Event organised by ICE
This talk will be a short history of the construction to date of the Lyon Turin high speed rail project, and specifically the 57 km long transborder underground section between St Jean de Maurienne in France and Suza in Italy, with a focus on the SMP4 contract.
The particularity of this contract is that it was a geotechnical reconnaissance tunnel, on the axis of the running tunnel, and at the finished diameter.
Before this 11 km section of tunnel was constructed, partly by tunnel boring machine, and partly by traditional drill and blast, it just was not known if the construction was actually possible, given the highly tectonised carboniferous ground in this area that could not be avoided, combined with 700 to 900 m ground cover.
Underground Works department
project director
Lucy Rew is a graduate of the University of Bristol, a chartered civil engineer and a Fellow of the ICE. She has worked for Egis in France since 2002 in the Underground Works department where she is a project director. Lucy is also a member of ICE Council and a Trustee.
Join us at the first webinar of the series from the Infrastructure Client Group productivity task group.
Your chance to join the ICE Yorkshire and Humber Early Careers Network in their monthly meeting which connects and supports graduates, apprentices, students, and technicians in the region.
Discover the proposed solutions to the challenges of the supply chain for the upcoming boom in fabrication of floating offshore wind turbines.
