Keynote Papers

   doi:10.3850/978-981-07-0188-8_P137

ABSTRACT

During the past three decades, especially the last decade, China has undergone a tremendous transformation in its social-economic structure and gained marvelous achievements in tunneling and underground engineering. China now tops the world in tunneling construction and underground development. The representative city of the infrastructure construction boom is Shanghai. This paper presents the status quo and recent development of underground engineering in MRT, utilities, road tunnels, cross-river tunnels and underground complexes and facilities in Shanghai with typical examples. Challenges and countermeasures are then briefly discussed. Furthermore, lessons learned from experiences of the underground development in Shanghai are addressed. Finally, a future perspective is given as well.

Keywords: Underground engineering, MRT, Road tunnel, Cross-river tunnel, Utility tunnel, Foundation excavation.

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