PROJECT PROFILE WJE www.wje.com Korea High-Speed Rail System Quality Audit of Constructed Facilities | Seoul, South Korea CLIENT Korea High-speed Rail Construction Authority (KHRC) BACKGROUND The South Korea high-speed railway is a $13.4 billion, 260-mile system that connects Seoul to Pusan. The trains travel at more than 180 miles per hour, carry 1,000 passengers, and leave each terminal station at scheduled five-minute intervals. SOLUTION WJE engineers conducted visual evaluation of the constructed civil works and selected locations for sample removal to evaluate the properties of the construction materials. Laboratory tests of the samples included compressive stre

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