Underground Metro: A Solution for Sustainability
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Vinay Gupta
(Managing Director, Tandon Consultants Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, India)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Engineering for Sustainable Development, New Delhi, India, 20-22 September 2023 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress New Delhi 2023 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 713-717 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 5 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/newdelhi.2023.0713 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Time is not far when this world will have to find place on other planets to surmount the difficulty of shortage of land on the Earth. Metro has been going underground at many places. Taking a cue from Paris and London, the city appears so neat, when the metro is all put underground, especially in the main city. India is moving very much in the same direction. And underground metro provides effective means of sustainability in many ways. The masses can be transported in urban areas without cluttering the ground level roads. Being underground, the pollution levels are reduced to minimum. Tunnel and many times platforms and OT ducts are made in precast concrete, thereby reducing the quantum of site produced concrete and reduce environmental pollution. Construction of various structures of UG Metro is carried out in a specialized manner. The following paras explain broadly adopted construction methods of each of these. |
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| Keywords: |
ventilation top-down construction cross passages underground Bottom -up Construction Tunnel Boring
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