Monitoring Underground Construction: A Best Practice Guide

✍ Scribed by British Tunnelling Society

• Publisher: ICE Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 64
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Monitoring is a subject of particular importance to underground construction works. It is often a key risk mitigation measure both for the control of the construction process and the protection of existing assets affected by excavations. The subject is treated at the level of key principles, focusing on objective setting, strategic planning and the high level specification of monitoring systems. It aims to help avoid problems, which have in the past arisen due to omissions in these areas.

The guide is structured to reflect the key stages in a project. It starts with objective setting and then addresses requirements for system planning, specification, design, operation and management. It also seeks to highlight the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders at each stage. Five illustrative case studies taken from a range of projects of different scales highlight the critical role of strategic and well-planned monitoring programmes in the success of any underground construction project.

Key features:
Only guide to the principles that should be followed in the development, design, implementation and management of a monitoring system.
Relevant to all major underground construction projects, regardless of scale or global location.
Written by a drafting committee from the BTS representing the leading edge of tunnelling and underground construction best practice thinking.

Readership:
Designers, project managers, clients, contractors and any other parties involved in underground construction or tunnelling projects.

Geographical market:
Primarily UK

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✦ Table of Contents

Monitoring Underground Construction
A best practice guide
Contents
Acknowledgements
Executive summary
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 The Purpose of This Guide
1.2 The Scope of This Guide
1.3 Application
1.4 The British Tunnelling Society Interest
Chapter 2
Objectives of monitoring
Table 2.1
Figure 2.1
Chapter 3
Principles for planning effective monitoring systems
3.1. Client obligations
3.2. Engaging stakeholders
3.3. Constraints
3.4. Process and deliverables
Figure 3.1
Chapter 4
Considerations for designing effective monitoring systems
4.1. Design basis
4.2. Monitoring system functional requirements
4.3. Distribution of monitoring
4.4. Accuracy, precision and range
4.5. Frequency of monitoring
4.6. Baseline measurements
4.7. System reliability and redundancy
4.8. System verification
4.9. Monitoring system maintenance requirements
4.10. Other factors influencing the choice of technology
4.11. Requirements for data processing
4.12. Requirements for data interpretation and review
4.13. Requirements for data presentation to stakeholders
4.14. Requirements for data back-up and archiving
4.15. Requirements for responses to monitoring
Table1
4.16. Design outputs
Chapter 5
Considerations for operation and management
5.1. Operational basis
5.2. Personnel, resourcing and competency
5.3. Demonstration of compliance with requirements
5.4. Data processing and management
5.5. Integration of monitoring data with works
5.6. Data interpretation and review
5.7. Contingency plans
5.8. Data presentation to stakeholders
5.9. Close-out/completion process
5.10. Archiving process
Chapter 6
Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix A
Glossary
Appendix B
Monitoring system specification checklists
Appendix C
Common monitoring problems
Appendix D
Monitoring report example
Figure D.1
Appendix E
Case studies
E1. Monitoring case study 1
Description
Affected parties
Monitoring solutions
Figure E.
1
Data handling
Notable features
E2. Monitoring case study 2
Description
Affected parties
Monitoring solutions
Features and outturns
Figure E.2
E3. Monitoring case study 3
Description
Affected parties
Monitoring solutions
Features and outturns
Figure3
E4. Monitoring case study 4
Description
Affected parties
Monitoring solutions
Features and outturns
E5. Monitoring case study 5
Description
Affected parties
Monitoring solutions
Features and outturns
Figure E.4
E6. Monitoring case study 6
Description
Affected parties
Monitoring solutions
Features and outturns
Figure5
Appendix F
Bibliography
ABI/BTS (2003)
BRE (1995)
British Tunnelling Society & Institution of Civil Engineers (2004)
British Tunnelling Society & Institution of Civil Engineers (2005)
British Tunnelling Society & Institution of Civil Engineers (2010)
BS 6164 (2001)
Burland JB, Standing JR and Jardine FM (2001)
Carder DR (1995)
Carder DR and Darley P (1998)
Carder DR, Pocock RG and Murray RT (1977)
Concrete Society (2003)
Darley P, Carder DR, Ryley MD and Hawkins PG (1996)
Darley P, Carder DR and Steele DP (1999)
Dunnicliff J (1993)
Gaba AR, Simpson B, Powrie W, Beadman DR (2003)
Hanna TH (1985)
Harrison S, Martin J, Mimnagh FJ and Preece LP (2004)
Health and Safety Executive (2000)
Health and Safety Executive (2000)
Highways Agency (2007)
Highways Agency (2007)
Hiller DM and Crabb GI (2000)
NCB (1975)
Nicholson D, Ming TC and Penny C (1999)
Peck RB (1969)
Symons IF, Little JA, Mcnulty TA, Carder DR and Williams SG (1987)
LU Standards
London Underground 2007:
London Underground 2010:
Index