Multi-Purpose Utility Tunnels

A Viable Solution for Sustainable, Resilient, and Smart Cities
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-0-443-40507-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Multi-Purpose Utility Tunnels: A Viable Solution for Sustainable, Resilient, and Smart Cities thoroughly covers the planning process, design necessities, construction, operations, and management for MUTs, highlighting efficient decision-making strategies that are essential throughout the entire lifecycle. To benefit readers, the contents have been subdivided into sections, proffering a logically structured flow aimed at quickly getting them up-to-speed or providing them with answers to questions. The authors also touch upon cost-specific facets and regulatory frameworks to conclude this timely investigation, with a review of utilidor projects from across the globe that discuss challenges, lessons learned, and other details of practical value.

The volume’s up-to-date knowledge, which offers a sought-after overview of this not-yet-fully appreciated solution for subsurface infrastructure organization and its critical advantages in keeping with present-day concerns linked with the sustainability, resilience, and smartness of the built environment is a must for anyone interested in multi-purpose utility tunnels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hammad, Amin

Genger, Kelechukwu Tersoo

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Boden- und Felsmechanik, Geotechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. General Information about MUTs
1. Introduction

Part II. Lifecycle Management of MUTs
2. Planning of MUT Projects
3. Design of MUT
4. Construction of MUTs
5. Operation and Management of MUTs

Part III. Economics and Sustainability of MUTs
6. Lifecycle Cost-Benefit Analysis of MUTs
7. Cost-Sharing Through PPP Projects

Part IV. Legal and Administrative Framework of MUTs
8. Legal Framework
9. Administrative Framework

Part V. Review of MUT Projects
10. MUT Projects in Europe
11. MUT Projects in North America
12. MUT Projects in the Far East
13. MUT Projects in Asia and the Middle East

Über Autor(innen)

Genger, Kelechukwu Tersoo
Dr. Kelechukwu T. Genger is an accomplished academic with expertise in machine learning, multicriteria decision-making, optimization, and geographic information systems (GIS). He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Near East University, Turkey, in 2009. He earned his MSc in Computing Information Systems from the esteemed Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Recently, Dr. Kelechukwu earned a PhD in Computer and Information Systems at Concordia University, with a focus on decision-making for the sustainable placement of underground utility infrastructure assets. Dr. Genger is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Concordia University. Prior to this, he was a lecturer at the Joseph Sarwuan Tarkaa University, Makurdi, Nigeria.

Hammad, Amin
Dr. Amin Hammad is a Full Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE). He obtained his bachelor’s degree (with highest honor) from Damascus University, Syria, in 1986, and his master’s and PhD from Nagoya University, Japan, in 1990 and 1993, respectively, all in civil engineering. He is the Director of the Cyber-Physical Construction and Infrastructure Systems Lab and the Associate Director of the Center of Innovation in Infrastructure Engineering and Management (CICIEM) at Concordia University. Prior to joining Concordia, he held faculty and visiting positions at Nagoya University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Tokyo. His research is recognized internationally in the areas of automation in construction and infrastructure management systems using advanced methods in remote sensing, simulation, optimization, machine learning, and robotics. Dr. Hammad has also collaborated on several successful research projects with industry. He was the Graduate Program Director at CIISE and the first Research and Education Director at CanBIM (now called Building Transformations). He is currently on the BOD of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC).