Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Track and Session Chairs -- Executive Committees -- TRACK 1: TECHNOLOGY -- Session 1: Operation Monitoring and Control -- Global Monitoring and Data Management Application to the Alaskan Way Tunnel Project -- Quality and Process Control at Tunnelling Jobsites: Digital Communication Systems, Examples for Real-Time Information -- Innovative Infrastructure Inspection Technologies -- Influence of Geological Conditions on Measured TBM Vibration Frequency -- Urban Tunnel Monitoring: What's Next? -- Session 2: Ground Support, Final Lining, and Design -- Ground Characterization While Drilling Roofbolters in Tunneling Operations -- Black River Tunnel Phase 1: Innovative Quality Control Approach for Installation and Testing of Rock Bolts in Shafts -- Myth and Reality: Bolts in Modern Concrete Segmental Tunnel Linings -- Development of Sprayed Concrete Linings for London Underground Bond Street Station Upgrade Project, London, UK -- Corrosion-The Scourge of Steel Rock Reinforcement -- Structural Repair of Cross-Passage 5, Interstate 70 Hanging Lakes Tunnel -- Session 3: TBM Technology and Selection -- The Greatest Challenges in TBM Tunneling: Experiences from the Field -- Tunnel Boring Machine Selection for the Baltimore Red Line Downtown Tunnel -- The Next Level: Why Deeper Is Better for TBMs in Mining -- Urban EPB Tunneling in Limited Space: A Case Study of the San Francisco Central Subway Project -- King Road Grade Separation: Accelerated Underpass Construction by Jacking -- Tunneling Under the Hudson and East Rivers in the Early 1900s: Risk Identification and Management Lessons That Are Still Useful Today -- The Multilayer Wedge Method for Estimating TBM Face Pressures in Stratified Soils.

Constant Demand on Very Large Tunnel Boring Machine Diameters for the Construction of Today's Infrastructure Systems -- Session 4: Innovative "Toolbox" -- Impact of the 2010-2011 La Niña Weather Phenomenon on Terrain Stability and Utilization of Long Tunnels for Mitigation Along the Ruta del Sol Project Alignment in Colombia, South America -- Achieving Fast EPB Advance in Mixed Ground: A Study of Contributing Factors -- Automatic Soil Conditioning Through Clay -- Relationship Between Cutterhead Torque and Tool Wear: A Laboratory-Scale Study -- Improvement of Testing Accuracy by a New Generation of Cerchar Abrasivity Testing Device -- Keeping Your Cool-Backfill Grout Placement Around Carrier Pipes -- Session 5: Fresh Approach on Performance -- New Advancements in Dry Mix Shotcrete Using Rapid Set Cement in Lieu of Accelerator Admixtures in Tunnels, Shafts, and Pipe Liners -- TBM Performance and Tool Wear Prediction Along Two Lots of Dyaaba Headrace Tunnel (Uma-Oya Project, Sri Lanka) -- Shrinkage Compensating Concrete for Use in Underground Concrete Structures -- Geoelectrics-While-Tunneling: Methodology and Performance Aspects -- TRACK 2: DESIGN -- Session 1: Design of Underground Spaces -- 3D Analysis of Precast Segmental Liner and Induced Settlement for EPB Excavation -- Review of International Practice on Critical Aspects of Segmental Tunnel Lining Design -- Tunneling Under the Sydney Opera House: The Vehicle Access and Pedestrian Safety Project -- Modeling of Precast Concrete Tunnel Lining Subjected to Fire Event -- Second Avenue Subway Project: Design and Construction of 72nd Street Station and G3/G4 Cavern Final Linings -- Innovative Shaft and Tunnel Linings for the Thames Water Lee Tunnel -- Session 2: Challenging Design Issues -- Precast Segment Design for High Hydrostatic Head Conditions in Rock: State of Practice.

Refurbishment of the Ross Shaft at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, USA -- Research on the Effect of Risk Mitigation Measures Against Earthquake for Mountain Tunnel Through Static Loading Test -- 3D Finite Element Parametric Study of Large-Diameter, Underground, Segmentally Jointed Shafts -- Design and Construction Observations of the Neutrino Detection Chamber at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- Self-Bearing Shotcrete in Lieu of Self-Consolidating Concrete for Tunnel Rehabilitation -- Design and Analysis Techniques for High Head Tunnel Plugs -- Session 3: Ground Movement and Structures Analysis -- Impact of EPB Tunneling on Pile Foundations and Existing Tunnels -- Site Characteristic Curve and Risk Assessment for Buildings Around Large, Deep Excavations -- Ground Deformation from Multiple Tunnel Openings: Analysis of Queens Bored Tunnels -- Design Considerations and Enabling Works for the San Diego Central Courthouse Inmate Transfer Tunnel -- Back Analysis of Observed Measurements for Optimised SCL Tunnel Design -- Utility Protection While Tunneling in an Urban Environment for the DC Clean Rivers Project -- Settlement Screening Analysis for the Baltimore Red Line -- Protecting Existing Infrastructure Near Shafts -- Session 4: Water and Wastewater Conveyance -- Fixing the Leaks of the Rondout-West Branch Tunnel: Repairs and a Bypass Tunnel -- Clean Design in Dirty Water: The Blue Plains Tunnel Segmental Lining -- Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County Clearwater Program-Joint Water Pollution Control Plant Effluent Outfall Tunnel -- Going Deep: Upgrading Honolulu's Wastewater Conveyance System with a Large-Diameter Gravity Tunnel -- Design of Steel Pipe Final Lining Subjected to Large, Seismically Induced Axial Strains -- Cleaning Hartford Waterways Through Underground Storage.

