming the fi rst ACI Canada. president from outside the United States, Bédard is the current chair of the ACI Puerto Rico and Canada. In addition, new Foundation and the Strategic Development Vice President Richard D. Stehly began his Council. He is an ACI Fellow and has twice two-year term, while four new Board mem- served as president of the ACI Quebec and bers began their three-year terms. Eastern Ontario Chapter. In addition, he is García is partner and president of Proyec- Bédard the immediate past chair of the Canadian tos y Diseños Ltda., a structural engineering Standards Association (CSA) Technical consulting fi rm in Bogotá, Colombia, that Committee on Concrete, CSA A23.1/.2, and serves on the CSA García he founded in 1980. He has supervised the Standards Policy Board. He is a member of the Canadian Na- structural design of numerous buildings, in- tional Research Council Institute for Research in Construction dustrial structures and bridges in Colombia and other Latin Advisory Board, the Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete American countries. Institute, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association and García has been a member of numerous ACI technical com- the RMC Foundation Technical Advisory Committee. mittees, including ACI Committee 318, Structural Concrete Beverly Garnant has also begun her post Building Code, since 1985. He previously served on the ACI as a member of ACI’s Board of Direction. Board of Direction and chaired the International Activities She is the executive director of the American Committee (since reorganized as the International Commit- Society of Concrete Contractors in St. Louis, tee). Named an ACI Fellow in 1991, he received the ACI Joe Mo., a position she has held since 2003. For W. Kelly Award in 2000 and the ACI Alfred E. Lindau Award in 25 years prior to that, she was a partner in 2003. García previously served as secretary of the ACI Repub- Widmar/Garnant & Associates, a St. Louis lic of Colombia Chapter. public relations fi rm that served clients in As president of the Colombian Association for Earthquake Garnant the design and construction industries. Engineering, García chaired the committee that developed Garnant is a member of the ACI Con- the Colombian seismic code, enacted in 1984, and the 1998 up- struction Liaison Committee, the ACI Marketing Committee date. He was also president of the Colombian Association for and the ACI Task Group to Review Educational Programs. In Structural Engineering, is on the Board of Directors of the In- addition, she serves on the Executive Committee of the ACI ternational Association for Earthquake Engineering, and rep- Foundation’s Strategic Development Council. resents the President of Colombia at the Colombian Building Garnant is a member of the National Steering Committee Code Committee. of the Concrete Industry Management Pro- Stehly is a principal of American Engineering Testing Inc. in gram. She received a BA in English and Minneapolis, Minn. A member of ACI since 1980, he is the cur- education from Cornell College in Mount rent Chair of the Financial Advisory Com- Vernon, Iowa. mittee and the Board Advisory Committee Also joining the ACI Board of Direction on Sustainable Development. He also serves for the fi rst time is Colin Lobo. Lobo is the on the Strategic Planning Task Group, the senior vice president of the Engineering Di- Seminar Oversight Committee and the In- vision of the National Ready Mixed Concrete ternational Committee Subcommittee Struc- Lobo Association (NRMCA) in Silver Spring, Md.
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