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No clue why this is downvoted, these are valid concerns. Measuring and avoiding ground settlement consumes an enormous amount of engineering and contracting re
by avn2109 9y ago
No clue why this is downvoted, these are valid concerns.
Measuring and avoiding ground settlement consumes an enormous amount of engineering and contracting resources in every urban tunneling job.
Flooding too can lead to work stoppages or long delays. You should have seen the Queens Bored Tunnels and Structures Project after Hurricane Sandy. It was pretty soupy.
Source: Was a tunnel boring engineer in NYC, where we had an abundant supply of both buildings and groundwater.
- URSpider94 9y agoAn engineering study of ground subsidence and how to avoid it, vs "the building falling down" are two very different things.
- grzm 9y agoAny large project is likely to have difficulties of some sort that need to be taken into account to overcome: it's the nature of the beast. You're right, these are valid concerns. Asking the questions as your parent does implies that those at the Boring Company—while they may have not solved them in all cases—are not aware of them, especially as these aren't new problems. I speculate that the downvotes are a reflection that your parent isn't granting them this benefit of the doubt. One can infer from the FAQ that they are thinking of this in part from the R&D bullet point: > Tunneling R&D. In the United States, there is virtually no investment in tunneling Research and Development (and in many other forms of construction). Thus, the construction industry is one of the only sectors in our economy that has not improved its productivity in the last 50 years.