Central Artery/Tunnel Project
General Information
| Function / usage: |
Motorway / Freeway / Interstate
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| Other name(s): | Big Dig |
| Built: | 1991 - 2004 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
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Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Participants
Structural engineering
Consulting
Consulting engineers
Contractor
Prestressing
Project management
Specialist consultant
Relevant Web Sites
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Central Artery/Tunnel Project
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ENR: Central Artery Segment Design May Have Led to Cost Overrun (24.02.2003)
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ENR: Central Artery Team Opens Last $2.6-billion Segment (29.12.2003)
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ENR: Custom-Made Canadian Machines Tame Central Artery Tunnels (18.03.2002)
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ENR: Engineering Group Study Cites Needed Central Artery Changes (03.03.2003)
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ENR: State Sues Consultant For Central Artery Role (29.03.2004)
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iCivilEngineer: Big Dig (Central Artery/Tunnel Project)
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PBS: Building Big - Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig)
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Yet another Big Dig web page...
Relevant Publications
- Frozen soil may provide solid venue for huge jacked tunnel, in "Engineering News Record", 1997, n. 14
- Boston Central Artery Project Plugging Costly Tunnel Leak, in "Engineering News Record", 26 November 2001
- Geotechnical instrumentation supporting Central Artery construction, presented at Tunnel structures, IABSE Colloquium, Stockholm, 1998.
- Landmarks in American Civil Engineering History, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", November - December 2002, n. 11-12 v. 72
- Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel project and its interchanges, in "Structural Concrete", December 2002, n. 4 v. 3
- New Concepts for Concrete Bridges on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, presented at fib Symposium 2004, 26-28 April 2004, Avignon.
- Small Firms, Big Dig, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", May 2001, n. 5 v. 71
- L'entrée des paramètres de forage aus Etats-Unis confirmée à Boston sur le projet Central Artery, in "Travaux", December 1997, n. 737
- Megaproject Management (1st edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken (USA), ISBN 1118115473, 2013
- Gefrierverfahren könnte geeignete Baugrundvorbereitung für die Herstellung eines großen Verpreßtunnels liefern, in "Bauingenieur", 1997, n. 9 v. 72
- The Big Dig, Silver Lining Books, New York (USA), ISBN 0-7607-3786-X, 2002
- Boston's Jacked Tunnels Solve Interchange Challenge, in "Structural Engineering International", 2005, n. 4 v. 15
- The Big Dig's Big Dig, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", September 2003, n. 9 v. 73
- Le projet « Central Artery I-93 and tunnel I-90 (CA-T) » à Boston (USA), in "Travaux", September 1992, n. 679
- Central Artery project technical overview, presented at Tunnel structures, IABSE Colloquium, Stockholm, 1998.
- Central Artery/Tunnel project: innovative use of precast segmental technology, in "Structural Concrete", December 2002, n. 4 v. 3
- The Big Dig, Popular Science, n. 6, v. 258 (2001)
- Deep soil-cement mixing for CA/T project, presented at Tunnel structures, IABSE Colloquium, Stockholm, 1998.
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | p0000029 |
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| Created: | 06/06/2000 |
| Last Updated: | 27/02/2013 |
