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Summary Report on the Use of Underground Space to Achieve National Goals

by
American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, NY
1973, Soft Cover, Pg. 20
A Program for Improving the Effectiveness of Underground Construction; Conducted by the Underground Construction Research Council of ASCE in cooperation with AIME
Out of Print: Not available at ASCE Bookstore.


Document Type: Book

Abstract:

This program is a summary of a 355-page report describing a program for improving the effectiveness of underground construction. The report evaluates the potential benefits that can accrue to society from a transfer of many urban and other life-support functions to a sub-surface space. The capability to make these transfers hinges on (1) a large R&D effort, (2) a public policy decision to achieve the transfers, and (3) the creation of the institutional arrangements to execute and implement the program.

Subject Headings: Underground construction | Space life support systems | Underground structures | Urban areas | Public policy | Hinges

 

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