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The Big Dig The Central Artery/Tunnel Project also known as “The Big Dig” is the largest, most complex, and technologically challenging highway project ever undertaken in the U.S. It represents a unique challenge in that it is being built in the heart of Boston, almost completely underground. The Big Dig includes examples of project planning, creative problem solving and innovative use of technology. This highway system is no doubt one of the greatest of its kind and will soon be the standard of highway design for other states and countries. The Central Artery/Tunnel project utilized project planning to make the final product, the highway and tunnel system, the safest and most efficient highway possible. The West Virginia fire tests helped scientists and engineers create a procedure in case fire broke out in one of the tunnels. Because of this project planning, if a fire in a tunnel occurs, air flow, among other things will change thus dowsing the fire as quickly as possible. Many examples of creative problem solving can be seen in the construction of the central Artery/Tunnel. When engineers had to dig a tunnel underneath train tracks with running trains, they came up with a solution witch involved a construction method called big, dig, project, construction, highway, tunnel, system, fire, problems, must, train, soil, central, artery/tunnel, underneath, technology, problem, planning, noise, include, example, engineers, constraints, called, amount, alternative, workers, undertaken, tunnels, traffic, thus, technologically, stop, sound, solving