Name : Mohd Aizat Herman Bin Mohd Rosdi

Student ID : AA15029

Topic : Deep Excavation For Underground Construction

Summary :

A talk was given by Ir. Mazlan Abdullah which is about deep excavation for underground
construction. Deep excavation is the most important thing in geotechnical engineering and it is
something that such construct a high rise building in the area that congested underground. It is also
considered as hazardous job and very risky and that why it is need an engineer. It has to plan in special
way to avoid any casualties to occur. For example such case in Kuala Lumpur which is the building is
collapse and required to stop work. Stop work meaning that there will be a lot of money going to be
loss. Deep excavation meaning that is go underground more than 4.5 meters, in order to do that we are
need the support system. In practice there are specialist engineer which has to spent whole life just to
be a temporary support engineer. Before construct everything there is the need of retaining wall to
support system.

We as engineer example structure engineer talking about the development of urban areas, the
cost especially in Kuala Lumpur area is very expensive. As engineer we need to make sure zero tolerance
safety which means must make sure safety is number one. If any casualty happen means that we are
not a competent engineer. Most of construction technique that can be used for deep excavation for
example sheet piles wall, secant piles wall, contiguous bored piles wall, soldier piles walls, diaphragm
pile walls and sunken piles walls. This method depends on site condition as well as geotechnical on the
site which is allowed or not. It has to refer SPT test which are the one of the test that carried out at site.
As we can see here there will be a need of specialist engineer, as comparison geologist and geotechnical
engineer have different specialty among each other.

Moving toward analysis, design and monitoring we are dealing with pressure diagram, to
develop pressure diagram is not easy, We must appreciate soil investigation. SI is very important in
project because lack of it will cause casualty to happen .Then we must know what testing that must be
done. What is the parameter that is going to specify is going to be used is also important things in
project.