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Tunnel

Tunnel

Three ways under the ground: a box buried in an open trench, a bored tube, and an immersed tube. Cover is what a job measures.

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A cut-and-cover tunnel is a box built in an open trench, then buried. The roof of the box is the street.

streetCut and cover
A cut-and-cover tunnel is a box built in an open trench, then buried. The roof of the box is the street.

A tunnel section. Toggle cut and cover, bored tube, and immersed tube. Do not state a cover depth.

Use this on its own, or on a real site

This copies the Tunnel teaching spec. Illustrative numbers stay illustrative. A standalone example has no site. Associating it with Orbit names the tiles and, when the point has an address, only that place's code card.

Standalone example. Scene: teaching-plan. No site tiles, and no local code.

constructpm:type/tunnel

  • Cover. job-measured · job-measured
  • Cut and cover. one form · illustrative
  • Bored tube. one form · illustrative
  • Immersed tube. one form · illustrative