Abstract:In the Changjiang River Water Intake Engineering, the height of intake will directly affect the navigation and the riverbed stability. Therefore, the intake elevation will be generally reduced as far as possible in the design, which will result in a buried depth of raw water pumping house connected with it usually deeper. Under this condition, the construction technology of open caisson will have more advantages than the conventional foundation pit supporting. Through the detailed engineering cases, the application of open caisson in the form of sinking with a frame (or middle partition) in the large raw water pumping houses is expounded. The stabilities and stresses of open caisson in the sinking stage, underwater sealing stage, pipe jacking stage and service stage are analyzed and studied, which can be referred for the similar projects.