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‘A dam is a man-made barrier usually built across a river to hold back water and forming a lake, or reservoir, behind it. It can be constructed from concrete or natural materials like earth and rock’
In-text: (The British Dam Society | About Dams | Types of Dam, 2015)
Your Bibliography: Britishdams.org. 2015. The British Dam Society | About Dams | Types of Dam. [online] Available at: <http://www.britishdams.org/about_dams/types.htm> [Accessed 25 January 2015].
‘Small rivers and streams are usually diverted through a tunnel, or a channel that is constructed around the side of the dam. Soft soils and rocks are excavated to form the route, while harder rocks have to be blasted with explosives’
In-text: (The British Dam Society | About Dams | Building | Diverting the river, 2015)
Your Bibliography: Britishdams.org. 2015. The British Dam Society | About Dams | Building | Diverting the river. [online] Available at: <http://britishdams.org/about_dams/divert.htm> [Accessed 25 January 2015].
ICOLD defined a rockfill dam as, "an embankment type of dam, dependent for its stability primarily on rock.
In-text: (Introduction to Rockfill Dams, 2015)
Your Bibliography: Community.dur.ac.uk. 2015. Introduction to Rockfill Dams. [online] Available at: <http://community.dur.ac.uk/~des0www4/cal/dams/emba/embaf17.htm> [Accessed 25 January 2015].
The key to performing marine construction work efficiently is to minimize work over water, and perform as much of the work as possible on land.
In-text: (M. Nemati, 2015)
Your Bibliography: M. Nemati, P., 2015. Temporary Structures. 1st ed. Washingtin, DC: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, p.2.
The method may also be applied in the construction of small-scale infrastructure projects such as rectangular or circular pedestrian subways, culverts, road underpasses and bridge abutments. In addition, it is used in negotiating obstacles such as motorways, railways, rivers, canals, buildings, and airfields that are located directly in the path of pipelaying projects.
In-text: (Motswogle, 2015)
Your Bibliography: Motswogle, K., 2015. Pipe Jacking - RitchieWiki. [online] Ritchiewiki.com. Available at: <http://www.ritchiewiki.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_Jacking> [Accessed 24 January 2015].
These machines are designed to apply pressure to the ground to resist the ground and water pressures and minimise ground movement’
In-text: (Sherlaw, 2015)
Your Bibliography: Sherlaw, N., 2015. Pressurised Tunnel Boring Machines an effective solution to urban tunnelling in unstable ground – if controlled correctly. [online] Ice.org.uk. Available at: <http://www.ice.org.uk/getattachment/News-Public-Affairs/ICE-News/Pressurised-Tunnel-Boring-Machines/8-Shirlaw-TUNNELING-Jan-Feb-2013-ICE.pdf.aspx> [Accessed 25 January 2015].
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