Technical Seminar: Heung Yuen Wai Highway Project

Date, time & venue

2020-05-26; Online broadcast (Successful registrants will receive a link with validity of 14 days to view the seminar playback)

Organized by

HKIE Civil Division

Programme Highlight

The Heung Yuen Wai Highway (HYWH), a 11km dual two-lane trunk road at northeast New Territories connecting Fanling highway and Heung Yuen Wai, was open to traffic on 26 May 2019.  HYWH consists of four interchanges, two tunnels including the 4.8km Lung Shan Tunnel (the longest land-based road tunnel in Hong Kong), viaducts and at-grade roads.  It provides the residents living near Sha Tau Kok, Ta Kwu Ling and Ping Che a convenient route direct to Fanling Highway, facilitating their access to the Fanling, Sheung Shui, Tai Po and Kowloon.  This seminar will share the background and challenges of the project:

1. Overall project background and challenges
2. Technical challenges of the construction of Lung Shan Tunnel. The tunnel was built by two tunnelling methods concurrently, excavation by drill-and-blast method for section of sound rock and Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) for the other section of soft soil and complex geological ground conditions.  Innovative methods including TBM U-turn inside cavern, tunnel enlargement, etc. adopted during the construction will be discussed.

Fee

Free of Charge.

Speakers

Ir Ricky LAM is the Senior Engineer of North Development Office of Civil Engineering and Development Department of HKSAR Government in charge of the project.

Ir Alan HO is the Senior Resident Engineer of AECOM Asia Company Limited responsible for the site supervision of the construction of Lung Shan Tunnel.

Registration & Enquiries

The seminar will be conducted in English.  Presentation materials will be in English.

Please complete the on-line registration at http://cv.hkie.org.hk.

Email registration will not be accepted. successful applicants will be informed by email and link to the seminar

For enquiries, please contact: Ir Connie Chan via email: hkieciviltechnicalmeeting@gmail.com