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Abstract: The Vedeggio-Cassarate road tunnel is part of the new Transportation Plan of the city of Lugano (PTL), in the southern part of Switzerland. A section of about 200 m was excavated in soft ground, which presents a very heterogeneous sequence of quaternary glacial lake and fluvial sediments, with artesian groundwater horizons at many different independent levels with pressures reaching up to 20 m...
Abstract: High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is the new project aiming to upgrade the underground particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at Point 1 (ATLAS in Switzerland) and Point 5 (CMS in France). This paper describes the construction experience for the new underground works at Point 5, located near the existing LHC tunnel. From a geological point of view, the site lies in an area covered by...