Swiss Tunnel Congress 2017

Dipl. Bau-Ing. FH/SIA Stefan Maurhofer, president of the Swiss Tunnelling Society, welcomed the guests of the 16^th Swiss Tunnel Congress in Lucerne

In his introductory speech Dipl. Bau-Ing. ETH/MBA HSG Gian-Luca Lardi gave a talk on the future of the Swiss construction industry

Quelle/credit (3): Marvin Klostermeier

More than 700 visitors attended the Swiss Tunnel Congress 2017

Quelle/credit (3): Marvin Klostermeier

Dipl.-Ing. Jens Hallfeldt (on the left) and Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Fentzloff talked about the application of BIM in tunnelling at the example of the Albvorland Tunnel

Quelle/credit (3): Marvin Klostermeier

Pascal Zwicker, MSc ETH Bau-Ing., gave a lecture on the creation of a freezing mass for the safe excavation in a geologically challenging zone of the Albula Tunnel II

Dipl.-Ing. Jörn Schwarze described the causes of the collapse at the Cologne light rail system in 2009 from the viewpoint of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG

What exactly do we mean when we talk about Building Information Modeling – and what are we going to do with it? The subject of BIM has ultimately reached the tunnelling industry in the German-speaking countries, and the key issues of BIM application were part of the 16^thSwiss Tunnel Congress agenda as well. This year’s STC on May 31st was attended by more than 700 participants and once again dealt

with a broad spectrum of topics, presented in

14 lectures about international and Swiss

tunnelling projects.

„The maintenance and modernization of existing structures is an equally essential subject, that deserves our special consideration,” said Stefan Maurhofer (Fig.1), president of the Swiss Tunnelling Society, host of the STC, in his opening address at the Lucerne Culture and Convention Centre (KKL). Correspondingly this year’s Swiss Tunnelling Colloquium, held at the previous day, was titled “Maintenance and Renewal of Traffic Tunnels”, and with 375 participants this colloquium turned out to be a highly successful one.

The promotion of young talents is another important topic, and in this regard...