THE UNDERWORLD - TUNNELS & PIPELINES

TTINT - THE TRANSPORT INTERNET - FOODTUBES & FREIGHT-TUBES

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WILL CREATE A GLOBAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRY

AND SAVE MILLIONS OF TONNES OF CARBON DIOXIDE

 A GREAT BRITISH INVENTION BASED ON THE

 STORY OF TUNNELS & PIPELINES

From Catacombs to The Chunnel and the deepest hand-dug well.

Civilization relies on pipelines and tunnels.

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"The obvious and fundamental difficulty is getting the pipeline infrastructure in place. The costs and disruption - and timescale - involved in constructing what would eventually need to be hundreds of miles of pipeline, would be considerable, especially in urban areas, and this in my view represents a major barrier for the FOODTUBES system." 

SEEDA - South East England Development Agency. 2 Nov 09.

MODERN ENGINEERS DISAGREE.

“WE NO LONGER DIG UP ALL THE STREETS. THERE IS 3,000 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE OF UNDERGROUND PIPELINES.”

THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM UNDER OUR CITIES AND TOWNS FOR FOODTUBES PIPELINES – AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF SKILLED ENGINEERS WHO WILL INSTALL THE FOODTUBES PIPELINES WITH LITTLE DISRUPTION TO COMMUNITIES.

LOOK AND LEARN - MODERN, TRENCHLESS, NO-DIG METHODS ENABLE PIPES TO BE LAID ECONOMICALLY, QUICKLY AND QUIETLY.

CONTENTS:

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Illustrations 6
FOODTUBES - proposed pipelines in perspective 6
2009 Pipeline Conference - Shanghai 9
NO DIG METHODS 13
UNDERGROUND SPECIALIST COMPANIES 13
Allen Watson Limited 13
Allen Watson Limited - Trenchless Methods 13
Auger Boring (AB) 13
Directional Drilling (HDD) 13
Guided Auger Boring (GAB) 13
Pipe Ramming (PR) 14
Impact Moling (IPM) 14
Rock Boring (RB) 14
Underground Moling Services 15
Herrenknecht AG 16
Trenchless direct laying of product piping and pipelines. 16
SW Directional Drilling Ltd 17
Directional Drilling 18
Impact Moling 18
Pipe Ramming 18
Horizontal Directional Drilling 19
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UNDERGROUND GUILDS & ASSOCIATIONS 19
Pipeline Industries Guild (UK) 19
15 UK Underground Pipeline Contractors 19
Organisation for Trenchless Technologists 19
CONCRETE PIPELINE SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION 21
Trenchless Techniques 22
TRENCHLESS PIPE INSTALLATION 22
HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING METHOD (HDD) 23
PIPE JACKING TECHNIQUE 23
SOIL DISPLACEMENT METHOD 24
DRY BORING METHOD 24
MICROTUNNELING 24
PERCO - More on Micro-tunnelling 24
EXAMPLE PROJECTS - COSTS & TIME SPAN 25
LONDON, UK 27
The London Underground 27
The Sewers are the arteries of London 28
London’s 21,000km sewerage system - Wikipedia 29
London’s Clean Water 30
UK Parliament, 1961 debate about a 10 inch pipe. 31
MODERN LARGE BORE PIPELINE PROJECTS 32
South Wales Gas Pipeline 32
5 of 53
Gas Pipeline - Xinhua 33
50 Foot German Bore for Shanghai 33
Moffat Creek child labourers made redundant 33
Spectacular underground Lord's redevelopment for all seasons 34
Swiss dig world's longest tunnel 34
No Business Creek tunnel 37
Taweelah-Fujairah gas pipeline 38
Dolphin Gas Project - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 38
Al Ain – Fujairah gas pipeline 39
Mackenzie Valley Pipeline 39
Modern Tools for underground projects 39
UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION MAGAZINE Conference January 2009 40
More USA projects - from Underground Construction magazine 41
UNDERGROUND CITIES & TRAINS 43
Montreal’s and Toronto’s underground cities 43
London - Crossrail invites bids for two more tunnel contracts 44
The Channel Tunnel 44
THERE’S NOTHING NEW UNDER THE GROUND 46
Old tunnels under Manchester (UK) 46
Old tunnels under London 46
Drainage Experts London – The GREAT 1858 STINK 47
London under London by Richard Trench & Ellis Hillman 48
TUNNELS HAVE BEEN AND CAN BE DUG BY HAND 49
The World’s Deepest Step-Well – Jaipur, India 49
Under the Berlin Wall 50
Capadoccia, Turkey 50
Dr Dyer digs tunnels by hand 50
Viet-Cong Tunnels 51
The Roman Catacombs 53

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And - let us not omit Elon Musk's hyperloop. Designed to circumvent Californian traffic jams.