® & Tunneling & Underground Construction tucThe Official Publication of UCA of SME www.TUCmagazine.com Volume 13 N0. 3 September 2019 2019 RETC recap Design procurement for the Amtrak Hudson project LA Metro Regional connector transit project ///// Special Editorial Supplement from the publisher of ™ 19-05-09_001_ID19117_eAz_LosAngeles_TUC_213x283_RZgp METRO LOS ANGELES, USA CREATING VIBRANT ARTERIES UNDERGROUND 120 million passengers are travelling through the City of Angels each day. 6 EPB Shields are creating more than 20 km new metro sections for the American city with their powerful performances. With the Herrenknecht branch in Sumner (WA), Herrenknecht guarantees technical assistance and service at any time. herrenknecht.com/MetroLA/ Client: Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority Customer: The Walsh Group, Ltd. / J.F. Shea Construction / HNTB Corporation, Skanska USA Civil West California District Inc. / Traylor Bros., Inc., Skanska USA Civil West California District Inc. / Traylor Bros., Inc. / J.F. Shea Construction, Tutor Perini / O&G JV 19-05-09_001_ID19117_eAz_LosAngeles_TUC_213x283_RZgp.indd 1 09.05.19 14:19 tuc& September Contents Departments Cover Story 2 Chairman’s column In This Issue In May 2019, the last of six earth pressure balance machines had completed 4 excavationat Lot 4 Mexico City’s Tunel Underground construction news Emisor Oriente, page 12. More than 1,400 tunneling professionals gathered in Chicago for the Rapid Excavation & Tunneling Conference. T&UC’s Bill 52 Gleason reports on page 28. Cover photo UCA of SME News courtesy of Robbins. 62 Tunnel demand forecast Feature Articles 64 28 Classifieds More than 1,400 professionals gather in Chicago for 2019 RETC 64 Index of advertisers William Gleason 35 Design and construction procurement for the Amtrak Hudson Tunnel project Phil Rice, Richard Flanagan and Mohammed Nasim 43 LA Metro Regional connector transit project: Successful halfway-through completion Mike Harrington and Tung Vu tucmagazine.com AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF UCA OF SME | WWW.SMENET.ORG | VOLUME 13 NO. 3 | SEPTEMBER 2019 Copyright 2019 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc. All rights reserved. TUNNELING & UNDERGROUND CONSTRUC- TION (ISSN 0026–5187) is published quarterly by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., at 12999 E. Adam Aircraft Circle, Special editorial section Englewood, CO 80112-4167. Phone 1–800–763–3132 or 303–973–9550. Fax: 303–973 –3845 or e-mail: [email protected]. 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SEPTEMBER 2019 Tunneling & Underground Construction 1 tuc& Chairman’s Column EDITORIAL STAFF Looking ahead to the next two Editor Steve Kral years for the UCA of SME [email protected] hat an honor it is to take up and after this call has been positive and the gavel as the chair of the I am optimistic (as always) that these Managing Editor WUCA of SME Executive efforts will lead to industry guideline William M. Gleason Committee after Mike Roach. He has documents and other initiatives that will [email protected] been a steady hand that has galvanized benefit the tunnel industry. our association in its efforts to engage I would very much like to see an Senior Editor with more students and young people increase in the number of guidelines Georgene Renner in our industry. UCA is working documents the industry produces. [email protected] hard to make students aware of the ITATech has been a good model for opportunities and great camaraderie identifying and then creating and Production Graphic Artist and sense of achievement that a career publishing guideline documents. There Ted Robertson in tunneling brings. are any number of industry-wide issues [email protected] I hope to continue that focus rattling around the discussions in and bring the vision to fruition. The meetings and conference rooms across BUSINESS STAFF executive committee is passionate about the United States that would benefit Media Manager investing more in the young members greatly from an industry voice being Advertising of our industry, and the young members present in the room in the form of a Ken Goering are doing a great job of demonstrating guideline document. [email protected] their commitment to developing their Finally, feeding back information to own experience and that of others. the UCA members who give their dues Phone +1-800-763-3132 or +1-303-973-4200 In addition to continuing the great and sponsorship money, time and effort Fax +1-303-973-3845 work of the UCA, I have three areas to various causes is critically important of focus for my two-year tenure as the for a membership