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Trenchless Technology & Subsurface Construction

 

Chapter 1

 

Introduction of Trenchless Technology

Background

 

Underground space is vital for the functioning of our modern society. This is where the arteries of our cities and communities are located – with pipelines for utilities and waste disposal, cables and communication networks, and underground transport routes. And the underground space has still more potential to offer. Shifting production facilities, cultural and service centres into the underground space can make room for an ecologically intact environment at the surface.

 

Further as the world moves together more and more rapidly, international requirement for solutions encompassing most State-of-Art techniques is also groin. As a progressive construction professional one needs to understand this dynamics of demand. At one hand, this gives enormous economic opportunities to the markets with unrecognized and unexplored potentials which at the other hand is a unique opportunity slipping rapidly to the exposed or trained ones. A successful professional is the one who is able to tackle these challenges individually or together with other specialists at the international level, and makes use of the enormous opportunities that are arising....................for more details