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One of the study challenges for engineering at once is to develop infrastructure that is able to withstand the forces of nature without creating an involve of the congenital environment and at the same to support the growth of cities and industries.Malaysias invade weewee Management and Road Tunnel is one example of the travail to develop the urban landscape while at the same clip responding to the demands for environmental management.Though the city is not among the highest in average precipitation, it has been vulnerable to crummy floods which have the potential of progressively growing in terms of impact considering the rate of the citys growth. The government hopes to be able to mussiness with Kuala Lumpurs concerns regarding flooding seamlessly with its current city planning and to support early urban development projects.Project BriefThe project, holy on the 14th May of 2007 is the long-life stormwater channel in South East Asian region. The project aims to palliat e the traffic congestion in getting into the Malaysias capital Kuala Lumpur or KL as well as to manage seasonal flooding. The projects main proponents are the countrys Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Malaysian avenue Authority and the consortium of Gamuda Berhad and Malaysian Mining Corporation Berhad. Preliminary feasibleness studies were conducted by the Mott MacDonald Group (Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel, 2007).The project broke background signal in 2004 when tunneling using slurry shield tunnel boring machines began from Gemilang and Tuah commenced simultaneously. The former was completed in April 2006 and the latter a year later. The tunnel has three modes of trading operations ranging from no rainfall, minor rainfall and storm water diversion and major rainfall and storm water diversion.The double deck motorway tunnel has a duration of 4 kilometers and links the Kuala Lumpur-Seremban freeway and the Kg. Pandan Roundabout KL-Seremban Expressway (Kuala Lumpur Flood Mitigation Project, 2007). This crates direct access to the KL city center and the Sungai Besi Airport. So far, access to the motorway has been extra to light vehicles only.The stormwater tunnel has a length of 9.7 kilometers and a diameter of 13.2 meters. The main holding basin directs the storm water flows into programmable reservoirs. The reservoirs are twin-box culvert that also manages the release of the stormwater. Ventilation of the motorway is accomplished with shit structures equipped with exhausts and fresh air injectors. Management and conditions are maintained done centralized control room through remote computer systems sensing element monitoring at interval of one kilometer (Powderhouse Productions, 2006). So far, has been limited access to the motorway to light vehicles only though the project has been in full completed and operational. The government aims to allow full access by the hold back of May and operation of the stormwater tunnels during the upco ming monsoons (Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel, 2007)