that is engaged and Internet www.smenet.org chair: cares so much about how the fruits of their labor are benefitting the industry SOCIETY FOR MINING, METALLURGY, 1. A focus on listening to what the they love. AND EXPLORATION, INC. OFFICERS industry needs and wants from “What is the UCA doing with our President the UCA and setting out a clear money?” This is a valid question from Hugh Miller pathway of action items to achieve our members that we must be prepared those goals. to answer. The UCA has to do better in 2. A focus on getting more volunteers distributing the results of our collective President-Elect engaged in UCA activities so efforts to the industry at large. Under Robert Schafer we can achieve our goals in a the leadership of Roach, we have reasonable and practical timeframe. initiated several major efforts to engage Past President 3. Provide clear and transparent and train professors, students, and young Barbara Arnold feedback to the industry about members. We constantly seek to create what the UCA is doing on behalf of a better link and gain more benefits Executive Director the members. from the UCA representation to the David L. Kanagy ITA. These efforts will continue and be To this end, we will soon issue a redoubled under my watch and I intend Underground Construction member survey to gather information to be clear about what we are doing and Association of SME on the preferred priorities of the the intended benefits to the industry Executive Committee industry. This survey will seek to identify from UCA activities. I encourage you all Robert Goodfellow (Chair), Mike Rispin (Vice areas of strength and weakness in the to bring forward your voice. Chair), Michael F. Roach (Past Chair), Mike UCA activities and will gather ideas for The UCA of SME is actively Bruen, Leon J. Jacobs, Jack E. Brockway, improving our practice. supporting and helping the industry Erika Moonin, Mike A. Mooney, Pamela S. I recently hosted a conference move forward. Come with us. I am Moran, Mark Johnson, Matthew D. Preedy, Jon call with more than 60 prospective more than happy to welcome you to Klug, Edward Dowey, Tony O’Donnell, Robert volunteers to identify specific areas our ever-expanding group of industry A. Robinson, Michael Smithson, Richard where these volunteers could apply volunteers. n Redmond, Paul C. Schmall, Michael Vitale their time and effort on behalf of the Robert JF Goodfellow, UCA initiatives. The feedback before UCA of SME Chairman 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 Tunneling & Underground Construction ALWAYS ADVANCING www.terratec.co BREAKING RECORDS TERRATEC Tight Radius Shield (TRS) Earth Pressure Balance TBMs are currently proving their metal on a number of major utility tunnel contracts in Bangkok, Thailand.v Designed with an extreme X-type articulation system that can accommodate minimum radius curves of just 30m, these TERRATEC machines are enabling contractors to negotiate the strictest of tunnel alignment constraints, while delivering the company’s trademark reliability and accuracy. TUNNELLING SOLUTIONS METRO Q4-2018-S50-51.indd 1 11/26/2018 10:48:21 PM UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION NEWSNEWSNEWSNEWSNEWS INDUSTRY PROFILE Jacobs Associates involved in all aspects of underground construction rom a major mass transit proj- tunnels, respectively. The tunnels are excavation grouting ahead of the ect in San Juan Puerto Rico to 5.7-m (19-ft) excavated and 3.7-m tunnel face is being conducted to Fquaint wine cave designs for (12-ft) inside diameter. protect the groundwater resources developers and private owners in Making the project challenging under U.S. Forest Service land. California and an underground proj- was the fact that the tunnels pass Jacobs Associates provides wine ect that will add millions of gallons of through granite, gneiss and marble cave design services for developers, want to Southern California’s water rock formations. private owners and wine cave con- supply, Jacobs Associates is involved Ground conditions in the tunnels tractors. With more than 20 years of in almost all levels of underground range from massive, hard, strong and wine cave design experience and 50 construction and tunneling. abrasive rock to very blocky and years of tunneling experience, the In 1954 Donavan Jacobs estab- seamy rock and crushed ground. Ad- company is able to provide creative, lished the business as a one-person ditionally, the tunnel alignments cross functional designs that meet the consulting firm. He took his first active splays of the San Andreas Fault varying code standards throughout assignment in this role as project in three locations.