The Schulich building is a unique building of the University of York. The subway, when leaving the future station of the University of York runs below the building at a depth equivalent to a diameter of tunnel. The soil is a tilt of glacial origin. The original design included compensation injections the building prior to the construction of the tunnel. The first drills showed the difficulty of creating the compensation as they produced very large and unacceptable settlements.

BT team developed Plaxis 2D studies to evaluate the settlements due to the passage of the tunnel boring machine. To obtain realistic results an adjustment of parameters from real measured settlements produced before reaching the building was performed. From these analyses we developed a structural 3D model that evaluated possible damage to the building that were negligeable.

Once approved to pass without compensation an on-site assistance to the works was performed, including instrumentation control. The measured settlements were very close to the expected ones and the building did not suffer any damage.