Zone 1 Interconnecting Watermain: Proudly Tunneling Under the Challenges Ahead -- Mid-Halton Outfall Tunnel Overbreak Evaluation -- Session 5: Design of Transit Tunnels -- SEM Design Optimization for an Underground Crossover Cavern -- Optimized Modeling Approach to Tunnel Ventilation Analysis of Underground Subway Systems Equipped with Platform Edge Doors -- East Link-Development of the Downtown Bellevue Tunnel -- Engineering of Cooks Lane Tunnel: An Overview of Challenges -- Innovations in Ventilation and Fire/Life Safety for an Urban Mega‑Tunnel -- Second Avenue Subway Project, New York: Design and Construction of the 96th Street Station -- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Transit Tunnel Security Based on Blast Analysis -- Istanbul Strait Road Tube Crossing Project: Independent Design Verification Engineer's Perspective -- TRACK 3: PLANNING -- Session 1: Project Delivery I-Design and Management -- TBM Procurement Aspects (for Owner's Eyes Only) -- Saving Money with a Coordinated Fire Life Safety Design -- Balancing Innovation, Risk, and Cost: Innovative Procurement Approach for Sewer Tunnel Rehabilitation -- Deep Rock Tunnel Connector Project Construction Status Update -- Best Practices for Utilizing Escrow Bid Documents as a Dispute Resolution Tool -- Session 2: Risk and Cost Management -- Active Risk Management-An Owner's Manual for Mega-Projects -- Risk and Contingency Management Planning on LACMTA's Purple Line Extension and Regional Connector Projects -- Risk Analysis and Management on Toronto Light Rail Transit Program Projects-A Case Study -- Risk Management Using the Decision Aids for Tunneling -- Risk Registers and Their Use as a Contract Document -- Planning for What Could Go Wrong, When in Fact It Could Go Right-The Importance of Risk Management on Tunneling and Underground Construction Projects.

Session 3: Geotechnical and Third-Party Planning -- Gas Studies for the Westside Subway Extension, Section 1 -- Development and Maintenance of a High Level Safety Program and Culture in the Highly Challenging New York City Labor Market -- Geotechnical Planning Advances for TBM Projects in Glacial Geology -- Finding a Balanced Contracting Approach to Pre‑Excavation Grouting -- Writing Better Geotechnical Baseline Reports -- A Systematic Approach for the Protection of Structures Adjacent to Bored and Cut-and-Cover Tunnels for the Regional Connector Transit Project -- Session 4: Project Delivery II-Design/Build -- Use of Innovative Project Procurement as a Tool in Shaping the Design of Underground Megaprojects for the Crenshaw LAX Light Rail Transit Corridor Project in Los Angeles, California -- Tunnel Construction by a Mixed-Use Real Estate Developer -- Specifying Design-Builder's Pressurized-Face Soft Ground Tunnel Boring Machines-Learning from the Past and Moving Forward, from Designer's Perspectives -- Design-Build Tunnel Contract for Los Angeles Regional Connector Project -- Tunnel Construction Management for Design-Build Delivery -- Project Delivery Strategy for Major Transportation Projects in Los Angeles -- Risk Management for Design Build Projects -- Design/Build a Panacea?-No -- Session 5: Future Projects and Industry Trends -- Planning and Preliminary Design of the Ohio Canal Interceptor CSO Tunnel Project in Akron, Ohio -- Geotechnical Investigation of the Northeast Interceptor Sewer Phase 2A Hollywood Fault Crossing -- White River Collection Consolidation Sewer Phase 1 Project -- Design Considerations for Mega Tunnels -- Taking Safety to a Hole New Level-Making of the Ship Grant Video on Tunnel Training -- University-Industry Collaboration in the Underground Construction and Tunneling Field -- TRACK 4: CASE STUDIES.

Session 1: Ground Treatment/Control.