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Feature: Babysitting Bertha
Monitoring critical infrastructure above the world’s largest tunneling machine in Seattle involves overcoming seismic, geotechnical, and historic challenges. Seattle’s SR 99 Tunnel Project, which will provide a traffic bypass under two miles of downtown Seattle, employs Bertha, the largest-diameter tunneling machine ever built. Folks can follow the progress of Bertha with her own twitter feed...