Animator: Jonathan baber (UK)
Vice-Animator: Eelco van Putten (Netherlands)
Tutor: Davorin Kolic (Croatia)
Report presented by Jonathan Baber:
Report from meetings:
21 attendees from 6 countries
Both Sunday and Monday meetings
Clear plan developed for coming year
Eight project reports/technical presentations
Workshop on health and safety aspects
Achievements 2013-2014
Owner’s guide to immersed tunnels:
- 11 new appendices finalised and submitted for ExCo review.
- Glossary of terms
- Closure joints
- Steel construction
- Element construction / casting basin
- Soil conditions
- Seismic design
- Compaction grouting
- Refurbishment
- Tunnel element alignment
- Tunnel element transportation
- Tunnel element mounted equipment
- 10 further new draft appendices prepared and undergoing review within the WG
Environmental paper progressed
Immersed Tunnel Catalogue: agreed searchable index
Training support du ITACET:
- Opatija, Croatia seminar June 2013
- Sao Paulo, November 2014, 2-day training seminar
Plan for 2014-2015
Environmental paper : Final draft completed by WTC2015
SFT Owners Guide : First draft completed by WTC2015
Immersed Tunnel Owners Guide (ITA report no.7):
- Publication of 2nd Edition 2014
- Publication of 3rd Edition 2015
- Publication of 4th (and final) Edition 2015/16
- 2no. Web based coordination meetings per year
Other objectives
Searchable catalogue on ITA website
Greater involvement in the working group from non-European countries.