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THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF UCA OF <strong>SME</strong> WWW.TUCMAGAZINE.COM VOLUME 7 NO 1 MARCH 2013<br />
Building a TBM launch box<br />
Tunneling in Charleston<br />
Special Editorial Section from the publisher of Mining Engineering<br />
TUNNELING &<br />
UNDERGROUND<br />
CONSTRUCTION<br />
AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF UCA OF <strong>SME</strong> WWW.UCA.<strong>SME</strong>NET.ORG VOLUME 7 NO 1 MARCH 2013<br />
COVER STORY<br />
CONTENTS<br />
DEPARTMENTS<br />
2<br />
Chairman’s column<br />
FEATURE ARTICLES<br />
3<br />
Underground<br />
construction news<br />
IN THIS ISSUE —<br />
The proposed Second<br />
Street Avenue<br />
Subway will be<br />
a new two-track<br />
subway line running<br />
from 125th<br />
Street and Park<br />
Avenue. Geologic<br />
conditions and<br />
existing buildings<br />
made building a<br />
TBM launch box<br />
challenging, page<br />
50. Charleston, SC<br />
is one of the first<br />
cities to build separate<br />
sanitary and<br />
storm water drainage<br />
infrastructure.<br />
Replacing it requires<br />
innovative<br />
thinking, page 56.<br />
Copyright 2013 by the<br />
Society for Mining, Metallurgy<br />
and Exploration,<br />
Inc. All rights reserved.<br />
TUNNELING & UNDER-<br />
GROUND CONSTRUC-<br />
TION (ISSN 0026–5187)<br />
is published quarterly<br />
by the Society for Mining,<br />
Metallurgy, and Exploration,<br />
Inc., at 12999<br />
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50<br />
Construction of a TBM<br />
launch box in a complex<br />
urban environment<br />
Vincent Tirolo Jr., Thomas Maxwell<br />
and Anil Parikh<br />
56<br />
Tunneling and trenchless<br />
technology key to<br />
Charleston’s infrastructure<br />
Larry F. Drolet, Laura S. Cabiness,<br />
Jason T. Swartz and Stephen A.<br />
O’Connell<br />
Special editorial section from the publisher of Mining Engineering<br />
8<br />
Guest comment<br />
9<br />
Business profiles<br />
64<br />
Tunnel demand<br />
forecast<br />
66<br />
UCA of <strong>SME</strong> news<br />
70<br />
Coming events<br />
71<br />
Classifieds<br />
71<br />
Index of advertisers<br />
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