Abstract:
What has the mining industry done
for underground civil construction
and what is the civil construction
industry doing in return? The first
answer to this question is easy – the
mining industry has trained and
educated young mining engineers
who have then found employment in
civil tunnelling projects. What makes a
mining engineer such a good prospect
for civil tunnelling work? Firstly they
know the underground environment,
but not only do they know and
understand the underground
environment but because their
training and education is so well
rounded in electrical and mechanical
engineering, structural engineering,
geology and geotechnical engineering,
they can put their minds to all the
everyday challenges that the fields of
underground excavation present.
