Mehdi Alhaddad: Post Office Tunnel 1
These images highlight Cambridge University's involvement in understanding the behaviour of aged cast iron tunnels in accommodating movements such as those imposed by nearby construction activities. The images are showing the participant PhD students installing some ground breaking instrumentations and implementing high-tech monitoring techniques in a cast iron tunnel that will be subjected to movements caused by Crossrail Project in the heart of London. Crossrail Project is the largest construction project that is taking place in Europe. It will be opened to public by 2018 adding another line to London Underground map. The cast iron tunnel itself has gone out of service a decade ago (it was used by Royal Mail Group to deliver post from east London to west London), but it is very similar in structure to those of London Underground cast iron tunnels, which provided a unique opportunity to be studied without the complications of disturbing operational tunnels. Cambridge University has been in the front line of providing technical support and advise to Crossrail decision makers as well as using the opportunity of studying state-of-the-art cases such as the one that I have submitted the images for on behalf of my team.
Mehdi Alhaddad: Post Office Tunnel 1
These images highlight Cambridge University's involvement in understanding the behaviour of aged cast iron tunnels in accommodating movements such as those imposed by nearby construction activities. The images are showing the participant PhD students installing some ground breaking instrumentations and implementing high-tech monitoring techniques in a cast iron tunnel that will be subjected to movements caused by Crossrail Project in the heart of London. Crossrail Project is the largest construction project that is taking place in Europe. It will be opened to public by 2018 adding another line to London Underground map. The cast iron tunnel itself has gone out of service a decade ago (it was used by Royal Mail Group to deliver post from east London to west London), but it is very similar in structure to those of London Underground cast iron tunnels, which provided a unique opportunity to be studied without the complications of disturbing operational tunnels. Cambridge University has been in the front line of providing technical support and advise to Crossrail decision makers as well as using the opportunity of studying state-of-the-art cases such as the one that I have submitted the images for on behalf of my team.