Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Committee -- Session Chairs -- International Committee -- Part 1: Caverns and Large Spans -- Design and Construction of 86th St. Station Rock Caverns in New York -- Design and Construction of a Massive Tunnel Junction for Hong Kong's Express Rail Link Project -- New York City-Second Avenue Subway: MTA's 72nd Street Station and Tunnels Project Construction of a Large Span Station Cavern, Running Tunnels, Cross-Over and Turn-Out Caverns, Shafts and Entrances -- Designer/Construction Manager/Contractor Perspective of Design and Construction of the New 72nd Street Station of the Second Avenue Subway -- Precast Concrete Design Challenges in the Underground LIRR Grand Central Terminal Main Station Cavern of the East Side Access Project -- Part 2: Contracting Practices -- Delivering Value and Risk Management Through a Competitive Alliance Procurement Process -- Developing the Midtown Tunnel PPP Project -- GBR-To Use or Not to Use? -- Subsurface Public-Private Partnership Projects: Brave New World of Risk Allocation -- Part 3: Design and Planning -- A Review of Portal Design Concepts for Mountain Tunnels -- Impact Assessments on Unbolted Wedgeblock Segmental Linings from Over-Tunneling -- North Strathfield Rail Underpass Shallow Cover Driven Tunnel -- Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel: Improving System Reliability -- Tunnel Design for the Waterview Connection Project -- Critical Assessment of RMR-Based Tunnel Design Practices: A Practical Engineer's Approach -- Part 4: Difficult Ground -- Construction of the Santa Ana River Interceptor (SARI) Relocation: Microtunneling Through Abrasive Soil with Hard Cobbles and Boulders -- Design-Build Tunneling Project in Urban Setting with Fast-track Engineering and Ground Modifications -- Microtunneling in Gravel, Cobbles, and Boulders.

Highly Successful Ground Support for High Cover: A Case Study of the West Qinling Rail Tunnels -- Large-Diameter Shaft Construction Through Difficult Ground in Columbus, Ohio -- Use of a Digger Shield to Successfully Complete Tunnel After Ground Conditions Proved Too Adverse for a TBM -- Part 5: Future Projects -- Frequent Flooding Relief in Sight-Charleston's Stormwater Tunnel to "Drain" the Rain -- DC Clean Rivers Project Northeast Boundary Tunnel and Northeast Boundary Branch Tunnel Project Overviews -- Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County Clearwater Program-Effluent Outfall Tunnel -- Update on the "Pipeline/Tunnel Option" for the Delta Habitat Conservation and Conveyance Program -- Part 6: Geotechnical Considerations -- Initial Ground Support for Tunneling in Central Texas, from Designer's and Owner's Perspectives -- Lessons Learned from 130 Years of Tunneling in Seattle's Complex Soils -- Recommendations on How Geotechnical Baseline Reports Can Be Prepared for Rock Tunnel Projects -- Small Footprint, Big Challenges-Design and Construction of the Allen Park Sanitary District 1 Storage Tunnel -- Part 7: Geotechnical Instrumentation-Settlement Control -- Case-History Based Settlement Trough Characteristics for Pressurized TBM Tunneling in Glacial Soils -- Comparison of Predicted Versus Observed Structural Displacements of Existing Structures at the Port of Miami -- Geotechnical Instrumentation Monitoring System for Shallow Freeway Tunnel Crossings with EPBMs -- Instrumentation Approach for the Alaskan Way Bored Tunnel -- Summary and Lessons Learned from New York City Tunneling Instrumentation -- Part 8: Ground Stabilization -- Ground Investigation Challenges at the Port of Miami Tunnel Project, Miami, Florida -- Ground Freezing for the East Side Access Northern Boulevard Crossing-Balancing Settlement and Heave Control.

Compensation Grouting at Florence HSR Tunnel -- Does the End Justify the Means-The Cost of Grouting and the Benefit to Owners -- Supporting Measures for Urban Tunneling -- Innovation in Annular Grouting at the Euclid Creek Tunnel, Cleveland, Ohio -- Part 9: Grouting-Water Control -- Probing and Grouting Predictions for Rock Tunnels -- Mined Rock Tunnel Through Dam Abutment at Warm Springs Dam, Sonoma County, CA -- Chemical Grouting for Water Control at Four Points Shaft -- Groundwater Inflow Characterization for a Tunnel Constructed Adjacent to an Existing Concrete-Lined Pressure Tunnel -- State-of-the-Art Drilling and Grouting to Control Groundwater for a Shaft in Dolomite -- Part 10: Hard Rock Tunneling -- Design of South Hartford Conveyance and Storage Tunnel -- Construction Challenges for a City of Austin Deep Interceptor Sewer Tunnel -- TARP Mainstream Tunnel System Connection to McCook Reservoir Goes Into High Gear -- WSSC Bi-County Water Tunnel: An Urban Tunnel Success Story -- Waneta Expansion Project-Penstock Tunnels -- Part 11: Major Projects -- Large-Diameter Deep Shafts for the Deep Rock Tunnel Connector Project, Indianapolis, Indiana -- Construction Progress on the DC Clean Rivers Project -- Factors of Scale-Planning, Design, and TBM Considerations for Large‑Diameter Bored Tunnels -- Planning and Development of the Waterview Connection Tunnel -- Experience Gained at New Subway Line U5, Berlin -- Part 12: New and Innovative Technologies-I -- Tunneling in Belgium -- Monitored Disk Cutters-MOBYDIC -- 40° Inclined Tunnelling for Pump Storage Power Plant with a TBM -- Design and Construction of a Jacked Box Culvert in Quincy, Massachusetts -- Jacked Box Tunnel Under a Railway Embankment -- Part 13: New and Innovative Technologies-II -- Accurate Soft Ground TBM Docking-Surveying, TBM Abandonment, and Deformation.

