Tunnelling management by design
Tunnelling has become a fragmented process, excessively influenced by lawyers'notions of confrontational contractual bases. This prevents the pooling of skills, essential to the achievement of the promoters' objectives. Tunnelling: Management by Design seeks the reversal of this trend. Aft...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis
2000
2000. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432853506719 |
| Summary: | Tunnelling has become a fragmented process, excessively influenced by lawyers'notions of confrontational contractual bases. This prevents the pooling of skills, essential to the achievement of the promoters' objectives. Tunnelling: Management by Design seeks the reversal of this trend. After a brief historical treatment of selected developments, the concept of design is defined in detail and related to systems and to risk, the central features of this book. A final chapter discusses the failure in 1994 of railway tunnels at Heathrow Airport which well illustrates the expens |
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| Item Description: | "This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002"--Title-page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781135809492 9780429204258 9781135809508 9781280405136 9786610405138 9780203477663 |
