McMillen Jacobs Presents 17 Papers and Celebrates Bill Edgerton at NAT 2022

July 20, 2022

Last month, members of the McMillen Jacobs team attended the 2022 North American Tunneling Conference (NAT 2022) held in Philadelphia, PA, June 17−24. The event had over 1,000 registrations and 91 technical sessions were presented.

Congratulations to Bill Edgerton who was awarded the Underground Construction Association, a Division of SME (UCA) Lifetime Achievement Award during the conference awards breakfast.

In addition, congratulations to all our staff who authored, coauthored, and presented papers:

Justin Arifin, Dean Newman, Mark Trim, and Michael Behrens: “Analytical Behavior of a Tunnel with Rock Bolts and Shotcrete During an Extreme Fire Event.”

R. Aliberti (Lane Construction Corp.), Elisa Comis, and W. Wone (DC Water): “Soil Conditioning for Potomac Group Soils in Washington DC.”

Elisa Comis, Yama Ebrahimi (Belstar), and Jeffrey Peterson (DC Water): “The Northeast Boundary Tunnel – A TBM Performance Review.”

Daniel Dobbels, Timothy O’Rourke (Wade Trim), Chris Lynagh (McNally), Frederick Vincent & Karrie Buxton (NEORSD): “Design and Construction of NEORSD’s Doan Valley Storage Tunnel.”

Ashim Gajurel, William Brown (Force Drilling) Thomas Pennington (Brown and Caldwell), and Emily Sing (EBMUD): “Precision Drilling for the Pardee Chemical Feed Shaft Project.”

J. Andrew McGlenn, Greg Emslie, and Murray Gant (Metro Vancouver): “Slurry Wall Construction in Coarse-Grained Soils.”

Lizan Gilbert (Hill International), John Murray, Rob Gould (Atkinson), Daniel Ebin, Gabrielle Ferro (Clark Const.): “Benefits and Challenges of Progressive Design-Build Procurement – Atlanta Plane Train Project.”

Christopher Nelsen, R. Zachary Hollenbeck (Howard County, DPW), Edward Cronin (Brown and Caldwell), Christopher Brooks (McCormick Taylor), and Daniel Dobbels: “Design and Construction Challenges for the Ellicott City North Tunnel.”

Jim Buckley, Rob Cidlik (Atkinson), Ryan Sibley (Missouri S&T), Thomas Pallua, Joe Schrank, and Scott G. Giltner (Dyno Nobel): “Analysis of Near Field Vibration Monitoring in Construction Blasting.”

Ali Keneti (SMEC), Xavier Ryan, Shannon Goff, Gerardo Sanchez, Katerina Howard (Link Alliance, Tonkin + Taylor): “A Case Study Establishing Optimization Techniques and the Procedure for Successful Numerical Simulation of Ground-Structure Interaction.”

Yiming Sun, John Murray, Daniel Ebin, Robert Gould, and Lizan Gilbert (Hill International): “Design and Construction of a Shallow Twin Tube Bifurcation – Atlanta Plane Train West Extension Project.”

Yiming Sun, Jeremy Stone, and John Stolz: “San Diego Courthouse Commons Tunnel: Challenges and Design Solutions.”

Jakob Walter (Bear Engineering), Drew Mason (Atkinson), Yiming Sun, and John Stolz : “Courthouse Commons Tunnel: A Case Study of Modern SEM Tunneling.”

Denis Tepavac, Yiming Sun, Mark Trim, and A. Kumar (JHCPB): “Design and Construction of Large-Scale Ventilation Caverns on WestConnex’s Rozelle Interchange Project.”

Eric Westergren, Jeff Fontana, Daniel Ebin, and William Currier (Atkinson): “Implementing BIM Underground on Progressive Design-Build Atlanta Plane Train West Extension Project.”

Sarah Wilson, John Kaplin, Yana Waldman (SFCTA), and Luis Zurinaga (Zurinaga Assoc): “Commuter Rail Tunnel Alignment Studies for the Pennsylvania Avenue Extension, San Francisco.”

Leigh Anne Zhang, Jeremy Stone, and Maryam Motamed: “Hybrid Shoring Design for the Courthouse Commons Tunnel in San Diego, California: Controlling and Predicting Ground Movements.”