Annual Review 2020

Spread of the Covid virus during 2020

There was only one story in 2020 - Covid-19. There was no country, no inhabited island, no continent, no community, spared the spread of the infection.

For the underground construction industry, all projects have had to cope with the imposed pandemic control lock downs and regulations. Social distancing, occupational health restrictions and supply chain disruptions have caused inevitable production and progress slow downs and cost increases. Nonetheless, projects continued and that is a credit to the managers and teams of workers who have carried on.

In this eleventh edition of the TunnelTalk Annual Review the progress of major projects around the world is recorded and industry news and developments are reported.

The new TunnelTalk Focus sections concentrate on TBM selection, nuclear waste management, hydro developments, concrete linings and NATM/SCL/SEM projects.

CONTENTS of the 2020 ANNUAL REVIEW EDITION

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

FOCUS: NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT

FOCUS: HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENTS

FOCUS: NATM/SCL/SEM

FOCUS: CONCRETE LININGS

FOCUS: TBM SELECTION

PROJECT PROGRESS: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

PROJECT PROGRESS: THE AMERICAS

PROJECT PROGRESS: EUROPE

PROJECT PROGRESS: ASIA

The TunnelTalk Annual Review is the only yearbook record of activity in the global underground space construction industry. Yearbook editions are available for the years 2010 to 2020, both as digital and printed hard copy versions. Contact TunnelTalk@TunnelTalk.com to purchase hard printed copies of the 2010 to 2018 Annual Review editions for your bookshelf.

PUBLISHER - EXECUTIVE EDITOR Shani Wallis

DESIGN and PRODUCTION MANAGER Claire Hunt

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