Coire Glas Exploratory Works – Building Understanding

Overview

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At its inception, the Coire Glas Exploratory Works was a short project, but by no means unambitious, to undertake detailed ground investigation in an area where normal methods simply wouldn’t work.

Owing to the vast underground structures planned for the wider Coire Glas Pumped Storage scheme, and the mountainous terrain above, a bold package of GI was put together to de-risk the future works. This included a significant campaign of surface drilling, in difficult to access locations (completed by Fugro), and the construction of a 900m Exploratory Adit, accessing deep under the mountain.

This lecture will run through the full story of the construction of the Exploratory Adit, which proved to be very much as its namesake; exploration. With a large fault zone encountered at over 700m in, and an extension to the tunnel length for a broader scope of exploratory drilling and in-situ geological testing, the project was filled with interest.

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Following the lecture, there will be a networking session with food and drinks in the ICE Kendal's bar, sponsored by Strabag.

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