Here are several articles and industry guidelines we’ve written, including in collaboration with our partners NZTS and ITA. You might find them useful and can find links to read and download relevant publications below.
What the System Won’t Tell You
The informed client in underground construction Procurement practice is built around the assumption that the client understands what they are buying. In most infrastructure sectors that assumption is reasonable. In underground construction, the gap between procurement complexity and client experience...
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Before the Baseline
Underground infrastructure is frequently undervalued in business cases. Tunnelling carries visible upfront risk and cost. The long-term benefits — capacity, reduced surface disruption, and structural durability under conditions that damage surface infrastructure — are harder to quantify and easy to...
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Principles, Systems and Methods to Minimise Failures and Losses in Tunnel Works
The ITA/IMIA Tunnelling Code of Practice had its origins in a crisis. A series of significant failures in the 1990s — most notably the collapse of the Heathrow Express tunnels in 1994 — placed the viability of tunnelling insurance in...
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Geotechnical Baseline Reports: A Guide for New Zealand Practitioners
The main objective of this New Zealand Tunneling Society (NZTS) Guide is to provide broad advice to practitioners in New Zealand. This advice is designed to improve risk management practices for procuring tunnels and underground projects, and assist in their...
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Improving contracting and risk management with Geostatistics
This article was written in collaboration with Jacob Grasmick, principal at Emprise Concepts LLC, and outlines a framework for integrating geostatistics into project management to aid better planning, procurement, and construction outcomes in tunnelling projects, and mitigate commercial losses.Read more...
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Code of Practice for Risk Management of Tunnels Works (3rd Edition)
This Code of Practice is the latest edition of a Code prepared jointly by the insurance and tunnelling industries. It’s aimed at reducing the frequency and severity of serious incidents resulting in insurance claims, to within sustainable boundaries. The Code...
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Planning Health and Safety Risk Management for Underground Works
Client organisations must manage health and safety risks that come with underground project construction. When risks are properly prioritised, tenderers should be able to provide resources with their tenders to construct the works safely, and contribute to the overall success...
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