allowance for the possible impact of unseen circumstances on construction costs.” In reality the tunnel project was delayed and cost double as much as estimated from £4.9bn in 1987 to £10.1bn in 1994. * The project estimated the tunnel to be opened in June 1993 but in reality it was delayed about 12 months due to construction problems and cost overruns‚ and finally opened in 6 May 1994. The tunnel full operation also delayed about 4/5 months due to safety regulation. * Management was underestimate
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Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing The narrative constructs an eleven-year old English boy‚ Jerry‚ who is on holiday with his mother in the South of France. He encounters a group of older‚ native African-French boys swimming along the beach. When they disappeared by swimming through an underwater passageway to the other side of a large rock in the ocean‚ he feels left out and rejected. Jerry makes it his goal to swim through the passageway to prove to the older boys his manhood‚ even if it meant
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Case Study The Channel Tunnel Mingyi Su Elvin Bayramov Christoph J. Szczecina Henrique A. Lima de Faria Fachhochschule Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts Managing Change - Prof. Dr. Josef Mittmann May 26th‚ 2008 Content 1. Historical Context 2. Engineering 3. Organizational Transitions 4. Financial Developments 5. Case Study Answers • Historical Context • Engineering • Organizational Transitions • Financial Developments • Case Study: Answers Christoph
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that is the MMC Berhad-GAMUDA Berhad to complete the project without any financial issue. The SMART tunnel project is jointly funded by the government‚ which is the project owner‚ and the project promoter‚ MMC-Gamuda Joint Venture‚ who will finance the road tunnel section at a cost to be recovered by toll collection concession from the government in 40 years time. Delay in the Schedule: The SMART tunnel construction is being monitored Daily‚ weekly and monthly site progress planning are conducted to
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addition to the Burleigh drill‚ the next most impressive implementation of technology in blasting of the Hoosac Tunnel involved nitroglycerin. In 1866‚ Thomas Doane imported a liquid and unstable explosive called trinitroglycerin‚ which is called nitroglycerin in America. His decision to think outside of the box and import the substance changed many aspects of the tunneling process. The Hoosac Tunnel was the first location where the explosive was used in the United States‚ and it became an integral part
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“Through the Tunnel” Response to literature essay The satisfaction for ones self? Or the satisfaction of others recognizing? The short story “Through the Tunnel”‚ written by Dorris Lessing‚ tells us about a boy named Jerry who craves the satisfaction of acceptance. Although‚ he realizes his self-satisfaction is enough praise. Lessing’s purpose for writing this story is for readers to understand that sometimes you don’t need to have other recognize
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The Twin Tunnels‚ proposed by the Governor of California jerry Brown‚ are two tunnels that would run from the delta to Southern California. The project would make two tunnels‚ each about 20-40 feet in wide and around 35 miles long‚ that would be 150 feet beneath the Delta. The Twin Tunnels will be extremely expensive especially to taxpayers and very destructive to the Delta’s ecosystems. Much of California opposes them. The goal of the Twin Tunnels is to divert water from the Sacramento
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SHAVING THROUGH TUNNEL ESSAY When I can look life in the eyes‚ grown calm and very coldly wise‚ life will have given me the truth‚ and in exchange-taken my youth. In this quote Sara Teas suggest that when child-like excitement goes away‚ your intellectual capacity has grown‚ and you see things more realistically‚ that’s when you have matured. In the stories Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing and Shaving by Leslie Norris the authors suggest that growing in age had=s nothing to do with maturing
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Through the Tunnel- Doris Lessing 1. The inner journey that the boy takes on his self-imposed physical rite of passage is his transition from childhood and emerging into young manhood. This transition is mostly symbolised in this short story by the Jerry’s experience of preparing to go through the tunnel after watching the other boys swim through the tunnel. Jerry practised holding his breath in order to get over the first barrier in achieving his desired destination‚ the light at the end of the
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Response: Through the Tunnel——by Doris Lessing Meaning: In the short story Through the Tunnel‚ Jerry and his mother spent their holidays near the sea. Jerry‚ the eleven-year-old English boy‚ was trying to become more independent and be accepted by the local boys so he left the safe beach where his mother stayed and turned to a more dangerous one. The main conflict appears when Jerry was convincing himself to practice holding a longer breath and dive through a long underwater tunnel made up of rock
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