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Tunnel Projects Win Prestigious Awards
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2009.tb09933.x
Subject(s) - safeguard , upgrade , bay , engineering , civil engineering , political science , business , law , computer science , operating system
This article announces that AMEC Geomatrix of Oakland, California, received the 2009 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for its Claremont Tunnel Seismic Upgrade. The project, which is owned by East Bay Municipal Utilities District, was designed to safeguard the water supply of more than 800,000 people in the Oakland area from a magnitude‐7 earthquake.