Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
@inbook {2265, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Safety and Health{\textquotedblright} as a criterion in the choice of tunneling method}, booktitle = {Occupational Safety and Hygiene IV}, year = {2016}, month = {2016-03-24 00:00:00}, pages = {153-157}, publisher = {Taylor and Francis}, organization = {Taylor and Francis}, edition = {Arezes et al}, abstract = {Risk management is of paramount importance in the success of tunnelling works and is linked to the tunnelling method and to the constraints of the works. Sequencial Excavation Method (SEM) and Tun-nel Boring Machine (TBM) method have been competing for years. This article, part of a wider study on the influence of the {\textquotedblleft}Safety and Health{\textquotedblright} criterion in the choice of method, reviews the existing literature about the criteria usually employed to choose the tunnelling method and on the criterion {\textquotedblleft}Safety and Health{\textquotedblright}. This crite-rion is particularly important, due to the financial impacts of work accidents and occupational diseases. This article is especially useful to the scientific and technical community, since it synthesizes the relevance of each one of the choice criteria used and it shows why {\textquotedblleft}Safety and Health{\textquotedblright} must be a criterion in the decision mak-ing process to choose the tunnelling method.
}, keywords = {Safety, Tunneling}, isbn = {978-1-138-02942-2}, doi = {10.1201/b21172-32}, author = {Tender, M. and Couto, J. P.} }
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt