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Contingency planning for Constructors during Construction of Tunnels
Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology. (MERO Mälardalen Safety Science Lab)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9598-0958
2010 (English)In: / [ed] IQPC, 2010Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

As the fire and rescue services has limited possibilities to perform rescue operations or to fight fires in tunnels under construction, the tunnel constructors have to work systematically with both prevention and mitigation within the field. During the construction phase the tunnel surroundings are essentially different from the phases later in the tunnel life cycle. The construction phase can be divided in two main parts – the tunnel before and after the break through. The possibilities both for safe evacuation and successful fire and rescue operations are considerable lower if a fire would occur when the tunnel only have one opening, before the break-through, when the tunnel has a “dead end” the smoke only can spread in one direction. A smoke filled tunnel not only put the evacuating people at risk, but also slows down the transportation speed of the fire and rescue services. Recent calculations shows that the fire and rescue services in some cases, with methods and equipment used today, do not reach the rescue chambers or the evacuating people in time. This paper discusses the fire and rescue services limitations under the construction phase, but from the contractor perspective. Recommendations regarding systematic fire prevention, risk reduction and fire mitigation are made and the importance of the interaction between the fire and rescue services and the tunnel contractors are discussed and analyzed.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010.
Keywords [en]
Tunnel during construction, fire, contingency planning, systematic fire prevention, fire and rescue operation, fire and rescue services
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Engineering and Technology
Research subject
Energy- and Environmental Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-11345OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-11345DiVA, id: diva2:384914
Conference
Tunnel Design & Construction, 25th -27th of October 2010, Zürich Switzerland
Projects
TunnelbyggarenAvailable from: 2011-01-10 Created: 2011-01-10 Last updated: 2016-01-08Bibliographically approved

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