Breakthrough outage at the second Manapouri tailrace tunnel project, New Zealand

Proceedings - Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1262-1273

  Smales, Ken ^a   Fleming, Ron ^b   Watts, Charlie ^a  

^a Meridian Energy Ltd

^b URS New Zealand Ltd

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SMELTERS; CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY; ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATIONS; HYDRAULIC EFFICIENCY; NATIONAL GRID; NEW ZEALAND; OUTAGE TIME; PLANNING STAGES; POWER STATIONS; POWER SUPPLIES; SUPPLY RISKS; TAILRACE TUNNEL;

ALUMINA; EXCAVATION; LIGHT METALS; OUTAGES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMELTING; TECHNOLOGY; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); TUNNELS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

POWER GENERATION;

EID: 49649118790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Standards Association of New Zealand, NZS 3910:1987 Conditions of Contract for Building and Civil Engineering Construction.
2. The Implementation and Results of an Interactive Tender Process (T.F Martin, B.P. Heer, M. France, M.J. Bell, 1997)
3. The Second Manapouri Tailrace Tunnel: Undertaking a Large Diameter TBM Project (B.P. Heer, E Giles, Odd Askilsrud, 1998)
4. Manapouri Power Station, Second Tailrace Tunnel - Engineering Geological Construction Report, (URS April 2003)