Handbook for the New Austrian Tunneling Method and Sequential Excavation Method

These two volumes combine to cover the key practice of The New Austrian Tunneling Method, or Sequential Excavation Method, from the planning and design through the construction stage to completion. The method entirely suits soft ground mixed face tunnels in urban environments, caverns, adits, bifurcations and shallow tunnels where it is not always practical or economical to use a tunnel boring machine or conventional excavation methods. The two combined handbooks are for beginning tunnel design and construction engineers and project planners as well as graduate students. They focus on technical issues and practice across Europe and North America, and encourage intelligent questioning, presenting the various methods necessary to deliver a dry tunnel. They are also available separately as Handbook for Planning and Design by NATM and SEM (9781041017349) and Handbook for Construction by NATM and SEM (9781041358749).