Water and Energy Abstracts
Year : 2004, Volume : 14, Issue : 1
First page : ( 44) Last page : ( 44)
Print ISSN : 0021-1672.

121. Channel Tunnel Rail Link – Section 1: Diversion of Utilities

Clemmitt Ian

(Proceedings of ICE, Civil Engineering 156, November 2003, pp. 25–27).

Abstract

A total of 423 utility diversions were required for the first 74 km section of the £ 5.2 billion Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The project was unprecedented in that the developer Union Railways had the power to design and build the diversions directly in order to avoid delay – though the utilities proved they could actually do the work quicker. This paper reports on the complex access and financial issues relating to diversions and highlights solutions adopted for maintaining overhead power cables and pumping sewage over a tunnel.

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Keywords

Management, Planning & scheduling.

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