{"id":618806,"date":"2023-11-23T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=618806"},"modified":"2023-11-23T09:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T04:05:02","slug":"uttarakhand-tunnel-incident-spotlights-safety-in-existing-future-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uttarakhand-tunnel-incident-spotlights-safety-in-existing-future-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand tunnel incident spotlights safety in existing, future projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith the current option, it may be 24 hours (timeline for a breakthrough),\u201d says Chris Cooper from engineering conglomerate Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T), hazarding a guess provided the current solution of \u201caugering\u201d (a form of drilling) works out. <\/p>\n<p>L&amp;T is one of the Indian companies that have now joined the rescue efforts in Silkyara, Uttarkashi, voluntarily. If the augering fails, \u201cit is going to be a major problem\u201d, says Cooper, who is team leader-tunnels, heavy civil infrastructure, L&amp;T Construction. \u201cIf it stops or disrupts, then option B is the micro-tunnel, which will take 20 days,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWith the current option, it may be 24 hours (timeline for a breakthrough),\u201d says Chris Cooper from engineering conglomerate Larsen &amp; Toubro (L&amp;T), hazarding a guess provided the current solution of \u201caugering\u201d (a form of drilling) works out. L&amp;T is one of the Indian companies that have now joined the rescue efforts in Silkyara, Uttarkashi, voluntarily. If the augering fails, \u201cit is going to be a major problem\u201d, says Cooper, who is team leader-tunnels, heavy civil infrastructure, L&amp;T Construction. \u201cIf it stops or disrupts, then option B is the micro-tunnel, which will take 20 days,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}