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    The document discusses tunnel jacking, a method for constructing concrete box tunnel sections underground where critical surface infrastructure exists. For a project in Boston replacing an elevated highway, tunnel jacking was used to extend a highway underneath train tracks, representing the first major application of the method in the US. WSP managed the design and construction, which involved jacking three tunnel sections up to 115m long underneath the tracks. Weak, saturated soils were stabilized using an unprecedented ground freezing system with over 1,700 pipes to allow tunneling without disrupting train service.

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    The document discusses tunnel jacking, a method for constructing concrete box tunnel sections underground where critical surface infrastructure exists. For a project in Boston replacing an elevated highway, tunnel jacking was used to extend a highway underneath train tracks, representing the first major application of the method in the US. WSP managed the design and construction, which involved jacking three tunnel sections up to 115m long underneath the tracks. Weak, saturated soils were stabilized using an unprecedented ground freezing system with over 1,700 pipes to allow tunneling without disrupting train service.

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    The document discusses tunnel jacking, a method for constructing concrete box tunnel sections underground where critical surface infrastructure exists. For a project in Boston replacing an elevated highway, tunnel jacking was used to extend a highway underneath train tracks, representing the first major application of the method in the US. WSP managed the design and construction, which involved jacking three tunnel sections up to 115m long underneath the tracks. Weak, saturated soils were stabilized using an unprecedented ground freezing system with over 1,700 pipes to allow tunneling without disrupting train service.

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    The document discusses tunnel jacking, a method for constructing concrete box tunnel sections underground where critical surface infrastructure exists. For a project in Boston replacing an elevated highway, tunnel jacking was used to extend a highway underneath train tracks, representing the first major application of the method in the US. WSP managed the design and construction, which involved jacking three tunnel sections up to 115m long underneath the tracks. Weak, saturated soils were stabilized using an unprecedented ground freezing system with over 1,700 pipes to allow tunneling without disrupting train service.

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    TUNNELS

    The preliminary design for the I-90 crossing considered


    TUNNEL JACKING conventional cut and cover methods. However, we concluded
    Tunnel jacking is a method for constructing monolithic, that multiple staged cut and cover excavation was not viable
    rectangular concrete box sections under surface areas because of the depth of the excavations required (up to 18 m)
    and taking tracks out of service for weeks or months at a
    with critical uses such as railways, major roadways, and
    time would cause unacceptable disruption to the train
    airport runways. The method is generally applied in
    schedules.
    cases where the underground crossing is relatively short,
    is located in soft ground, and if the overlying critical Conventional multiple drift tunnelling methods were also
    surface use did not exist, construction would be by looked at, but these would have been difficult to implement
    given the large width of the underground openings that were
    conventional cut-and cover methods.
    needed, the shallow depth of cover (2 to 6 m) dictated by the
    Tunnel jacking evolved from pipe jacking, whereby a jacking roadway profile, and the soft ground conditions below the
    system is used to push prefabricated concrete structures into water table.
    an underground opening incrementally. Technological
    Given the major disadvantages and risks posed by using
    development of the method since the 1960s has involved a
    conventional cut and cover or tunnelling methods, tunnel
    scaling up of pipe jacking techniques to enable the placement
    jacking was selected as the best technical approach for the
    of progressively larger concrete sections, reaching
    underground crossing. The use of tunnel jacking on the CA/T
    dimensions required to carry multi-lane highways.
    Project represented the first major application of the method
    WSP IN ACTION in the United States.
    WSP was involved in a major tunnel jacking project in
    Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the Central Artery / Tunnel
    (CA/T) Project that replaced an aging, and significantly
    under-capacity, elevated arterial highway with a modern
    underground expressway to improve traffic flow though the
    core of the Boston metropolitan area.
    The project included an extension of the Massachusetts
    Turnpike (Interstate I-90) under the complex network of
    tracks leading into the South Station Railway Terminal, one
    of two major rail stations in Boston, with hundreds of train
    movements daily for local commuter and intercity rail
    service.

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    TUNNELS

    WSP was responsible for managing the design development


    More than 1,700 vertical freeze pipes were used with a brine
    and construction of the tunnel jacking work. Three concrete
    refrigeration system installed within and around the track
    tunnel box sections were jacked successfully under the track
    network to freeze a total ground mass volume of
    network, with typical cross sections of 11.6 x 24 m and
    approximately 107,000 cubic meters.
    lengths of 51 to 115 m. The weak saturated soils with many
    obstructions related to historic abandoned waterfront WSP closely managed the installation and operation of the
    structures were stabilized over the full height and width of ground freezing system and the subsequent tunnel jacking
    each tunnel by using ground freezing, which represented a with the operating railroads, which involved the use of an
    major effort in itself. extensive monitoring system to track movements of the rail
    infrastructure. This effort, unprecedented in the United
    States, enabled the work to be successfully completed
    without delaying train service.

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