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The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.

Siting a 27-km long underground ring in the corridor between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva was no easy matter. After several proposals, the decision was made to install the ring along the foot of the Jura range. However, owing to geological features the tunnel had to be built on a gradient of 1...

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description Siting a 27-km long underground ring in the corridor between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva was no easy matter. After several proposals, the decision was made to install the ring along the foot of the Jura range. However, owing to geological features the tunnel had to be built on a gradient of 1.4 %, sloping towards the Lake.
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spelling cern-7794582019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/779458The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.Civil Engineering and InfrastructureSiting a 27-km long underground ring in the corridor between the Jura mountains and Lake Geneva was no easy matter. After several proposals, the decision was made to install the ring along the foot of the Jura range. However, owing to geological features the tunnel had to be built on a gradient of 1.4 %, sloping towards the Lake.BUL-PHO-2004-028oai:cds.cern.ch:7794582004-07-01
spellingShingle Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.
title The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.
title_full The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.
title_fullStr The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.
title_full_unstemmed The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.
title_short The Big Dig : the excavation of the LEP tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of CERN and Europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the Channel Tunnel.
title_sort big dig : the excavation of the lep tunnel was the most formidable civil-engineering venture in the history of cern and europe's largest civil-engineering project prior to the channel tunnel.
topic Civil Engineering and Infrastructure
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/779458