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Design and Construction of a Large-Diameter
Wine Cave in Weak Rock
2001
Victor S. Romero,
Sarah C. Holtz
Jacobs Associates
San Francisco, California

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This project involved the design and construction sequencing of a 50-foot
high by 75-foot wide
wine cave in Napa, California. The cave was constructed as a dome in
lahar that consisted of fresh andesite
boulders in a matrix of highly weathered rhyolite. Cover over the dome
is sloping and relatively shallow, with
an average cover of approximately 30 feet. The design included construction
sequencing and ground support
details using the New Austrian Tunneling Method (NATM), also known as
the Sequential Excavation Method
(SEM). Final dome geometry was a multi-radius section, which was designed
taking into account both architectural
concept drawings and previously excavated tunnel geometry. An 8-foot
wide walkway circles the inner
edge of the mushroom-shaped dome and is elevated 18-feet above the invert.
Ground support for the
dome consisted of 16-foot long, 1-inch diameter steel threadbar rock
dowels and a shotcrete lining reinforced
with welded wire fabric.
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