Approach for a Cost-Effective Ventilation During Construction of a High-Speed Railway Tunnel -- King County Uses New Shaft Technology on the Ballard Siphon Project -- Multi-Mode TBMs-State of the Art and Recent Developments -- Part 14: New Plant and Equipment Applications -- Rapid Drill-and-Blast Tunnelling, through the Application of Systems Engineering Methods -- Lyon-Turin High Speed Railway Link-Italian Part Base Tunnel Mixed Shield TBM Proposal -- Long-Distance, Inter-Boro Muck Conveyance Challenges -- Innovative Approach to Muck Disposal and Ventilation During Drill-and-Blast Operations in a Densely Populated Urban Environment -- Recent Belt Conveyor Applications in the United States -- Suspended Platform Heading Systems for Safe, High‑Performance Tunneling -- Part 15: Precast Tunnel Linings -- Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete-An Innovative Material for Tunnel Segments -- Design, Construction, and Procurement Considerations for Tunneling Segments of MTA Baltimore Red Line -- Designing at the Limit: Brisbane Airport Link Segmental Lining -- Liner Segment Design of the Largest TBM Tunnel in the World-Alaskan Way Tunnel in Seattle -- Opening Supports to Segmental Linings-A Novel Shotcrete Support Solution -- Segmental Lining Design for Large-Diameter Road Tunnels -- Part 16: Pressure Face TBM Case Histories-I -- Challenges of EPBM Excavations in Prague -- The New Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel in Germany's Picturesque Mosel Valley: Dual-Mode TBM Tunnelling Under the City of Cochem -- Trends in the Performance of Metro‑Sized EPB TBMs: A Study of Worldwide EPB Advance Rates -- Unprecedented EPB Excavation in Pressurized Mixed Ground Conditions: Study of Performance at the Emisor Oriente Wastewater Tunnel -- TBM Conveyor Belt Scales: The University Link Project Experience -- Part 17: Pressure Face TBM Case Histories-II.

Slurry TBM Tunneling on the East Side CSO Tunnel Project, Portland, Oregon -- Construction of the University Link Light Rail Tunnel U230 in Seattle, WA -- EPB Tunnelling at High Pressures: Customization of Tunnelling Systems for Port Mann Tunnel -- University Link Light Rail TBM Tunnel UWS to CHS Contract U220: Case History -- East Side Access-Queens Bored Tunnels Case Study -- Part 18: Pressure Face TBM Technology -- The Current Status of Laws and Regulations Regarding Hyperbarics -- Experimental Study of Impact of Soil Conditioning on Soil Abrasion and Cutter Wear of EPB TBMs -- Keeping the Chamber Full: Managing the "Air Bubble" in EPB Tunneling -- Untangling the Mystery of Soil Conditioning in EPB Tunneling -- East Side Access-Queens Bored Tunnels Engineering Challenges -- Part 19: Risk Management -- Drilling and Blasting Open Cuts in the Upper East of Manhattan-Part of the 86th Street Station for the 2nd Avenue Subway Line -- Predicting and Controlling Excavation Vibrations in Urban Areas Using the Drilling-and-Blasting Method -- Tunnel Myths: A Review of Current Practices -- Practical Method for Predicting Diaphragm Wall Shaft Construction-Induced Settlement Case History-The Blue Plains Tunnel Project -- Part 20: SEM/NATM -- Lessons Learned from NATM Design and Construction of the Caldecott Fourth Bore -- Load Sharing in Two-Pass Lining Systems for NATM Tunnels -- Mastering Karst Features at the Baumleite NATM Tunnel Project in Thuringia, Germany -- Sequential Excavation Under Northern Boulevard and Two Subway Structures -- Part 21: Shafts -- Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Tunnel Intake Structure and Tremie Concrete Placement -- Tight Tolerances: Installation of Five 60-Inch-Diameter, 358-ft Deep Well Pump Casings -- Shaft Construction Methods -- Blue Plains Tunnel: Design and Construction of Large-Diameter Diaphragm Wall Shafts.

Challenges of Large-Diameter Blind Drilling and Lining in Fractured Ground.