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Underground construction has a number of unique risks and challenges but shares a lot with traditional construction and mining. Underground construction workers often work under reduced light condition, in dangerous spaces, and are at a high risk of exposure to contaminants, fire, and explosions.
Many shopping malls are partially or totally underground, in the sense that they are below grade. Though not as exotic as the other underground structures, those working in such urban underground structures are in fact living underground. Shaft structures. For example, Taisei Corporation proposed to build Alice City in Tokyo Japan. The project ...
A utility vault is an underground room providing access to subterranean public utility equipment, such as valves for water or natural gas pipes, or switchgear for electrical or telecommunications equipment. A vault is often accessible directly from a street, sidewalk or other outdoor space, thereby distinct from a basement of a building. [1] [2]
While the storm shelter is the primary focus of the tunnel, Kala said she has also discovered building stones under her home, which she has been mining to use in later projects. Kala said she has ...
A TikTok from user @engineer.everything recently went viral after she posted a one-year recap of her progress building an underground tunnel system beneath her home. In the video, she takes us ...
An earth sheltered house in Switzerland (Peter Vetsch) An earth shelter, also called an earth house, earth-bermed house, earth-sheltered house, [1] earth-covered house, or underground house, is a structure (usually a house) with earth against the walls and/or on the roof, or that is entirely buried underground.
Tunnel Construction. Tunnels are dug in types of materials varying from soft clay to hard rock. The method of tunnel construction depends on such factors as the ground conditions, the ground water conditions, the length and diameter of the tunnel drive, the depth of the tunnel, the logistics of supporting the tunnel excavation, the final use and shape of the tunnel and appropriate risk management.
The construction of Rome’s €700 million Metro Line C has been complicated, but a new eight-story underground museum will display the archaeological treasures that have been found along the way.