But the alliance does not really control the settlements or the road.
A large part of the tunnel is placed in a trench and is founded on soft marine clay which is reinforced by cement deep mixing (CDM) columns to limit and control the settlements caused by the weight of the tunnel and its protection material.
"In the vast run of cases, it was the lawyers who initiated them, selected the plaintiffs, controlled the strategy, controlled the settlement, and collected fees from the settlement," a federal judge in northern California noted in 1999.
He has finished several major consulting projects in China, including the construction of the first airport built on thick soft clay deposit in China, the evaluation of the dynamic stability of high-speed railway subgrade, controlling the settlement of highways on soft soil deposit using piled embankments, deep excavation of the Shanghai World Expo underground transformer substation, etc.
The suits are part of an effort by Mr. Cuomo to control the debt settlement industry, which has mushroomed as the economy has worsened.
The struggles of such an alliance against outsiders and the immigrants' efforts to control the mountain settlements finally ended in an agreement.
To effectively control the longitudinal uneven settlement of the tunnel, research is needed on the gravel bedding layer as well as on the settlement and control of foundation combination types, such as underwater pile foundations, and settlement-reducing pile foundations [76].
The ground improvement method, which is one of the auxiliary methods for shallow overburden tunnels, has demonstrated its ability to effectively control the amount of settlement under soft ground.
Research objectives are therefore, on the one hand, to minimize the resulting settlements by improving machine technology and, on the other hand, to control the magnitude of the settlements and their consequences by an area-wide, exact monitoring.
