Monitoring Underground Construction: A Best Practice Guide

The guide is structured to reflect the key stages in a project. It starts with objective setting and then addresses requirements for system planning, specification, design, operation and management. It also seeks to highlight the roles and responsibilities of the various stakeholders at each stage. Five illustrative case studies taken from a range of projects of different scales highlight the critical role of strategic and well-planned monitoring programmes in the success of any underground construction project.

Key features:
Only guide to the principles that should be followed in the development, design, implementation and management of a monitoring system.
Relevant to all major underground construction projects, regardless of scale or global location.
Written by a drafting committee from the BTS representing the leading edge of tunnelling and underground construction best practice thinking.

Readership:
Designers, project managers, clients, contractors and any other parties involved in underground construction or tunnelling projects.

Geographical market:
Primarily UK

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